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Message: [QUOTE="Zissou, post: 3872591, member: 7920"] Kansas would be the prize, of course, for the basketball-first Big East. Creighton is already in the same region. Kansas State and Iowa State could come along to secure that region with close partners and rivals. UT and OK anchor the Big12. The Big East should be talking to Kansas now about contingency options should UT and OK initiate conference change, and they should include Fox in the discussions. For Kansas to consider they would need a good Basketball pay-out from a renewed Big East basketball contract, plus a football TV contract as an Indy or in a TV scheduling Alliance with KS State, Iowa State, UConn, Temple, Cincy, etc. Or, even a bigger stretch, Nova and Butler (or Georgetown) move up from 1AA and the Big East sponsors football with 8 full members. Although sponsoring football is even more improbable, a way to address it is to have 2 separate TV contracts. Keep an arms length between those finances. Basketball would renew it's own TV contract with all of the members and look to have $5M+ per team per year. Football, on its own merits, does it's own TV contract and finds its own value just for football. Avoid the argument that football holds all of the value and basketball is worthless, and have 2 separate contracts. [/QUOTE]