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Message: [QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 3198588, member: 15"] A grant of rights is a clause that turns over a school's media rights to its conference. Under such a clause the conference would have the rights to broadcast the school's home games for the duration of the contract. These clauses have been used to protect conferences (and broadcast partners) from schools being poached by other (higher paying) conferences. I think the current ACC media deal contains a grant of rights clause. The new AAC deal does not have such a clause but I believe there is a clause that allows ESPN to renegotiate the contract if a school were to leave the conference. I'm sure the ESPN+ business model assumed a lot of UConn content. Watch this space as they say. [/QUOTE]