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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2699099, member: 1414"] I think you guys over simplify this. None of the ACC schools "brings 28 million per year". In fact, the entire current model evolved from a prior model where each school sold its own content. In that model, none of them got much. It was only by pooling the schools and selling the rights of the conference as a whole that the numbers increased significantly. It should be obvious why, the following and market for any one program, even Texas, is insufficient. Notre Dame gets much less as an independent than it could in the Big Ten. It gets $15M annually from NBC. Does UConn enhance the overall appeal and market of the ACC. Yes. How does it compare to others? For the ACC, I'd say UConn would add more value than any non P5, non Notre Dame program. We'd have much more value to the ACC than we did to the Big 12, and would really turn New England into "ACC Country" the way it is in the Carolinas and Virgina. They don't have that kind of saturation even in Georgia or Florida. The bigger challenge we face is that ESPN has UConn's rights for pennies on the dollar right now. Our talk about the Big East is (in my opinion) largely to let ESPN know that they won't continue getting UConn at bargain basement prices. They broadcast the hell out of UConn sports. Even when we suck, we are on national TV more than most P5 schools. I think Benedict is positioning us for this. It's why Diaco had to go when he did and so did Ollie. It's a short window and UConn has to have a competitive football team and very competitive basketball team now. Baseball being ranked is great. If the American can switch to Fox, I actually think that ESPN would move to put UConn in the ACC as #15. If we up the cost of our content to ESPN, even that could be enough. That is my .02 [/QUOTE]

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