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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 3201420, member: 2839"] UConn has let it be known that the Big East will shave millions off their travel budget. The Big East/Fox deal will give them what? About $4 Million? If UConn can supplement that with an SNY deal for T-3 rights AND a separate one for football for a fixed amount plus maybe a profit share for reaching certain ratings/attendance goals, It might be possible to eclipse what they were going to get from ESPN in the AAC (Oh, I forgot buy games. UConn will have to accept buy games.). I might find my way to get fully on board. The biggest advantage to the AAC was the number of willing opponents and bowl tie-ins. The more I read, I get a little more comfortable that, despite themselves, they might pull it off. They may also give a road map for other programs who believe they are worth more than ESPN is giving them credit for and blow the whole farging thing up. Small mercies. Though someone said yesterday (and I agree) that the fact remains that the administration went forward with this deal with no inclination as to the survival of the football program, if this works out, they will have fallen in feces and come up smelling like rose. [/QUOTE]