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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 1352069, member: 1414"]
Everybody needs to understand that the "Dood" (a disgrace to the Big Lebowski) is nothing more than a hyper WVU twitter booster.  He knows nothing and understands little.  He preaches football and ignores markets, research and academics, because those things make WVU look bad.  He has no knowledge of or understanding of UConn, Cincy or anybody else.  He throws out these $25M numbers as if they mean something and as if WVU brings some mythical $25m to the Big XII.

The B1G gets it, the SEC gets it.  The Big XII is stuck in the 1990s.  It has a few marquee programs in football and basketball (and baseball) and therefore has a decent national audience along with its tiny local markets outside of Dallas,  Houston and KC.   It doesn't have a network and won't, because it has a horrible demographic footprint.  Therefore he downplays the things that do matter to the conferences with Networks, he undervalues UConn women's hoops, which is likely more valuable than WVU men's hoops, hockey, soccer and the other content that the BTN desperately needs.  He has no clue about TV markets and cable subscribers, or can't be honest because his own market doesn't even register.  It's not a blip.
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