Aresco, the Last Walk

[Water Pony]

Interesting NYTimes Article: Mike Aresco ... how are you holding up? Mr Optimist is certainly challenged, but he appears to be a class act and is drawing empathy from exiting members.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/sport ... d=all&_r=0

[SMU89]

Good article

[Stallion]

Aresco said his conference, soon to be unnamed and named again, would sign a second television deal "fairly soon." He did not elaborate about the deal; negotiations are continuing. Mr. Optimist sees all of this as an opportunity, of course.


Just get us on TV as much as possible on availiable highly visible channels at this point

[GiddyUp]

What a nightmare this has been for him and nBe fans, good thing he is an optimist b/c it cant get any worse now..

[SMU_Alumni11]

I'm glad we have him. I mean positive words doesn't really change our predicament but it at least makes our future seem a little brighter. Money won't change but being on tv for every game should be on everyone's pro list for going big east...

[Junior]

Aresco said his conference, soon to be unnamed and named again, would sign a second television deal "fairly soon." He did not elaborate about the deal; negotiations are continuing. Mr. Optimist sees all of this as an opportunity, of course.


Just get us on TV as much as possible on availiable highly visible channels at this point

is he going to try to outdo himself and negotiate an even worse contract?

[PonyKai]

It's tough when NBC made such an awful opening pitch....it effectively guaranteed that ESPN would retain the rights for a handful of change to them. Not saying the rights were worth a ton, but for a floundering sports network that shows bull riding and competitive lawn mowing and whose competitors derisively refer to it still as OLN, they screwed the pooch on obtaining at least a tiny bit of semi-worthwhile entertainment for their channel and advertising partners.

[Treadway21]

It's tough when NBC made such an awful opening pitch....it effectively guaranteed that ESPN would retain the rights for a handful of change to them. Not saying the rights were worth a ton, but for a floundering sports network that shows bull riding and competitive lawn mowing and whose competitors derisively refer to it still as OLN, they screwed the pooch on obtaining at least a tiny bit of semi-worthwhile entertainment for their channel and advertising partners.

Great point. NBC flunked. They not only screwed themselves they screwed over the BE with their incompetence. As much as I hate ESPN, I am glad we are with them not NBC.