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UConnSportsGuy said:
Take a look at this article from just a month ago:

http://espn.go.com/college-football...to-reaches-big-12-dan-beebe-acc-john-swofford

Big East Commissioner John Marinatto says he has been in constant contact with Dan Beebe of the Big 12 and John Swofford of the Atlantic Coast Conference in recent days and has suggested the three meet to discuss conference realignment.

Marinatto didn't reveal details about his conversations with his fellow commissioners but said Tuesday: "I thought it would be important for us to meet face-to-face and take the lead in trying to do things the right way."

Marinatto was just in completely over his head. He was having 'peace meetings' with Swofford as Swofford was negotiating with 2 of the Big East's top teams (and one of whom was the Big East executive leading the Big East). Wow!
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That's Tranghese's point. Loyalty, what loyalty ? Marinatto had no clue.
 
Tranghese had a really good point about the Pac-12, they went around touting their big play on expansion because they added Colorado and Utah, and that it a key factor in their big TV deal? No! Colorado and Utah barely made them any better than they already were. That was a load of horseshiit, that expansion was a blip on the radar compared to what they initially tried.
 
There is no BE conference anymore, the BE football schools are like a ship in the ocean without a sail and without a rudder, basically we have to wait for someone else to act and send out distress signals for some one to save our ship. No use wasting time with possible scenerios, just sit back and wait till the dust settles. I really hope we land in an AQ conference, really can't blame Cuse and Pitt for taking care of their own needs, JM and the BE didn't do their jobs and they get what they deserve, a basketball conference a bit better than the A-10. Best of luck to all of the remaining football teams, right now it's every man for himself.
 
freescooter said:
Wing-U, It isn't about being treated "unfairly" or fairly. It is about where each side wants to go. The football schools want football to be the priority. they want to be able to expand as they see fit. They don't want to be forced into taking Villanova or nobody as some basketball schools have suggested. They have a different vision for their athletic programs and for the conference. Schools like Providence struggle to put teams on the field in virtually every sport but basketball and ice hockey. They don't fully fund the teams they do have. The football schools wanted the big East to be an all-sports conference comparable to the other major conferneces. the basketball schools wanted a basketball league. But even beyond that, there simply isn't a shared vision among the major public schools and the mostly smaller private ones. Using UCONN as an example, it viewed PC, St Johns et al as its peers when the big East began, athletically, academically. That simply isn't the case any longer. UCONN is much more like the Big 10 Universities, certainly the ACC ones than it is the urban Catholic schools that make up the majority of the Big East basketball side now. All of these factors have resulted in frictions that have led to this point.
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The poster I responded said it was about equality. I agree that it's not about equality but self interests and that was the point I was trying to get across to him.

As of the time Pitt/Cuse applied to the ACC, the football schools were able to split whenever they wanted. The football schools had as many votes as the basketball schools and wouldn't be forced into anything.

The football schools didn't leave and create their own conference because it wouldn't have been any more stable than the hybrid league. An all sports conference of UConn, Cuse, Pitt, Ville, USF, RU, WVU, and Cincy (and any combination of the non-BCS programs wanting an invite) would not be stable enough to keep anyone from going to the B1G or the ACC.
 
jrazz12 said:
The point could be argued that without the bball only schools, we make more aggressive moves (Maryland/Penn St/anything) to save the football side. I think it's a fair argument.
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the only way to do that would have been to offer them a package that was more financially beneficial over the long term than their current one.

the only way to do that, would be to offer them an unfair share of any revenues.

which would have put us where the big 12 is now, and killed the big east anyway.
 
I listened to T on the fan. It was the best interview on the fan in a long time! Had no problem calling out ACC and even threw a jab @ BC
 
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epark88 said:
MT killed it in this interview - a definite must-listen...
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Agreed. Brutal weekend for MT and he didn't hide his disgust for the ACC and for the greed in college sports. Loved the interview.
 
Just listened to this. It was very good. He is correct that a major problem is that the BE football schools didn't win enough, but at the same time he ends the interview by saying he is going to help Providence. A case can be made they didn't win enough to earn their keep in such a great basketball conference. I hope I added the correct link to the interview.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/mike-francesa-1/#
 
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