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Message: [QUOTE="DGB, post: 4715472, member: 1287"] UConn has options here. The school just has to think a little more out of the box. If UConn has truly been left out here, it is because UConn is currently G5. But not because of the stigma that comes with that...football or otherwise. No, the problem with UConn being G5 in realignment is Fox has UConn for pennies. I get that some have pointed out that whatever Fox were to pay UConn in the Big 12 could be mitigated by offering the big east less money in the next contract...but they're going to offer the big east less anyways, and honestly the big east without UConn inventory isn't really worth anything. Fox would be killing their 6:30 bball time slot for nothing. This problem is kind of unique to UConn among its current and former G5 brethren, because UConn is actually a draw to a bball conference in a way, for example, Cinci, Houston, UCF and BYU could never be. BYU cold have mattered to somebody in football...but they went independent. Being a valuable G5 draw is the worst thing you can be in this game because the networks like you right where you are. And folks...that's where UConn lives and will likely continue to live unless something changes. One option UConn has would be to start making noise about Apple. It doesn't have to be a tantrum like FSU has thrown. Just let it be known that the big east has the defending national champion and bball program of the past quarter century. UConn is committed to the big east...loves the big east...but not at the pennies it is currently getting from the networks. Streaming is the future, and UConn wants streaming in the next contract, with additional pay for its football program. None of this has to even be true. It just needs to be out there. Fox and the B1G sure as sh#t reacted to the PAC getting a deal from Apple, and the possibility of seeing [I][B]their [/B][/I]Oregon and Washington live there for the next six years...whether Oregon and Washington were going to sign that crappy contract or not. My guess is they would do the same with UConn if the possibility became real that they could lose them to streaming altogether. [/QUOTE]

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