Not saying you're wrong, but do you have a link about ND voting no to the new contract? Even if they voted no, they weren't the only ones to have voted against it. I've said it before but it would've sold ourselves short to have renewed a contract with ESPN instead of on an open market with NBC.
How does ND "use" BE when it's convenient for them. They are a basketball only member. That's their obligation to the Big East. I doubt they ever join a conference in football and if they did it sure as hell wasn't going to be the Big East.
As I mentioned before the Big East bowl line up sucks, and it would be even worse without ND. The Sun Bowl had a Big East/ND tie in and now our #2nd place bowl, Champs Sports Bowl, has a ND tie-in as well.
So, for those pro-splitting, you want to have the 3rd best basketball conference in our footprint, hurt our bowl lineup, and form a conference where the majority of teams are from the MAC and C-USA?[/quot
"....where the majority of teams are from the MAC and C-USA"
The BE has to get the teams from somewhere for football and the pickings are slim.
As an aside, ND as basketball only doesn't work for us. It only helps further the agenda for the basketball only schools. The BE should have added 2 football playing schools instead of Marquette and Depaul but they didn't and if we stay in the BE we can expect similar decisions in the future.
If we can't get into the ACC, the football schools need to split and then make invites to a new conference.It would be a much weaker basketball conference but I can't see any other viable alternative if we want to continue with Div. 1 football. Uconn can't be in a conference where the non football schools have more votes.
