This is probably what has Navy in a tizzy. This kind of week night schedule is absolutely devastating to Navy. Navy feels like it has at least two years to yank the plug on Nbe based on Navy's AD's remarks quoted in the linked Baltimore Sun article. It certainly appears Navy will complete re-evaluate accepting membership in Nbe/A12, especially now with all the week nite ESPN telecasts.
The better the team recognized nationally, the more that team is going to play week nite games. Louisville will play 4 week night games. Wonder, given that the Nbe/A12 contract was known for some time by Boise but Aresco was hiding it from the public as long as he could, if these week nite games was another factor pushing the Broncos back to MWC? The Broncos now have 6 ESPN Saturday telecasts, 6 more than Nbe/A12 combined.
2013 BIG EAST CONFERENCE TEAM-BY-TEAM FOOTBALL SCHEDULES
http://www.bigeast.org
NAVY, BOUND FOR BIG EAST FOOTBALL, WILL WAIT TO REVIEW 'ALL THE MOVING PARTS'
The Baltimore Sun, By Don Markus, December 13, 2012
"Navy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk said that Navy, which is scheduled to move into the BIg East in 2015 for football only, is continually "reviewing all the moving parts" and
will figure out where its football program will land once the other schools decide where they are going."
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We have the latitude to evaluate the bigger picture for the next couple of years," Gladchuk said Thursday. "This is a obviously new development. We're not in a position where we're panicking. Eventually, the dust will settle, what that means, I don't know., When it does,
Navy will take a real hard look at what's left standing.""