"Big East could be"California Dreaming."

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:30 pm

Washington Examiner: "Big East could be"California Dreaming."
Big East could be"California Dreaming."
By: Jim Williams | 11/22/11 10:42 AM
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The Big East and BYU continue to talk in hopes of saving a deal that would bring the univserity into the "West Wing" along with Boise State, Air Force, Houston and SMU. The other new members would be Central Florida and Navy in the East as the conference moves to 12 teams for the 2013 season.

(Boise State, BYU, Air Force would be footbal only members while SMU, Houston and Central Florida would enter as full members. Joining the remaining group of Cincinnati, Louisville, UConn, Rutgers and South Florida.)

If the BYU and the Big East are not be able to work a deal out then San Diego State is ready to step in and be added to the West Wing in the place of the Cougars.

[deleted] Harmon of the Deseret News and Jay Drew of the Salt Lake City Tribune are reporting that BYU and the Big East are attempting to work out a problem with the schools television network BYU TV. Both sides are working hard to resolve the issue and the hope from both sides is that a compromise can be worked out and that this will not be a deal breaker.

BYU wants to retain its home television rights through its eight-year deal with ESPN that allows the network to broadcast all but one BYU home football game per season with that is worth between $1 million and $2 million per game. The deal with ESPN allows BYU’s own network, BYUtv, to broadcast the one game not picked up by ESPN and also allows the Cougars to show replays of all their ESPN broadcasts - home or away - on BYUtv.

The problem as the Big East sees the BYU deal as a possible road block and could hinder the conferences new up coming TV deal.

The Big East will go to open bidding with ESPN, The NBC Sports Group, Fox Sports and CBS sometime in 2012. The conference feels that BYU could do even better than their present deal as part of a new Big East broadcast package.

A new long term Big East TV deal could be worth as much as $1.5 billion dollars when the bidding begins this summer.

But at least for the moment BYU remains set on keeping their present BYU TV deal as is.

While the Big East and BYU continue to work to craft a deal that both can live with Central Florida, SMU and Houston want to start their move to the Big East. Boise State is still behind the BYU bid as their first choice however they have given the green light that San Diego State would be an acceptable replacement for the Cougars.

Both BYU and the Big East want this deal to workout and they are doing all they can to find a compromise as fans of both the university and the conference hope that deal can be worked out.

But the Aztecs are waiting in the wings just in case.

Read the rest of the story here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/watc...z1eSYy2z7g

HB Pony Dad · Post by **HB Pony Dad** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:35 pm

A new thread?

Sigh!

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=57978&p=754069#p754069

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:37 pm

Honeybadger don't give a [deleted]

HB Pony Dad · Post by **HB Pony Dad** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:39 pm

smupony94 wrote:Honeybadger don't give a [deleted]

Neither does SO ...

BTW 94 you are a creative genius!

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:40 pm

You did the artwork. We are creative geniuses

Kynd Tulsa Phan · Post by **Kynd Tulsa Phan** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:50 pm

1.5 billion

thats insane.

:butthurt

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:08 pm

Where did you go to school before Tulsa? Some hippie school in Cali right?

GiddyUp · Post by **GiddyUp** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:19 pm

Kynd Tulsa Phan wrote:1.5 billion

thats insane.

:butthurt

Yessir. Read it and weep.

Kynd Tulsa Phan · Post by **Kynd Tulsa Phan** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:26 pm

Done Deal > Embrace CUSA

USD Ponyfan.

ponydawg · Post by **ponydawg** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:47 pm

This feels leaked from the BE to get BYU to hurry up. I can't imagine it is really 1.5 billion.
Maybe I am out of touch because of my location but I currently wouldn't watch UConn play Louisville so I don't think many other TV sets would. I guess I would watch it if SMU was in the same conference. And I guess up east plenty of tv sets tune in......but 1.5 seems awfully high. Hope its right.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:51 pm

I'm sure that would be a multi-year decade long contract or something. That's how they usually package these contracts. A Million here and a Million there-pretty soon you are talking about real money

gostangs · Post by **gostangs** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:34 pm

uh....not that big a deal - 150 M a year divided by 12 = 12,500,000 per school per year. that is the low end of the range. i will go ahead and guess it is closer to 15 - especially if we can snag BYU - warts and all.

PK · Post by PK » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:04 pm

gostangs wrote:uh....not that big a deal - 150 M a year divided by 12 = 12,500,000 per school per year. that is the low end of the range. i will go ahead and guess it is closer to 15 - especially if we can snag BYU - warts and all.

15 would bring you in closer to an eight year deal...which is evidently what BYU has at this point.

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:05 pm

Only 10 times what we get now. Not worth it

gostangs · Post by **gostangs** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:33 pm

oh - i didnt mean it wasnt big to SMU - i was trying to point out it was not big in the world of the BCS. For us it is a total game changer. Bring on the marketing staff, the IPF, double the academic tutors, increased corporate relationships, basketball that means something, etc, etc.....we are relevant again overnight.