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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 1685930, member: 153"] From a guy that listened to Chip Brown on a radio show this morning (not encouraging for UConn unless ESPN steps to the plate): "I was just listening to College Sports Nation on XM 84 and the guest was Chip Brown from [URL='http://hornsdigest.com/']HornsDigest.com[/URL] talking about Texas and the Big 12 expansion. A few interesting points came out of the discussion. The Longhorn Network deal that runs 20 years at 290 million is heavily back loaded with much bigger payouts for Texas the last few years of the deal. This year Texas received only 9 million. Texas wouldn’t consider folding the LHN into a conference network unless they were paid in full for the negotiated contract. He said the reason the LHN was created was to keep Texas in the Big12 and short of leaving the conference Texas doesn’t see a reason to not get paid. Texas is for expansion but their position is unless the right schools are added its dilution not expansion. Texas feels schools like UConn and Cincinnati don’t move the needle for the conference. He mentioned contacting Arizona and Arizona State to see if they would consider moving away from their TV deal with the PAC12 for something better in the Big 12, or the possibility of Clemson and FSU deciding they are tired of playing football in a basketball conference and would want to step up. He felt like if Texas decided to move out of the Big12 staying in the central time zone would be important. He said the BIG or SEC could be potential landing spots, the PAC12 wouldn’t be attractive because of playing games at 9PM Texas time." About Arizona and Arizona St, there are 6.5m people in Arizona. The average salary for the state is on the small side. No state legislature other than Louisiana has thrashed the higher ed budgets more than Arizona. This is the only little bit of info that I questioned here. As a market, Arizona is not that great. [/QUOTE]

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