10-28-2008, 03:15 PM
1. It's not good football. If you look right now there are 5 of 8 BE teams with winning records as good as most BCS leagues. The BE has beaten teams from other BCS conferences and has lost a few as well. Not great this year but not worse than the Big Televen, Big Twelve, Pac Ten or ACC either. The BE hasn't done terribly against the SEC in actual games over the past few years either. People act as though the last three seasons don't exist.
2. BE football can just sit still and do nothing. History has shown again and again that if one thing is certain, every so many years there will be major changes in college football conferences. Things like the Southwest dissolving, creation of the BCS which knocked out many programs that were previously playing with the "big" teams, Some southwest teams joining the Big Eight which also dissolved. Major independents in the east joining conferences. The eastern teams have been affected majorly three times with changes--Penn State joining the big Televen and not playing it's eastern foes anymore. The formation of the BEFC with Miami joining and of course the defections. If you wait a few more seasons, more change will come-the question is will eastern programs be at the forefront this time or once again at the back door looking in?
3. Its ok to just have midweek tv games. If you look at this season especially, but what has occurred since the inception of BEFC, The conference is being greatly underrepresented in major tv broadcasts on the weekends. Saturdays are when most recruits can visit, most fans can watch or attend games, most college football viewers and pollsters are watching--pundits are watching and on and on. This hurts revenues, rankings, etc. The BE is getting 0 representation on Saturdays while markets are getting "great" matchups with the Vanderbilts, Wake Forests, Purdue's and Northwesterns of the world. I do not believe for a second with the markets BE teams exist in that if BE teams were to get Saturday games, viewership would be less than the matchups that are being put on besides the marquee matchups. This is possibly the #1 issue affecting the league and unfortunately I believe a network change for basketball and football may be in order. Tranghese would have all believe that without the conglomeration football coverage would go down--how can it be worse than 0 which it is now?
2. BE football can just sit still and do nothing. History has shown again and again that if one thing is certain, every so many years there will be major changes in college football conferences. Things like the Southwest dissolving, creation of the BCS which knocked out many programs that were previously playing with the "big" teams, Some southwest teams joining the Big Eight which also dissolved. Major independents in the east joining conferences. The eastern teams have been affected majorly three times with changes--Penn State joining the big Televen and not playing it's eastern foes anymore. The formation of the BEFC with Miami joining and of course the defections. If you wait a few more seasons, more change will come-the question is will eastern programs be at the forefront this time or once again at the back door looking in?
3. Its ok to just have midweek tv games. If you look at this season especially, but what has occurred since the inception of BEFC, The conference is being greatly underrepresented in major tv broadcasts on the weekends. Saturdays are when most recruits can visit, most fans can watch or attend games, most college football viewers and pollsters are watching--pundits are watching and on and on. This hurts revenues, rankings, etc. The BE is getting 0 representation on Saturdays while markets are getting "great" matchups with the Vanderbilts, Wake Forests, Purdue's and Northwesterns of the world. I do not believe for a second with the markets BE teams exist in that if BE teams were to get Saturday games, viewership would be less than the matchups that are being put on besides the marquee matchups. This is possibly the #1 issue affecting the league and unfortunately I believe a network change for basketball and football may be in order. Tranghese would have all believe that without the conglomeration football coverage would go down--how can it be worse than 0 which it is now?