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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4704189, member: 44"] Yeah again, the way you're presenting it sounds as if there's some unstated rule that makes it the phasing of distributions a certainty, there isn't. Again, additions to the big 10 are buying a share of the Big Ten network and do that via taking reduced distributions so that a portion of the distribution can be applied to their buy-in. On top of that, Rutgers took a loan from the Big Ten to pay for its exit fee and transitioning costs. The loan was repaid via a reduction of Big Ten distributions to Rutgers. I believe those have finally been completed in Rutgers now receives a full share. Cincinnati, Houston, UCF and BYU to the big 12 is a unique situation whereby their media partners declined to pay for those additions. The other teams in the conference took a reduced share to pay for the addition of those four teams during the two-year period prior to the next contract being in place in 2025. Once the new contract begins those for schools will receive a full share. The big 12 media partners have already said that Connecticut as an addition would be worthy of a pro rata share, or said differently, they will treat Connecticut as if we were a P5 addition. That is an entirely different situation than one described above. So, no there is no imaginary rule that says it must happen. It might happen, but there would have to be a reason for it, just as there were in each of the other times you mentioned. [/QUOTE]