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Bevacqua by eddysorin

I don’t know how I feel about Bevacqua. I don’t know him, nor anyone who knows him.

On the one hand, it makes sense to bring in someone who intimately understands the economics of TV contacts and how to maximize revenue from TV. The old days of a former beloved athlete like a Moose Krause having that seat are gone. There is constant conference re-alignment, streaming contracts, different conference affiliations for different sports – it is a demanding job, you need to be super smart anymore to be AD of a major school, or you’re going to cost your school millions of dollars.

He’s a Domer, so that makes sense. I don’t know if he was an athlete or not. Seems the right age. New Yorker, so I don’t see him relocating to South Bend full-time, but maybe he will.

On the other hand, I hate the fact that Jack got to pick his successor – much as I predicted he would. Sometimes you can read a lot in a photo – he looks like a typical New York TV executive asshole (link).

But you don’t get that top NBC job without being competitive and super smart – unless he had some family connection I don’t know about.

I don’t know what it says about the perhaps-too-cozy relationship with NBC.
If I were other media outlets I might look at this as “Well, NBC is just locked in for the duration”. I don’t know how long the current NBC contract goes.

If I’m NBC I’m cocking a big eyebrow, though. Was this guy negotiating with ND at arms’ length, or was this job dangled in front of him as he was dealing with us? It’s like an Illinois state lawmaker who leaves and goes to work for ComEd.

Or conversely was he dispatched to South Bend by NBC to “fix ND football”, because it’s a valuable NBC property and it has been under-performing?

One thing for sure, ND A.D. is a less-glamorous job than the one he’s leaving behind, which is interesting. And as much as it pays, he was probably making huge coin at NBC.

He has no loyalty to Freeman, so the leash was just shortened there.

Let’s see how it plays out.