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We're still married to NBC as we were when Jack by SWPaDem
got here. Aside from hiring a top coach, you'd think they'd go network shopping to up the ante rather than bending over for NBC year after year if the money is that important to them. But there's a certain coziness along with the laziness to that arrangement that likely has kept us independent up to this point. So why bring up how much money we're losing with the NBC arrangement (disguised as not being in a conference) now when we're getting exactly what we bargained for, albeit several decades ago? That is, unless that tug of full conference membership brings with it the promise of more Pacman Jones rain than we'd know what to do with.