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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4805276, member: 44"] Keep in mind though that the AAC media deal requires that Connecticut bear the production cost for all home games other than football. That means hiring cameraman producers and on air talent. Additionally, Susan Herbst said that by moving to the big east we saved roughly $2 million in travel expenses. You pull out those two items playing in either conference is more or less a wash to us. And that's before you add an extra $600,000 for our CBS Sportsnet football deal, and before adding the extra gate and contributions, both of which rose sharply when we joined the big east. Finally, I know that the big east is in the process of negotiating a new media deal. In all likelihood it will go up, with at least one estimate putting it in roughly the $8 million per school range. [/QUOTE]