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[QUOTE="BoomerHusky, post: 1765777, member: 7204"]
I've listened to most if not all of the interviews John Ourand and Michael Smith did last week after they released their article. In almost every interview they brought up pretty much the samethings.

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[*]Neither network wants Houston, they don't believe adding Houston will help them overtake the SEC in the Houston market.
[*]ESPN doesn't want to pay more for content they already have, most of the time they bring up BYU when discussing this.
[*]Uconn is the only school that owns its own market and has strong numbers in surrounding markers. No other school excluding BYU is even in the top 2 of their respective markets. 
[*]BYU has a strong national brand but this relates more to ticket sales than viewership numbers.
[*]The whole premises of the article was a negotiation tatic and your not just dealing with Big 12 vs networks but your dealing with ESPN vs FOX. They also said they were working on more articles about Big 12 expansion.
[*]Both have stated if they go to 12  it would be BYU and Uconn as they are really the only schools that add value.
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