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Message: [QUOTE="yukonfan4, post: 2954445, member: 9448"] 1. A grant of rights involves schools signing over their rights to their own TV money to the conference for a set term, making it effectively impossible for universities to leave for another league. 2. The AAC’s current seven-year, $126 million package with ESPN expires in 2020. A new deal could be three to four times higher, [B]but only if the top AAC schools commit to stay in the conference[/B] 3. a network will pay big bucks to a conference that includes ucf, usf, houston, cincy, and memphis. however, they will not pay big bucks to a conference that might only include uconn, temple, tulsa, tulane, wichita, ecu and navy. 4. because if and when the big programs leave the aac, no one will be watching aac games anymore. poof there go the ratings and [B]advertising money[/B] along with it. [/QUOTE]