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[QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 1851074, member: 523"]
Tiers are a fancy way of saying which media company gets to pick first.  If the B1G deal with ESPN is to provide 36 FB games and 50 BB games per season with ESPN getting to decide which games, those are Tier 1 rights.  Subsequent contracts with Fox, BTN, CBS, whomever are written in such a way that they pick after ESPN, and so on down the line.  Generally, Tier 3 is leftover games after the primary, and secondary oulet contract requirements are met.

The AAC sold all its rights, 1, 2, 3 for everything to ESPN.    The LNH consists of UT's tier 3 content.  Games neither ABC or Fox chose to air on a given week.  The B12 teams own their T3 content, the ACC's were sold to Raycom which they are trying to buy back.  The SEC, BIG, and P12 all have conference networks distibuting T3 content.  A few random game may be left with schools to sell on their own.

For UConn, anything that was on SNY or CBS before the AAC was T3.  ESPN had the T1 through the Big East, and CBS had T2 BB.

The WBB crowd is livid because until the AAC sold everything.  UConn had a T3 WBB deal with SNY that paid nearly as much as the entire current AAC share.
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