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Fox carried many games on its FS1& FS2.
Sadly our number of national Fox/CBS games may start to decrease since Fox now has a lot of content with the Big 10 and Big 12 too, but regardless I hope we stick with Fox and also try negotiating a second package with ESPN or CBS. Just don't want to take an extra couple million to be on Apple TV or whatever with no exposure, unless maybe if it's only a package for B tier games.
A decade ago the Big East chose exposure (virtually every game on Fox/CBS/FS1/FS2/CBSSN channels) which clearly worked, so I'm optimistic they'll make the correct decision again.
What about Hannity doing play by play
interesting story in today's The Athletic--"Why are we making all the other sports suffer?" Rick is quoted with the title of the article attributed to him and continues, "minor sportswill travel commercially and 50 to 60 percent of flights are delayed, so kids are going to be stuck in airports, hanging around looking for bad food. Not only is it inconvenient but we talk all the time about mental health of people. This is not healthy for people"
One of the saner solutions would be the Notre Dame scenario where they are independent for football but in a league for all their other sports. Group the Power 64 in one "league which would lead to a post season championship playoffs and do the same for the next 64 with their own championship`.
One of the saner solutions would be the Notre Dame scenario where they are independent for football but in a league for all their other sports. Group the Power 64 in one "league which would lead to a post season championship playoffs and do the same for the next 64 with their own championship`.
Great paragraphs, but you still don't know how to spell yukon,
Big 12 leaving UConn, Gonzaga behind in conference realignment will prove best for both in long run
The Big East and the West Coast Conference have been spared in realignment -- at least for now. That's a good thing for the Huskies and Zags
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Interesting notes here on Gonzaga-Big East, and future Big 12 expansion:
"Then there is the Big East, but sources said those talks between the league and Gonzaga have been on ice for a long time. It doesn't sound like an outright invitation will come to fruition, and it's purely because of geography.
"Gonzaga went radio-silent on the Big East," a source said. "The geography is such a hard hump to get over for the student-athlete experience."
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And if nothing happens for the remainder of this decade?
"When the Big 12's rights are up in 2030-31 and Yormark can look to separate basketball and football, hell yes, they will go after Gonzaga and other basketball-only schools," one commissioner told CBS Sports. "
^ that Big East media deal in 2025 will be very interesting.
Then the Big East needs to go sell itself much better to Gonzaga.Big 12 leaving UConn, Gonzaga behind in conference realignment will prove best for both in long run
The Big East and the West Coast Conference have been spared in realignment -- at least for now. That's a good thing for the Huskies and Zags
Interesting notes here on Gonzaga-Big East, and future Big 12 expansion:
"Then there is the Big East, but sources said those talks between the league and Gonzaga have been on ice for a long time. It doesn't sound like an outright invitation will come to fruition, and it's purely because of geography.
"Gonzaga went radio-silent on the Big East," a source said. "The geography is such a hard hump to get over for the student-athlete experience."
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And if nothing happens for the remainder of this decade?
"When the Big 12's rights are up in 2030-31 and Yormark can look to separate basketball and football, hell yes, they will go after Gonzaga and other basketball-only schools," one commissioner told CBS Sports. "
^ that Big East media deal in 2025 will be very interesting.
Make it a max 3-trips east of Chicago per year with two conference games per trip. Gonzaga already does that with the California schools, playing Thursday and Saturday. They can do two of them between the end of the fall semester (around 12/15) and start of spring semester (1/11 start in 2024). They can squeeze in a huge OOC game in a pro NYC, Philly, or DC arena on one of those trips.
Then have two teams give up home games each year for neutral court games out west. It’s only fair from a travel standpoint and it only affects teams once every 5 years or so.
Line up spring break with conference tournament.
Gonzaga can get creative with the rest of the schedule. 1-2 games a season with nearby rivals Washington State and Eastern Washington. Have cupcakes come to you for the rest since you will have strong conference schedule. Annual home and home with Washington. 2 home for every 1 away with Boise State and Oregon State caliber teams?
