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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1643174, member: 652"]
You honestly don't get realignment.
Conferences expand for money. UConn doesn't bring enough revenue to justify the Big Ten adding them. They crunched the numbers when they added Rutgers and Maryland. Rutgers brought cable boxes from NJ and NYC for the BTN.
UConn would bring CT that is all. CT population is not high enough that it would add bring enough revenue for the BTN to justify adding them.
Football is the number one revenue producer for TV money.
The Big Ten wants North Carolina/Virginia/Oklahoma/Texas/Kansas before UConn.

Be scared of UConn in the Big Ten just like I will be scared that Aaron Rodgers could end up on the Jets or Bills.

The ACC network is on hold because the ACC hasn't acquired its rights it sold to Raycom/Fox Sports back and ESPN right now is bleeding revenue and Disney is telling them to cut fat in the workplace. ESPN isn't going to invest 1 penny right now until their bottom line improves.

This is going to hurt the Big Ten a little bit. While Fox Sports may spend on Big Ten they need ESPN as well to make more money. The Big Ten will do fine its new contract but with ESPN cutting back on spending it will hurt what they get a little bit as ESPN has SEC/ACC/half of the Pac-12 and all of Big XII basketball and half of Big XII football.
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