ESPN 30 for 30: Requiem for the Big East - Sunday Mar 16 at 9PM ET

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Watching it right now. It is extremely well done. According to the film, when did it go down south? When they added football.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

9:44 - Marquette mention.

[hilltopper03]

one marquette mention so far while talking about expansion

[Nukem2]

Watching it right now. It is extremely well done. According to the film, when did it go down south? When they added football.

Actually, BB got better and FB was mediocre.  2006 made BB even better.  But the $$$$$$ are with FB, so the FB schools were entice by the siren from ESPN/ACC who really had BB in mind.

[Eldon]

Actually, BB got better and FB was mediocre.  2006 made BB even better.  But the $$$$$$ are with FB, so the FB schools were entice by the siren from ESPN/ACC who really had BB in mind.

To paraphrase, 'the football schools felt like they brought in way too much money relative to what they had to share with everyone else'

I can't wait to see what the Maryland exit fee ruling is.  FSU and Clemson wanted out of the ACC for that exact reason--"Hey Wake, how much money are you bringing in!?!?  Duke, how about you?  Basketball is cute, but your football team is pathetic, start pulling your own weight!"

Is the ACC next? 

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Lot of Boeheim passive agressiveness at the end. Lots of former BEast coach active aggressiveness towards Boeheim as well.

Only one Marquette mention. No AAC mention. Catholic 7 got one small mention, a paragraph right before the credits about acquiring the BEast name.

[ChicosBailBonds]

To paraphrase, 'the football schools felt like they brought in way too much money relative to what they had to share with everyone else'

I can't wait to see what the Maryland exit fee ruling is.  FSU and Clemson wanted out of the ACC for that exact reason--"Hey Wake, how much money are you bringing in!?!?  Duke, how about you?  Basketball is cute, but your football team is pathetic, start pulling your own weight!"

Is the ACC next? 

Nope, the ACC now uses a Grant of Rights that all members signed through 2027.  The conference owns the television revenues for the entire conference.  If you leave, you forefeit the money AND the new conference can't earn any money off you until 2027. 

Grant of Rights is the major reason conference realignment will now stop for quite some time.

[Tums Festival]

At least we had four Al sightings.

Wonder what would've happened if instead of expanding the conference and adding more football schools, they would've cut ties with the football schools already in the league and replaced them with basketball schools? In other words, did what they did this year, but had done it back in the late 90's.

[Eldon]

Nope, the ACC now uses a Grant of Rights that all members signed through 2027.  The conference owns the television revenues for the entire conference.  If you leave, you forefeit the money AND the new conference can't earn any money off you until 2027. 

Grant of Rights is the major reason conference realignment will now stop for quite some time.

Yea, I know about that, but I don't buy it.  If Maryland gets off the $50M hook by paying only $20M or under (which is a number that I have read floating around), then FSU, with their title trophy in hand, may take a chance and fight that 2027-grant of rights deal in court.  If exit fees don't hold up in court, I doubt that this grant of rights would either.  Though I am willing to defer, as I am far from a legal scholar.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

At least we had four Al sightings.

Wonder what would've happened if instead of expanding the conference and adding more football schools, they would've cut ties with the football schools already in the league and replaced them with basketball schools? In other words, did what they did this year, but had done it back in the late 90's.

I wonder what would have happened if they had just never added football. Allow schools to put their football in other conferences but keep their basketball in the BEast. It wouldn't work today, but back then, who knows?

Basketball was and is the brand of the Big East. It was diluted by football.

[Dawson Rental]

It fell apart because of football.  

No!  Really?

[Atticus]

Bonus footage on ESPNU

[jesmu84]

Differing opinions, it seems

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