(09-08-2020 07:19 PM)colohank Wrote:  

(09-08-2020 06:16 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-08-2020 05:12 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-08-2020 09:11 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(09-08-2020 08:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  Wasn't a renegotiation. Their contract expired. I don't know what ESPN's thinking was, but looking at the BE contract and the rest of the G5 contracts, I'm guessing the AAC was paid only slightly more than the rest of the G5 for football, but was paid well for basketball. Their ratings have been good, so now they are getting a significant premium for football over the rest of the G5.

UConn is a huge loss for basketball. You're delusional if you think it doesn't. A few rough seasons doesn't erase 4 national titles. That puts them ahead of Kansas and behind only UCLA, UK, UNC, Duke and Indiana. And football is more about the top half of the conference than the bottom, so it doesn't help losing them in football.

Their football Tv ratings were the worst in the league for many years now Even Tulsa and Tulane did better. . I don’t understand why you are being so obtuse on this issue.

Yes, it sucks for hoops, but in the grand scheme of things ESPN gave this conference a new media deal and there has been no indication there will be a per team pay cut after UConn left.

The simple point is that you are dissing UConn because they decided the Big East was better than the AAC. Basketball was better and they think their football schedule will be better (obviously didn't work too well this year!). If you weren't so hung up on getting left behind, again, you would have understood what I said in the first paragraph. The AAC ratings were good, so they got paid better. Your interpretation claiming I said UConn had great fb ratings makes no sense whatsoever from the words or the context. Learn to read without your prejudices clouding your interpretations.

Yes, before UConn split, AAC fans typically held them up as a major member of the conference. Once they left, now it's "good riddance, they were dragging our football down". It's the butt-hurt of the jilted.

Truth is, despite their football ineptitude, UConn was the biggest brand-name in the AAC. That's just how it was.

Well, then, UConn should absolutely dominate in its new one-trick-pony conference. And it probably will, in women's basketball, until Geno retires. After that, it'll rank right down there with all of the other state flagships in New England.