[NU Sports] Cats v. 'Cuse

[Dennis W. Brandt]

<It's a great sentiment, but it's not practical as most television contracts these days are now in the hands of the conferences and not the member institutions, <leaving the school's little to no room to maneuver.  For example, if the situation were reversed and the game was in Evanston and on the BTN, which happened <not to be carried by the local cable company in Syracuse, there would be nothing NU or anyone else could do to get it picked up there if the BTN chose not to <allow it.  The BTN could have any number of reasons for choosing not to show the game, but just to choose one, as was the case with Comcast previously, it <was pressuring the local cable company to start carrying the BTN and was using local fan outrage as a bargaining tool.

But in this case, the game is not being televised anywhere except on the Internet.  It should be that if a game is not telecast by the home team's television network, then the other team's network gets the opportunity.  It would be in Syracuse's and the Big East's best interests to allow the game to be televised.