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(03-04-2017 11:48 AM)OUBobcat9092 Wrote:  
Quote:I think UMass and James Madison could maybe work out fine for the MAC...

For all sports...or not at all

Absolutely !! 04-cheers
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(03-04-2017 12:08 PM)FMRocket Wrote:  
(03-04-2017 11:48 AM)OUBobcat9092 Wrote:  
Quote:I think UMass and James Madison could maybe work out fine for the MAC...

For all sports...or not at all

Absolutely !! 04-cheers

I would be just fine with that, although if you look at JMUs board very recently, the lack of weekend games in football has given them pause. Hard to blame them the ESPN deal gets worse every year.
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UMass won't get an invite (do they want one?) unless ESPN is OK with chipping in more money to cover their take. Same goes with UConn football. While the MAC presidents would be generally intrigued, there is no appetite for splitting revenue.
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(03-04-2017 09:37 AM)cmufanatic Wrote:  Agree football was a mess and we bailed them out once, now hoops is a mess and they are looking for a security blanket if their conference is raided. Pass. Tired of the MAC being the conference of last resort

After being the largest FB conference from 1999 to 2012 with a revolving door 13th, 14th members.......the MAC at 12 is now the same membership size as the PAC & MWC w/ only 2 FB members bigger than the SBC.

Who would have thought it possible?

Thank god it happened.
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(03-04-2017 03:15 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  UMass won't get an invite (do they want one?) unless ESPN is OK with chipping in more money to cover their take. Same goes with UConn football. While the MAC presidents would be generally intrigued, there is no appetite for splitting revenue.

What would help the MAC more than anything is bumping up the bowls.

G5 should approach higher level bowls; Holiday, Sun, Alamo, Liberty, Gator, Outback about placing their champs in one of those games. These bowls are fading in importance with the CFP games taking spotlight and could use a boost.

I believe there would be appetite for a non-CFP G5 champion in a higher level bowl game. Considering the champs would have the publicity of championship week and novelty factor.

The P5 is also pushing for some new games for the next cycle that could push a game like the Independence Bowl into the bowl pool and force a few of the most marginal bowl games to close up shop.
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(03-04-2017 03:15 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  UMass won't get an invite (do they want one?) unless ESPN is OK with chipping in more money to cover their take. Same goes with UConn football. While the MAC presidents would be generally intrigued, there is no appetite for splitting revenue.

Agree, 100%.

UConn/UMass/Army, etc. all would make sense to consider as FB only members with basketball scheduling alliance games, BUT as you indicate it has to make dollars and cents, not simply athletic sense.

My guess is that Army does make sense to ESPN. The problem, though, is that I believe they have a television deal with CBS(SN).

In short, IF the MAC could offer Army and UConn I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN wouldn't be amenable. I think there is enough value there.

Army, I assume, who have better ratings than any existing MAC school, except WMU (and that could change if WMU's 'returns to earth' in the post-P.J. era). E.g., I could see Army @UConn for a midweek MACnation game (would Army play mid-week games) or UConn @ TOL. Both UConn and Army have established brand names. I think ratings would be solid.

Also remember UConn or Army or both could become competitive in the MAC.
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Army has repeatedly expressed no interest in joining a conference for football, especially after their disastrous stay in CUSA. I am not sure why they keep being mentioned. They are not looking, nor should they. They are much better off independent than in the MAC. Scheduling is easy, a bowl appearance is assured, if eligible, and money is not as big an issue as it is with regular universities. They have their own TV deal. How does the MAC improve on that?

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(03-04-2017 10:43 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  This was for your amusement and doubt Dayton will bit for the AAC. They are receiving over 2 1/4 million in the A10 from 75% share of NCAA credit, and TV.

Football was a mess when you invited us. Keep an eye on us this fall. It's the first year of scheduling right*. Not playing a P5 front loaded schedule that took a body toll, when we had no depth. A little concerned about our CB and thin at running back but will be fine.

Here is my optimistic view, it's nice to dream and really looking forward to the spring game.

Quote:Seems with all this talk, conference and teams are getting ready for some realignement.
Ready the tea leaves, which is problematic, the Big 12 will take a AAC team, not named UConn.
UConn has reacted with the NBe smoke screen.

The AAC will be more serious about basketball and increase the TV dollars in the new deal coming up. Think that if the AAC took WSU and VCU we could be that third team, which would rebalance football. The west teams will have WSU the south mid Atlantic would have VCU and UConn would have us.

This is an optimistic view, but I like it.

Yes, know you say go away, as others have said about different posters. (-:

Steve, thanks for sharing. My biased opinion has always been that joining the MAC for all sports would have been the smart move for UMass, but understand the reasons for opting out. Its interesting to see some on the bball side even entertaining the option but unfortunately that ship has sailed.

