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Sources suggest that if NBC, which is desperate for sports inventory, signs a TV contract with the...
Sources suggest that if NBC, which is desperate for sports inventory, signs a TV contract with the conference, it would be willing to pay the Big East football teams $10 milllion apiece and throw in an additional $4 million for the 16 basketball schools. One of the network’s ideas may be to run a full day of Big East football, along with Notre Dame home games, from noon to midnight Saturdays on either NBC or its still-growing cable channel.
— That's from the Daily News. Mark Blaudschun shares similar thoughts.

