[NU Sports] Cats v. 'Cuse

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Precisely the reason all Big Ten teams should tell prospective Big East opponents to 'take a walk' - your conference is third-rate, and you signed a shameful bowl agreement with the Evil Empire.? It is time that that we as a conference quit lending our prestige to second- and third-rate opponents, and quit lending our prestige to the Evil Empire AT ALL...



Chuck Herron?? Tech '85


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The Big Ten network is accessible at most quality sports bars throughout the 
nation.  No you can't buy it with some cable systems in some areas, but you can 
find a place that has it.

If the syracuse game were on television even on a rinky-dink local network you 
could find it at some sports bar in Chicagoland.

The Big Least is a disgrace as a conference if they can't get a TV crew to a vs. 
BCS opponent game.

I just think we should insist that if you want a Big Ten team to travel your 
conference MUST provide TV coverage.

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From: Sportsbiz <sportsbiz at gmail.com>

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.

Mark

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:

> If they can't provide coverage we should have the option at their(Syracuse)
>> expense to bring the Big Ten network out to cover the game.
>>
>
> Right on!  Power to the Purple!  It's crazy not to televise every game in
> this day and age.
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