Winds of Realignment Change: Georgetown

[Lehigh Football Nation]

http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-wind-of-change-in-collegiate.html


To some Patriot League fans, the wind of change blowing through collegiate athletics right now seems as distant to them as the Scorpions' last hit record.

Does it matter, they seem to say, that the Big East might break apart? The Patriot League, after all, has their core ideals and priciples, and if the rest of the NCAA tears itself apart over money, ego, or something else, what is it to the schools of the Patriot?

The answer, of course, is absolutely everything - no matter what any deniers might say. As I'll demonstrate in this blog posting, what happens in the Big East could potentially make a very big difference in the Hoya football program.

The context is the Patriot League and Georgetown, but the arguments and the stakes of the Big East's media deal also is meaningful concerning with Villanova's athletic department as well.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/31/big-east-will-pay-sdsu-firm-says/?page=2#article


Navigate projects the Big East will do better than the $130 million annual overall deal the league turned down last year from ESPN. It projects the new deal will be $167 million per year overall – a projected increase attributed largely to the hot market for college sports rights deals.

According to Navigate:

•Football-only members in the Big East stand to make $7.8 million per year. Basketball-only members would make $3.2 million per year, and full members in all sports would make $11 million. SDSU and Boise plan to join in football only on July 1, 2013.

If they're in the ballpark, that means Georgetown will nearly double their TV revenue every year. This will matter - and may help the Hoyas sponsor some scholarship football players.