whaler11
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I didn't know there was a right of first refusal. I don't recall your post pointing that out, but I would welcome a link if you have one. I don't remember ever seeing any positive ideas from you, probably because there have never been any.
I think UConn athletics is in its final years as a national program. I think the school and the league are going to pray for a miracle from ESPN, and when the next contract looks like this one, the Board of Trustees is going to pull the plug, slashing costs until we look like a MAC program. Ollie will take the next NBA job, Geno will retire, and we will be lucky to be UMass by the time it is done.
That is what I think will happen, because have not seen anything from anybody that indicates innovative thinking in growing revenues.
The ability of ESPN to match, in theory should have increased NBC's bid. You missed the obvious - NBC doesn't spend money on anything but the Olympics and the NFL and they admit publicly that they use the NFL as a loss-leader.
Nothing you have proposed generates enough money to change that outcome if you believe it.
Maybe you can squeeze a few million more out - so the subsidy is 25 or 26 instead of 28 or 29.
What difference does that make?
UConn turning into UMass? You are the one floating the plan that would have UConn/Buffalo/Army and UMass in the same football division. What would turn UConn into UMass faster than playing that disgusting division every year in football?
We got it - you want UConn to drop football and join the Big East - you are giving up. I don't know why you don't just come out and say that.
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