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Message: [QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 257779, member: 830"] my point is, if you take away the coverage from a team, you take away some of the fanbase/value. ESPn can diminish the value of the BE by removing a lot of the coverage, so when the BE goes to negotiate they don't have a lot of stats to prop their value up on (i.e. viewership) there is a reason there are so many notre dame fans across the country compared to how many actually have a relation to the school (i.e. alum, grew up in the area). Notre Dame is on tv all the time. same reason why there are so many yankees and giants fans in upstate ny. they were the only team you could watch before cable. also, ESPN doesn't lose out on profits from not showing the BE teams. ESPN just shows another game in its place that would generate the same revenue. can't be too hard for ESPN to do [/QUOTE]