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Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN
He also said Big East had shot at Orange Bowl RT @JFowlerCBS: Blog: #BigEast commish Mike Aresco says seventh playoff bowl alive and well
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Ralph D. Russo @ralphDrussoAP
Just because ESPN prints money doesn't mean it's looking to give it away.
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Ralph D. Russo @ralphDrussoAP
Main stumbling block on 7th game seems pretty obvious: Does TV partner want it? How much will they pay? .... (more)
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Dennis Dodd @dennisdoddcbs
Scott says decision on seventh bowl is 6-9 months down the road.
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Dennis Dodd @dennisdoddcbs
"Whether there are going to be six of seven (bowls), that's an open question ... Any speculation on a seventh bowl is premature." Scott
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Let's back up for a minute. Way back when, when the Big East was fighting for survival, all we heard about was AQ status. Retaining AQ status was the most important part of the Big East's expansion plans. The narrative changed because the Big East was stripped of its AQ status.
Fast forward to today, the Big East has been stripped of its AQ status. The BCS largely remains in place, with the playoff layer added on. Now that there are contract bowls, that is bowls that automatically take certain conferences' teams, the Big East finds itself on the outside looking in. Aresco has to figure out what to do, since the framework for the playoffs has already been decided, as has the access bowls and contract bowls. The incentive to add the Gilligan Bowl is there only if it makes people money AND it makes the pesky little dog stop barking. Larry Scott used to be a big proponent of the 7th bowl, or so we have been told. But since it was leaked that the Pac 12 would be forced to send one of its top teams to the bowl, his tune has changed. I guess Oregon and USC don't like the idea of playing against the best of the worst.
Now the problem isn't Aresco. Unfortunately he came into the game too late. The BCS meetings were conducted with the President of Louisville as the BE representative. At that meeting, the playoff access bowls and contract bowls were born.
So now Aresco is forced to deal with SDSU and Boise State and the chaos of a coast to coast college conference, as well as a system in which by any objective observer, the Big East has been relegated as a nonpower conference.
Aresco will fight, and fight well, but in the end, his voice doesn't matter to Slive, Delaney, Scott, Bowlsby nor Swofford.