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Message: [QUOTE="ec33, post: 5066156, member: 12850"] My understanding of the rumors from journalists is that the addition of UConn -- for the duration of this contract -- has no bearing on the broadcasting payments other schools will receive (outside of tournament shares and I would suspect they would want to block UConn from receiving football playoff money). Fox Sports already has UConn, so I am assuming they either are only going to pay UConn what they are currently receiving or a prorated amount depending on their share of UConn rights. ESPN is going to come with a figure for partial rights to UConn that will go to UConn (perhaps with the Big 12 offices as intermediary but functionally it is ESPN paying for UConn). So Fox isn't blocking anything, just no offering more for less of the same product. And why would they? [/QUOTE]