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Message: [QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 4365754, member: 7275"] FOX isn't throwing cash at the B1G. FOX owns 60% of the B1G network so they are either paying themselves for the games they keep or receiving money for the games they sold to CBS and NBC. That being said, it isn't unreasonable to wonder if FOX is no longer as interested in the Big East long term given ESPN is no longer taking on some of these CBB games. But they also have FS2 so they really should have plenty of timeslots to play around with unless they opt to drop the channel like NBC has done with their own sports specific channel. We will get answers to many of these questions in a year or so. The Big East is also cheap content in an environment where the only thing that seems to bring ratings these days is reality tv and sports. They can probably get the Big East for $100 million annually (currently $40-50 mil annually) and it is significantly less than what it would cost to get the Big 12, PAC 12, etc while still having buzz, decent ratings, and the Big East tournament. [/QUOTE]