...for rocking the boat of the BCS system.
Be that as it may, look back to last basketball season. ESPN pimped BYU basketball the last half of hte season non-stop and made Jimmer a nightly feature. They didn't seem to be too worried about ticking off bigger programs from BCS conferences that they had TV deals with and they didn't even have a tV deal with BYU basketball in place yet.
ESPN is a lot bigger than any BCS conference. They control the purse strings and I doubt would get too worked up if a nose got bent out of shape. Especially now that ESPN controls all the post-season Bowl TV contracts including all of the BCS bowls until 2014.