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Big East or Big Deceased?

Found this line shocking: O'Leary says he has studied the numbers and found that football "pays 73 percent of the bills" in the Big East. He believes that's why football-basketball combo schools like Pitt and Syracuse have already left and others such as West Virginia, Rutgers, UConn and Louisville would love to leave, too. The only reason USF doesn't have an exit strategy is because nobody wants them.
(10-12-2011 08:59 PM)Jugnaut Wrote: [ -> ]Big East or Big Deceased?

Found this line shocking: O'Leary says he has studied the numbers and found that football "pays 73 percent of the bills" in the Big East. He believes that's why football-basketball combo schools like Pitt and Syracuse have already left and others such as West Virginia, Rutgers, UConn and Louisville would love to leave, too. The only reason USF doesn't have an exit strategy is because nobody wants them.

O'Leary is misinformed.

"The Big East’s television fate is a bit more complicated than most leagues. It generates more revenue from basketball than football, the only major conference do so."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/sports....html?_r=1

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketbal...s-football

http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.co...2/30151240

http://eye-on-college-basketball.blogs.c...6/30152572
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