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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 1422282, member: 833"] BYU and Boise both got better deals for TV than we have, and Boise is in Boise. SNY wants to carry UConn. Why not cut out the middleman? Syndicate the big games if need be, and in 5 years most of the broadcasts will be streaming online. UConn needs a few partners to make this work, and at that point, maybe UConn should just form an 8 team, football only conference. I do not have a problem with that. The key is filling the schedule, and the Big 10 has already said they want to play us. Let's get a couple of more leagues to do the same, and then push off. BYU, Boise, Army, Navy, UConn, Cincinnati, UMass and whoever (Temple?) would be a respectable football league. Army/Navy could play Patriot hoops, Boise and BYU to the WCC, UMass stays in the A 10 and maybe is joined by Temple, and UConn and Cincinnati make a pitch to the Big East. Would this league get a decent TV deal? I think so. By the way, you brought up the technicality of the G5 arrangement with the Bowls. I am confident that a league with the teams outlined would be admitted to that deal somehow, someway. And that technicality is much smaller than ESPN's right of first refusal on the AAC, which means that ESPN never has to pay the AAC a market price for their broadcast rights, ever. There is no way for the AAC to make more money with ESPN short of threatening to dissolve the league. We need to get out of the AAC as soon as possible. [/QUOTE]