After talking about the television negotiations coming up (there will be multiple networks bidding on the rights) and working out some details of the new Big East tournament (which will expand to 18 teams in 2014), the Big East meetings chugged along through Wednesday morning. They talked about conference business and matters that are...
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It isn’t shocking, but Notre Dame football is one of the most valuable free-agents in the college football landscape and practically every conference would be willing to make room for their programs if football were coming along for the ride. It was less a bombshell than a known truth when DeLoss Dodds, the University...
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Television and basketball were the topics of discussion in Tuesday’s morning session in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The Big East needs to plan for future conference tournaments. In 2013, the conference will have just 15 teams playing basketball and only 14 will be eligible for the tournament (UConn cannot play in the NCAA tournament...
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Day one of the Big East conference meetings in Florida involved coaches and athletics directors meeting to discuss conference business, wrap up the athletic year and prepare for next season. According to reports out of Ponte Vedra Beach, the conference’s departing schools were not invited to the meetings, while the incoming schools appear to...
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According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Ray Fittipaldo, the University of Pittsburgh has filed a lawsuit against the Big East. The suit is based on a demand that they be allowed to exit the conference a year early in time for the 2013 football season, as John Marinatto had previously indicated. According to the University...
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Old Dominion’s move to Conference USA now seems to be close to completion. The school is in position to move to FBS after just one season playing in the CAA, largely because the conference that was raided by the Big East recently is in dire need of some larger television markets for its media...
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The real impact of a conference commissioner in NCAA Division I sports is subject to debate. So many major decisions are driven by the university presidents rather than the conference’s chief executive, but the buck must stop somewhere, and that tends to be the commissioner’s desk. The Big East lost schools during realignment that...
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Mike Tranghese was out of the spotlight for a while after he stepped down as the Big East commissioner. When the conference started to realign and rebuild almost a year ago, however, the former conference boss stepped back into the spotlight to offer his opinion on the conference he left behind years ago. The...
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Conference realignment cost Dan Beebe his job with the Big 12 and now it has cost John Marinatto his as well. The Big East commissioner tendered his resignation, according to a press release put out this morning. He was just the third person to hold that position since the league was founded. “After a...
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The lingering plot-line of conference realignment has been the constant threat that one or more conferences could shutter their windows and close shop as the big boys on the block eat up the best teams from lesser conferences in a race to expand. Conferences have closed up shop before, but it is always difficult...
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