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Message: [QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 4563393, member: 7275"] @ MH ver3: [I]BY recommended to B12 CEOs today that we expand by 4 in basketball and Olympic sports. Schools he has had the most serious discussions with are Gonzaga, Villanova, UConn and St John’s (a late addition after Seton Hall talks cooled). Marquette, Georgetown, and Creighton have also been in talks but certain factors relegated them lower. Marquette has great support and a decent market but the allure of NYC market was too great to put them ahead of St John’s. Georgetown would have been a shoe-in 20 years ago. Sadly their support has dwindled and WVU already has a partial claim to DC DMA. Creighton was also a duplicate market for us but had a lot of other positives as well. This is up to the CEOs now. BY has given his recommendation and backed it up with research from B12 media consultants. This would be HUGE for the next contract cycle when we decouple basketball. UConn came back to the table after walking to propose a scheduling agreement with some B12 programs not to dissimilar from what ND does with ACC (just not at the same frequency and UConn is not too keen on going too far west to play). Clarifying previous tweet. UConn proposed a football scheduling agreement since they will not be joining in FB if invited in other sports.[/I] [/QUOTE]