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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 1851329, member: 153"] Again, this isnt even the point people are making. It boggles the mind why this is so hard to understand. We are talking about ESPN and the fact that ESPN has a property (UConn) that it shows (men's BB 15, women's BB 18, men's football 3 or 4) many, many times a year, and worse it owns the property's 3rd tier rights, from which it earns a tidy profit. Because of this, ESPN gets UConn cheap and tries to hold onto this profit center at a pittance. The money it makes is then used to subsidize other schools that hardly ever even appear on ESPN. This doesn't have anything to do with the conference breakdowns. We all know that the big dogs like FSU feed the smaller schools. This has to do with revenue at ESPN and how ESPN retains valuable properties at a pittance in order to subsidize less valuable properties elsewhere. It is really hard to see how you guys aren't getting that. [/QUOTE]