(12-15-2019 07:12 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(12-15-2019 04:35 PM)spenser Wrote:  

(12-15-2019 04:05 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(12-15-2019 03:53 PM)Agust Wrote:  

(12-15-2019 03:00 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  Agree, common sense tells you the contract will be adjusted for ANY team leaving...some teams however can trigger a renegotiation. The AAC was never going to be able to split an extra share.

this is what i was stating earlier but when you think of it

it means uconn basketball was worth 8 million
unless it was 6 mil and they just paid us 2 just to keep the football on.

Common sense should also tell you that it is a little more complex than "1/12th of the contract back, please."
If it was that simple, it would be done, not be a process that Aresco was talking about rolling up our sleeves and getting to.

The contract isn't written as $6.94M per team per year for 12 teams. The contract is written as $83.3M per year for a long list of inventory - x games on Thurs/Fri; y games per network on Saturday; z games on ESPN+; a basketball games by network on weeknights; b basketball games by network on weekends; c basketball games on ESPN+; all the other stuff; etc.
If football was 75% of the value of the media contract and UConn was only a Friday night ESPN2 game and all the rest Plus...the adjustment might come out less than $6.94M per year.

Great explanation. To further it some each week we were supplying ESPN with. Tier 1 Saturday ABC/ESPN games. Tier 2 Friday night ESPN/Saturday ESPN 2 games. Tier 3 ESPN 2 mid week games. Tier 4 being ESPN + games.

So for the most part we will be loosing Tier 4 games, UConn was not good, so low payout. Other thing is reslotting so games up a Tier and reworking future schedule were Uconn was to be against a marquee team in one of the ESPN slots.

Example Uconn vs ECU on ESPN + inventory is not going to loose us anything from the deal. But UConn vs Memphis Bball on ESPN one week now needs rework, so a day that had Cincy vs Houston and Temple vs Wichita is split to fit time slots.

If we can still fill the big slots and work it so its 1 less ESPN+ game we will probably be between a quarter and half a share loss.

Uhhh... Yes it will. We just lost all of the Uconn Market as far as purchasing ESPN+. Now maybe a certain percentage of those fans will purchase anyway (for other viewing opportunities), but I'm betting ESPN is not happy about losing the incentive for all those Connecticutians to purchase ESPN+. But if it tells you anything, I have not, nor will I, subscribe to the SECnetwork or the ACCnetwork. No interest for that kind of money per month.