John Marinatto OUT as BE Commish

About a year or two too late for my taste
If Tranghese had remained on the job, I'd like to think that things in the BE would be a lot different/better than they are 
 
marinatto was in way over his head. hopefully, the league gets a professional and not another good ole boy! 
 
Well lets see who they get.
Turning down the TV deal was a killer. He never could secure or lead the group to accept it.
The basketball schools did not like him
Time to spend some $$$$ and get a strong personality/leader. I agree with prior post about Mike T. Too bad he did not stay on a few additional years  
 
About a year or two too late for my taste
If Tranghese had remained on the job, I'd like to think that things in the BE would be a lot different/better than they are 
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I think things would have been better, no question.

Tranghese did go on Francesa's show after Gavitt died, and he basically said that one of the reasons he retired, was because he could see the handwriting on the wall, regarding the league breaking up, and that he did not want to go through another expansion process.
 
 The whole league is on shaky ground despite the expansion. The new TV contract could stabilize things but the trouble is I don't trust any school to be loyal. When you have an arrangement like that stability is the last thing
you can count on.
 
marinatto was in way over his head. hopefully, the league gets a professional and not another good ole boy! 
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Another?
The BE has had 3 commissioners? 2 have been amazing and visionaries. 1 has sucked.
Do you agree or did you have issues with Gavitt and Tranghese?
 
 Echoing what above poster "terrificboss" said, the below ESPN article indicates that the basketball schools pushed Marinatto out which is surprising because I did not think that the basketball schools had a backbone.

ESPN says:
"A source said Marinatto's exit had been building for weeks. The source said the basketball members in the Big East were upset that they had no say in the expansion process."

LINK:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...mmissioner-john-marinatto-resigns-source-says 
 
 Even though Im predjudice towards SJU. I believe it was the BB schools that held up the ESPN tv deal last year.
 
 Even though Im predjudice towards SJU. I believe it was the BB schools that held up the ESPN tv deal last year.
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Don't think so. Pretty sure it was stated that Pitt was instrumental in holding it up and ironically jumping ship as well.
 
My understanding is as Moose stated- - that being that Pitt$' President vigorously argued that the deal offered to the BEast by ESPN should be rejected at the same time the Pitt$ official was discussing membership with the ACC.
 
My understanding is as Moose stated- - that being that Pitt$' President vigorously argued that the deal offered to the BEast by ESPN should be rejected at the same time the Pitt$ official was discussing membership with the ACC.
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That is so unkosher it's nuts. If someone was a very high level executive of xyz corporation and they were arguing against a deal but at the same time they were in negotiating to be on the board of another competing company that would be f'd up
 
MJ - -

My statement is based upon what someone told me who i believe would be in a position to know.

I tend to believe it because I do not believe that the marriage between the University of Syracuse and Pitt$burgh came together instantaneously as the SU press release indicated that it did. 
 
 Georgetown also was against the TV deal. I, agree though, the fact that Pitt argued against the deal ,while negotiating its exit ,is certainly immoral . That is a nice message to send to todays youth. The state of college athletics has gone to shambles IMO, with the conference realignments and the chase for the most money.. 
 
The below linked article indicated that the rift that may have cost Marinatto his job concerned the split to TV money. The story indicates that the BEast football schools wanted 75% of the revenue with the scraps going to the basketball only schools.

from the article:
" ...... Last year, at the spring meetings in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., one proposal suggested a 75/25 split -- 75 percent of the money going to football schools, and 25 percent going to basketball schools. One athletic director at a basketball school raised his hand and wondered why the numbers were not flipped, since hoops is the reason the Big East exists in the first place.

LINK:
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/32570/where-did-john-marinatto-go-wrong
 
MJ - -

My statement is based upon what someone told me who i believe would be in a position to know.

I tend to believe it because I do not believe that the marriage between the University of Syracuse and Pitt$burgh came together instantaneously as the SU press release indicated that it did. 
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Oh I wouldn't doubt you on that.

I wonder what the Big East schools could get on a deal for a basketball only conference.
 
marinatto was in way over his head. hopefully, the league gets a professional and not another good ole boy! 
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Another?
The BE has had 3 commissioners? 2 have been amazing and visionaries. 1 has sucked.
Do you agree or did you have issues with Gavitt and Tranghese?
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i agree. the "another" was the handing the job to someone who hung around for a long time..thus was rewarded. it's something like brian mahoney replacing louie.
 
 Dana O'Neil puts the turning down of the TV deal on Georgetown:

The interests between the football and non-football schools in the Big East always have been difficult to manage (the in-house squabbles reportedly hit the biggest of snafus last year when Georgetown led a charge to vote down a TV deal that Marinatto had in front of him, a decision that now can be defined as the beginning of his end). Everyone knows and even admits that football drives the bus, but it's asking an awful lot for someone like Jim Calhoun to ride along as a powerless passenger.
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http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...tenure-big-east-commissioner-was-doomed-start
 
With Marinatto the last of the Providence club out, could a split happen sooner than we think (say 2015) I think Villanova will try to move up and be in the football conference but where does that leave our beloved program and Seton Hall, DePaul, Marquette etc?
 
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