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Message: [QUOTE="TruDomGopher, post: 1285464, member: 4159"] Maybe. But since I got my chemo yesterday and I just have to sit quietly today and not hurl on my keyboard, let me get into this a bit. If all they're talking about is lacrosse--fine, I have absolutely no idea. It may be the sport of the future but it is most definitely not the sport of now. Delany went to the Hopkins/Rutgers match and doubled the attendance. Rice doesn't have lacrosse or hockey, I don't think. Baseball? Zero tv needle movement. None. That's not even a rumor, it's a footnote. Flug says no new members before 2019. I think otherwise--I think there will be movement before the new contract. In the land of my personal bias, I think Fox will have a say and I think they want UConn in play. B1G, dump football and go Big East, whatever: UConn has too much television value to be sitting where it is. In my experience, the guy that writes the checks (ie. Fox) has a pretty strong hand compared to the guy that cashes the check (ie. B1G). Yes, the B1G probably has multiple schools they'd rather have but their dance cards are full for...oh, ten years or so. The UConn to B1G with a Texas presence is old news--go to the CSNbbs and check back--it turned up two years ago or so. Rice is interesting twist, though. AAU. (Which may make UConn easier for the COP/C to swallow.) Right market. And, for a small school, they have an absolutely friggin' huge football stadium--if I remember right, they got like a 70,000 seater or something like that. (The Boston U thing is ongoing in this thread so for practical purposes, just ignore it...) So could these pieces come together in a way that makes the constituent parties happy or at least form a package they can live with? So it boils down to this: I like my version better. [/QUOTE]

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