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[QUOTE="CTFAN4LIFE, post: 4556740, member: 3328"]
I hear you but I think there are things that nicely position the BE...

1.  Big markets - Southern New England, NY, NJ, Philly, DC/VA/MD, Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Omaha.

2.  On-court success.  Villanova, UConn natty's.  BE conference KenPom, etc rankings have had them in the top 3 or 4 conferences annually for the long term and the short term.  The BE has a track record of better on court performance and eyeballs than PAC basketball.

3.  Fan bases that care and legacy BE fans still have cable at rates higher than other fanbases.  Ratings are solid and growing.  As an example, passionate "cabled" fanbases have better positioned the Big12 over the PAC because TV executives know better.

4.  The BE tourney as an entity itself. Most unbiased observers put it as the top or second best tourney in all the land.

5.  Fox is likely to partner with ESPN+ to stream their content on the ESPN app and that will snare additional eyeballs for everyone and drive up revenues.

Streaming will always be a part of things, but to say BE basketball is going to be on a similar plane to the PAC is likely just lazy thinking at this time. It is apples and oranges simply due to people disregarding the BE because we don't have football.
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