ohiohsbball wrote:Bostonspider wrote:I would assume the main argument for adding teams is adding more content. If you have 12 teams playing 18 games you know have 108 games for FS to pick from and broadcast. For other sports you can divide into divisions and limit the amount of east-west travel. All I know is that the BE was looking at expansion candidates as of 18 months ago. Maybe they decided that they do not need to expand at all, but they certainly were considering it.
I would assume that if they were looking at expansion 18 months ago, then a pretty good chance it is still on the table; I can't imagine they would completely swipe it off the table when the conference is only two years old.
The source that told me from Virginia that VCU is not a real candidate was also the person that told me Fox IS pushing the tables to expand to 12, contrary to popular to belief on this message board. Fox needs more inventory to grow its brand and she also said if they went to twelve teams, Fox would look at prime time games Monday-Thursday and then a Fox national double header on Saturdays.
Like you said, no one knows for sure but it is fun to speculate. Those people that say it isn't, then why else would there be almost 80 pages on a thread that is only a couple weeks old?
_lh wrote:ohiohsbball wrote:Bostonspider wrote:I would assume the main argument for adding teams is adding more content. If you have 12 teams playing 18 games you know have 108 games for FS to pick from and broadcast. For other sports you can divide into divisions and limit the amount of east-west travel. All I know is that the BE was looking at expansion candidates as of 18 months ago. Maybe they decided that they do not need to expand at all, but they certainly were considering it.
I would assume that if they were looking at expansion 18 months ago, then a pretty good chance it is still on the table; I can't imagine they would completely swipe it off the table when the conference is only two years old.
The source that told me from Virginia that VCU is not a real candidate was also the person that told me Fox IS pushing the tables to expand to 12, contrary to popular to belief on this message board. Fox needs more inventory to grow its brand and she also said if they went to twelve teams, Fox would look at prime time games Monday-Thursday and then a Fox national double header on Saturdays.
Like you said, no one knows for sure but it is fun to speculate. Those people that say it isn't, then why else would there be almost 80 pages on a thread that is only a couple weeks old?
Mere window shopping.
They kicked the tires of the SLU/UD/Richmond/VCU in the used car lot and have moved on.
NJRedman wrote:Personally I don't see expansion being seriously talked about until 2 years before the TV contract is up and if any invitations do come it will be a year prior to that deal running out.
NJRedman wrote:Personally I don't see expansion being seriously talked about until 2 years before the TV contract is up and if any invitations do come it will be a year prior to that deal running out.
Xudash wrote:myopicraiderfan wrote:Remember in 10 years when the contract is up it won't just be ESPN vs Fox. You have Comcast, a likely time warner\charter company, ATT\DirectV, Amazon, Netflix, and who knows how many over the top companies that will offer programming and will compete for TV inventory. It was mentioned Fox wouldn't have patience. Well, there are 10 years left in the contract so they are going to be.
75 pages in and it's still the same. Unless UConn wants in, there isn't a team that can move the needle and give the conference more money. No extra money, then no extra teams. Time is the BE's friend. See what happens in the next 8 years, then if things need to change before the end of the contract then they will.
2023 Worse case scenario:
Fox one BE ratings are terrible.
BE turns into a 2-3 bid conference.
A10 becomes best non P5 basketball conference with 5-6 teams every year.
Do you think one of the P5 will invite the BE teams in? Nope, Not going to happen.
Would a top basketball school over the last decade jump from A10\MVC if asked. Absolutely, there would be fight to see who could get in the door first(first 75 pages of this thread).
So worse case is BE gets to keep its money and not have to share and no matter what happens still have the best\most profitable non football conference.
Your worst case scenario actually ended up focusing me on the Big East versus the A10. Roughly speaking, each Big East member makes in one year the same amount of television related revenue that an A10 member makes in a decade! I believe most people would agree that the A-10 is in no position whatsoever to surpass the Big East. The Big East has the better brands. Obviously, the Big East has a better television agreement. And the Big East has the Big East Tournament in Madison Square Garden.
Why would a fan of a school that belongs to the A-10 conference take shots at the Big East conference or at any school in the Big East?
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