Val Ackerman predicts some teams will opt out of revenue sharing within the year
- Thread starter CL82
- Start date
I think so, though I hope not, because I think it will be the end of the Big East as we understand it now.
I feel like we are in the end stages of a process that began with the first ESPN funded raid on the Big East. Make no mistake that if ESPN doesn't underwrite the ACC in taking schools from the Big East, that raid never happens and the conference that we loved back in the 90s, or at least something very close to it, continues to exist.
i have no idea who is really making decisions like nil, no sit-out, revenue sharing. but it sure seema to me that the big money schools are not happy sharing bball revenue with tbe top tier bb only schools, let alone with the NEC and this new world moves the basketball needle in that direction.
play on the court DID NOT move that needle
play on the court DID NOT move that needle
I don't agree...big 12, sec and big ten would have eventually sought expansion for a variety of reasons.
Someone has to foot the bill for the acquisition of new schools. If media partners aren't writing a check, then expansion doesn't happen. in our case, our media partner was actively working against us to pull schools out of the conference, essentially devaluing us.
I absolutely loathe ESPN for deliberately, breaking up the best college basketball conference in history.
It was a hodge podge hybrid league...mike t put a bandaid on it with cusa schools but it was bound to be a fork in the road
No doubt it was vulnerable. Once football took financial precedence, which all at least some extent was aided by the fact that the NCAA funded itself out of March Madness proceeds, it was an uphill climb. Lou Perkins our Athletic Director at the time, site coming and warned Connecticut, which started the movement to ramp up our football program. it may have been just a little bit too late though for us.
Still, it seems reasonable that our broadcast partner shouldn't be the one to stick the shiv in our backs. The fact that they are a Connecticut company and have received considerable breaks on their taxes makes me all the more angry about this.
Similar threads
