Money creates stability. If the Big East is offered $20-$22m per school if they can keep Cuse and Pitt in the fold and have added enough teams that there are 14 football members (3 football only) and 19 olympic sports members the balance of power will also have shifted. The football schools would be calling the shots and the basketball schools wouldn't really have enough leverage anymore to create instability. The money will be there for the taking. It's pretty much gauranteed to be.
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Money creates stabilty." There you go, Heartbeat!
Thanks for being the first author on this illuminating topic.
More money (adding massive markets dallas, d.c., orlando, denver and orlando) for a Comcast deal and time (27 months the "back stabbers" must stay) are potent weapons the Big East can unleash.
The 27-month plan of attack is already causing cracks as cantor, gross, perdersen and nordenberg are looking foolish and their leadership is being questioned for jumping the gun without thinking it through. I'm sure they thought they would skate early like Nebraska, CU and Utah did. No way. And begging won't change our minds.
How ironic that the "back stabbers" must obey the rule that they help put in place in resposnse to bc, miami and vatech leaving. As Waylon eloquently stated, "they should have thought about that before they stabbed their conference members in the back."
27-months is a millennium in college football and there has to be some chance that if the "back stabbers" are held to this, they never play a down in that southern conference. It WILL be an enirely different landscape by that time. Comcast and ND will make sure of that