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THE BIG EAST'S FOOTBALL RIGHTS ARE UP FOR BIDDING
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Written by Joe Lucia on Sunday, 28 October 2012 14:26.
Next week, ESPN's exclusive negotiating rights with the Big East will
end, and the conference will not be agreeing to a new deal with the
network in that timeframe according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy. It's
open season on Big East football and basketball, and the usual players
will be going to war once again.
This seems like a prime opportunity for NBC to get their feet wet in
the non-Notre Dame college football landscape. Reportedly, the Big
East was most impressed by NBC's pitch in April (in contrast to those
of Fox and ESPN), and with NBC not having a deal with any conference,
why wouldn't they go all-in to try to get a deal done with the Big
East?
It would be a bit of a coup for Fox to scoop up the Big East rights,
adding them to their Pac-12 and Big 12 rights to create a trio of
conferences on the network. With the Fox Sports One rebranding
happening as soon as next year, there would be plenty of channels to
feature their three conferences when you add the new station in with
FX and the Fox broadcast channel.
ESPN has so many college football properties that I don't think losing
the Big East would hurt them much at all, especially considering the
Big East missing out in the musical chairs of conference realignment.
This is going to be a jumbled mess of a conference starting in 2013,
and the losses of Syracuse and Pittsburgh are really going to strip
the league of a marquee team in football, unless you're a believer in
Cincinnati, Louisville, or Rutgers.
When it comes to basketball though, the Big East is still a
powerhouse. It will be interesting to see how the conference looks
without Syracuse or Pitt next season, and with UConn teetering on the
edge of academic disaster. At any rate, this is a last gasp for NBC to
get their hat in the ring as a serious player in the college sports
world.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8554125/big-east-negotiate-networks-other-espn-new-tv-deal-according-sources
Written by Joe Lucia on Sunday, 28 October 2012 14:26.
Next week, ESPN's exclusive negotiating rights with the Big East will
end, and the conference will not be agreeing to a new deal with the
network in that timeframe according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy. It's
open season on Big East football and basketball, and the usual players
will be going to war once again.
This seems like a prime opportunity for NBC to get their feet wet in
the non-Notre Dame college football landscape. Reportedly, the Big
East was most impressed by NBC's pitch in April (in contrast to those
of Fox and ESPN), and with NBC not having a deal with any conference,
why wouldn't they go all-in to try to get a deal done with the Big
East?
It would be a bit of a coup for Fox to scoop up the Big East rights,
adding them to their Pac-12 and Big 12 rights to create a trio of
conferences on the network. With the Fox Sports One rebranding
happening as soon as next year, there would be plenty of channels to
feature their three conferences when you add the new station in with
FX and the Fox broadcast channel.
ESPN has so many college football properties that I don't think losing
the Big East would hurt them much at all, especially considering the
Big East missing out in the musical chairs of conference realignment.
This is going to be a jumbled mess of a conference starting in 2013,
and the losses of Syracuse and Pittsburgh are really going to strip
the league of a marquee team in football, unless you're a believer in
Cincinnati, Louisville, or Rutgers.
When it comes to basketball though, the Big East is still a
powerhouse. It will be interesting to see how the conference looks
without Syracuse or Pitt next season, and with UConn teetering on the
edge of academic disaster. At any rate, this is a last gasp for NBC to
get their hat in the ring as a serious player in the college sports
world.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8554125/big-east-negotiate-networks-other-espn-new-tv-deal-according-sources
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