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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 1749835, member: 3850"] The ShaggyTexas and Landthieves are talking up Big 12 expansion as a cash grab...big money to be taken from the barbershop quartet and split up among the current 10...making those guys financially closer to the SEC/B1G while the new entrants will go for a long while on a reduced distribution. The thought being that it is so worthwhile being in a P5 that any old gnarly piece of scrap tossed to the G5 candidate is better to them than than starving slowly. I sure wish that the five or so candidates could get together and agree on a distribution that none would agree to go below...and stick to their guns. The Big 12 needs the new guys as badly as the new guys need the Big 12. Sure it's OK to have to take a reduced distribution for a limited time...but it seems cold to plan on bringing in teams primarily for the purpose of raking off the monies that the media are forced by contract to give to the conference for their addition. i really hope that this is more internet talk and that rational heads will decide that the best way to make a current G5 team more competitive in the P5 league, is to give them the financial resources to do so. And...with a subsidy of $28 million to augment that $72 million athletic budget, UConn is one of the highest in the NCAA in subsidy. If the Big 12 offers $10 million per year, that will still leave a sizable $18 million subsidy or the athletic budget actually drops. Or am I wrong on this? . [/QUOTE]

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