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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4711752, member: 1414"]
Only conference involved in all this that isn't talking, but yes.  The SEC is just sipping bourbon on the front porch.

Mostly it's a feeling that hit me today, but the logic looks like this.  ESPN is out of the PAC deal next year. We reliably heard ESPN approved a full payout for UConn to the Big XII.   ESPN is looking at what it can capture here and where it wants those properties.  If Yormark has persuaded ESPN on UConn's value (and presumably he has given we were approved) then where does ESPN want them?  Big XII is getting a basketball boost from UA and Houston.  It's weak on the football side. It could use Utah. The ACC hasn't lived up to its basketball promise, and programs like Syracuse and Louisville are down.  Is UConn more valuable playing North Carolina and Duke than Kansas and Baylor?  Duke already has eyeball pull in NYC.  So does Miami.  Does playing UConn help revitalize Syracuse hoops?  Can UConn and BC play a version of Florida-Georgia at Gillette every year?

The answers to those and other questions, plus the silence as the corner schools generate noise, suggests to me that ESPN would prefer to put UConn in the ACC.
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