(02-15-2017 02:29 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-15-2017 02:25 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(02-15-2017 02:05 PM)stever20 Wrote:  I wonder if this may be a ploy to get ESPN to put more money in the AAC and not lose UConn to Fox. The timing is interesting right after the UConn women's game on Monday night that got 1.229 million viewers.

Except any increase isn't going to compete with the Big East amount and it doesn't help UConn by still being in the AAC when UConn could be in a Power basketball conference which the AAC is not.

The Big East is making 4 million per school per year. The AAC right now is making around 2 million. Why wouldn't ESPN bump it up some to keep a valuable property from leaving to Fox?

Because ESPN is bleeding too much money?

Because the Big East commands bigger markets with schools in those markets?

I'm glad if UConn is doing this. ESPN has not been that great to them or their conference(s) over the years. Fox has been quite clear and repetitive in its point that it wants more content and volume in both the Big East and Big XII, and it will pay more to all for it. It's ESPN that wants to be a bit more conservative, but UConn finds itself stuck on the wrong side of all of this seemingly every time.