It’s really not that hard.
I love the e creativity but I just have a hard time imagining schools signing off on giving up a home conference game. Plus gonzaga gets the benefit of 2 less conference road games? How does that all work out
You know as well as anybody that it’s the other sports that make things difficult. Agree with your sentiment though
Half the Big East is a bus ride away, so it’s only fair. Gonzaga would be flying 3-6 hours for every away game (maybe less with private flights).
The benefit would be a potential 15 mill a year tv deal. Just think of 10-12 triple or quadruple headers with Gonzaga as the late game. Networks would love that. There is a benefit to playing neutral and away games.
ESPN would go crazy to put Gonzaga, St. John’s, UConn, and Villanova up against Duke and North Carolina in the OOC. Gonzaga-Duke in 2018 and 2021 were two of the highest viewed games over the last 5 years. Also, the old Big East schools like BC, Notre Dame, etc. would be bigger draws than any other OOC opponents thanks the the decades-old former rivalries.
That is the bigger obstacle for all the major conferences. Washington will be up their arse to schedule smaller sports now that they are in the Big Ten.
Most of their sports will be largely unaffected. Literally the entire schedule for sports like golf, x country, and track and field are 100% invitationals and the men’s and women’s teams travel together. Baseball would be no worries since they play Friday, Saturday, Sunday and they already fly everywhere around the country as it is.
They only have 7 men’s and 7 women’s NCAA sports teams.
The only issues would be women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s tennis.
I can only see the Zags coming if they get a couple other teams in their area to join, which comes with diminishing returns.
I do think what’s equally unlikely but not an impossible scenario is the Florida State & Clemson leaving in 2025, ND does better than expected on their TV deal, and decides to return to the Big East for all sports minus football (and goes to the Big Ten for that)
I do think what’s equally unlikely but not an impossible scenario is the Florida State & Clemson leaving in 2025, ND does better than expected on their TV deal, and decides to return to the Big East for all sports minus football (and goes to the Big Ten for that)
L J S A
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Stanford, Cal, Gonzaga. Move Xavier to East.
Cal and Stanford join the MAC for football or go independent. If both decide that chasing a national championship isn't ever going to be feasible, there are plenty of local opponents to keep costs down if they went independent.
I know Stanford basketball is confident in the talent they expect to bring in over next couple seasons. Gonzaga is Gonzaga. Cal . . . not sure why they've sucked this bad, but the recruiting footprint is fertile. The campus is beautiful and so are the women. Plus seeing us play in Berkeley every two years is a win for me since door to door on public transit is about 20 minutes.
This is my final proposal to Val, Marillac, and DK. I can't even remember if it was also my previous proposal, but I'm putting my foot down.
A lit of chatter that needle is moving towards adding Cal & Stanford to ACC
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.”
While I am not a big fan of Val, she is not incompetent and clueless. I believe the BE has made a big effort but Gonzaga has been “radio silent”. Part of that was probably to see what the Big 12 would do, the other part is they are not really interested in the Big East. if they were, there would have been counter proposals and not radio silence.
CaliRedfan
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Weren’t Stanford and Cal the primary reasons the Pac wouldn’t consider schools like BYU and Baylor. Now they’d kill to be in the B12 conf with them if invited. Where might that conference be today had ideology not gotten in the way when the Pac had the upper hand years ago.
Sad to see two great schools potentially left in the dust, but it’s karma they earned
We need more of this v these “secret” scrimmages. You’d think the latter involves nuclear codes lol
Donna Shalala isn’t a source for good judgment in my opinion . She moves around like a free agent in Academia . Likely she wears thin on any organization or School she affiliates with .
To the best of my Recollection , both Miami and BC left more for Football $$$$ than anything else .
Plus , ND joined the BE long after those 2 Schools exited as I recall . So the Academic BS she was peddling was just propaganda .
But , that’s Donna !