I found this article to be interesting because our school is in the Big East conference and the conference isn't looking to good going forward. The Big East conference has been dominated by basketball for a long time and it is often the the case that people forget that there are other sports in the conference. Pitt and Syracuse have already announced that they are leaving the Big East and will be joining the ACC. Of course the main reason for this move is money. Both universities are making plenty of money in basketball, but the Big East is not up to par with football. And college football makes the the NCAA millions of dollars every year. I think the exit fee has been raised in an attempt to save the conference and prevent other teams from leaving. But other universities might pay the fee in order to make more money elsewhere.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Big East Exit Fee Goes Up
http://espn.go.com/new-york/story/_/id/7117098/report-big-east-raises-exit-fee-10-million
I found this article to be interesting because our school is in the Big East conference and the conference isn't looking to good going forward. The Big East conference has been dominated by basketball for a long time and it is often the the case that people forget that there are other sports in the conference. Pitt and Syracuse have already announced that they are leaving the Big East and will be joining the ACC. Of course the main reason for this move is money. Both universities are making plenty of money in basketball, but the Big East is not up to par with football. And college football makes the the NCAA millions of dollars every year. I think the exit fee has been raised in an attempt to save the conference and prevent other teams from leaving. But other universities might pay the fee in order to make more money elsewhere.
I found this article to be interesting because our school is in the Big East conference and the conference isn't looking to good going forward. The Big East conference has been dominated by basketball for a long time and it is often the the case that people forget that there are other sports in the conference. Pitt and Syracuse have already announced that they are leaving the Big East and will be joining the ACC. Of course the main reason for this move is money. Both universities are making plenty of money in basketball, but the Big East is not up to par with football. And college football makes the the NCAA millions of dollars every year. I think the exit fee has been raised in an attempt to save the conference and prevent other teams from leaving. But other universities might pay the fee in order to make more money elsewhere.
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They say the Big East was created by basketball and will be destroyed by football.
ReplyDeleteFootball is where huge revenue is, so teams are flocking to larger conferences, where they can get a bigger cut of that revenue.
As teams flee, the conference wants to stay alive by increasing the exit fee. This isn't very surprising. Whether the Big East will survive or not will depend on the overall vision of the conference. Will they go basketball-only?
So sad. Honestly the best thing that could happen for College sports is if there was one huge conference, made up of regional divisions. It works in pro sports, even in the little league world series, and it would work for college sports. But the current fashion prevents this because the colleges that are making more money won't want to change, but then again who would when they're winning.
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