MSG and BIG EAST extend contract

[redmen9194]

The Big East and Garden will announce today at the Garden that both sides are waiving the 2022 opt out and extending the Big East Tourny contract through 2028. Big East is locked in for next decade. Anyone else who wants in has to play earlier. Guess Delaney suggesting they could enhance the Garden with the Big Ten there got the laugh from MSG we thought it would. Great job by Val. Best commish in the game. Dave Gavitt is smiling for sure.

[GoldenWarrior11]

This will be a huge chip in our pocket for our next television negotiations with Fox. We no longer need to consider expansion in order to keep MSG. If there is a program that Fox desires in order to increase each of our respective payouts, then we will expand. However, this should quiet the need/desire to increase our membership for the foreseeable future, IMO.

[MUPanther]

https://www.app.com/story/sports/colleg ... 241068002/

[redmen9194]

Val Ackerman is a quiet assasin. Our Pesidents did one hell of a job hiring her.

[Barley]

Sweeeeeet. Screw Delaney.

[sju88grad]

I LOVE Val. Fantastic leader. It feels so sweet that 2 of the so-called Big Boy conferences couldn’t push us aside. This is why I love our conference. Great decisions made since day 1 and it continues today. Yesterday I was riveted by the SHU, Marquette and Gtown games. Such great hoops. BIG EAST RULES!!!

[Burrito]

Great News.

http://www.bigeast.com/news/2018/12/9/m ... ament.aspx

[REDMEN1415]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkifO420xqI

35 Years of the BIG EAST Tournament At Madison Square Garden

[MullinMayhem]

Was at the game at the Garden yesterday vs. Princeton. It's our home...it brought a big smile to my face to read the news about the extension while on the train en route to the Garden. I'm probably biased since I grew up about an hour away so it's like our local shrine for concerts, sports, etc. but glad to see others from all over the country think it's special too. You see where the Jets and Giants play...they show an aerial view of the skyline but it's not real NY. You can't get any closer to being in the middle of the universe than MSG right in the heart of the biggest city in the nation. It's just different. I've always said we absolutely need to keep the Garden to keep our prestige associated with our conference and it will only help our next TV deal. If SJ is playing well in conference, MSG is going to be nuts for the BET this year.

[redmen9194]

The thing that makes the Big East different from everyone else is the same thing that made us different in the early years. We have an identity. We started as a group of northeastern college basketball programs known for coaches with character, an urban edge, very physical play and playing our tournament in a place where no one else did, every year - MSG. With the establishment of football and massive expansion that took place we lost that identity to an extent because it was not us against them. It became us against us against them. With the latest formation of the league, we have an identity again that separates us from the rest. We are a basketball conference. Basketball is what we do. No football to muck up our primary sport. We are Eastern and Mid-Western. A marriage of two great basketball regions. We are private institutions, mostly Catholic, with shared values across the board. We play our tournament at the Garden, every year, same week as we have for the last 35 years. And part of that identity is also being on Fox rather than ESPN. We are ten schools - a tight fist. The other leagues no longer have an identity. The ACC is no longer a Tobacco Road southern league of like institutions. The Big Ten was a Mid-West League - but their efforts to get into New York shows their want to be something they are not. We do not need to add any schools at all - not one. Remember how there was no way we were going to keep the Garden without Pitt, UConn and Cuse? Remember how we would get a TV contract that would pay less than the A-10 and have our games played at 3:00 a.m. on a Thursday morning? Remember how small Catholic schools without big time football could no longer complete for a national championship in basketball? Where is Jay Bilas this morning talking about the Big East at MSG? How many articles, tweets, interviews, etc., has he done where he said the ACC will be at the Garden because it's where they belong? Apparently the Garden doesn't think so. We are all good folks.