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Message: [QUOTE="TruDomGopher, post: 1234732, member: 4159"] The joker in the deck is TV...I can imagine the conversation goes something like this: FOX: Delany? Listen, we've got to get some better programming on B1G Network. Need to make some money here, this Big East contract is killing us. DELANY: What do have in mind? FOX: Basketball, good basketball, every night of the week. Just last night we wasted a prime basketball slot with women's volleyball. Only ads we could sell were Viagra and Cialis--got the dirty old men and adolescent boy demographic locked up with women's volleyball. (Pause) That reminds me, I should refill my prescription. DELANY: (Pause) Me, too. FOX: Get me more programming. With a winter like this, everyone's watching tv and we've got to have better product. DELANY: This winter's an anomaly. FOX: No, it's not. Every winters going to be like this from now on. Global warming--that's what Brian Williams said on Nightly News. DELANY: He's lying. Or he's still in shock from getting shot down...There's no science to support that. FOX: Yes there is--every Big Ten school has a study saying global warming's real. DELANY: Whatever. There's no candidates for expansion right now. GoR's have stopped us cold. FOX: Bust 'em. I need content now. DELANY: That means going to court... FOX: So? DELANY: and going through discovery. FOX: (Pause) I see your point. What about UConn? They're available--great brand and UConn's women would probably outdraw this turkey Big East package... DELANY: Not AAU. Don't know if I can get the votes. FOX: Those old farts still harping on that? Like you need to be Einstein to dribble a ball? DELANY: I didn't say it's a bad idea--it's a great idea, but I'm the one that has to figure out how to sell those old farts. FOX: So do it. You're the frigging genius. Read it in Sports Illustrated. Work on UConn. They're not doing nothing--I'm looking out my window toward Connecticut now and Warde's just standing in the window flipping off somebody--Bristol, Boston, not sure what direction that is... DELANY: Anything else? FOX: What about Dakota for hockey? Great team. DELANY: (Pause) Let's see what works out with American schools before we consider Canada... FOX: Okay, talk to you later. [/QUOTE]

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