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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2501410, member: 6911"] If I understand the rudiments of college big-bucks business, it's all about the conference. The conferences create their own TV networks, and the conferences negotiate long-term TV contracts with the big networks. Unless you're Notre Dame with a stellar century-long tradition of top-flight football, going independent will guarantee a lack of money from TV, and will horribly exacerbate the already huge drain of university cash down the UConn football black hole. If memory serves, UConn has one of the biggest subsidies from the university for sports in the nation- over $20 million a year. Really, really sad that this body-destroying sport rules universities and university athletics. [/QUOTE]