(02-04-2024 04:15 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(02-04-2024 04:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  

(02-04-2024 03:10 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(02-04-2024 10:40 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  No grandpa Boeheim, the "hardest part" of realignment is trying to make the best of what's left after you get stabbed in the back by Pitt and Syracuse.

Didn't you guys stab the MAC and CUSA in the back too?

Yeah I don't remember us telling the MAC and CUSA to turn down a decent TV deal and then bolt the conference when ESPN blew it up.

Syracuse never was involved in that.

From Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%...ealignment

At that time, speculation was rampant that the Big East might be able to attract a school from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), which was in the midst of negotiating a new media deal. However, according to one industry source, "At that point when the Big East was intact, the only schools the Big East could have legitimately added that made sense were UCF, Maryland, and Boston College; and those schools wouldn't even return the Big East's calls. But the Big East couldn't add UCF because Judy Genshaft [president of UCF’s in-state rival South Florida] kept shooting down UCF." A source within the conference added that Genshaft's insistence on keeping UCF out was a major contributing factor to the instability that would soon plague the Big East.[20]

The trigger for this instability proved to be the negotiations for a new television deal that took place in April 2011, when TCU was on board. Marinatto and the conference reached a nine-year, $1.4 billion deal and recommended that the conference presidents, who had the final say on the deal, accept it.[20] The presidents reportedly voted 12–4 to accept in a preliminary vote.[21] However, while the conference was going over the final details, the presidents had second thoughts upon learning of the deal that the Pac-12 had just reached with ESPN and Fox, reportedly worth $250 million annually, and in a second vote turned down the deal 16–0.[21] In May 2012, one Big East source told Brett McMurphy, then of CBSSports.com, that turning down the deal "was the stupidest decision ever made in college athletics. To have the equity of ESPN as your brand and the stability that would have gone with it." Another source added, "If the TV deal was accepted and UCF had been added, who knows if Pitt and Syracuse ever leave. Everyone left because of stability and right there was your stability with that TV deal."[20]

Dude, the BC AD at the time let the cat out of the bag. It was a hit job.