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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4858811, member: 1023"] I’m about long term permanent payments, not one shot deals that are unpredictable from year to year and in any event are a pittance in comparison to what major conferences get. Just as an example, Notre Dame gets about double what NEWBIE teams get in rights fees from the ACC. NCAA units and such come on top. We get $5.5 or there about. We are better off getting 8 teams in the play in than 4 in the Final Four. Getting to the Final Four does not earn units. The play in does. If all you care about is money you want bubble teams and an upset conference champ. Of course that’s impossible. But if we get 5 teams in and 2 get to the Elite 8, a pretty good performance, that gets us roughly 1.9 million/team. So we are only roughly 3 million behind the the ACC payment to ND before any ACC units get distributed. So I suppose it’s better to have more teams. But it isn’t anything great and they need to make deep runs. In summary I want UConn to win. I have zero interest in what any other NOOB does. Yeah, more gets us a few more bucks but it’s not enough or regular enough to make a difference or to make me care. Except about DePaul. Explain to me why a program that has not made the tournament as a member of the Big East or the New Big East deserves anything at this point. [/QUOTE]