After listening to him expound on Louisville at the Tulane presser yesterday, any faith anyone had in him is completely misguided.
TV talks are dead in the water and the guy running point has no idea that he's pimping a school that is 18 hours from leaving.
That is scary.
I agree Fishy. I know we've had our battles and it's been fun, but i've gone as far as humanly possible in defending this thing now. I feel for Aresco, he left a job with a lot of security, with one that has very little. Until the past few weeks, truthfully, I had no idea how bad the damage was to this conference that had been inflicted during the past 15 years or so that Tranghese was in charge.
I did know, and told you all right here in 2011 spring, that if Villanova jerked around the upgrade in football, and didn't follow through full bore, the way we did with the upgrade ten years earlier, the conference would be gone by the time the TV deal was done. At that time - if Villanova leadership had actually been legitimate in preserving the conference, and doing what they should have with their football program, the football conference would have been at 10 teams - with TCU, as the outlier, a completely different, denomination,faith - but still christian/religious based institution. We would have basketball conference that still would dominate the east coast major television markets, and a football conference - Syracuse, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Louisville, Connecticut, South Florida, Cincinnati, New Jersey, Texas Chsristian, and Villanova. We'd have a very nice football conference and basketball conference for sale to television rights.
I was all for the Villanova upgrade, as many might remember. I hoped they wouldn' duck the conference. but those priests did.
I'm tired of it all now. I'm ready for the split. As I was before, the new leadership, I had faith in, has failed. The damage done before, was too much to repair.
THe only question now - is UConn leadership going to be a pawn or player? We'll find out.
To be decided is if we're better off selling our own media rights, and scheduling our own major money making sports as an independant, or with a conference.
We will be able to have our media rights to sell to ourselves, if we so want, legally, in very short time.
