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Message: [QUOTE="Hamms30, post: 5072695, member: 7714"] At this point, the school needs to figure out a way to be truly independent. We're trying to compete at a level that Big East payouts aren't going to be able to afford us. Not saying drop the Big East, but how do we create our own independent revenue streams for the school? The BigXII and ACC know they can just get us as cheaply as they can because they know they don't need to worry about the B1G or SEC coming to swoop in. How do we figure out a way to bring in more attention and expand our reach on our own instead of relying on a media contract? I don't know the answer, but it seems when we're just chasing the TV contracts with hands out, all the bargaining power is in the other party's hands. Is it about outreach and engagement New England wide so that we truly capture the New England market and can create some sort of baseline revenue each year that doesn't rely on media rights payout? Academic outreach? Football and basketball camps throughout the northeast? Try and get "home games" at Foxboro and just start distributing tickets to MA area kids/families and get them interested in UConn? Men's and women's basketball non-cons throughout the region doing the same thing? UConn sponsored youth hockey tournaments/programs? How do we get people in Maine and New Hampshire to be interested in UConn and follow/spend money the same way they attach themselves to the Pats or Sox? How do you carve a line down the NY border and basically say that everything east is "ours" so if a conference comes again we have something to put in front of them and push back and say pay us? [/QUOTE]

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