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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 545965, member: 833"] The women's basketball program makes millions of dollars for the school, and if it holds onto its SNY contract, actually generates more income than any other athletic program at the school going forward. Unless the money they generate is not legal tender in the United States, it should not be ignored. You come at me with a handful of opinions all centered around the same bias that football>basketball in every way, shape and form. How many Final 8's and Final Fours does the C7 have in the last 10 years vs. the A12 without UConn? Look at on court performance, attendance, TV ratings, and math you want, the C7 blows the A12 away. Find me a relevant metric where the A12 schools without UConn are even close to the C7. Just 1. You also do not appreciate how serious a revenue problem the A12 schedule creates for us beyond just the core TV deal. When UConn was in the Big East, it would play a preseason tournament somewhere, and then 2-3 home and homes with major programs. After that it was paycheck games, which sell tickets and create Tier 3 TV content. In the A12, we can't schedule like that anymore. To have a SOS in the Top 100, UConn will need to schedule 5-6 major opponents OOC. Those will be home and homes, which means 2-3 fewer home games every year, which will cost UConn millions. Who knows what ticket sales will look like with a schedule littered with ECU, Tulane and SMU. I am adamantly against playing more than 16 conference games. Football is a little better in the A12, but we aren't getting paid for it. I am confident we would make a lot more money syndicating our home TV schedule in football if we were independent than we ever will in the A12. At the very least, the A12 should have just cancelled the TV contract and told the schools to get TV deals on their own. I bet almost every school would have done better than the current debacle. The second point, about basketball, is the big one. UConn needs to remain a powerhouse in something to be attractive to any other league. If we become Houston in football and basketball, no one will ever want us. I think it is a lot easier to remain a national power in a league like the C7 than it will be in the A12. [/QUOTE]

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