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Boneyard kickstarter fund to buy out Diaco?

I'll renew them. Not because of any kind of faith in Diaco or the leadership program, but as donation for the future.

When it comes to small dollar donations like ours, it's less about the dollar amount than it is the total donor amount. To be able to say we have 50,000 small donors annually is just as important as saying we raise x million of dollars total. A large small donor base shows a passionate fan...

I understand your frustration, but to your point why are we penalizing the rest of our sports for the on field actions of our revenue sports? I have no problem donating $110 to the general health of the athletic department so it ensures that our Field Hockey team can continue to win national...

Awesome! Thanks, Dogged1! Let's go Huskies!

I apologize in advance for this rant. Beginning last year around this time I decided that I was going to donate $100 to the athletics program annually, increasing that amount by 10% every subsequent year, so today I made a donation of $110 to the UConn Club 2016-17 Pledge Year. The donation...

Cuse game isn't potential - it's 12/5 at MSG ;) But yeah, gonna be a lot of tests early on.

This is probably ridiculous, but maybe Benedict is thinking of approaching ESPN with non-broadcast related partnership opportunities with ESPN? For example, maybe UConn and ESPN could enter into some kind of agreement, facilitated by the state that allows ESPN to build new broadcast facilities...

Signed them over to the AAC. Every AAC team did. Was an effort to make the conference TV package more appealing to networks. UConn was royally screwed by it due to how low the TV deal eventually was signed for, but other schools like ECU whose T3 rights are probably worth $5 at best made out...

I like Jeff Jacobs, but @whaler11 is right that this was a piece extremely light on substance and heavy on rhetoric. At the end of the day there is probably next to nothing CT can do to push ESPN here. If they threaten to end tax breaks or penalize them in any way, there is a huge ESPN...

Basically Bowlsby is reading the headlines and is backpedaling out of this deal. That said, it would be the most Big 12 thing ever if this deal wasn't actually done, non-TX and OK schools saw this # being floated and decided to bring expansion back to the table.

Wow that is not hyperbole.

I say yes just to spite Memphis.

Guys you can take all the national titles; all of the bowl wins; the all-Americans; the NFL, NBA, MLB draft picks; all the primetime ESPN/ESPN2 games. Take all of it and shove it cause nothing, absolutely nothing, means a damn thing unless... You have a 30 minute show about your football...

So you've gone from making idiotic arguments to, "It sucks to be you guys?" LOL F off dude.

Boom.

For the last time, nobody watches UConn football on NESN because they have a TV deal with the ACC. If you're asking why UConn doesn't have it's own 30 minute public access special on NESN, it's because the school probably sees the 10 million more TV sets it gets with SNY as a better investment...

Kind of like how UConn has individual shows on SNY? Congrats on your 30 minute "Inside BC Football" program on NESN every Tuesday night at 6:30. You've truly cornered the market on BC fans who have gotten home from work and have the channel on while preparing dinner before the Bruins game. Go...

I mean, by that logic you should take it personal every time your heating bill goes up in the winter because your local oil distributor lives in your community.

Umm, contracts? NESN has a broadcast agreement with the ACC. They show BC games, but also show other ACC teams every weekend too.

I don't think anyone has ever argued that ESPN has done nothing to hurt UConn. I think people have made the argument that ESPN has nothing personal against UConn, which I don't think they do. It's just business. ESPN has no reason to let us get into a P5 conference when they can make money hand...

You're memory is better than you give yourself credit for. Basically Marinatto screwed us with the TV deal that Aresco inherited. It said that ESPN had the right to match any outside bid. NBCSN gave us a lowball bid, ESPN matched it and here we are.

Not in the literal sense, but in the broader sense that ESPN is a network that needs content. They have their choice in which content they choose to show on their flagship network. They choose to show UConn games consistently at a higher rate than Wake Forest, Boston College, Rutgers...

Thanks for explaining how contracts work. When one school's games out of a conference are optioned to be broadcast on the flagship stations of a network 85% of the time, it's clear that school brings value above and beyond that of their conference peers. That combined with 30+ years of evidence...

This argument doesn't hold water when the majority of AAC basketball games shown on ESPN or ESPN2 feature some combination of UConn. @Fishy is right on the money here. Here are the 2015-16 AAC conference games on ESPN or ESPN2. Notice a pattern? Temple at Cincinnati, ESPN2 SMU at Tulsa, ESPN2...

Holy Crap why would you distribute this in writing? This is crisis management 101, no paper trail. Talk about amateur hour. What an absolute clown show.

Sorry, I phrased that incorrectly/poorly. What I meant was state funding. Over the last half decade the state has pumped more and more money into UConn to eliminate the deficits it's running, which in turn has made it possible to increase student fees to the level of our current athletic...

I got a history of Tim Brando not knowing what the hell he's talking about in terms of CR to fall back on, but in terms of P5 optimism, not much. Our best path to the P5 in the near future (near being anywhere between 5-10 years) lays in a combination of: 1) Continuing to improve academically...

To be fair, the ACC posts were prior to their network being announced when there were audible grumblings out of Georgia Tech, FSU and some others that the GOR they had signed was worthless without the network. Prior to the network announcement, I think it was fair to question the longterm...

Georgia Tech also left the SEC over a pseudo academic issue back in the 60s, basically the school only let them have half as many scholarships as the rest of their conference mates had. Unfortunately, I don't ever see an issue like that happening again. Aside from the fact that athletics are...

Tim Brando is a great X's and O's football guy, but if you tie your P5 hopes to what he's saying you're in for a major disappointment.

To be fair I know shizzle is a die hard UConn fan. Just can't resist pointing out the absurdity. I have a disease.

Strong pass.

They are eligible but not guaranteed that's the difference. A 12-1 American team is guaranteed a NY6 spot as long as they end ranked higher than every other G5 program including BYU. The G5 are guaranteed a spot through their conference contracts, so BYU would need to secure an at-large bid...