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    http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...n-raid-for-now

    I find it ironic that the realignment mess finds a period of relative calm as soon as the Big East breaks apart.

    What if this whole mess was about ESPN denying NBC a foothold in the college football game?

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    Originally posted by bobestes View Post
    http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...n-raid-for-now

    I find it ironic that the realignment mess finds a period of relative calm as soon as the Big East breaks apart.

    What if this whole mess was about ESPN denying NBC a foothold in the college football game?
    Major monopoly lawsuit.
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    • #3
      Total joke - interest in non-UC College Football is nearly gone.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Lobot View Post
        Major monopoly lawsuit.
        Isn't almost every bowl game on the Evil Sports Programming Network? Only one that I can think that isn't is the Cotton Bowl.

        That smells like Monopoly to me.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Pruke View Post
          Total joke - interest in non-UC College Football is nearly gone.
          I agree - I used to be so excited for Saturdays because it was hours upon hours of games... Not so much any more. I will pay attention to UC, and occasionally watch some other games, but it's not exciting anymore. I'm turned off by the pretense that this is about the 'student-athletes' and the spirit of competition. It's not. It's about money for college presidents and conference commissioners.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by mjv780 View Post
            I agree - I used to be so excited for Saturdays because it was hours upon hours of games... Not so much any more. I will pay attention to UC, and occasionally watch some other games, but it's not exciting anymore. I'm turned off by the pretense that this is about the 'student-athletes' and the spirit of competition. It's not. It's about money for college presidents and conference commissioners.
            The part about the money for conferences and colleges has not changed. That has always been there.

            It is that the money has gotten so big, it overrides loyalty and rivalries.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by bobestes View Post
              http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...n-raid-for-now

              I find it ironic that the realignment mess finds a period of relative calm as soon as the Big East breaks apart.

              What if this whole mess was about ESPN denying NBC a foothold in the college football game?
              At some point the ACC is going to lose at least a couple more teams or the Big 12 is going to decide that they need to expand to 12 for the conference championship game. Whichever one of those happens first will determine when UC winds up.

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              • #8
                I've not ever been a big pro football fan, mostly due to Mike Brown holding the city of Cincinnati hostage, but I am coming to respect it more, and more, because they are honest enough to admit it's all about the money.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Rational Cat View Post
                  I've not ever been a big pro football fan, mostly due to Mike Brown holding the city of Cincinnati hostage, but I am coming to respect it more, and more, because they are honest enough to admit it's all about the money.
                  Agreed - or should I say A GREED?

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                  • #10
                    I hope the music hasn't stopped yet, because UC is still standing, without a seat.

                    We need to be in the ACC or Big 12; staying in the new conference with all the leftovers will invariably lead to a slow, steady decline in at least football, due to decreasing revenues.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Pruke View Post
                      Agreed - or should I say A GREED?
                      Greed, definitely.

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                      • #12
                        Mike Tranghese: Blame me

                        Hindsight:
                        Tranghese said critics who want to place the blame on former commissioner John Marinatto and/or current commissioner Mike Aresco are misguided.


                        "If they want to blame someone, blame me," Tranghese said. "The thing the Big East didn't have was a football leader -- a Florida, Alabama or USC -- a team that contended for the national championship every year or carried the league. It wasn't strong enough football-wise."

                        The Big East's football schools currently receive $3.12 million annually. The league's football deal expires after the 2013-14 season. Last year, the Big East turned down a $1.4 billion media rights offer from ESPN that would have earned each football member about $13 million annually.
                        http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...ere-inevitable

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by cpawstoney View Post
                          Wasn't Pitt's chancellor the one who advised the rest of the conference prez' to turn it down also? Hmmmm......
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