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re: Miss State womens basketball
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:43 am to Cheese Grits
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:43 am to Cheese Grits
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How long have you been following the sport?
Not that it matters, but since the 60's. I grew up in CT and have followed Uconn since they were in the Yankee Conference. Good old Wes Bialosuknia days.
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If sports are national why has ESPN not moved out of Bristol in favor of a Top 20 media market?
Actually, it's pretty simple. CT has given huge tax subsidies to ESPN to keep them there.
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As example, imagine if ESPN had been formed in Palo Alto, California. Stanford already has a very good women's basketball program but with ESPN as their corporate parent can you not see Tara and Geno reversing their respective careers?
This is where I disagree. You can say all you want that ESPN is a "corporate parent" to Uconn, but actually fans and sportwriters and to some extent the powers at Uconn dislike ESPn. There's a belief that their strong ties and influence to the ACC kept Uconn from getting an invite. This all because ESPN had a contract with the Big East and didn't want Uconn leaving that conference. Now they're in conference limbo and sitting on the outside looking in.
You can also theorize all you want that some other program would have become Uconn, if ESPN had set up shop in their neighborhood, but that's all it is, theory. I still hold to my belief that the coaches were the ones that should get all the credit for changing the culture and success of their respective teams. For now, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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Posted on 1/14/17 at 4:34 pm to AustinOMfan
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There's a belief that their strong ties and influence to the ACC kept Uconn from getting an invite.
I think it is just the opposite. ESPN would like Uconn in the ACC as both a market in the east coast corridor and a long term block against the B1G adding them if their academics continue to rise and moves them from a ESPN school to a FOX school. It was my understanding the fallout with some of the ACC leadership - possibly coach K - was the block to Uconn.
It is my understanding that if Cincinnati gets in the ACC before Uconn it because the conference made it happen and not ESPN as ESPN want the opposite. As for the Big East it was better having it and 6 power conferences than the 4 we will probably have in the end but much of the blame for the destruction was the Big East turning down the deal keeping them at the bottom of the P6's than the top of the G5's where the AAC is now.
View the actual history of WBB by current conference as to where the real power lies to build the sport and quality from top to bottom in a conference.
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