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WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

Postby Doge McDermott » Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:11 pm

Nice little article from the Wall Street Journal.

Check out this quote by none other than ESPN's Jay Bilas:
“The Big East is still a league, it’s a conference,” Bilas said. “The ACC and some of these other quote-unquote leagues are really just media-rights consortiums.”


Holy shit.

EDIT - Comments section is full of teams that went to the ACC ('Cuse and BU) and wish they were back with us.
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Postby GoldenWarrior11 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:34 pm

Really strong article. Wonderful quotes by Ackermann, Shanley, Bilas and McDermott.

Our league is truly a wonderful and close knit collection of schools.
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Re: WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

Postby pki1998 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:05 pm

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Re: WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

Postby NJRedman » Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:38 am

I want to read these comments! hahaha
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Postby mpwalsh8 » Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:39 am

NJRedman wrote:I want to read these comments! hahaha


Clink on the link in this tweet and it will bypass the WSJ login and let you view the comments.

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Re: WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

Postby TrueBlueJay » Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:56 am

Perfect reason to keep UCONN out unless they kill their football program.
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Re: WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

Postby ArmyVet » Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:16 am

TrueBlueJay wrote:Perfect reason to keep UCONN out unless they kill their football program.

The timing of the article is interesting to me just when there are media reports about UCONN and the Big East talking. I cannot help but wonder if someone at the league office level or a school president wanted to get this out there to either squash the rumors or get leverage on UCONN if there were talks.
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Re: WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

Postby Bill Marsh » Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:00 pm



Thanks much. Greatly appreciate the link.
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