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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129468956" data-attributes="member: 1428007">Interesting write up in the Hartford Courant--UConn wants in the BIG 12 and this writer discussed what might make them a valid inclusion for the BIG 12--good points made:excerpt: Think about this. If the <a href="http://www.courant.com/topic/sports/college-sports/big-12-conference-ORSPT00000245-topic.html">Big 12 Conference</a> is strong-armed into expanding in the coming months, why would it want <a href="http://www.courant.com/topic/sports/college-sports/uconn-huskies-ORSPT000004-topic.html">UConn</a>?Easy, really. It's all about New York.More than football, more than basketball, more than academics — although all three are important factors — the millions of television eyeballs that could come with the inclusion of a Northeast megalopolis state university could dramatically impact the footprint of a Power Five conference that currently is No. 5.Yes, it's about the football. It almost always is.Yet more than the football, it's about the TV money. It's ALWAYS about the money.<a href="http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-jacobs-column-uconn-big-12-0105-20160105-column.html">http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-jacobs-column-uconn-big-12-0105-20160105-column.html</a></blockquote>

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