IceJus10
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RE: TV industry analyst: ACC additions worth more than BE deal 2014
(02-09-2012 11:11 AM)WVMntneer Wrote: The most incompetent Commissioner in Big East history made the decisive blunder that rejected that deal...they were holding out for TCU to renegotiate, but TCU backed out and now, WVU, PITT and Syracuse with them. The Big East is sunk and should be renamed CUSA East.
The members voted the exclusive early-renewal ESPN television contract down -- it lost 12-4! If you Google it, you can find a lot of the details about it:
ESPN only offered $910-million (nearly a billion dollars) over 9-years
That really was a low ball offer, but what was claimed as worse was... 1) it didn't compensate for Conference growth/expansion, 2) devalued Big East basketball, 3) didn't guarantee all Big East Tourney games to be showed on TV as is current, 4) eliminated the $20-million a year Tier 2 CBS contract (a working partnership they've had since 1979 and would have likely gone up based on market price and BB success).
(This post was last modified: 02-10-2012 04:38 AM by IceJus10.)
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