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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 4736780, member: 2524"] I also think that when the shift from cable to streaming occurs, the rationale for conference media deals will go away. The streaming services will offer content bundles, but the college sports component can be a random assortments of schools, the key thing is to have something for everyone / every part of the country, it doesn't have to be comprehensive content, just enough to motivate a subscription in conjunction with the other content. In that world, the streaming services want to have some sports content from every geographic region. In the northeast, for college sports, there is the B1G, the ACC, and a collection of Northeast independents / Big East. UConn can sell its football as part of the 3rd grouping. As long as there are at least 3 streaming services, UConn will be paid competitively. Meanwhile, all these legacy cable deals, eg the contracts which say that every Texas cable system has to pay the ACCN in-state rate if a Texas school joins the ACC, are going to go away. When that occurs, the value of a school like SMU goes way down, at the same time that its payout from the ACC goes up. There will be a strong incentive for the existing arrangements to be dissolved. UConn has to hang on in major sports including football for another 7-10 years, but it will be paid well when everything sorts itself back out to rationality. [/QUOTE]