According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
(07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link:
https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
(07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Over a million a piece. That will help pay for some of ucf's lazy river outside the football stadium. Thanks Yukon
lol!
So a program that is losing money hand over fist is going to pay out as much as they lose in a given year, just so they can move to basketball to a conference that'll pay out less than the AAC, and then further financially ruin their football program before eventually sending it down to FCS.
Bravo, UConn
15-18 is what I would expect.
Would be smart to use this as the seed money for higher level bowl.
Take off 2.2 million off the media deal (200k a program) every year.
That's 4-5m pay out to a p5 conference the equivelent of a citrus bowl/play off spot.
(07-17-2019 11:52 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link: https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
Good grief! The UConn administrators really bungled the timing of the offical notice of their departure. Sounds like the AAC lawyers now have them in a bind.
We get to rid ourselves of the worst football program AND get an instant cash infusion of $1.36M?
Amazing. This is a great deal for UCF and the AAC.
(07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
We keep 2 year's of distributions (2018-19 and 2019-20). That's about $ 11 million tight there. They only need to come up with 4 more and we are good.
(07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
The only way it’s that high is if they allow football to stay a year after all other sports have moved to the Big East.
(07-17-2019 12:10 PM)The Knight Time Wrote: [ -> ]We get to rid ourselves of the worst football program AND get an instant cash infusion of $1.36M?
Amazing. This is a great deal for UCF and the AAC.
That's great for USF too.
I wonder if we could flip it into a contract bowl for the AAC. Needs to be a destination NY6 type bowl for the conference runner up. Perhaps we could approach one of the existing bowl games and offer to upgrade the payout in return for a guaranteed slot for 3-5 years.
(07-17-2019 11:52 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link: https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
Love this quote by Aresco: “When it happens, you’re not happy about it,” Aresco said. “It’s not something we wanted to happen. But you get over it pretty quickly.”
We're over it, but still elated that our football got stronger. And richer.
(07-17-2019 12:37 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:52 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link: https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
Love this quote by Aresco: “When it happens, you’re not happy about it,” Aresco said. “It’s not something we wanted to happen. But you get over it pretty quickly.”
We're over it, but still elated that our football got stronger. And richer.
The process is far from over (e.g., waiver approval, ESPN media deal impact), but developments to date indicate UConn's exit is a net benefit to the AAC.
(07-17-2019 12:43 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 12:37 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:52 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link: https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
Love this quote by Aresco: “When it happens, you’re not happy about it,” Aresco said. “It’s not something we wanted to happen. But you get over it pretty quickly.”
We're over it, but still elated that our football got stronger. And richer.
The process is far from over (e.g., waiver approval, ESPN media deal impact), but developments to date indicate UConn's exit is a net benefit to the AAC.
I wouldn't dare call it a benefit, but it's not a mortal wound either. That Connecticut writer is way overstating the harm of losing UCONN, and pretending that keeping them FB only "mitigates complications with TV money" is hilarious. There is almost zero value to UCONN football, and if for some reason it were necessary to add a 12th FB team just because adding pretty much any program FB only would be at worst a wash and most likely an upgrade. Now yes there's no upgrading hoops and women's hoops, but keeping the trash program while losing out on the actual value would be idiotic and I can't believe that writer actually believes that makes any sense.
(07-17-2019 01:31 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 12:43 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 12:37 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:52 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link: https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
Love this quote by Aresco: “When it happens, you’re not happy about it,” Aresco said. “It’s not something we wanted to happen. But you get over it pretty quickly.”
We're over it, but still elated that our football got stronger. And richer.
The process is far from over (e.g., waiver approval, ESPN media deal impact), but developments to date indicate UConn's exit is a net benefit to the AAC.
I wouldn't dare call it a benefit, but it's not a mortal wound either. That Connecticut writer is way overstating the harm of losing UCONN, and pretending that keeping them FB only "mitigates complications with TV money" is hilarious. There is almost zero value to UCONN football, and if for some reason it were necessary to add a 12th FB team just because adding pretty much any program FB only would be at worst a wash and most likely an upgrade. Now yes there's no upgrading hoops and women's hoops, but keeping the trash program while losing out on the actual value would be idiotic and I can't believe that writer actually believes that makes any sense.
This was written by a trash local Hartford writer. They're basically going to bat for the UConn Admin by spinning this to be less totally catastrophic for their football than it is.
(07-17-2019 01:31 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 12:43 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 12:37 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:52 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
Here is the link: https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html
Thanks.
Love this quote by Aresco: “When it happens, you’re not happy about it,” Aresco said. “It’s not something we wanted to happen. But you get over it pretty quickly.”
We're over it, but still elated that our football got stronger. And richer.
The process is far from over (e.g., waiver approval, ESPN media deal impact), but developments to date indicate UConn's exit is a net benefit to the AAC.
I wouldn't dare call it a benefit, but it's not a mortal wound either. That Connecticut writer is way overstating the harm of losing UCONN, and pretending that keeping them FB only "mitigates complications with TV money" is hilarious. There is almost zero value to UCONN football, and if for some reason it were necessary to add a 12th FB team just because adding pretty much any program FB only would be at worst a wash and most likely an upgrade. Now yes there's no upgrading hoops and women's hoops, but keeping the trash program while losing out on the actual value would be idiotic and I can't believe that writer actually believes that makes any sense.
The benefits to date include $10M+ exit fee and improved football performance metrics due to dropping among the worse football programs in all FBS. The cost to date is losing a prestigious and high potential basketball with relatively low actual results lately. Benefits > Costs.....
(07-17-2019 12:30 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
The only way it’s that high is if they allow football to stay a year after all other sports have moved to the Big East.
No Thanks, keeping UCONN FB is not worth extra $. The more I think about it, if not for BB, UCONN is UMass. While we lose a great BB program, we lose a terrible FB program.
(07-17-2019 02:17 PM)Sideshow2313 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 12:30 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2019 11:43 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote: [ -> ]According to a Connecticut newspaper posted today ---- what he was hearing around media days. Said that leaving after this year would leaving 2 years, not one year, early. So expectations are at the exit fee will be greater than 15 million.
The only way it’s that high is if they allow football to stay a year after all other sports have moved to the Big East.
No Thanks, keeping UCONN FB is not worth extra $. The more I think about it, if not for BB, UCONN is UMass. While we lose a great WBB program, we lose a terrible FB program.
FIFY
Speaking of UMass, out of sheer principle, I would consider adding UMass football only before I would ever think about keeping UConn football only.
Keeping Yukon football only is a non starter. They are the worst in Div 1 (or within a few spots). Literally we can grab anyone and they have more value on the football side. ESPN wasn't putting them on ESPN.