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Fox - Big East exclusive negotiating window

huskymedic said:


“The Fox deal is set to expire next year, but Ackerman said on Friday that she expects to have details on a new television contract soon.”
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The big east is special..I hope we never leave it
 
One thing I think conference realignment has shown is it’s better to keep rivals with you rather then try and keep them out. Let’s ask BC how being New Englands team is doing? Oh you haven’t won Sh….t being in the Acc. With no natural rivals.
 
mike012 said:
One thing I think conference realignment has shown is it’s better to keep rivals with you rather then try and keep them out. Let’s ask BC how being New Englands team is doing? Oh you haven’t won Sh….t being in the Acc. With no natural rivals.
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I think sadly football is not in a situation to be choosy but I would agree on the general meta of this. Putting yourself in somebody else's world does not work out.
 
mike012 said:
One thing I think conference realignment has shown is it’s better to keep rivals with you rather then try and keep them out. Let’s ask BC how being New Englands team is doing? Oh you haven’t won Sh….t being in the Acc. With no natural rivals.
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A New England team in a southern league…we know how that feels
 
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superjohn said:
Cool.

You should see the recent NBA finals ratings.
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The side of that story: that was the most watched basketball game of any level over the previous 365 days. In fact, our game against Miami was third, just behind a Lebron playoff game.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Getting 3 teams in the tournament (as unfair as it was) will not help negotiations.
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I think that maybe we have been seeing "the pivot" as it snuck up...

Three of the last 6 ncaat tourneys, the SEC has gotten 8 bids.

Four of the last 5 the big ten has gotten 8 or 9 bids.
 
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John said:
Big East Fanbois: "they can't leave the Big East out of the tournament, the conference is a basketball powerhouse"

2024 Selection Committee: "hold my beer"
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Yeah hard to argue that. Still think a brand like UConn would need to be snatched up. I was shocked to see so many anti-Big 12 voices last summer. Let’s hope that wasn’t the last ship.
 
Hoophound said:
I haven’t bothered to put in any research. How did the MWC manage to get 6 bids anyway?
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One thing is the conference has two Georgetowns instead of a Georgetown and a DePaul.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Yeah hard to argue that. Still think a brand like UConn would need to be snatched up. I was shocked to see so many anti-Big 12 voices last summer. Let’s hope that wasn’t the last ship.
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We were going to be in the B12 as the Iowa State AD confirmed. Seems like next time they expand (could even be this summer) we will make it.

I see lots of B12 fans wanting us to join, especially on reddit
 
cellocgg said:
Charlie bWe were going to be in the B12 as the Iowa State AD confirmed. Seems like next time they expand (could even be this summer) we will make it.

I see lots of B12 fans wanting us to join, especially on reddit
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Fail Charlie Brown GIF by Peanuts
 
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Hoophound said:
I haven’t bothered to put in any research. How did the MWC manage to get 6 bids anyway?
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I don't know but it ruins the conspiracy of why the Big East got screwed.

It was an entertaining league but I'm not all that impressed with what some of those teams did out of conference.
 
superjohn said:
I don't know but it ruins the conspiracy of why the Big East got screwed.

It was an entertaining league but I'm not all that impressed with what some of those teams did out of conference.
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Does it though? Maybe, the football people sticking it to the non-football people.
 
superjohn said:
I don't know but it ruins the conspiracy of why the Big East got screwed.

It was an entertaining league but I'm not all that impressed with what some of those teams did out of conference.
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You mean Big East here? Or MW?
 
Hoophound said:
Does it though? Maybe, the football people sticking it to the non-football people.
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Yes it does, nobody gives a rats arse about Mountain West football or FAU football.
 
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cellocgg said:
Given the success and attention we have garnered this season, it doesn't seem farfetched
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Winning the most championships over the past quarter century sure helped
 
superjohn said:
Yes it does, nobody gives a rats arse about Mountain West football or FAU football.
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Yes. But is the Big East somehow a thorn in the side of the football conferences? I don’t know. Just weird that the second best conference in the country got 3 bids and it happens to be the one that doesn’t play football.
 
Ha Who said:
Winning the most championships over the past quarter century sure helped
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That is true but it's because Football is our Achilles heel. Basketball is becoming more and more important in college athletics, it's harder to ignore now
 
Hoophound said:
Yes. But is the Big East somehow a thorn in the side of the football conferences? I don’t know. Just weird that the second best conference in the country got 3 bids and it happens to be the one that doesn’t play football.
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It is weird but I think it's just a one year fluke of getting screwed. If there was a pattern year over year with this I would call it out.

I think it's ridiculous our commissioner hasn't said anything about it.
 
Exit 4 said:
Seems like once they are done with football they will get around to tinkering with the BB tournament. Perhaps what we will see is a field of 96 with 32 playing teams playing 16 games on Tuesday. Four more games in each bracket (another full day of TV and ticket sales).

I think the conference winners/auto bids should win the right for an auto bye on the play in game. Not sure that can always lead to "fair" seeding however. And yes, most of these 32 expanded seats will be going to power conferences by default. Maybe the little guys will be able to successfully argue that the expanded seats should have a min win % to help cut down on the nonsense of a 17-14 middling SEC school winning out over a 5 loss second place A10 school.

I used to be highly dismissive of an expanded tournament, now after what they did with football, it just seems like a no brainer.

The brain teaser here might be how to structure the seeds. Off the cuff, maybe the play in games should always be for the 8, 9, 10 and 11 seeds.
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You math doesn't work. If they expanded the field to 96 with 32 teams playing on Wednesday (16 games) that would leave 80 teams going into the weekend, which is not a workable number. If they want to expand the tournament without adding another week the practical limit would be 80 teams (after 32 play 16 games on Tuesday you'd be down to 64 for two weekends of play). Of course, if they added another weekend they could have as many as 256 teams in the field and everyone can take home a participation trophy.
 
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