AAC Media Contract

[Slasher]

It's confusing on the football side. Does that mean the other half of the football games are being bought by someone else? ie CBS sports?

The article is not very well written.

 

[don356]

CBS is a separate contract, but the value has to be tiny, they only do a handful of games a year.

Not in football. They did most of them.

 

[Towney007]

@Towney007 You were right.

Everything about this conference is pathetic, get creative and get the hell out of this mess.

I should have followed my advice and expected the worst, it's always somehow worse.

No pun intended - i'm not spiking the football, here. This sucks for everyone.

There's not even a point in hanging on at this point right now. They gotta get out while they can.

 

[whaler11]

Not in football. They did most of them.

There is no contract with CBS for the AAC other than the handful of basketball games on OTA - it’s like 6.

The stuff on CBSSN is sublet by ESPN and will now disappear.

 

[ThabeetDown]

Ya'll complaining about ESPN+ need to relax. Yes, it's $5/mo, so have one less Starbucks for the month. The amount of games you get on there is well worth it (many college sports, Serie A soccer, etc.). If you want to complain about the years/amount of cash, go for it, but ESPN+ should not be something to cry over.

 

[superjohn]

No pun intended - i'm not spiking the football, here. This sucks for everyone.

There's not even a point in hanging on at this point right now. They gotta get out while they can.

It's somehow made even more pathetic that the commissioner was going around bragging about this.

 

[aburks41]

Ya'll complaining about ESPN+ need to relax. Yes, it's $5/mo, so have one less Starbucks for the month. The amount of games you get on there is well worth it (many college sports, Serie A soccer, etc.). If you want to complain about the years/amount of cash, go for it, but ESPN+ should not be something to cry over.

It's not about how we watch, this matters mostly in recruiting. Why would a recruit want to get buried on ESPN+ playing at UConn when they can go to some shhithole like Cuse and play 99% of their games on ESPN or ESPN2? Kids care about exposure

 

[polycom]

There has to be more to this story this makes little sense, what is there to brag about? That we can keep our rights? Cool?

 

[8893]

Ya'll complaining about ESPN+ need to relax. Yes, it's $5/mo, so have one less Starbucks for the month. The amount of games you get on there is well worth it (many college sports, Serie A soccer, etc.). If you want to complain about the years/amount of cash, go for it, but ESPN+ should not be something to cry over.

It's about exposure, not the $5/mo for us fans.

 

[Slasher]

It's not about how we watch, this matters mostly in recruiting. Why would a recruit want to get buried on ESPN+ playing at UConn when they can go to some shhithole like Cuse and play 99% of their games on ESPN or ESPN2? Kids care about exposure

A lot of those games are now going to be on the ACC network. How widespread will the distribution be? Who knows.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

So, the $7M is just from the TV deal and excludes the bowl games, NCAA tourney credits, etc.?

I recall in the other thread, we were anticipating the $7M to have included all of that.

My biggest gripe, aside from everything being relegated to ESPN+, is the length of the deal. How could they possibly agree to punting a ton of their content on a service we have no idea will even be relevant?

 

[calluke]

Ya'll complaining about ESPN+ need to relax. Yes, it's $5/mo, so have one less Starbucks for the month. The amount of games you get on there is well worth it (many college sports, Serie A soccer, etc.). If you want to complain about the years/amount of cash, go for it, but ESPN+ should not be something to cry over.

For the rabid fan, it's no big deal. But it will be hard to grow the fanbase and more importantly recruit being shown on an app that most of America won't have.

 

[superjohn]

It's not about how we watch, this matters mostly in recruiting. Why would a recruit want to get buried on ESPN+ playing at UConn when they can go to some shhithole like Cuse and play 99% of their games on ESPN or ESPN2? Kids care about exposure

How do people not get this?

 

[Towney007]

It's somehow made even more pathetic that the commissioner was going around bragging about this.

Well DC on the football team just left just like that, so... get off the ship while you can.

 

[polycom]

A lot of those games are now going to be on the ACC network. How widespread will the distribution be? Who knows.

The games that matter will be on ESPN & ESPN2, it's the same thing for the SEC network the games that matter are on regular ESPN.

 

[ThabeetDown]

It's not about how we watch, this matters mostly in recruiting. Why would a recruit want to get buried on ESPN+ playing at UConn when they can go to some shhithole like Cuse and play 99% of their games on ESPN or ESPN2? Kids care about exposure

You think playing on CBSSN is much better? Besides, the big games will still be on ESPN/ESPN2/CBS. Who cares if playing UMKC is on ESPN+? We're not gonna land a recruit because UMKC is on ESPN+? Ok.

 

[Candyman]

Being on ESPN+ is horrible for any program regardless what some of you think. That's like being sent to the JV version of ESPN. I already see posts on Twitter of other fans laughing at us.

 

[Slasher]

So, the $7M is just from the TV deal and excludes the bowl games, NCAA tourney credits, etc.?

I recall in the other thread, we were anticipating the $7M to have included all of that.

My biggest gripe, aside from everything being relegated to ESPN+, is the length of the deal. How could they possibly agree to punting a ton of their content on a service we have no idea will even be relevant?

Yes, all of that is on top of.

7M media deal
1-2M NCAA tourney
1-2M Bowls
4M apparel contract (i don't remember the exact #)

Then obviously all the self-generated revenue stuff, tickets, merch, etc.

 

[MattMang23]

I have espn+. It is great and I have no problem with our games being on it. Traditional cable is dying...but I was hoping for at least 10 million per school since this deal will probably look very cheap after the first few years.

After the first few years?

 

[aburks41]

How do people not get this?

Idk, but I really cannot see UConn or Cincy being put on ESPN+. We draw too many eyes (which actually may be a reason to put us on ESPN+ lol) but ESPN knows Hurley is a big name and will want to keep him on cable TV, even if that means were on ESPNU a bunch

 

[Towney007]

"We play on the same channel as ECAC hockey, come check us out!"

 

[calluke]

I really hate that we went with ESPN. Wish we could have went a little outside the box and tried to attract a big contract from Twitter, Youtube, or Amazon who might have wanted to dive into college sports.

 

[polycom]

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[ThabeetDown]

It's about exposure, not the $5/mo for us fans.

For the rabid fan, it's no big deal. But it will be hard to grow the fanbase and more importantly recruit being shown on an app that most of America won't have.

Again, the big games will not be on ESPN+. Who cares if a bad game like Tulane or ECU is? If a recruit isn't coming because the Tulane or ECU game is on ESPN+ we have much, much bigger problems.

 

[Madmannsucks]

CBS is a separate contract, but the value has to be tiny, they only do a handful of games a year.

Previous years ESPN peddled the games to CBS sports. I am fairly certain I remember reading that.