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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3831350, member: 833"] 10 years later there are still the same bad takes blaming the C7 for what happened. Of the 16 schools that were in the Big East in 2010, 13 of them ended up MUCH better off financially after the realignment than they were before. Did those 13 schools suddenly become more valuable by leaving for 4 different conferences to play teams that they had no history with, or were they always worth more and ESPN was simply trying to screw over the Big East for threatening to leave, and the situation ended up getting out of control. By the time realignment was over, ESPN was paying more to have Pitt, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville in the ACC, 1/2 of WVU in the Big 12, and whatever it gets for Rutgers in the Big 10, than it had been paying the Big East for 16 teams. And ESPN lost most of WVU and Rutgers, and all of the C7 schools content in the process. But hey, ESPN sure taught UConn, USF and Cincinnati a lesson. [/QUOTE]