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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 1291837, member: 2524"] What it comes down to is this: UConn pays its way (is per-school revenue neutral) for both conferences, and it is the lynchpin to the northeast -- the only public school playing high level athletics in the New England/New York region of 35 million people. Strategically, whichever league captures UConn will control major markets, not just Connecticut, but also will have a leading position in New York and Boston. The ACC clearly hadn't thought through the network economics when they chose Louisville, or they never would have passed on UConn. Stupid of them. But now that the SEC and B1G networks have reported earnings, the value of UConn is pretty clear even to Swofford and FSU. It really comes down to the B1G and whether they want to follow Delany's strategy of controlling the northeast or some other strategy (eg AAU/research focused). If the B1G is even seriously considering UConn then I think the ACC has to offer, they can't afford to let UConn eclipse BC in New England, UConn-Rutgers eclipse Syracuse in NYC, Penn State eclipse Pitt in Pennsylvania, and Rutgers and Maryland dominate the rest of the northeast. Their northern schools, BC, Pitt, Syracuse would wither. [/QUOTE]