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[QUOTE="ConnHuskBask, post: 3099370, member: 632"]
The biggest thing about this whole ordeal is the length of the deal.

We didn't have much bargaining power to between with, but if you said were going to be getting $7M/year for the next 5 years or so, while maintaining a presence on ESPN, while also seeing how the ESPN+ experiment would go, I think it would have been doable.

Now, it looks like our conference hoops games on cable ESPN are going to be cut in half, were going to be making ~$5M a year (I believe [USER=32]@zls44[/USER] mentioned the money is backloaded), lose our SNY affiliation (or at least we won't be monetarily compensated for it) and our fanbase now needs to shell out $5/month and stream the games.

It is what it is - a complete **** sandwich.

If Hurley can get this thing turned around, and football still sucks, it's time to cut bait, swallow our pride and advocate for hoops membership to the ACC.

If you think the Big East and Fox Sports 1 is saving this AD, you're kidding yourself.
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