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Marinatto steadfast on not letting Pitt and Syracuse out of 27-month exit process. Even saying they've modeled a 14-team league.

Good, we need some patsies as we break into the league.

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RE Tycoon wrote:It was said last weekend that no official announcement would happen until after bball media day. This should surprise no one. That's why it was a call and not a video presser

Exactly. bball media day is tomorrow and this is an attempt to deflect expansion talk, and have the media focus on bball.

LA_Mustang wrote:

RE Tycoon wrote:It was said last weekend that no official announcement would happen until after bball media day. This should surprise no one. That's why it was a call and not a video presser

Exactly. bball media day is tomorrow and this is an attempt to deflect expansion talk, and have the media focus on bball, which drives the conference.

Yup, that's what they said at the start of the call:
khairopoulos Kate Hairopoulos
Marinatto: Says he's taking questions on Big East expansion today so Wednesday's basketball media day will focus on basketball.

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RE Tycoon wrote:It was said last weekend that no official announcement would happen until after bball media day. This should surprise no one. That's why it was a call and not a video presser

Exactly. bball media day is tomorrow and this is an attempt to deflect expansion talk, and have the media focus on bball.

The Big East problem has been and will be that they do not understand that nobody gives a [Gary Patterson] rip about college basketball, until March... This thinking has gotten them to where they are now...

SMU1523 wrote:The Big East problem has been and will be that they do not understand that nobody gives a [Gary Patterson] rip about college basketball, until March... This thinking has gotten them to where they are now...

To say no one cares about college bball until March is foolish. The entire east coast would disagree with you. Most of the current Big East and ACC schools have more people show up to midnight madness practice than show up to our important conference football games.

My guess is that when he called the press conference yesterday he intended to announce the schools they were inviting, but because of the NYT article on the imminent move of Missouri and the possible loss of other schools they decided to hold off and let the dust settle. This would be particularly prudent if BSU, AF, or Navy were wavering. They do not want the embarrassment of another TCU - school accepting and then changing it's mind. Now if at the end of the week Missouri announces it is staying in the BigUT then they will make the invites. On the other hand if Missouri leaves then they will wait until they see what the BigUT does. Which is OK for us on the very remote chance that we are invited to the Big UT.

San Antonio Mustang wrote:My guess is that when he called the press conference yesterday he intended to announce the schools they were inviting, but because of the NYT article on the imminent move of Missouri and the possible loss of other schools they decided to hold off and let the dust settle. This would be particularly prudent if BSU, AF, or Navy were wavering. They do not want the embarrassment of another TCU - school accepting and then changing it's mind. Now if at the end of the week Missouri announces it is staying in the BigUT then they will make the invites. On the other hand if Missouri leaves then they will wait until they see what the BigUT does. Which is OK for us on the very remote chance that we are invited to the Big UT.

You watch too much ESPN. They were never going to announce invites today. They will not announce them until they are accepted, which will probably be at the end of the week.

SMU1523 wrote:The Big East problem has been and will be that they do not understand that nobody gives a [Gary Patterson] rip about college basketball, until March... This thinking has gotten them to where they are now...

Then why is ESPN putting Big East BB on tv pracitcally every night of the week.

CoxMustangFan wrote:[
Regardless of how you feel about baseball, for SMU to be taken seriously during the next round of alignment they're going to need both men's T&F and baseball. I'm not sure where they find the money since those are both largely two dead-weight programs (along with the Title IX women's teams).

I really curious why you feel this way. I have yet to see any comments in any article regarding expansion that says anything about baseball or T&F. There are teams in big time conferences that don't have baseball (SEC is the only one that has all members playing baseball) and I am sure there are a few that don't have T&F. It seems to me that they are pretty irrelevant in all this. It seems what matters is media market and football with basketball just being a nice bonus.

PAC 12 invited Colorado and ACC invited Syracuse and neither has baseball. I just don't think it matters at all.

Kate Hairopoulos
No need for SMU fans to worry about getting an official bid from Big East. It's about making sure BE's plan - & Boise State - comes through.

Laken Litman
Marinatto on if possibility of football side of league disbanding: "We have not had any of those kinds of discussions. Never come up."

I fixed her spelling errors

goldenstang wrote:

SMU1523 wrote:The Big East problem has been and will be that they do not understand that nobody gives a [Gary Patterson] rip about college basketball, until March... This thinking has gotten them to where they are now...

Then why is ESPN putting Big East BB on tv pracitcally every night of the week.

Why is Football TV dollars worth so much more???

More viewers....

Think NFL vs NBA...sure there are 82 nba games a season but people watch those 16 nfl games x times as much as any bball game...

Advertiser pay more ect...

SMU1523 wrote:Why is Football TV dollars worth so much more???

More people care about football than basketball obviously. I'm not trying to argue that. I'm just saying that ESPN puts Big East basketball on TV every night so some people must care about it before march.