(09-11-2015 06:22 AM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 05:33 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Why would ESPN say anything about a FOX League ? Who still watches anyway ?

So Fox will keep overpaying them while only15,000 people watch?

1. Again, the author's got a job to do. Gotta write something.
2. Contract runs for 10 more years, so yeah.

(09-11-2015 06:52 AM)Jet915 Wrote:  Big East TV schedule was just released and there will be 12 games televised on Big Fox and 3 on CBS. Not sure many conferences can say they have that many games on network tv. While moving these games from FS1 to Fox might hurt FS1 ratings, I dont think the Big East will complain....

This was the sort of thing the NEw Big East dreamers were talking about when they wanted to leave ESPN for NBC and be someone's golden-boy conference. (It works better if you have fanbases).

(09-11-2015 07:36 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  The BE has only one direction to go in. Down. The AAC can go down sideways or up. My guess is up.

No, the Big EAst could go up, with tournament success to match regular-season metrics and numbers of bids, etc. OR continued lack of success on the biggest stage could drag us down.

(09-11-2015 08:14 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I'm not sure why anyone is surprised that the Big East is still performing well.

Because, to a lot of people, football is everything in college sports. So the idea that a major college sports fanbase can exist based on something other than football is foreign.