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Message: [QUOTE="whaler11, post: 3124713, member: 676"] I’m projecting some intellgence on the athletic department with these assumptions: 1. UConn’s desire is to have the women’s games on SNY 2. ESPNs desire is to grow ESPN+ off UConn women’s basketball UConn is going to use the data from this survey to show ESPN that their core fanbase can’t be monetized through ESPN+ yet. They want to grease the skids for SNY to pay a reasonable amount to keep the rights in SNY’s cable footprint and trade the national feed going behind the paywall. SNY is in a terrible spot because SNY will be dropped by cable in at least four counties immediately without UConn. UConn is looking for data that convinces ESPN to sell local rights to SNY at a price that SNY can afford by proving the fanbase isn’t sophisticated enough for ESPN+ to realize the full value of what they bought if they immediatly stick it behind a paywall. [/QUOTE]