… even for the inside guys.
Former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, his heart aching over the death of Dave Gavitt, Big East founder and his best friend, went on ESPN and WFAN the other day with all emotional guns blazing. He said college athletics is controlled by football, money and greed. He called it absolute chaos. He said that until two years ago he would have argued that college presidents had loyalty and integrity. Not anymore.
September 23rd, 2011 at 9:23PM
Because basketball guys like Gavitt and Tranghese, who created the Big East initially as a basketball league, find they’re not “inside guys” in the present climate – the basketball TV money goes to the NCAA, while football dollars matter much more because they flow through the conferences. I don’t think it’s coincidence that among the six BCS AQ conferences, the three that are scrambling (Big East, ACC, Big 12) are the ones associated with basketball as much as or more than with football.