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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3192962, member: 1414"] I’d argue it’s driven by the need to (a) increase fan enthusiasm and (b) reduce costs. Most non Boneyard people are thrilled. The excitement is back. Ticket sales will be way up. The arenas will be louder. Meanwhile travel cost goes down. We also don’t know what revenue we can get from SNY for football or WBB on linear cable. I was generally against this move over the last several years. But as you noted, the AAC TV deal made no effort to accommodate us. None. They probably gave away T3 rights we could sell for $1.5m a year for an extra $1m a year spread across the league. F* that! And I can’t deny the jump in excitement. It’s real. The casual fans just woke up from a long slumber. How screwed is football? I don’t know really. Time will tell. [/QUOTE]