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Message: [QUOTE="JohnFSilver, post: 4759272, member: 1618"] I think you are being naive e here. This isn’t just about basketball. Big east is a niche sport conference. Like hockey east. I don’t like the late start to big east tv contract. Big east is great for men’s basketball, but it doesn’t really rate outside of that sport. Big 12 is making a concerted effort to own basketball. It is the best hoops conference. They have football money behind them. Big ten,sec own the football end of things and then there is acc. Those four leagues are consolidating money and power. They are going to expand the tournament as well. I don’t like where this is going from a hoops standpoint. Football is lost. Smu, Stanford/cal destroyed the notion of UConn ever getting a full share of anything anywhere, ever. I been around this a long time. UConn going to have to take the life raft and protect it’s basketball and go to the big 12, maybe get a scheduling deal for football, which considering caliber of play of UConn right now is a proper deal for time being. I am assuming if zags are on the table UConn could have a similar offer, but more complicated . I got no inside info, not even background information guys, just a guess. Not even a donor mentioned in passing to me. So don’t Read into it. It just feels like wind blowing and I got a feeling. [/QUOTE]