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AAC 2nd TV Contract/Negotiations

Exit 4 said:
I dont know who this guy is, but I am encourage this report is coming from someone other than the usual clowns from MN and WV.
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He's a Memphis radio host I believe. Memphis AD has a standing interview on their show every week
 
noeynox said:
Memphis being pleased with the new TV deal would be different than UConn being pleased. We came from different places to get here
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they are going to say they are pleased if it’s half as much as the last
 
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Our future home.....(and fingers crossed we dont end up on ESPN+).

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whaler11 said:
UConn basketball is 7.38 times more prestigious than Navy football.

Why aren’t we negotiating a deal that keeps us from playing Sunday at 6 p.m. on an unrated network during an NFL Conference Championship game?

We have precedent. What are they going to do? Throw us out? Good luck with your non-Navy football, non-UConn basketball negotiations.

It might be time to stop monitoring the situation and start actually impacting it.

The top two things this Mickey Mouse organization is now selling is UConn men’s basketball and UConn women’s basketball. You can put them 1-2 in whichever order like. Time to act as if.
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The amount that UConn is subsidizing the league’s deal is pretty annoying.
 
Fishy said:
They just extended the deal for a decade.

The odds of this conference having a television contract in a decade are 50/50 at best.
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We know know if there is a league... the contract exists!
 
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Look at Alabama. They get racist chicks from New Jersey to go there, these days.
 
Fishy said:
They just extended the deal for a decade.

The odds of this conference having a television contract in a decade are 50/50 at best.
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What about in 12 years :p
 
Drew said:
What about in 12 years :p
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Right now, they have a contract.

I think every conference not named the Big Ten, ACC or PAC12 should not make a lot of concrete plans past 2023-25.

I still think we're going to lose a current conference in there.
 
Fishy said:
Right now, they have a contract.

I think every conference not named the Big Ten, ACC or PAC12 should not make a lot of concrete plans past 2023-25.

I still think we're going to lose a current conference in there.
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Very much agree. And honestly PAC may be reconstructed in some form as well moving forward
 
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Soooo...UConn triples the media payout under the new contract from $2.16 million to $6.94 million...

And does not have to sign a GOR. All good things.

UConn received $8.088 million in 2016-17 from the conference with that sum including payments from the exit fees of the ACC defectors.

In effect, the new monies helps shield UConn from the loss of those exit fee payments and may result in a small total increase after that loss.

Do I have that right?
 
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At this point, I am hoping that ABC bundles ESPN+ and the pending ABC streaming service into a single package to save some money and time versus two seperate services. It's a forgone conclusion that subscription service is the direction that nearly everyone is going to.
 
Fishy said:
Right now, they have a contract.

I think every conference not named the Big Ten, ACC or PAC12 should not make a lot of concrete plans past 2023-25.

I still think we're going to lose a current conference in there.
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I would swap the SEC for the PAC in this scenario.

I believe the PAC could be in trouble if/when a next round of CR occurs. I've thought all along that the B1G would be interested in adding the 4 California schools when the time comes. They all fit academically (aside from the recent mess at USC) and, in addition to football and hoops, they provide a lot of Olympic sports programming for the B1G Network.

Do you think they are safe because of the geography?
 
I think there will be too much instability in the cable/streaming media streaming market place to allow any changes ....unless new schools accept a junior level of revenue as part of the deal for a sustained period of time.
 
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The annual money is disappointing. It's a similar feeling to going through a year-end comp review and your boss rates your year's performance very highly...then tells you that you are only getting a $500/yr raise. It's essentially what the new deal feels like. I thought each school would net $8M-$10M/yr. But no GOR is nice - or maybe not so nice depending on if this conference loses UCF/Houston/Memphis/Cincinnati (or another school with competitive football).

I haven't come across anything about whether or not the exit fees/conditions stay in tact or if they've been revised. If all things remained the same, the new deal guarantees that we will never leave the AAC unless it's to go P5. Just to have that conference certainty will help UConn move forward and rebuild competitive programs. I hope.
 
I thought you folks might like these comments from The Sporting News:

"That breaks down [to] $6.94 million per year per AAC school, a jump of more than $5 million per year per school. By comparison, according to the San Jose Mercury News, the Pac-12 Networks, the Power 5 conference's own media home, paid out less than $3 million to each member school in 2018. Suffice it to say now, that's un-American. Yes, Pac-12, your idea of competing with the Big Ten and SEC networks now has you sliding behind a Group of Six conference."

ESPN just dropped $1 billion for the AAC media rights | Sporting News
 
atom58 said:
I thought you folks might like these comments from The Sporting News:

"That breaks down [to] $6.94 million per year per AAC school, a jump of more than $5 million per year per school. By comparison, according to the San Jose Mercury News, the Pac-12 Networks, the Power 5 conference's own media home, paid out less than $3 million to each member school in 2018. Suffice it to say now, that's un-American. Yes, Pac-12, your idea of competing with the Big Ten and SEC networks now has you sliding behind a Group of Six conference."

ESPN just dropped $1 billion for the AAC media rights | Sporting News
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Feel good post of the year.
 
Dooley said:
The annual money is disappointing. It's a similar feeling to going through a year-end comp review and your boss rates your year's performance very highly...then tells you that you are only getting a $500/yr raise. It's essentially what the new deal feels like. I thought each school would net $8M-$10M/yr. But no GOR is nice - or maybe not so nice depending on if this conference loses UCF/Houston/Memphis/Cincinnati (or another school with competitive football).

I haven't come across anything about whether or not the exit fees/conditions stay in tact or if they've been revised. If all things remained the same, the new deal guarantees that we will never leave the AAC unless it's to go P5. Just to have that conference certainty will help UConn move forward and rebuild competitive programs. I hope.
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If you thought the money was going to be be higher than this, you really, really, really, really, really were not paying enough attention. It's much better than I thought it would be.

The deal has no impact on whether we leave or not because there's 0.00000% chance we're leaving for anything other than a P5 deal. If anyone thinks the Big East is an option, they really, really, really, really, really, really are not paying enough attention.
 
Fishy said:
If you thought the money was going to be be higher than this, you really, really, really, really, really were not paying enough attention. It's much better than I thought it would be.

The deal has no impact on whether we leave or not because there's 0.00000% chance we're leaving for anything other than a P5 deal. If anyone thinks the Big East is an option, they really, really, really, really, really, really are not paying enough attention.
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Yeah, I thought it would be higher but not that much higher. I was thinking somewhere between the $8M-$10M/yr range; realistic floor expectation on the low end and the hopeful higher ceiling at the top end. I thought the conference footprint was big enough and had swallowed enough bigger markets to warrant slightly more money that what it got. But while the number is fairly disappointing for UConn, it's big money for everyone else other than Cincinnati, so I understand the ultimate landing point. I like the fact that there is no GOR; at least until the rumors start swirling about the Big 12 again.

I don't think the Big East is, was, or ever will be a viable option for UConn. The best thing about this new deal is that we will never have to debate it ever again...but I'm sure we will. Head bang
 
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