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#4171 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I think I get it, Wickedson is Frankie's son and he takes offense of people calling his grandma a whore
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Posts: 36,011
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#4172 |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Pond> Me <Barn
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SCANDAL: ESPN Told The ACC Which Teams To Take From Big East Conference David Luckie, I Bleed Crimson Red | Oct. 9, 2011, 9:56 PM When the Atlantic Coast Conference announced that Pittsburgh and Syracuse would be leaving the Big East and joining the ACC, it was seen as a logical move to expand the league’s footprint in the Northeast. But as details on the backroom negotiations emerge, it is clear that the “worldwide leader” was a behind-the-scenes worldwide schemer, exerting its influence and driving the ACC toward the programs it wanted to have in the league. The Boston Globe’s Mark Blaudschun has a story in today’s print and online editions outlining the process by which the decision was made to include Pitt and Syracuse and exclude UConn, despite the Huskies’ recent success in both football and basketball. The money quotes: BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo, who was part of the 12-member ACC expansion committee, adamantly denied that the move was dictated by basketball interests, but he did concede that the effects of it may boost that sport more than football.Why is Disney – via ABC and ESPN – instructing a conference expansion committee on which teams to include and which to leave out? The Big East has been the victim of ACC poaching in the past. Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech all defected amid very bad blood and rather ugly legal disputes. The current round of hunting on posted land lands a historically powerful but recently weak Pitt football program and a Syracuse program that’s had only flashes of success. Left behind was UConn. UConn has won a few titles in men’s and women’s basketball and while they lost millions on the trip, the football team earned a BCS bid after the 2010 season. With the Big 12, the Big 10 and even the SEC said to be interested in Big East schools, the conference is on the verge of implosion. Basketball drives the Big East. Football is important, but there are seven members of the league that don’t play FBS football. Blaudschun suggests that those schools may break off and form a basketball only conference with Notre Dame. What happens to UConn then? Automatic BCS qualifying conferences poaching members from one another is a zero sum game. Someone has to lose for someone else to win. For the Big East to survive, it would have to either draw programs playing FBS football in another automatic qualifying conference, or offer someone in a non-automatic qualifying conference an upgrade. That opens up the possibilities for Conference USA, the Sun Belt, the MAC and other mid-major type conference schools to move up into a league with an automatic bid to a BCS bowl. But such a move would also hurt the image of a league already seen by fans as the least powerful of the BCS conferences. Could the ESPN meddling have been a retaliatory move? Remember, the Big East turned down a $1.9 billion offer from the worldwide schemer and is said to be entertaining offers from NBC, CBS and FOX for its next media contract. ESPN is currently the first tier media partner for the league, but after helping the ACC decide which teams to kidnap from the Big East, an over-the-air network getting the deal of a lifetime is a fair bet. Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook. Follow David Luckie on Twitter. |
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#4173 |
The 23rd Pillar
Join Date: Sep 2002
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It makes all the sense in the world that a league looking to expand would seek advice from the networks given that one of the primary considerations in any expansion is the impact it will have on the league's ability to land a big TV contract. I see nothing scandalous about it.
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#4174 |
Quit your bullshit
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bored of winning
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Am I missing the part where ESPN did something wrong?
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#4175 |
Supporter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Who knows?
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#4176 |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Yeah, this is a non-issue to me. Its not like ESPN approached the ACC and ordered them to action, ACC wanted to expand and asked for their broadcast partner's input on the value of potential targets. What is ESPN supposed to do, take a vow of silence and say "sorry, but it would (somehow) be unethical for us to say anything. Go figure it out on your own, and we'll tell you later if you made the correct move or not."
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In Search of a Life
Join Date: Dec 2005
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#4178 |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Not at all. ESPN did not approach the ACC and tell them to start expanding, and by the way, here's the two schools you need, the ACC decided to expand and consulted with ESPN. By "told us what to do", what that meant was "well, since you asked for our opinion, if you want to maximize revenue, these two schools will do it"
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#4179 |
Custom User Title
Join Date: Jan 2007
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It appears the sec met today. No action taken with regards to expansion.
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#4180 |
MVP
Join Date: Dec 2003
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#4181 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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TCU has a press conference tonight to announce they are joining the Big 12.
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#4182 |
Beloved & Awesome CP Celebrity
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Florida
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#4183 |
Resident Glue Sniffer
Join Date: Nov 2003
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that guy has a bit of an 'outtie'.
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#4184 |
Ith Fuhtbawl Time
Join Date: Apr 2010
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#4185 |
Resident Glue Sniffer
Join Date: Nov 2003
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i think that othe dude is Liam Neesen
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