(12-06-2017 04:42 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I said TV money (which is true). Yes, there are other conference distributions for football as you've noted, but there are also the Big East's own NCAA Tournament distributions that are very high and only split among 10 schools. Regardless, the Big East is earning that all of that revenue without the expense of FBS football. The gap on the profit/loss and ROI is even wider.

Big East does not share tournament money equally. More eat what you kill. See:

http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/...ney-makers

UConn would need to get a lot stronger before moving if it expected an average share of Big East hoops tourney revenue from the get go.

And if UConn got a lot stronger in the American, then that's less reason to leave the American.

Regardless, UConn got $10M from the American last year, in part due to exit fees. Big East schools averaged school less than $7M from that conference last year. The next American TV deal will be the tale of the tape. Your whole premise is flawed.

This is not rocket science. UConn lost it's John Wooden. They are now dealing with their (slightly better) version of Larry Farmer - a former player who had early success and now is struggling.

Their basketball issues are 100% coaching.