WSJ - How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

[Doge McDermott]

Nice little article from the Wall Street Journal.

Check out this quote by none other than ESPN's Jay Bilas:

“The Big East is still a league, it’s a conference,” Bilas said. “The ACC and some of these other quote-unquote leagues are really just media-rights consortiums.”

Holy shit.

EDIT - Comments section is full of teams that went to the ACC ('Cuse and BU) and wish they were back with us.

[GoldenWarrior11]

Really strong article. Wonderful quotes by Ackermann, Shanley, Bilas and McDermott.

Our league is truly a wonderful and close knit collection of schools.

[pki1998]

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[NJRedman]

I want to read these comments! hahaha

[mpwalsh8]

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How Ditching Football Saved Big East Basketball

[TrueBlueJay]

Perfect reason to keep UCONN out unless they kill their football program.

[ArmyVet]

Perfect reason to keep UCONN out unless they kill their football program.

The timing of the article is interesting to me just when there are media reports about UCONN and the Big East talking. I cannot help but wonder if someone at the league office level or a school president wanted to get this out there to either squash the rumors or get leverage on UCONN if there were talks.

[Bill Marsh]

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Thanks much. Greatly appreciate the link.