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Should be entertaining.
 
He's on outside the lines right now: very upset.

"We have no one in charge" "It's all about football, and money, and greed" "Loyalty is gone"
 
"Going about expansion without one iota of thought to the consequences"
 
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Forde: "stunning and brazen lack of integrity". blaming the university presidents. calls out ESPN for its role too
 
Tranghese is blatantly crapping all over the ACC. Guy is right, college sports has run amuck.
 
This guy sounds a hell of a lot more competent than Marianatto. He's a basketball guy, but he knows what's going on and knows the landscape.
 
Speaking of Tranghese, one has to assume that the current Big East Commissioner knew what was going on. If after all this, and he was involved the last time, he got blindsided yet again, I hope the members have cleaned out his desk and left his personal possessions on the front stoop of his Providence Office.
 
sounds like sour grapes, the big east sealed its own fate. i say that even as a fan of a team who could be affected negatively.
 
This outside the lines discussion is really interesting: you have the 3 ESPN writers most pissed about this realignment, going against Jamie Dixon trying to spin Pitt's move and some CBS media exec who claims all the moves are somehow NOT about television
 
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Tranghese and both Francesa talking about feeling badly for Boeheim, and Calhoun, and Dixon, who would much rather have the status quo kept together and don't want to coach in the ACC (per these guys).
 
Katz blaming the Big East's problems on the bball/non-bball split and the difference of interests. I think that's the common sense view, and why it needs to be split now
 
Anyway to catch a repeat of outside the lines. Don't see any on the channel line up. Missed it because it says NASCAR on right now.
 
How is it the BE fault? I fully understand how this whole house of cards falls. But, barring that split ... there is nothing that the conference could have done. The Bottom Line, at this point, is that the Profiteering (using the Herbst phrase) and Consolitation/Exclusion kills the "best interest of the sport". That is why you can absolutely say that John Swofford is no sportsman. He is a business shark ... and far better than ours. But, frankly, our Presidents & Commish had no really solid hand to play.
 
Potentially this is a merger of Big East Football and the ACC as they stood in 2003. UConn replaced the deficient Temple in 2004 and WVU goes to the SEC.

If this happened in 2003 it would be a Win/Win. Ahhh...the drama....
 
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What would you like Dixon to do? He could trash the whole thing and live in a messy house? He has to spin it and bite his tongue. No one with any sense, except maybe Boeheim, will trash the situation. Notice that Calhoun hasn't....
 
jrazz12 said:
Katz blaming the Big East's problems on the bball/non-bball split and the difference of interests. I think that's the common sense view, and why it needs to be split now
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Then what happened to the Big 12?
 
Video should be on ESPN.com soon.
 
uc1974 said:
What would you like Dixon to do? He could trash the whole thing and live in a messy house? He has to spin it and bite his tongue. No one with any sense, except maybe Boeheim, will trash the situation. Notice that Calhoun hasn't....
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Oh I'm not blaming him, it was just a great juxtaposition of Dixon up there smiling and excited and the 3 espn anchors looking pissed and talking about greed and the destruction of college sports as we know it
 
WingU-Conn said:
Then what happened to the Big 12?
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Texas happened. It's the difference of interests and trying to keep everyone happy in both cases. They went on to suggest that this could be the problem with the super conferences, just more teams to try to manage.
 
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jrazz12 said:
Oh I'm not blaming him, it was just a great juxtaposition of Dixon up there smiling and excited and the 3 espn anchors looking pissed and talking about greed and the destruction of college sports as we know it
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I did not see either interview, but it is a bit hypocritical for the EsPN anchors to be angry when the company they work for has their fingerprints all over this.
 
uc1974 said:
What would you like Dixon to do? He could trash the whole thing and live in a messy house? He has to spin it and bite his tongue. No one with any sense, except maybe Boeheim, will trash the situation. Notice that Calhoun hasn't....
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Calhoun can't trash everyone because we want into the ACC. Boeheim, however, ....

My guess is that if UConn does not join the party you may hear Jimmy B say something. But he's going to play nice for now for the same reason Calhoun is.
 
noeynox said:
I did not see either interview, but it is a bit hypocritical for the EsPN anchors to be angry when the company they work for has their fingerprints all over this.
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That's what was interesting also. Forde came right out and called out ESPN for helping facilitate this mess. Then some genius ex-media exec tried saying this wasn't about TV
 
noeynox said:
I did not see either interview, but it is a bit hypocritical for the EsPN anchors to be angry when the company they work for has their fingerprints all over this.
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Why? You think the suits in New York are consulting with the talent in Bristol about these decisions? Please. Ley isn't a hypocrite -- he's a hero for, rightly or wrongly, putting his responsibilities as a journalist in front of worrying about his employer's interests. If we had more hard news reporters and analysts doing this, we'd have a stronger country.

You think a Limbaugh, a Olberman, is so stupid that they never see the other "side" as being in the right on anything? Of course not. But they put their ratings, and their pocketbooks, ahead of any responsibility as a journalist or an American.
 
tzznandrew said:
Texas and the LHN happened.
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The Long Horn Network didn't occur until after PAC-10 already invited Texas, etc. The LHN was ESPN's half assed attempt to keep the Big 12 together. The Big 12 was in trouble long before the LHN.... it has nothing to do with having some basketball schools in your conference... it has more to do with having crappy TV deals. The Big 12 had one of the crappiest.
 
businesslawyer said:
You think a Limbaugh, a Olberman, is so stupid that they never see the other "side" as being in the right on anything? Of course not. But they put their ratings, and their pocketbooks, ahead of any responsibility as a journalist or an American.
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Limbaugh doesn't pretend to be a journalist, and he is in an opinion business. Why would he talk about his opinion being wrong, when he believes it to be right?

I agree with you on Bob Ley though and the rest. Network execs don't ask them for permission before making decisions.
 
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