The search for a commissioner for the new Big East is apparently focusing outside of the traditional box of college administrators and focusing on someone with more marketing and business experience, perhaps connected to the NBA or Major League Baseball.

According to sources familiar with the search which could come to a conclusion in the next few days, the Big East Presidents have ruled out both former Big East associate commissioner and NCAA vice president Danny Gavitt and West Coast  Commissioner Jamie Zaninovich and are focusing on the NBA or Major League Baseball as the primary talent pool.

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Finally, a glimmer of hope, of direction and yes, of a future that is not all filled with stories of gloom and doom for the Big East conference.

Big East commissioner Mike Aresco came out of the murky world of closed door meetings and conference calls this week and talked publicly in Connecticut about the state of his embattled conference. Nothing really new, but for the first time Aresco came out in public with what he was both thinking and doing.

It was pure Aresco, filled with optimism and plans for the future. We’ve all heard this before and you could hear the snicker in the audience and feel the doubts when Aresco talked about a conference which went from coast-to-coast and covered 4 time zones.

Not this time. Maybe it’s because we are weary of the moves and want college athletics to be about playing games, rather than switching leagues and affiliations.

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