The MAC is locked into a contract with ESPN until the 2026-2027 school year and that money is based on a 12 team conference. UMass, UConn, UCleveland Cavs, it doesn't matter, the MAC isn't going to expand beyond 12 teams. I just don't a scenario where the MAC would entertain adding a 13th and 14th, no matter who it is. Best of luck to you guys.
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(03-08-2017 07:23 AM)axeme Wrote:  Army has repeatedly expressed no interest in joining a conference for football, especially after their disastrous stay in CUSA.
And if they WERE looking, the MAC would be near to last on their list, since they would still want as close to a national schedule as they could manage, and the MAC would offer the smallest footprint for their in-conference games.

After their CUSA stint, it's possible that LAST on their list would be the AAC, given that the AAC is basically a modest upgrade the CUSA in which they were beaten with a stick. But if so, the MAC would probably be second-last.
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(03-11-2017 12:09 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
(03-08-2017 07:23 AM)axeme Wrote:  Army has repeatedly expressed no interest in joining a conference for football, especially after their disastrous stay in CUSA.
And if they WERE looking, the MAC would be near to last on their list, since they would still want as close to a national schedule as they could manage, and the MAC would offer the smallest footprint for their in-conference games.

After their CUSA stint, it's possible that LAST on their list would be the AAC, given that the AAC is basically a modest upgrade the CUSA in which they were beaten with a stick. But if so, the MAC would probably be second-last.

And Mountain West (geography). And Sun Belt (geography, etc.).

So if the choices were: AAC, C-USA, Sun Belt, Mountain WEST, MAC or staying independent, independent wins; MAC finishes a distant second.
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I can't see UConn pursuing full football-only membership in one of the MAC/CUSA/SBC in the event they jumped to the NBE and the AAC refused to let them stay FB-only, simply because of the financials at play. If the jump did happen it would be because the OBE money is drying up and the American's new TV deal is looking like it'll come in flat rather than a sizeable bump (not saying that's currently the case, just what would need to happen). In that case, UConn would probably need to preserve their current income stream as much as possible by moving to the Big East for their bigger basketball-only deal as well as the right to sell their football rights on the open market. I'd imagine that, for Fox, getting the UConn men's and women's basketball programs under their roof for the same cost they'd otherwise pay for someone like St Louis or Richmond would be worth floating the football team with a deal that pays at least $1-2 million annually. Beefing up their their pool of teams from which they could draw noon kickoffs in the fall would just be gravy. If UConn managed to get more than that, great, but if not in that scenario they'd still be bringing in 3 times what the current American deal pays.

Now, pursuing a scheduling alliance (ideally with bowl tie-ins) with a conference that includes games with the two basketball programs as a sweetener makes all kinds of sense, and could benefit both sides, but football-only membership doesn't (unless it's them just staying put in the American for football).
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(03-11-2017 07:20 AM)emu steve Wrote:  And Mountain West (geography). And Sun Belt (geography, etc.).
The Mountain West would seem like weird geography for Army, but it is still a broader footprint, in both California and the Mountain West ... and it would also free up one OOC game a year compared to anyone but the AAC, by putting them in conference with another Academy ... and yet would still leave Army/Navy OOC, which puts the Black Knights on TV in the weekend when nobody else is playing college football, which is another mark against the AAC for Army.

Between MWC footprint and MAC footprint, the MWC seems like it would have a slight edge, but not that great of one.

It's the CUSA and Sunbelt, with their sprawling footprints across the southeast and south central US which keep generating endless "re-arrange the CUSA/SBC teams into two conferences that make sense" discussions, which make the most sense for Army. Either one would leave Army with far fewer "holes" as far as a national footprint in any given year.

Even though Army was beat out of the old CUSA "with a stick" (literally leveraging the Hawaii road trip bonus game into a 0-13 record one year) ... that was the old CUSA, not the current CUSA. The current CUSA is probably the best fit among conferences, and then SBC after.

So most likely its: (1) Independence (2) daylight (3) CUSA (4) SBC (5) MWC (6) MAC (7) AAC

I put "daylight" at (2), since the gap between Independence and the best available conference is so big that it's really misleading to put any conference at the (2) spot. The gap between Independence and the "best available conference for Army's purposes" at least twice as big as the gap between one conference and the next on the list.

Army would suit the MAC so much, that people will keep raising Army as a potential MAC add, without considering why Army would ever want to accept an invitation.

