(07-05-2019 11:03 AM)TheBasketBallOpinion Wrote:  You think the AAAC will be able to renegotiate the length of the contract? 12yrs is absurd.

Just to be clear.

Travel costs aren't going down that much for UConn having to go to Chicago, Omaha, Milwaukee isn't exactly down the street and the AAC has unbalanced schedule in both football and basketball so they aren't travelling country wide (big east women's lacrosse anyone? Denver is way west of Tulsa, Wichita, and Dallas)

This has been debunked so many times. The MAC and CUSA are not going 1.5m in debt to produce Plus content (they get paid 500k). The quotes use old numbers that weren't accurate then and have come down as technology has advanced.

The paywall exists to see FS1 games which is why they get under 100k viewership. Plus is growing and will be the ESPN of streaming.

In the Big East they get 5 women's games and no other 3rd tier rights, for less money.

The 2030s is true and biggest knock on the deal although many conference sign similar length contracts, like I don't know, the Big East? How long was that deal again?


Finally the total propaganda.



This move is about old donors nostalgic view of the Big East and the AAC.

Big East is Syracuse, BC, Pitt and MSG (but really is Butler, Xavier, Marquette, and Creighton)

AAC is CUSA 7.0 (really it's a tweeter in football and a power in basketball despite Memphis and UConn being down).


It means the death of their football program and a permanent ceiling to their basketball programs, there just isn't a lot of growth for small private catholic schools in today's college sports world or a conference dominated by them. With the penalties and long term length of the new deal with the Big East UConn is locked in so there really isn't anything left except the crying.

Sometime in 2021 the old donors will realize this isn't their Big East and the young alumni will see the writing on the wall about what UConn can achieve. By 2023 it will be obvious to even the most die hard Huskies that the older generation of alumni and the exiting administration shanked the kick bad.