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...within 6 years? WHAT ABOUT OUR DEAL TO PLAY TENNESSEE?I'm going the schadenfreude route... everybody loses with cord cutting, which makes UConn more or less equal again, behind only most of the SEC and some of the BiG.
My scenario: By 2021, accelerated downward revenue trends force ESPN to renege on its larger rights deals. Panic ensues. The ACC cannot survive cord cutting, nor can the B12 (save TX/OK) or Pac10. None of which were adequately prepared with alternate models. Senators and representatives from Southern and Midwestern states ally to defeat net neutrality for the sake of preferential streaming of football games, however, consumer pushback over paying top dollar for Indiana/Northwestern or Vandy/Mississippi leads to further revolt and the final result is ONE superconference of 16 teams with everyone else tossed aside and nobody on either coast really cares.
This also results in college campuses being mostly redundant as learning centers, but important as research centers. Distributed education takes over. No more big-time college sports as we know it. Along with that change, Title IX goes to the wayside. All sports programs must be revenue positive without the help of a conference TV deal going forward.
Geno is long retired and women's hoops history is dead everywhere. Most college sports teams return to club level status. Only a few major men's hoops programs survive as semi-pro teams (the NCAA being long dead by now), due to some forethought in terms of creating proprietary device-friendly programming specific to their teams, UConn being one of those.
How's that for a dystopian future?