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Message: [QUOTE="Zissou, post: 2141909, member: 7920"] ESPN will continue to shed costs. Fox, however, is still in growth mode. It's likely (and reported) that the Fox / Big East contract has an automatic plus-up for adding new members - maybe up to 2 or 4 more. This allows the conference to grow if it sees fit, and brings more content to Fox. The Big East has shown caution in expanding. It did not add in the Dayton, VCU, St Louis, (even Wichita State) type programs to expand for the sake of expansion. UConn, imo, is one of the few programs that make sense for an expansion. The move would be good for UConn, the Big East, and for Fox. Therefore, I think it is one of the few adds that Fox would actively embrace, and might even sweeten for UConn. Also, it would be a modest take from ESPN. UConn for ESPN is a bargain. ESPN pays the entire AAC about as much as it pays Wake Forest. One of the [U]possibilities[/U] of the Wichita add is a coordinated move for a UConn departure that is already in the works. If UConn was moving to the Big East, as there were rumblings of those discussions weeks ago, and the AAC and UConn are actually playing nice and coordinating the move, bringing in Wichita first before announcing a UConn move is very smart. If UConn has negotiated to leave football in the AAC already, both the AAC and UConn have incentives to make the Wichita replacement of UConn for hoops as coordinated as possible. Why is a Wichita add for a departing UConn a possibility? Because it makes sense. [/QUOTE]

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