Paul Tagliabue Severely Underestimates The Long Island Golden Gopher Contingent
by Sean Keeley on Apr 23, 2010 12:25 PM EDT
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Word went out in December of 2009 that the Big Ten was looking to expand, possibly taking one, two, three or even four Big East teams in the process.
The Big East publicly responded to the threat...in April 2010.
After four months of the silent "I don't wanna talk about it" treatment, the Big East finally grew a pair and decided to start defending itself from what is now an inevitable attack on its stability and possibly its existence. Paul Tagliabue was introduced as a special adviser on Tuesday and by Friday he fired his first Midwest-targeted missile via the NY Times' Pete Thamel.
"It’s very disruptive to everyone outside of the Big Ten," Tagliabue said in a phone interview on Thursday. "Everything outside the Big Ten is held in artificial suspension. The Big Ten looks at a bunch of choices and everyone else has to deal with the depreciating value and a ton of negativity. I hope there’s a better way. Otherwise it’s going to have a terrible negative effect on everyone other than the schools in the Big Ten."
BOOM, ROASTED!
To drive his point home, Tags took the argument to the people who matter most in this battle. The salt of the Earth. The cradle of Western civilization. Long Island.
"Is Minnesota and Rutgers going to get a big rating on Long Island? Give me a break."
HELL. YEAH. TAGS. You tell'm! I mean, let's not discuss whether or not that's any less attractive than Rutgers-Cincinnati or Rutgers-South Florida, but....SCREW YOU MINNESOTA!!!
But Tags wasn't done yet. He was adamant about driving home the needs, wants and desires of the average Long Islander.
"Am I going to rush home from a tennis game on Saturday to watch Minnesota and Rutgers if I live on Long Island?"
CORRECT! Paul Tagliabue has captured the demo PERFECTLY. Because as we all know, 99% of college football fans play tennis on Saturdays while football is on. That's what we do. I can't even imagine a college football Saturday where I'm not out on the clay, serving up some hot fuzz and smashing home a volley from some jerk Big Ten grad. IN YOUR FACE, PURDUE!
Case closed, Big Ten. Long Island doesn't want your kind.
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This Tagliabue thing may hurt us more than it helps us.
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by Jamie DeVriend on Apr 23, 2010 12:49 PM EDT reply actions
Good for Cuse
We’re gonna bounce so whatevs
by benjarvis08 on Apr 23, 2010 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
On the other hand
Rushing home to watch SU and Michigan State (historically, you’d put Indiana here, but in the 2000s, class of the B10 in hoops is clearly Sparty) play basketball is a lot more believable. Or even Penn State / Rutgers football.
And this, my dear friends...
is why the Big East is finished, kaput, D-E-D dead.
Tags
Hiring Taglibue can’t hurt. He doesn’t get enough credit for the insane growth of the NFL under his watch. Hiring him at this late date is akin to rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
That being said, the tennis and long island quotes are wildly out of touch. All the kids are playing croquette these days and then having their butlers pick up after them.
Tennis Anyone?
Seeing as this guy is a multi-millionaire Georgetown grad, the whole tennis line doesn’t really surprise. I pegged him more as a Martha’s Vineyard type than a Hamptons type, but there ya go. I doubt the Tagliabues would sully their gleaming white tennis outfits by playing on clay though, leave the clay to the dirty French, it’s grass for the Tagliabue – Kennedys of America. PT is clearly past his prime, he’s in the ‘raving old man’ stage now like his contemporary Andy Rooney. I’m just grateful he didn’t use Syracuse as his exemplar versus Minnesota. I will say however that I can see Northwestern grads playing tennis on Saturday mornings and rushing home to see a game…
Orange you glad it's not football season?
Rotating Presidency
Perhaps the Big East should adopt a rotating presidency for the Big East commish post. Every two years the job is taken by a representative of a member school – to ensure the basketball only schools don’t have a disproportionate influence on league affairs.
Orange you glad it's not football season?
Did you ever notice
how you just can’t get that clay stain out of your tennis shoes? I don’t think it looks very good. Grass stains are much easier to deal with. I think green is a better color than red when it comes to stains on shoes. The red just looks so out of place. At least with the grass stains you could say that you mowed the lawn or something.
Yup
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