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$17m early buyout agreement per Blaud

This should supercharge recruiting for hoops, both men and women. Recruits from the class of 2020 or later will never have to play Tulsa, Tulane or ECU. Or any of the other AAC detritus other than a few one off December games.
 
kobe said:
aresco gonna make you play H&H's with ECU and Tulane #chessnotcheckers
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Maybe, but even if games were vs UC, UConn won't have to pay for production to put those contests in standard definition video or force their fans to pay $4.99/month for a two camera set up, commentated on by two 21 year old communications majors from campus radio, who would rather be at Catskeller than at a Women's basketball game.
 
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Imagine asking for $30m while schools in your conference have to front over $1m/year in production costs for games behind a paywall lmao. Aresco has contracted a case of the big dumb
 
Seems to be a little confusion about what the AAC is withholding. I thought they withheld this year's payment (2018/19 seasons) and are also withholding next year's payment (2019/20 season). When Anthony says "UConn's exit fee will be $17 million, payable in lump sums of $5-plus million each of next two years" it does not mean go into 2020/21. The deal UConn got was a withholding of $10M-$11M the first two years and then a gradual payment of the additional $6M over the following 6 years.

This is a decent deal for UConn. They essentially pay the 27 month exit fee from withholdings and have full BE payments, potential SNY money, additional ticket revenue money and large payday football game money (Clemson, Tennessee and others) to make the $1M payments until 2026
 
Serious question to Uconn FB fans...do you want to play Clemson's and Bama's of the world or would you prefer a more competitive game against a lesser P5 opponent? I assume for financial reasons UConn will pursue any/all P5 opponents but which is preferable?

Also, do P5 teams typically play OOC games in middle/end of season? Isn't really just early in the season as a tune-up? Or is it seen as somewhat of a bye week where the elites can get healthy and make tweaks?
 
kobe said:
aresco gonna make you play H&H's with ECU and Tulane #chessnotcheckers
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ESPN gonna make Aresco and AAC pick the schools. With BE bump we are going to be good again. And while Cinci has the fate you wish on us we will get the pick of the litter! Go Huskies!

And we will get some games on ESPN.
#losthismarbles
 
WhartonHusky said:
Serious question to Uconn FB fans...do you want to play Clemson's and Bama's of the world or would you prefer a more competitive game against a lesser P5 opponent? I assume for financial reasons UConn will pursue any/all P5 opponents but which is preferable?

Also, do P5 teams typically play OOC games in middle/end of season? Isn't really just early in the season as a tune-up? Or is it seen as somewhat of a bye week where the elites can get healthy and make tweaks?
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The first 4 weeks of the season are generally the OOC games for many P5 teams. Although the SEC teams generally have an OOC game in late October or early November as a "break" from their tough schedule. UConn's P5 games would be heavy in the first 4 weeks of the season with other independents and FCS games rounding out the schedule. Getting any P5 game in late October or November would be a bonus. Having BC or Rutgers become an Thanksgiving weekend rival would make scheduling much easier.

You take a couple of Clemson/Bama types for the $$. The best case scenario would be to get mid-teir P5 teams with the budgets to pay.
 
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WhartonHusky said:
Serious question to Uconn FB fans...do you want to play Clemson's and Bama's of the world or would you prefer a more competitive game against a lesser P5 opponent? I assume for financial reasons UConn will pursue any/all P5 opponents but which is preferable?

Also, do P5 teams typically play OOC games in middle/end of season? Isn't really just early in the season as a tune-up? Or is it seen as somewhat of a bye week where the elites can get healthy and make tweaks?
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With where we are as a program I prefer the big matchup. An upset can make an entire season for a program like us.
 
huskymedic said:
Mike Anthony piece:
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This actually sounds promising:

David Benedict now has to devote the bulk of his efforts toward football scheduling and, if what I hear he’s working on actually comes to fruition, schedules beginning even in 2020 could be substantially more interesting than any AAC slate. Expect in the coming years to see home-and-home series with attractive Power Five programs, games with teams of local and national interest from the AAC, SEC and Big Ten.
 
kobe said:
aresco gonna make you play H&H's with ECU and Tulane #chessnotcheckers
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USF for WBB, which Geno had already agreed to with Fernandez, and for MBB Temple, which is a regional game and in our recruiting target area and Memphis, which should be good games. I'm not unhappy about that at all.
 
Aresco/AAC and ESPN are trying to sell a service, they'll want good games. I'll be surprised if those H&H's are against teams that are outside of the projected top4 of the conference.
 
WhartonHusky said:
Serious question to Uconn FB fans...do you want to play Clemson's and Bama's of the world or would you prefer a more competitive game against a lesser P5 opponent? I assume for financial reasons UConn will pursue any/all P5 opponents but which is preferable?

Also, do P5 teams typically play OOC games in middle/end of season? Isn't really just early in the season as a tune-up? Or is it seen as somewhat of a bye week where the elites can get healthy and make tweaks?
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Oh to be a basketball-only. :rolleyes:

"If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you know, you need only ask."
 
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kobe said:
so basically ya'll are gonna be a buy game team for a bunch of big P5 schools? i guess that's fun
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You're gonna miss us come 2021. And if you're still posting here by then, we'll know you're envious.
 
$17M to leave the AAC
$3.5M to join the BE
$20.5M total cost just to switch conferences
 
TJT said:
$17M to leave the AAC
$3.5M to join the BE
$20.5M total cost just to switch conferences
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@$14.M of which gets paid out a distributions and the remainder gets paid over 6 years.
 
TJT said:
$17M to leave the AAC
$3.5M to join the BE
$20.5M total cost just to switch conferences
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When paying the $1M/year from 2021-2026 UConn will be saving $2M/year in travel expenses. That will cover the AAC payment and most of the entry fee.
 
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mrl2016 said:
Seems steep no?
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Yes, absolutely. Wow. Louisville and Rutgers got away easily. They must be po'd at UConn.

What is upsetting about this is that the BE contract that ran out in 2015 contained a provision that lowered exit fees for remaining schools if the previous TV contract was replaced with a lower paying one.

UConn had a much more friendly conference contract just a few years ago.
 
Guapo said:
This is Aresco (not mad) doing the same thing he did with the tv deal.

He gets to say “17 million!” But when you actually break down the numbers...it ain’t there, Mike.
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Do you guys know how to add?

It's $17m!

If you don't believe so, I'd like to borrow some money from you.
 
Somebody may have mentioned this but should we expect the away games played against the AAC to be televised on ESPN +?

Sure ESPN will pull that on us
 
Winning a Big East championship will put $5 million in merchandising alone back into Uconn's bank.
 
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