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Message: [QUOTE="ConnHuskBask, post: 3055030, member: 632"] While the league was dealt a poor hand, Aresco/AAC's major failure to date was expanding to 12 teams in order to have a conference title game in football when a) the title game $ wasn't going to cover the extra mouths to feed b) the Big12 since made the 12 team requirement void. I think ESPN has a number for the AAC and that whether we negotiated as a 9 team league or a 12 team league including Tulane, Tulsa and ECU the total amount is probably close to the same. So while Aresco has a chance to make good on his time as commissioner garnering a nice tv deal, those early mistakes are always going to come back to bite us when the per team payouts are lower than what we'd hope. [/QUOTE]