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Message: [QUOTE="hardcorehusky, post: 2953340, member: 593"] Why we need football to succeed: 1. Football drives 80% of the revenue in college sports. 2. Schools in the Big 5 conferences get paid anywhere between $24 million -$52 million a year(Pac 12 and ACC up to Big Ten) from their conference based on reports 3. The AAC contract was put together as the conference was being created- meaning the worst time possible. 4. UCF, Memphis, Houston, etc have had great years in football and now the eyeballs are starting to turn to AAC games.(Great for negotiations) 5. The next contract has the ability to dwarf this one- but even at $10M a school is dwarfed by other conferences(See # 2). 6. UCONN needs to get its act together in football and basketball because there are additional Tier 3 rights(SNY, radio) that are above the conference figures and are a source of much needed revenue. Also, if there is a realignment- being good helps perception but that is it. 7. The Big East got a great contract from Fox but I am not sure that will happen again(look at ratings) 8. Google, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube will all be in the game while ESPN and Fox look to keep them out.(competition raises contracts). 9. UCONN football made money until Randy left the first time. Attendance alone was close to $40K and with seat donations- the school was taking in about we are missing(not losing) about $900,000 a home game from empty seats. 10. The Big Ten took Rutgers due the school being contiguous to Pennsylvania, the number of tv sets that could get the Big Ten Network and most importantly- Rutgers being part of the AAU which all the Big Ten schools save Nebraska(which lost its certification) are part of. If sports winning has anything to do with that equation, Rutgers would be where they were(and probably in the AAC). UCONN is not AAU certified and even if everything went right budget wise for the next 5 years- probably couldn't get it for another 10 years at the earliest(it is a process that needed to be started 20 years sooner(just like football D 1-A). 11. Conference realignment additions are driven by TV for the most part. Fox and ESPN directed the Big 12 to stay put. Espn told the ACC to expand. Don't get me going on what happened internally 2 x there. Bottom line- football drives the academic bus. UCONN gets paid the same from the conference tight now regardless of record. [/QUOTE]

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