(09-07-2020 08:14 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-07-2020 06:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-07-2020 03:07 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(09-07-2020 01:25 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-07-2020 11:35 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  IIRC, UConn was NOT one of the most valuable assets according to ESPN. if certain schools left, the contact could be diminished. Believe those schools included Houston, Cincinnati, USF, and UCF and maybe one other. Don't think UConn was included in that group.

UConn basketball was a loss, despite how mediocre to poor they had become in MBB. UConn football had gone past dumpster fire status. Other than padding the win totals of other teams, it was addition by subtraction in football.

Wrong. It was UConn, Temple, Cincinnati and Houston. No Florida schools.

Now UConn's value was probably from basketball.

And UConn has never got to be as much as a dumpster fire as Temple and Rutgers were when they were in the Big East. Rutgers usually lost to Temple. Temple had one season where they drew 17,000 fans---for the ENTIRE year!

Maybe you are referring to the original AAC contract, but even then I think you are wrong, since it did not include UConn.

The deal that begins this year included UCF, Houston, Memphis, and Cincinnati as the single teams that would force a renegotiation of the deal by themselves. Otherwise it required multiple schools to force a renegotiation. UConn leaving did trigger an option for restructuring the current contract.

The "Group A" teams in the 2013 deal with NBC/ESPN were UConn, Temple, Cincy, and Houston:

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...g-sources.

In the new 2020 deal, SBJ reported that ESPN could renegotiate the deal if any schools left, though the report said they were particularly concerned about UCF, USF, Memphis, Houston and Cincy possibly leaving. But the contract itself doesn't distinguish among any of the schools, there is no longer the Group A/B distinction.

And realistically, the AAC didn't have an 80/20 fb/bb split like the P5 in their first contract. They were getting paid similar to what the Big East was getting for basketball alone.

And that is why the renegotiate, but who really believes UConn,s loss will affect that much. Maybe non fans of the AAC.