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The_Philster
07-02-2003, 07:51 PM
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Less than an hour after Miami officially accepted an invitation to join the ACC, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Big East schools would seek to recover not only losses in ticket sales and broadcasting fees, but also the cash value of diminished recruiting power and scarred relationships with donors.

Four Big East football schools are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference and Miami, Blumenthal said Monday.

"Certainly for the Big East as a whole, the damages could well be in the hundreds of millions of dollars," Blumenthal said. ..

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