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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4355314, member: 44"] People have forgotten that for a while it was unclear which was the better conference, the Big East or the ACC. Indeed, there has been risk of the ACC falling apart for quite some time now. That is why the school presidents opted for a draconian GOR. The ACC survived solely because ESPN chose to fund its evisceration of the Big East. Basically, ESPN made the business decision that it was less expensive to consolidate more D1 teams in one conference and pay them a premium than to pay to D1 conferences. They made the decision that the ACC would be the surviving conference. Had they decided to consolidate in the Big East, we would be in a far better position today. Have they decided that consolidation in the ACC must include the University of Connecticut, we would be in a far better position today. They did neither. So, basically, ESPN, a Connecticut company, was the architect and financier of the evisceration of the big east conference which in turn cost the university and thus the state of Connecticut, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars. That should never be forgotten in this state. There may be a time that ESPN comes to us with a hat in hand asking for incentives again. Any legislator who votes in favor of that should immediately be voted out in the next election. [/QUOTE]