(03-11-2017 12:54 PM)Bogg Wrote:  I can't see UConn pursuing full football-only membership in one of the MAC/CUSA/SBC in the event they jumped to the NBE and the AAC refused to let them stay FB-only, simply because of the financials at play. If the jump did happen it would be because the OBE money is drying up and the American's new TV deal is looking like it'll come in flat rather than a sizeable bump (not saying that's currently the case, just what would need to happen).
So far, so good ... the new Big East have a more attractive financial deal than the AAC, so unless the new AAC deal is an upgrade, the new Big East plus additional cash for FB in some way, shape or form would be a financial step up.

Quote: In that case, UConn would probably need to preserve their current income stream as much as possible by moving to the Big East for their bigger basketball-only deal as well as the right to sell their football rights on the open market.
If the money for selling their football rights on the open market is there, then surely they would like to. But that is an untested assumption. It might not be there, given that UConn is by no means an established strong brand name in FB ... not even in New England.

Quote: I'd imagine that, for Fox, getting the UConn men's and women's basketball programs under their roof for the same cost they'd otherwise pay for someone like St Louis or Richmond would be worth floating the football team with a deal that pays at least $1-2 million annually.
Except Fox could get, eg, St. Louis and Dayton now, and so far prefers the existing Big East alignment. Part of the increment in value for UConn is taking the value per school of the expanded alignment to Fox over the value per school of the existing alignment. There's no guarantee that there is $1m-$2m extra value.

And even if it is, why would Fox have to pay it? If UConn decides that it's time to abandon the future in the ACC ship of dreams for the reality of preserving their ability to recruit at a Power Conference level in BBall, why should Fox pay more than they have to to UConn to make that happen?

Quote: Beefing up their their pool of teams from which they could draw noon kickoffs in the fall would just be gravy.
And for most of the schedule that UConn would put together as an independent, fairly thin gravy. Unless they spend more than they earn from the TV contract as the FB independent on game guarantees.

Quote: If UConn managed to get more than that, great, but if not in that scenario they'd still be bringing in 3 times what the current American deal pays.
And the bulk of that is the Big East deal. So they get more than what the current, and under this hypothesis prospective, AAC deal brings in, irrespective of what they do with their football.

Quote: Now, pursuing a scheduling alliance (ideally with bowl tie-ins) with a conference that includes games with the two basketball programs as a sweetener makes all kinds of sense, and could benefit both sides, but football-only membership doesn't (unless it's them just staying put in the American for football).
While asking to be accepted as a FB only affiliate in the AAC after abandoning the AAC for the new Big East would demonstrate quite a lot of chutzpah, it would seem to be one alternative not on offer.

On offer would be either FB independence and a modest top-up on the new Big East member distribution, or membership in the MAC and an even more modest top-up on the new Big East member distribution, but with better national TV exposure.

In making the decision between playing as an independent and playing in the MAC, they at least would be one school that could not complain about not playing at home on Saturday in November, since UConn playing as a FB independent would get precious few Saturday home games in November in any event.

I don't think it will happen. I think UConn will hold onto the future-ACC-membership pipe dream at least until through to the coming mid-2020's conference realignments.
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(03-08-2017 10:40 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  
(03-04-2017 10:43 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  This was for your amusement and doubt Dayton will bit for the AAC. They are receiving over 2 1/4 million in the A10 from 75% share of NCAA credit, and TV.

Football was a mess when you invited us. Keep an eye on us this fall. It's the first year of scheduling right*. Not playing a P5 front loaded schedule that took a body toll, when we had no depth. A little concerned about our CB and thin at running back but will be fine.

Here is my optimistic view, it's nice to dream and really looking forward to the spring game.

Quote:Seems with all this talk, conference and teams are getting ready for some realignement.
Ready the tea leaves, which is problematic, the Big 12 will take a AAC team, not named UConn.
UConn has reacted with the NBe smoke screen.

The AAC will be more serious about basketball and increase the TV dollars in the new deal coming up. Think that if the AAC took WSU and VCU we could be that third team, which would rebalance football. The west teams will have WSU the south mid Atlantic would have VCU and UConn would have us.

This is an optimistic view, but I like it.

Yes, know you say go away, as others have said about different posters. (-:

Steve, thanks for sharing. My biased opinion has always been that joining the MAC for all sports would have been the smart move for UMass, but understand the reasons for opting out. Its interesting to see some on the bball side even entertaining the option but unfortunately that ship has sailed.

The MAC is locked into a contract with ESPN until the 2026-2027 school year and that money is based on a 12 team conference. UMass, UConn, UCleveland Cavs, it doesn't matter, the MAC isn't going to expand beyond 12 teams. I just don't a scenario where the MAC would entertain adding a 13th and 14th, no matter who it is. Best of luck to you guys.

