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06-16-2003, 07:34 PM
With $3 million in ticket sales projected for next year, the popular and powerful Connecticut women's basketball team doesn't rely on the football dollars most of its Big East counterparts need.
Yet coach Geno Auriemma is concerned about the potential expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which would pull Boston College, Miami and Syracuse from the Big East. He believes the move threatens the future of women's athletics in the conference and beyond since so many of those sports depend on revenue from big-time football.
"As the schools leave the conference and ruin the Big East, there will be less opportunity for women," Auriemma said Sunday during a conference call with other Big East coaches. "All the gains we've made, if this situation were to unfold, I think would be disastrous."
At stake is the potential loss of millions of dollars in revenue from TV deals and the lucrative Bowl
http://www.sportsline.com/ncaawbasketball/story/6431470
Yet coach Geno Auriemma is concerned about the potential expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which would pull Boston College, Miami and Syracuse from the Big East. He believes the move threatens the future of women's athletics in the conference and beyond since so many of those sports depend on revenue from big-time football.
"As the schools leave the conference and ruin the Big East, there will be less opportunity for women," Auriemma said Sunday during a conference call with other Big East coaches. "All the gains we've made, if this situation were to unfold, I think would be disastrous."
At stake is the potential loss of millions of dollars in revenue from TV deals and the lucrative Bowl
http://www.sportsline.com/ncaawbasketball/story/6431470