Wednesday, September 21, 2011

F'get About It

Beating the Rays while the Red Sox lose? The Yankees have no sense of humor.

Jim Boeheim, on ESPN's PTI today, confirmed what everyone has known for years, i.e. football and money drive decisions made by athletic departments and their associated administrations in BCS schools. It was good to hear someone from the upper echelon of sports-ademia confirm that the pursuit of money is their business, effectively averring that their players are a huge cog in a professional, money making organization.

I appreciate Jimmy The Rat letting us know that this defection was spurred by the league's rejection of the ESPN television deal($$$$$$$). Whether it's Deep Throat's "Follow the money." directive (Watergate, for all of the oblivious young Republicans out there) or Cuba Gooding Jr.'s exhortation to Tom Cruise "Show me the money!", the smell is the same.

ACC football is, at best, irrelavent, so SU will fit right in and Pitt can continue to pretend that they have a successful program. The basketball people can pretend that a possible home game every other year against UNC and Duke can compensate for leaving decades old rivalries behind. And everyone, except most of the athletes and all of the fans, can have a great time counting the money, money, money, money, money...

When Tony Soprano is named the next Commissioner of The Big East, we'll see who takes their business out of the greater New York - New Jersey area.

I'll be following SUNYAC and Empire 8 basketball and Ithaca and Cortland football. It's local. It's well played. And DIII has actually figured how to have a great national championship tournament in both sports! Who'd a thought?


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