Re: Syracuse/UCONN
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 12:36 pm
Oddly, I think we have gotten more love from ESPN recently. Last night during Cuse v. UConn on ESPN2 (big audience), they were raving about the Big East as it is today and said how impressed they were. I've also seen SC top 10 highlights on Instagram with Creighton, G'Town, Nova, etc. Are they biased in favor of big football schools? Clearly, but I think we are at the point now where they can't totally ignore us anymore. We've also seen lots of ESPN articles praising the conference and you can tell people are surprised we succeeded but many are giving us our due. I think there should be an obligation to cover the Big East just as much as the ACC, but the TV deal drives the bias. They are always going to hype their product over FS1's. There is definitely a dropoff...we used to be like the favorite son of ESPN...you couldn't look anywhere without seeing the Big East on ESPN networks or sites, however I don't think it's as far a dropoff as it was when it first formed. As someone said, force them to notice. How do you do that? Win consistently, bigly (had to), and go deep in the tourney.