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sdhusky said:That's a bold claim.
I see what you did there.
sdhusky said:That's a bold claim.
I did a little research. It appears Nelson isn't even human. He is actually an Internet Bot developed by a group of grad students at the California Institute of Technology to increase data traffic. His posts employ sophisticated chaos-based algorithms that generate targeted, repetitive behavioral responses from its unknowing victims.
Watch the "Good Wife" eh?
this sight is so much better with Nelson ignored. forgot how annoying, stupid, and just plain pathetic his viewpoints were until I stumbled onto this thread.
if you say 'day', he'll go out of his way to prove it's night, even if it makes no sense. And he'll never stop. He will always take the most annoying, least popular position, and keep throwing it in your face like a little girl looking for some attention.
take my advice, set her to ignore and she goes away.
Ignore button finally deployed. You are f uckin insufferable.Awesome MAC crowd at the football game yesterday.
The conference decisions for UConn have been fail on top of fail.
The basketball league is a train wreck. When we trade Louisville and Rutgers for ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane, it will become really bad. Temple will probably be better next year, and Memphis is solid, but Cincinnati is probably not getting better, and SMU has a 73 year old coach. The rest of the league sucks.
UMass and Buffalo should have been added instead of Tulsa and Tulane.
The TV negotiations were a complete failure. There was a Right of First Refusal, and the league pretended there was no problem right up to getting the lowball NBC offer. There will probably never be a better market to sell TV rights than last year, and now the American is locked into a long term disastrous deal with a network, ESPN, that wants the league to disappear. The league actually had some things going for it on the football side, but that was all wasted.
No one likes to hear this, but no part of our current situation is remotely sustainable. It will not be long before those at the state and on the BOT start asking why we are pouring millions into an athletic program that has no viable path to recouping any of the investment. The school has to do something, anything.
I think the league has to go back to ESPN and tell them they need to do better. Companies do it all the time in the real world, and it would not be unreasonable for the AAC to go back and tell ESPN that they either need to come up with more cash or the league will start to come apart. Why should the AAC member schools continue to invest in their athletic programs if the major customer, ESPN, is not willing to pay them for it? You can't fight the market. If the league is really only worth $2MM a year, then they need to restructure their athletic departments to be $2MM a year athletic departments.
If we think that the ESPN contract is fair for UConn, then we are not realistic candidates for the Big 10 or ACC and we should re-evaluate all of our athletic spending. If we think we are wildly underpriced (which I do), then what are we doing selling our TV content for $2MM a year? There must be some way (getting more from ESPN for AAC, Independence + BE for hoops, form new league, something) that will generate enough money for UConn to keep us competitive. Doing nothing is guaranteed failure.
ECU needed a block at the buzzer tonight to beat...Mount Olive.
The impressive thing about Nelson's post is he laments the loss of Rutgers basketball. So do 124 people in New Jersey.
Hmmm, interesting. I bet Duke would struggle mightily with Mt. Olive.
The impressive thing about Nelson's post is he laments the loss of Rutgers basketball. So do 124 people in New Jersey.
Which post proved my math wrong? Your explanation will be useless, so just copy the post. Thanks.
1) Big 12 - .6096
2) Big Ten - .5972
3) Big East - .5923
4) Pac 12 - .5735
5) Atlantic 10 - .5561
6) Missouri Valley - .5452
7) ACC - .5444
8) West Coast - .5403
9) American Athletic - .5359
10) SEC - .5337
11) Horizon -.5287
12) MWC - 5211
There was some debate over how big a gap there would be between the AAC and the Big East. Now we have some data that proves definitively that the gap between the two leagues is huge. And imagine how big the gap would be if UConn would in the Big East instead of the AAC.
Awesome MAC crowd at the football game yesterday.
The conference decisions for UConn have been fail on top of fail.
The basketball league is a train wreck. When we trade Louisville and Rutgers for ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane, it will become really bad. Temple will probably be better next year, and Memphis is solid, but Cincinnati is probably not getting better, and SMU has a 73 year old coach. The rest of the league sucks.
UMass and Buffalo should have been added instead of Tulsa and Tulane.
The TV negotiations were a complete failure. There was a Right of First Refusal, and the league pretended there was no problem right up to getting the lowball NBC offer. There will probably never be a better market to sell TV rights than last year, and now the American is locked into a long term disastrous deal with a network, ESPN, that has been incredibly damaging for the remaining BE schools. The league actually had some things going for it on the football side, but that was all wasted.
No one likes to hear this, but no part of our current situation is remotely sustainable. It will not be long before those at the state and on the BOT start asking why we are pouring millions into an athletic program that has no viable path to recouping any of the investment. The school has to do something, anything.
I think the league has to go back to ESPN and tell them they need to do better. Companies do it all the time in the real world, and it would not be unreasonable for the AAC to go back and tell ESPN that they either need to come up with more cash or the league will start to come apart. Why should the AAC member schools continue to invest in their athletic programs if the major customer, ESPN, is not willing to pay them for it? You can't fight the market. If the league is really only worth $2MM a year, then they need to restructure their athletic departments to be $2MM a year athletic departments.
If we think that the ESPN contract is fair for UConn, then we are not realistic candidates for the Big 10 or ACC and we should re-evaluate all of our athletic spending. If we think we are wildly underpriced (which I do), then what are we doing selling our TV content for $2MM a year? There must be some way (getting more from ESPN for AAC, Independence + BE for hoops, form new league, something) that will generate enough money for UConn to keep us competitive. Doing nothing is guaranteed failure.
Awesome MAC crowd at the football game yesterday.
The conference decisions for UConn have been fail on top of fail.
The basketball league is a train wreck. When we trade Louisville and Rutgers for ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane, it will become really bad. Temple will probably be better next year, and Memphis is solid, but Cincinnati is probably not getting better, and SMU has a 73 year old coach. The rest of the league sucks.
UMass and Buffalo should have been added instead of Tulsa and Tulane.
The TV negotiations were a complete failure. There was a Right of First Refusal, and the league pretended there was no problem right up to getting the lowball NBC offer. There will probably never be a better market to sell TV rights than last year, and now the American is locked into a long term disastrous deal with a network, ESPN, that has been incredibly damaging for the remaining BE schools. The league actually had some things going for it on the football side, but that was all wasted.
No one likes to hear this, but no part of our current situation is remotely sustainable. It will not be long before those at the state and on the BOT start asking why we are pouring millions into an athletic program that has no viable path to recouping any of the investment. The school has to do something, anything.
I think the league has to go back to ESPN and tell them they need to do better. Companies do it all the time in the real world, and it would not be unreasonable for the AAC to go back and tell ESPN that they either need to come up with more cash or the league will start to come apart. Why should the AAC member schools continue to invest in their athletic programs if the major customer, ESPN, is not willing to pay them for it? You can't fight the market. If the league is really only worth $2MM a year, then they need to restructure their athletic departments to be $2MM a year athletic departments.
If we think that the ESPN contract is fair for UConn, then we are not realistic candidates for the Big 10 or ACC and we should re-evaluate all of our athletic spending. If we think we are wildly underpriced (which I do), then what are we doing selling our TV content for $2MM a year? There must be some way (getting more from ESPN for AAC, Independence + BE for hoops, form new league, something) that will generate enough money for UConn to keep us competitive. Doing nothing is guaranteed failure.
The real problem is that this conference has some awful teams and will have some even worse ones in the years ahead. Houston is a bad basketball team. Tulsa, Tulane, East Carolina are really bad basketball teams. Rutgers bad. and we'll likely have to play each one at least once and some twice.