UConnSportsGuy
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One question.....if the Big East accepts the ESPN contract offer a few months ago does any of this happen? The answer is absolutely no!
Once the Big East turned down the ESPN offer, they new that we were eventually going to sign a huge contract with NBC/Comcast and ESPN would lose their monopoly on college sports. So they used their existing relationships/contracts to kill the Big East before that happens. They knew that ALL of the Big East schools would not have the strength to stay together for all of that time if they created enough uncertainty/risk for them....they knew one would break (WVU with the googly eyes with SEC), so then everyone else (Syracuse and Pitt) had to protect their interests.
This is absoulutely driven by ESPN...no doubt. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done about it.
Once the Big East turned down the ESPN offer, they new that we were eventually going to sign a huge contract with NBC/Comcast and ESPN would lose their monopoly on college sports. So they used their existing relationships/contracts to kill the Big East before that happens. They knew that ALL of the Big East schools would not have the strength to stay together for all of that time if they created enough uncertainty/risk for them....they knew one would break (WVU with the googly eyes with SEC), so then everyone else (Syracuse and Pitt) had to protect their interests.
This is absoulutely driven by ESPN...no doubt. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done about it.