04-08-2014, 02:37 PM
I don't know what it is, UConn winning the NC, the AAC winning a BCS Bowl, the AAC possibly winning the women's basketball NC, or the FS1 vs ESPN rating fights, but something has got "some camps" pissed off or scared, I don't know which?
"Affiliation" is the new word of the
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/...ey-do-now/
excerpt:
UConn’s current coach, Calhoun’s former player and assistant Kevin Ollie, showed he could do the job from the bench. The question is how well he’ll recruit. And without the high profile, highly regarded Big East basketball brand to sell.
That is, unless he does have it at some point. Remember Notre Dame’s recent decision to “affiliate” with the ACC in football, announcing it will play five games a year against ACC opponents without actually joining the conference (the Irish did join in other sports)?
Joseph Bailey, a sports industry recruiter who recently served as the Big East’s interim commissioner, says he wouldn’t be surprised if more schools turned to that option. “UConn has two choices, to stay where they are or to affiliate,” says Bailey, who believes an affiliation with the Big East is a possible scenario, if not necessarily likely.
Given how fast things are changing, it’s still anyone’s guess how things will ultimately develop on the college sports front. Thirty years after a Supreme Court decision effectively deregulated the industry by allowing individual schools and conferences to negotiate their own television deals, power conferences are back to wielding as much power as they did before the deregulation. The mergers have raised the eyebrows of some who point to the increasingly demanding travel schedules for non-revenue sport athletes in exchange for the TV money that the major sports bring in. It’s possible that looser conference affiliations – power conferences for basketball and football, either separate or together, along with closer geographic clusters for the other sports – could become the working model at some point.
“This is a follow the leader industry,” says Bailey. “School presidents change, you have to think about it in terms of people, about who is the leader of the day.”
"Affiliation" is the new word of the
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/...ey-do-now/
excerpt:
UConn’s current coach, Calhoun’s former player and assistant Kevin Ollie, showed he could do the job from the bench. The question is how well he’ll recruit. And without the high profile, highly regarded Big East basketball brand to sell.
That is, unless he does have it at some point. Remember Notre Dame’s recent decision to “affiliate” with the ACC in football, announcing it will play five games a year against ACC opponents without actually joining the conference (the Irish did join in other sports)?
Joseph Bailey, a sports industry recruiter who recently served as the Big East’s interim commissioner, says he wouldn’t be surprised if more schools turned to that option. “UConn has two choices, to stay where they are or to affiliate,” says Bailey, who believes an affiliation with the Big East is a possible scenario, if not necessarily likely.
Given how fast things are changing, it’s still anyone’s guess how things will ultimately develop on the college sports front. Thirty years after a Supreme Court decision effectively deregulated the industry by allowing individual schools and conferences to negotiate their own television deals, power conferences are back to wielding as much power as they did before the deregulation. The mergers have raised the eyebrows of some who point to the increasingly demanding travel schedules for non-revenue sport athletes in exchange for the TV money that the major sports bring in. It’s possible that looser conference affiliations – power conferences for basketball and football, either separate or together, along with closer geographic clusters for the other sports – could become the working model at some point.
“This is a follow the leader industry,” says Bailey. “School presidents change, you have to think about it in terms of people, about who is the leader of the day.”