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Originally Posted by slotdirt
I think we're arguing completely different things here. You are assuming that a basketball conference featuring Kansas will continue to be shown on CSTV. I am assuming that many networks would jump at the chance to form a television deal with a conference that features Kansas/Kansas State and others (maybe Iowa State, maybe Missouri, maybe even Memphis).
There's a 0.0 percent chance that Kansas is going to end up in a conference that has no basketball exposure. Zero. None. Nil. Arguing that a conference like the MWC has only a CSTV deal on June 10, 2010, is completely irrelevant to this discussion, IMHO.
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I don't know where you get the idea that one school will make a difference? I have no idea how long the contract with CSTV lasts or what gets covered on the MTN but they cover all the mountain west sports and no one else wants that product. No major network is going to pay serious money to cover a bunch of schools mainly in small markets with virtually no national name recognition. None. You are completely delusional if you think that kansas basketball is big enough to make a network pay a billion dollars to cover the mountain west. Please read the vast number of articles on this topic that are all over the web. If you can't understand that bigtime football drives the bus then this discussion is a moot point. Individual teams simply don't matter that much especially basketball ones.