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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4705737, member: 37"] It will be interesting to see if Yormack's vision proves to be brilliant. I believe it will which is why I want UConn to be in the Big12 even though my heart is in the BE. The two things going against college basketball vs college football are less fan popularity and that monies are distributed among a much larger number of universities. Popularity is not controllable but the pie that receives the distribution is definitely controllable. Football has demonstrated it's mutually beneficial for content providers (universities) and content distributors (linear or streaming) if the numbers are reduced so long as the numbers work. The significant advantage of college basketball over football is the number of games each provider produces relative to football. A university offering 30 games of basketball has an argument to get an equal value for its basketball package offering compared to its 12 football games. Why? Because content does matter. The number will be hashed out but expect somewhere between 60 - 100 universities to get the share of reduced monies (compared to current overall distributions) that are now being distributed among 130 football universities and 350 basketball universities. The football pie is close to the future reduced number but the basketball pie can shrink considerably and this is Yormack's vision. It's a win win for both the universities that secede from the NCAA and the media that offers that content. That type of win win is why I believe it is a forgone conclusion that the P5 will become the autonomous (A) 3,4 or 5 conferences comprised of 20 teams each. Yormack is not giving up on football by any means. He's just pivoting to make the Big12 the most superior conference in basketball. That has the potential to give him an equal seating with the SEC and the BIG. In fact if it ends up being three conferences I expect the BIG and Big12 to form an alliance and be the guiding conferences in future negotiations. UConn continuously, even in this forum, is not being recognized or talked about in the same manner of Yormack's vision. [USER=12833]@GoKU[/USER] understands that vision and at the minimum is why he is confident in UConn getting into the Big12. It's also why this round is playing out the way it is. Arizona is a less valuable market and basketball commodity than UConn but if Yormack can squeeze AU into the conference with an already on board UConn his superior basketball conference will be achieved. We are not being dangled. We are working in conjunction with his direction. So I'm not panicking on the delay of UConn's admission to the conference. The ACC will be interesting. Ten years from now is a long time and I wouldn't doubt if Yormack pivots the Big12 to approach monetary value of the SEC and BIG. It's a [B]long shot[/B] but not out of the question. And if that happens then it won't be out to the question to see North Carolina and Virginia consider going to a basket ball centric conference over a football centric conference when the ACC GOR ends. Particularly given how the football schools of Clemson, FSU and Miami have marginalized them. And that would be the karma that the ACC and the BIG deserves. [/QUOTE]

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