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Message: [QUOTE="bobbyinaz, post: 1096287, member: 3853"] The Big Ten is never making a strategic decision that will decrease the payout to each school. The other issue is that the western schools are already bitching that they will now play OSU, Michigan & Penn St less than they did pre Maryland & Rutgers. They will be less likely to go along with any further expansion unless the teams being added bring boatloads more money to the table thru their Tier 1 deal & the BTN. This is why I think the only way UConn gets in is if expansion includes more than 2 schools. If the goal is to get to 16 teams there is no other school coupled with us that brings enough money to make the western schools OK with it. Now if a 4 team expansion of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas & UConn were to happen, I think that would drive such a huge revenue boost that the dissenting schools would not care about scheduling [/QUOTE]