(06-29-2019 11:32 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-29-2019 07:48 AM)Bull Wrote:  

(06-28-2019 02:18 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yes, the UConn move just highlights the poor job Aresco did with the new TV deal.

Mediocre money for way too long.

But you are the guy who said for years that 1.8M was our 'true value'... because thats what the market was paying us.

Now 7M and we are undervalued since Aresco made a bad deal??

You don't seem to understand that value changes over time?

Aresco claimed he would get "P5 ballpark" money just last year. Even you have to admit he didn't.

This deal provides no new money for USF. We are treading water.

I would agree that Aresco did not get "near P5" money. Of course---I never thought he would and said so. In fact, he got exactly what I thought he'd get. It was silly to set up that expectation. He'd have been better off saying something to the effect that he wanted the deal to recognize the value of the AAC was moving toward the values of the P5. He was never going to get a P5 level deal. The numbers simply didnt justify it.

The deal doesnt provide new money for USF---but its by far the most USF has ever received for media rights. Lets be honest----It doesnt provide "new" money becasue USF was getting artificially inflated conference payout fueled by an outsized percentage of exit fees and left behind NCAA credits. But staying at least level or better in tis deal was actually the plan all along.

Go back and read the message boards in early 2013. The plan was for the realignment fund to supplement the legacy Big East team's revenue stream until a better media deal could be signed. Many at the time thought that might not happen. I mean---to match the revenue fromt eh realignment fund, the new deal would have to quadruple. Plenty of folks were doubters that the new deal would be a 4X increase. The AAC performed well and allowed what many thought was an overly optimistic survival plan to function as hoped.

As for the money changing--actually it does. As has been discussed---the deal wont really pay 7 million a team in year one and it will actually pay well over 7 million a team by year 12. It will probably start out in the 5.5 million range and cap off at around 8.5 million per team. On average---its 7 million---but USF will actually see a rising media revenue stream every year. This may also be why UConn doesnt believe there was a huge difference in money. If the Big East deal is a 4 million dollar per team 12 yr deal---then the same thing should be true of it. It probably starts at around 3 per year and ends at 5. Since its entering year 7---it should be entering the period when it exceeds 4 million a year. So, in year one---the difference is say 4.2 million in the BE vs 5.5 in the AAC. Of course, that doesnt include exit fees, entry fees, and the partial payouts newbee schools get---but thats a whole different conversation.