(11-29-2017 04:29 PM)Wudizzle Wrote: (11-29-2017 04:27 PM)TubaCat Wrote: How about an AAC - Big Catholic challenge every year? As long as the Crosstown Shootout is separate, I like the idea.
I think we should only play another power conference in a challenge.
Um, the Big East already has that with the Big Ten. As a result, it's the Big East that has more leverage here.
So, in terms of keeping score, the Big East has a larger TV contract just based on basketball (and without even having football), a conference challenge with a P5 league, and consistently more NCAA Tournament bids.
As a result, schools like DePaul and Seton Hall make more TV money and overall conference revenue than UConn, Houston, UCF and every single other full member school in the AAC (and the entire rest of the G5, for that matter) and MANY magnitudes more than Wichita State. I'm not saying that this is fair or right, but the conference realignment game has always been about the money. Otherwise, conferences wouldn't be realigning in the first place. On that front, the supposed "Big Pee" has crushed the AAC and every single G5 league on every single objective measure that matters in conference realignment. It's actually not even close when (once again) the Big East doesn't
even have football. When looking at it on a relative basis, it's about as big of a gap on
only basketball revenue between the Big East and the AAC as there is between the G5 and the P5 for football. We could go on all day about how the AAC got more exposure from ESPN or that a new AAC contract will pay more money in a few years or that the Big East won't ever get that same amount in a new contract... but that's all speculation. On the actual scoreboard today, the Big East completely destroys the AAC from a financial standpoint. Fans with blind hatred toward the Big East can whine about how they don't believe it should be the case, but there's simply no comparison as to which conference won the realignment game here. Call me crazy, but the entity with BOTH much higher revenue AND much lower expenses would seem to have the preferable model.