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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4698680, member: 833"]
The last 20 years have witnessed a massive fragmentation of media and entertainment, and that has accelerated rapidly since streaming.

We are seeing lots of the same things happening in sports now.  People are no longer forced to watch the CBS or ABC game of the week if they want to watch football at 3:30.  The networks no longer choose what people watch, and that is going to change the revenues soon enough.

NIL and the Transfer Portal have also changed the game, with FAU and SDSU making the Final Four, and TCU making the NC game for football.  It is not a coincidence that all three schools are in big cities.

I am absolutely confident that the Big East will continue to be strong into the future, but the Big East does not have football.  So the question is, does UConn want to be aligned with a bunch of rural state schools in flyover country, or with schools in big cities?  Interestingly, the Big 12 now has a lot of both, so we wouldn't have to choose.  This is part of the reason why I am generally positively disposed towards joining the Big 12, but it wouldn't crush me if we didn't get invited.
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