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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 1795810, member: 2839"] All things being equal, UConn to any of the Big Ten, ACC, or Big XII makes too much sense. Not because of football, but for the potential of football plus all the exposure to an untapped market brought by basketball and other Olympic sports. There some basement level bloggers and experts alike who poo-poo the NYC DMA when it comes to collegiate athletics. Yes, the majority of New York is a pro audience, but who really cares if they watch as long as the channel is offered on a normal tier and generates a reasonable fee. New Yorkers will, by and large, not even notice their bill went up. Secondly, come 2025, ESPN is no longer obligated to the conference (only Texas). That also means that the more content ESPN loses, cable companies and advertisers will not be obligated to ESPN's obscene carriage and marketing rates. Plus, the way delivery is trending, the bigger conferences are going to need both a terrestrial and on-line footprint anyway. Fox will have 7-8 years to grow and expose the Big XII brand and develop an online identity (which they can possibly leverage off their NFL partnership) before it even has to worry about what Texas (who, let's be honest, becomes a giant only in their own mind with each passing year of mediocrity) will do. [/QUOTE]