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Message: [QUOTE="JeepCSC, post: 1852113, member: 3214"] If you are venturing away from UConn subsidizing Wake Forest to the AAC subsidizing the ACC (which I'm now getting the impression is where you now want to take this), that becomes a different conversation. So obviously ESPN makes more money than the conference payout. They'd be a poor business model if they merely broke even. I guess you are saying they have a bigger profit margin on the AAC and they use that to funnel money to the ACC where their profit margin is smaller. Is that the gist? Because that's nowhere in the original post or any subsequent post I've seen (to be fair I've merely glossed the last few pages). I don't know the rate of return on AAC football brings them compared to ACC football, as I imagine that is where most of the profit is made. I can guesstimate given viewers who see games, but it would be crude and not really beneficial in the end since we don't actually have access to to ESPN's books. It's an interesting theory, perhaps compelling for UConn fans who are getting screwed by being so out of place in your conference. But it's still a much different argument than the original post which was almost exclusively about UConn subsidizing teams in other conferences, which is just bizarre on the face when it has actual conference mates it is actually subsidizing without having to twist the term subsidizing beyond all normal uses of the word. [/QUOTE]