(05-07-2012 03:26 PM)Usajags Wrote:  

(05-07-2012 03:18 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  It sounds like some would like to turn back the clock a year or so.
Were they really that blind not to foresee what would happen?

They weren't blind, just arrogant. I've said this many times, the problem is that no one is driving the car with all this. Everyone is acting alone, every school and every conference. No one is working together for the betterment of college sports. This was doomed to fail since the beginning.

Panic is a factor.

Arrogance drove them to turn down a TV package that would not have put them at the ACC level but would have been close enough that they might not have been quite so eager to leave the Big East. Syracuse of the three might not have been willing, maybe Pitt and WVU would have been.

With 3x money off the table at their own decision and three big players gone, panic sets in. The fans were clamoring for them to do SOMETHING. Don't forget there were Big East aligned people who truly believed that if they rejected the ESPN deal and followed Taglibue's advice that they could break the bank with a blockbuster deal that would strong enough to court BC back to the league. Maybe that was plausible enough that it led the ACC to shore up BC by expanding or maybe the ACC just feared that their members wouldn't hold firm against SEC offers (a fear that appears misplaced at least so far as the non-Clemson, non-Florida State members go, since they reportedly were blackballed by their cross-state rivals).