NBC would have been so much better than ESPN. ESPN is going to destroy the Big East. You thought the bashing was bad before, you haven't seen anything yet. Watch how many times the D team of announcers that is calling UConn/UCF football game on ESPN the Ocho find a way to mention APR or Nate Miles. It will be a litany of how bad the Big East sucks for 3.5 hours of every football game.
UConn is Andy Dufresne and ESPN is both the Warden and the Sisters, all rolled up into one, and we are in for 20+ years of hell.
I know I heard Katz say it wasn't, but the article on ESPN says it extends the football deal starting the contracts expiration.The deal, unfortunately, does include football.
I know I heard Katz say it wasn't, but the article on ESPN says it extends the football deal starting the contracts expiration.
I don't think UConn is in the Big East next year (they will at least announce they are leaving), so it really won't affect them. I am hoping vs hope that they get a Big 10 invite in the near future and use the ACC as a fallback, but I do not have direct knowledge.
Did I say that? Go back and re-read. This time read every word in sequence instead of every other word.They're just going to walk away from the league with no invite and the exit fees they are owed?
Enjoy this season in hoops, because there is no way for UConn to compete at a national level in men's hoops or football with a TV contract like this one. UConn is finished.
Right. good to see someone else gets it.If I hear Gonzaga one more time I'm going to puke. Gonzaga is a huge step down from where we are in BB.
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Totally agree. The big east can't be killed any more than it has. Might as well be bold and try a newjoint venture with the new kid on the block. Your fugged anyways might as well give yourself a chance to carve out your own niche.We really need to see what the "exposure" is in the ESPN proposal. based on what's been released, it doesn't seem like very much. Games on some non-existent cable channel and ESPN3? I have to say given where we are, I'd take a shot with NBC. As an up and coming entity they might well be more willing ot do lots of things. And I don't believe for a second that not being on ESPN kills anything. It all depends on where you are. A midnight braketbuster game on ESPNU isn't worth anything either. From the football standpoint, UConn-Cincinatti being the lead-in for Notre Dame wouldn't be a horrible place to be. Being on NBCSports at 3:30 would be far better than being on ESPN360 at noon, or at 10 AM or some such. And being on the U opposite the NFL on Sunday night or Monday night isn't any great shakes either.
Wouldn't the schools be better off just selling their home games individually and not having the conference sign a deal at all?
WTF are you talking about.....UConn is finished because of a crappy espn deal? Are kids going to stop coming to UConn to play BB and FB.....so we have to work a little harder until situation improves. It sucks the BE imploded, so we dominate #*king league and when the smoke clears we'll still be standing. Let's give it some time before we hit the eject button. CR will continue to wreak havoc and we'll get an invite....until then screw it and play ball.
Probably, can Ward put something like that together?Wouldn't the schools be better off just selling their home games individually and not having the conference sign a deal at all?
Who gets to vote on this deal? Herbst should be burning up the phone lines today. Cinci, USF and UConn should vote against. Is this actually an improvements for the newbs?
I asked McMurphy to confirm that we are still lobbying and he told me yes "behind the scenes"Some league members, most notably UConn and Cincinnati, continue to lobby to join other leagues.
For us? I think we could do better with a deal with SNY based upon what they paid for woman's basketball. For Cinci, and or USF? I don't know, but the NBC number was so low, I would be surprised if someone else couldn't beat it.Why should they vote against it? It's the best deal that's out there for them.
Why should they vote against it? It's the best deal that's out there for them.
Walk away to what? This is what it is and we move on. In NBE until we are not.Someone pointed out earlier that NBC had no incentive to bid up because ESPN could just take the bid, because ESPN has right of first refusal for the conference. There is no GOR. If the schools want to sell their games individually, why not? Syndicate the games out. That contract prices the TV rights for a UConn basketball game at roughly $40k and a football game at about $200k. Are you telling me that we can't do better than that? We do better than $40k a game for the women's Tier 3. Are you telling me that UCF can't do better than that?
All the conference would be is a scheduling alliance, it would negotiate for bowls, and it would hold a conference basketball tournament, which it could sell the rights too.. It would have no other business activities.
The Big East should simply walk away from this deal. If it costs us Houston and SMU, so be it. It's not like they brought a whole bunch of value with them from CUSA.