(08-09-2019 09:21 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  One point this whole discussion misses.... The new AAC contract is more exposure than the Big East contract.

Sure, AAC schools will have to pay to produce dozens of games in non-revenue sports for ESPN+. But that's because they're guaranteed dozens of games on ESPN+. That's exposure that the Big East contract simply doesn't provide.

When Butler was in the Horizon, they streamed their non-ESPN games on the Horizon League's website. Cincinnati currently streams all softball and baseball games on a 3rd party website, and Cincinnati pays the production costs. Butler and Cincinnati paid for those production costs because it was worth it for the exposure. But a lot more people will watch if it's on ESPN+ than some nameless website.

The whole purpose of college sports is to advertise the school. Any school in the country would gladly pay $1 million for 50 2-hour specials broadcasting live from their campus to anyone with ESPN+.

This makes no sense. Espn+ has like 2 million subscribers. Having all your games on espn+ is horrific for exposure. The big east gets all of their games on national tv. See Clifton this is the kind of delusion I’m talking about.