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Message: [QUOTE="dwalks93, post: 1571793, member: 5598"] I've posted this article before but it explains the dynamics of GORs and the response to conference lawsuits pretty well... [URL]http://sportspolitico.com/2015/02/16/will-grant-of-rights-protect-big12-from-future-raids/[/URL] Even if UConn got a 7 figure payment the damage to our program perception and subsequent ill will was not worth it. 7 figure payment? The difference between G5 and P5 is over [B]$20 million a year.[/B] 7 figures is nothing. At the University President level, there is a certain level of camaraderie expected among the schools. They work in Ivy Towers and suing a fellow university in court for money is unsightly. Money may dominate college sports and thus conference affiliation but UConn was the first to take a fellow school to court. UConn suing BC and its chancellor did not help us. Who knows how UConn's lawsuit effected the later ACC expansion votes but there is no angle where it was viewed as a positive. Did the lawsuit keep the BE together? Did the lawsuit get UConn in a P5 conference? Blumenthal filing the lawsuit was more about promoting himself for future political ambitions....the lawsuit had less to do with helping UConn. Whatever, it is done now. If UConn ends up in the BIG I'll be saying the lawsuit was the best thing that ever happened. [/QUOTE]