CL82
2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions
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I'm sure it is quite a joke down in Bristol, but up in Storrs it's not quite so funny.No it didn't. It cost more and they split part of it with Fox.
It's why the entire argument is a joke.
They didn't split the Big East with Fox, thought they could have, instead they destroyed the conference and carved of pieces to support the guys they designated to be their flag ship product, the ACC.
The Big East rejecting $1,000,000,000 says it all.
The term of years and number of schools made that offer the worst among the major conferences. In retrospect the Old Big East should have taken it, but at that time no one new that ESPN would fund the dismantling to the greatest basketball conference of all time. It was unheard of for a television network to so blatantly disregard the interests so many public and private institutes of higher education so that it hold onto their market dominance, but it was just business, nothing personal.
So now Connecticut's state university has a TV contract that is worth close to what UConn was getting for SNY to broadcast its woman's basketball games. Who makes up that shortfall in revenue? Connecticut students and taxpayers? You've been done in by a company that was just the recipient of Connecticut taxpayer dollars to expand. Every time you sit wondering whether a couple of early season losses have killed our post season chances, every time that you wonder whether we care going to be able to sustain our athletics program, every time you look at your tax bill and wonder how you can make ends meet, think of our friends down and Bristol and remember that it is all "a joke" to them.