Perimeterpost, agree 100%, but will continue to follow the MAC as appreciative for the FBS invite. Send me a PM if you are planning to make it on Sept 30th.
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(03-12-2017 07:45 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
Quote: In that case, UConn would probably need to preserve their current income stream as much as possible by moving to the Big East for their bigger basketball-only deal as well as the right to sell their football rights on the open market.
If the money for selling their football rights on the open market is there, then surely they would like to. But that is an untested assumption. It might not be there, given that UConn is by no means an established strong brand name in FB ... not even in New England.

Well, and it appears that you already get this, but it doesn't have to be a great cable deal, since the Big East already nets more money in their media deal than any all-sports conference UConn could join right now. That being said, UConn's a strong brand in CT with a decent alumni presence in NYC and Boston, so my guess is they'd get interest from at least the local networks in the form of SNY/YES/NESN/CSNNE, and if they play it right they should be able to leverage basketball into a deal with Fox as well. The amount they'd get is certainly up for debate, but the idea that nobody would be interested at all ignores a lot of factors.

(03-12-2017 07:45 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
Quote: I'd imagine that, for Fox, getting the UConn men's and women's basketball programs under their roof for the same cost they'd otherwise pay for someone like St Louis or Richmond would be worth floating the football team with a deal that pays at least $1-2 million annually.
Except Fox could get, eg, St. Louis and Dayton now, and so far prefers the existing Big East alignment. Part of the increment in value for UConn is taking the value per school of the expanded alignment to Fox over the value per school of the existing alignment. There's no guarantee that there is $1m-$2m extra value.

And even if it is, why would Fox have to pay it? If UConn decides that it's time to abandon the future in the ACC ship of dreams for the reality of preserving their ability to recruit at a Power Conference level in BBall, why should Fox pay more than they have to to UConn to make that happen?

UConn basketball is absolutely worth the extra $4.5-5 million the pro-rata share of BE membership would get them, due in no small part to the women's program that brings with it something like 80% of meaningful women's basketball broadcasts by itself. UConn's basically a two-for-one deal in this context - the men's program is the most lucrative men's program potentially available to the Big East, and you can argue they're the second-most nationally relevant basketball program at their own school.

Fox doesn't have to be the one to pay UConn for their trouble in going football Indy, but that works both ways - UConn doesn't have to leave the American for a non-football conference. I'd wager that the combined value of the broadcast rights for both Uconn basketball programs and the UConn football program is worth at least a $1 million premium over a standard basketball-only add through the BE pro rata clause.

(03-12-2017 07:45 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
Quote: Beefing up their their pool of teams from which they could draw noon kickoffs in the fall would just be gravy.
And for most of the schedule that UConn would put together as an independent, fairly thin gravy. Unless they spend more than they earn from the TV contract as the FB independent on game guarantees.

Maybe, maybe not. This past year UConn's out of conference schedule was three ACC teams. This coming year it's an SEC team and two ACC teams. Two years out they've got Boise and 'Cuse (plus UMass as part of an initiative to play some regional teams that led to four-year series' being agreed to with BC and UMass), and for two years after that they have Indiana and Illinois out of the B1G in addition to the UMass games, before picking the BC series back up after the UMass one runs its course. Point is, they've done a pretty decent job of scheduling lower-level P5 teams (which is who should be the goal) OOC with the constraints of playing a regular conference schedule - the additional flexibility afforded by going Indy let's you add a couple more P5 opponents (and yes, they may need to be bribed with basketball games and/or playing football in NYC proper) balances out the couple of real lower-level games you'll find yourself playing.


(03-12-2017 07:45 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
Quote: If UConn managed to get more than that, great, but if not in that scenario they'd still be bringing in 3 times what the current American deal pays.
And the bulk of that is the Big East deal. So they get more than what the current, and under this hypothesis prospective, AAC deal brings in, irrespective of what they do with their football.

Exactly. The Big East is special with their media deal relative to other non-football conferences and the G5 groups, meaning that UConn can get a little more unorthodox than they'd typically be able to with football.

(03-12-2017 07:45 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
Quote: Now, pursuing a scheduling alliance (ideally with bowl tie-ins) with a conference that includes games with the two basketball programs as a sweetener makes all kinds of sense, and could benefit both sides, but football-only membership doesn't (unless it's them just staying put in the American for football).
While asking to be accepted as a FB only affiliate in the AAC after abandoning the AAC for the new Big East would demonstrate quite a lot of chutzpah, it would seem to be one alternative not on offer.

On offer would be either FB independence and a modest top-up on the new Big East member distribution, or membership in the MAC and an even more modest top-up on the new Big East member distribution, but with better national TV exposure.

