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I'm starting to calm down over realignment and am really starting to feel like UConn will be okay regardless of what happens. If the Big 12 does stay together and even if they poach WVU and UofL and preemptively TCU I think the likelihood that the current BCS structure remaining pretty much the same is pretty high. If that is the case I really don't see any scenario where our BCS bid is stripped and just handed over to the MWC.
If the Big East can still be one of the top 2 or 3 basketball leagues in the country then we will still be able to get big money for our TV deal. Football is not and never was going to be a real factor for the BE TV deal aside from the fact that yes we do have football to broadcast during football season. BE football is a non-factor nationally and we all know that. That is why teams are leaving but if basketball remains relevant and the BE tourney remains a top draw all we really have to do is what we have been doing since 2003 and that is put enough football teams on the field to have a football conference.
As parodoxical as it seems the only reason the BE is a BCS conference is due to our basketball strength and our TV markets and that honestly can still be salvaged. I'm just gonna sit back and relax and until something terrible actually happens (stripped of BCS bid, very bad TV deal, etc.) I'm not going to worry about it.
If the Big East can still be one of the top 2 or 3 basketball leagues in the country then we will still be able to get big money for our TV deal. Football is not and never was going to be a real factor for the BE TV deal aside from the fact that yes we do have football to broadcast during football season. BE football is a non-factor nationally and we all know that. That is why teams are leaving but if basketball remains relevant and the BE tourney remains a top draw all we really have to do is what we have been doing since 2003 and that is put enough football teams on the field to have a football conference.
As parodoxical as it seems the only reason the BE is a BCS conference is due to our basketball strength and our TV markets and that honestly can still be salvaged. I'm just gonna sit back and relax and until something terrible actually happens (stripped of BCS bid, very bad TV deal, etc.) I'm not going to worry about it.