BE has a new commish... Thoughts?

[Goose85]

From Zagsblog - interview with the Rutgers AD on the new commish.

http://www.zagsblog.com/2012/08/14/q...sh/#more-78038

[Goose85]

The lead article on ESPN's college basketball page is about the Big East. Interesting how they choose to describe both the conference and who is likely to have interest in the tv rights.


http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebaske...leagues-stakes

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"The Big East is not flourishing. These days, the polite way to describe the conference is “in transition.” The less polite -- and possibly more accurate -- way is to say the Big East is dying a slow death borne of both small cuts and big bruises, most of which have to do with TV, football, money and any combination thereof."

"More than anything else, what the Big East needs -- besides, you know, better football teams -- is someone who knows best how to sell what it has to TV networks (namely CBS and ESPN) interested in buying."

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So ESPN's story on the hire says the Big East is dying a slow death (thanks ESPN for telling Syracuse and Pit to go to the ACC), needs better football (like the ACC did by adding Syracuse and Pitt????) and someone interested in Big East for TV, namely CBS and ESPN (um, are you forgetting the NBC angle or is ESPN disregarding NBC?).

[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

ESPN is not a news source when it comes to this topic. They are a biased party. It's somewhat shameful how blatant they are about it.

[TheSultan]

ESPN is not a news source

You could have just left it there.