(07-10-2019 08:02 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(07-10-2019 07:56 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(07-10-2019 07:52 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(07-10-2019 07:44 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(07-10-2019 06:59 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Cool and how do you expect to get the same amount of money when you tell ESPN they aren't getting their CCG to fill the noon slot on ESPN during championship weekend? You can't play a CCG with 11 members.

The MAC had a waiver for 2 or 3 years as they had 13 after taking in homeless Temple. The rest of the conferences saw that as charitable work by them and gave them the waiver. They wont give one to the AAC for longer than the MAC got just so they can stand pat and wait for the Big XII to implode. Thats not really a sound plan it's more like hopeful thinking.

The AAC will need that 12th body and ESPN will remind them of that. Just wait until all members are in Rhode Island for the clambake* and you'll see some leaks of looking into a 12th member.

*Really? A southern based conference does it's conference meetings at a clambake in Rhode Island? Uh okay

You can do unbalanced divisions without a waiver. Its just ungainly and results in more teams having an uneven number of conference games (some will have too many or too few--depending on how you decide to deal with the issue). Surprisingly, that imbalance of games is NOT against NCAA rules.

Unless teams play the same team twice ESPN could be losing content. If the 2 teams with only 7 conference games play an extra OOC game then any of those games that happen to be away are one less game ESPN gets under the AAC contract. I highly doubt every one of those open OOC games would always be AAC home games. Whats to keep USF or Temple from using that extra slot to make some extra money in a 1 off pay game in those years they only have 7 conference games?

There is nothing that prevents them from doing that anyway. They could do all pay games for their OOC if they wanted to.

Yes, but those OOC games would be in place of guaranteed conference games. Conference games are guaranteed to be in the contract, OOC games are wild cards and can be on whatever channel the host team has a contract with. If for instance Temple uses that slot as a pay game against a B1G team thats one less game ESPN can air.

Staying at 11 is just a headache for all involved and just makes things messier than they need to be. FB works better with even #'s it just does.

5 games a year per team are all thats guaranteed. Frankly, UConn football home games were probably of fairly limited value. I'd think the ESPN folks would be way less concerned with the missing UConn football games and way more concerned about the loss of the UConn basketball inventory.