In making the decision between playing as an independent and playing in the MAC, they at least would be one school that could not complain about not playing at home on Saturday in November, since UConn playing as a FB independent would get precious few Saturday home games in November in any event.

Eh, two thoughts there:

1) The second half of November is when the weather in New England really starts to get awful, and the last home game of the year almost always has attendance negatively impacted by weather. Playing out your home slate mostly in September/October isn't actually a bad thing in Connecticut, and going on the road to a southern school in November would be just fine.

2) UMass and Liberty need to schedule games just as badly as UConn would, and alternating series with them during that difficult November part of the schedule would give you at least one home game (plus the opposite away game) in November every year. I also think UConn and Army should revive the November game at Yankee Stadium (much easier to get to than Rentschler for like half the fan base, including me) they held a few years back as an annual thing (I went and the atmosphere was really fun with good turnout). Do that and you've got a quick three weekends in November filled. Couple it with a two-home/two-away scheduling alliance with the MAC/CUSA/SBC/whoever, plus the FCS game, and you've only got four open slots to fill on an annual basis - one more than you currently have, and a really good number for trying to build contacts throughout the P5 athletic departments. Get Army on board for that mid/late November NYC game and the rest of the schedule is pretty doable.

(03-12-2017 07:45 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  I don't think it will happen. I think UConn will hold onto the future-ACC-membership pipe dream at least until through to the coming mid-2020's conference realignments.

I don't know, UConn certainly not spending like a school preparing to take a sizeable cut in revenue within the next couple years - they're spending $50 million on an athletic district that includes brand new (and badly needed) baseball, softball, and soccer stadiums and are in the middle of fundraising to build an on-campus hockey facility to meet Hockey East (or, ideally B1G Hockey) standards. Right now they're living off residuals from the breakup of the old Big East, but the math starts getting different soon. Depends on what The American's next media deal looks like.
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(03-12-2017 10:22 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  
(03-08-2017 10:40 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  
(03-04-2017 10:43 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  This was for your amusement and doubt Dayton will bit for the AAC. They are receiving over 2 1/4 million in the A10 from 75% share of NCAA credit, and TV.

Football was a mess when you invited us. Keep an eye on us this fall. It's the first year of scheduling right*. Not playing a P5 front loaded schedule that took a body toll, when we had no depth. A little concerned about our CB and thin at running back but will be fine.

Here is my optimistic view, it's nice to dream and really looking forward to the spring game.

Quote:Seems with all this talk, conference and teams are getting ready for some realignement.
Ready the tea leaves, which is problematic, the Big 12 will take a AAC team, not named UConn.
UConn has reacted with the NBe smoke screen.

The AAC will be more serious about basketball and increase the TV dollars in the new deal coming up. Think that if the AAC took WSU and VCU we could be that third team, which would rebalance football. The west teams will have WSU the south mid Atlantic would have VCU and UConn would have us.

This is an optimistic view, but I like it.

Yes, know you say go away, as others have said about different posters. (-:

Steve, thanks for sharing. My biased opinion has always been that joining the MAC for all sports would have been the smart move for UMass, but understand the reasons for opting out. Its interesting to see some on the bball side even entertaining the option but unfortunately that ship has sailed.

The MAC is locked into a contract with ESPN until the 2026-2027 school year and that money is based on a 12 team conference. UMass, UConn, UCleveland Cavs, it doesn't matter, the MAC isn't going to expand beyond 12 teams. I just don't a scenario where the MAC would entertain adding a 13th and 14th, no matter who it is. Best of luck to you guys.

Perimeterpost, agree 100%, but will continue to follow the MAC as appreciative for the FBS invite. Send me a PM if you are planning to make it on Sept 30th.

Where is UMass with scheduling games for their on-campus stadium? What is the capacity for that stadium right now?

Just curious.
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RE: UConn about to come a-knocking?
The original plan was to have all games on campus, but one game has been moved to Fenway Park Nov 11th. The capacity stands at 17k, but SRO (Standing Room Only) tickets will be sold if the need develops. AD Ryan Bamford said most of those will be at the end zone next to the Performance Center. There is plenty of room on the side lines but the end zone is the plan. Our first game is against Hawaii, before school starts during week 0. Imagine if we win and then win down at Coastal. The ODU game could be packed city. Then Temple and Tenn on the road and come back home for Ohio. Looking forward to having the Bobcats on campus. It's a different world on campus.

New this year is they are moving the student tailgate area next to the stadium and everyone has to pay for parking except season ticket holders. Basic parking is $10 on game day and $5 in advance.
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