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Subject: Re: 4-0 on European Trip...

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Date Posted: 11:21:11 07/20/05 Wed
In reply to: Dan 's message, "Re: 4-0 on European Trip..." on 08:21:06 07/20/05 Wed

Dan,

In a word I think the answer is yes.

Other than the PL championship game, we do not have a TV deal with any of ESPN affiliated netorks, including ESPNplus.

The Bracket Buster, for all the hype about giving mid-majors a better chance at an at large birth by improving their OOC resume, is a made for TV event, that ESPN controls to a certain extent. To get ratings for ESPN that weekend and promote it's other "partners."

Note in one of the earlier posts from Katz that the focus of the meetings was to get the 20 best games on TV, with other schools participating (i.e. picking up a game against other Bracket Buster conference teams) to make scheduling easier. ESPN only cares about the 20 TV games, they couldn't care less about the other teams and scheduling issues that an open weekend at the end of conference season may cause.

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Author: Dan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 11:50:25 07/21/05 Thu Understood on all and thanks. The League needs to move to become a partner.