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damn kinda sucks but if its only $5 guess its okay. i wonder how many UC games will be on that thing.
 
Hurleyman216 said:
Right, the difference between you and me is I actually know people who are involved with and have knowledge of the negotiations that happened while you literally have nothing. Keep freaking out because we'll get buried on ESPN+. Come back to me in 5 years when ESPN+ has more subscribers than cable and then we can have this conversation again. Until then, stop your b*tching.
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Hurleyman216 said:
This is what all the dinosaurs on this board don't get. 5 years from now there will likely be more people watching content "streaming" than subscribing to cable. This deal gives ESPN the flexibility short-term to put the content they want on their networks. If our teams are good we'll get plenty of exposure, if we suck we won't. I don't think people realize how many people these days WON'T pay $100/month or more for a cable subscription (especially the younger generation). People under 35 or 40 are more likely to shell out $60/year to watch their favorite teams than spend $1500/year on cable. If anything this will increase viewership over time. Cable is dying folks, I know some of you guys refuse to believe it, but it's gonna happen sooner than you think.
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You could not be more right and more wrong at the same time.

The future of sports, and TV in general, is through streaming and customer-curated packages. For cable companies to survive, they will have to start offering the ability to selectively choose which stations you want and pay accordingly based on what you select - along with the option to stream those channels through your various devices.

That's where ESPN will thrive - NOT ESPN+. ESPN will be the service that the customer selects and streams, accompanied by ESPN2. ESPN+ is and will continue to be an add-on streaming platform that the vast majority of regular sports consumers will not consider a necessity. They will be able to pay for and stream their main ESPN content to their devices in-home and mobile.

There's virtually no one who is going to or already has cancelled their ESPN in favor of ESPN+. ESPN+ is at best a tertiary option for the consumer. And that's where this deal falls woefully short - the average sports consumer will not add it to their streaming services and AAC teams will not get the same level of exposure as those on ESPN/ESPN2.
 
Hurleyman216 said:
Right, the difference between you and me is I actually know people who are involved with and have knowledge of the negotiations that happened while you literally have nothing. Keep freaking out because we'll get buried on ESPN+. Come back to me in 5 years when ESPN+ has more subscribers than cable and then we can have this conversation again. Until then, stop your b*tching.
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LOL - ok chief.

Was Andre Drummond your source and the games all start at 11:11 on ESPN+?

The more ESPN+ subs than ESPN is going to age about as well as your ten million dollar guarantee.

Amazon - lol.

Does this mean the Memphis FOIA leaks weren’t fake? Remember I don’t know how that works...
 
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Hurleyman216 said:
Because right now people don't think, hey I want to watch a basketball game, let me flip on Amazon Prime and see what's on... ESPN is still the king for sports.
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There is no chance Aresco took less $ to be on ESPN+ rather than the king of the world - Amazon. I don't care who your contacts are.
 
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The reality is on every level that this should be the last year of either most UConn sports in the AAC or football as a program.

That’s your options. Hang around for another 3 years, you’re dead. Which is it?
 
Towney007 said:
The reality is on every level that this should be the last year of either most UConn sports in the AAC or football as a program.

That’s your options. Hang around for another 3 years, you’re dead. Which is it?
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Next realignment is in 3 years. The fate of the football program lies with what happens in 2022-2023
 
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djct1999 said:
God, remember when it was fun to be a UConn fan?
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Don't get me wrong the 2014 title was absolutely incredible and unexpected, but I think most fans had to be thinking in the back of their heads, "this might be the end of the road?"
 
I think the biggest problem is the casual viewer that still likes walking into a sports bar anywhere in the country and seeing UConn on a TV, there is a familiarity with the program that still says; Hey UConn is on I will watch this. That is over now with this for any games on a damn streaming service. 12 years?
 
Can any of the UConn games that are slated for ESPN+ be sold to SNY and broadcasted locally while nationally, they’re on +?
 
August_West said:
Should I start preparing you now for the disappointment?
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It’s unreal.

Like the world will be chomping at the bit to add a university athletic program that has all its games on the same platform as the SWAC and is just waiting patiently for us to decide what to do with our football program. And that by then, we’ll have any kind of leverage even if they did.

There’s no more time. You’re out of runway.
 
whaler11 said:
It’s either the AAC or a football-less Big East.

Up next is the actual P5 squeezing the weaklings.
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There are no good decisions or anything close to an ideal outcome but I honestly don't think it's that difficult a decision now that we know what we're left with.

We aren't getting a seat at the table and football is dead, letting football kill the basketball program simply can't happen.
 
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whaler11 said:
are you CL82’s son?
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Lol, man you are obsessed with me. I haunt your dreams don't I Whaler?

The deal isn't great. The devil is in the details. If we are keeping the majority of current ESPN games on ESPN cable channels than it is less bad. If they are just picking up tier 3 and dumping it on + that might not be a bad deal for the bulk of the conference. It is for us because our tier 3 content has value. If we lose our SNY games for + we are getting royally screwed. If they are predominantly using stuff that isn't broadcast now... it is a less bad deal.

The money is still the money. It isn't great. Not much more can be said until we have more details. The term is definitely a nut sack kick.
 
superjohn said:
There are no good decisions or anything close to an ideal outcome but I honestly don't think it's that difficult a decision now that we know what we're left with.

We aren't getting a seat at the table and football is dead, letting football kill the basketball program simply can't happen.
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I think they have a little time if they don’t go bankrupt based on how Hurley has recruited.

They still gotta find a way to close the gap because now they can’t point to this as any kind of fix.

And good lord are the casuals gonna be PISSED. Chief is gonna be schooling them round the clock.
 
ct06111 said:
Can any of the UConn games that are slated for ESPN+ be sold to SNY and broadcasted locally while nationally, they’re on +?
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Contractually they probably could but it defeats the purpose of paying the league to go to + so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
 
whaler11 said:
I think they have a little time if they don’t go bankrupt based on how Hurley has recruited.

They still gotta find a way to close the gap because now they can’t point to this as any kind of fix.

And good lord are the casuals gonna be PISSED. Chief is gonna be schooling them round the clock.
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In three years, if they’re not in he Big East he’ll be the coach at Penn State or some craziness. They’re just not gonna compete w: recruiting having exposure like that.
 
Hurleyman216 said:
After figuring in the Tier 3 rights and revenues from bowls and the NCAA Tournament the number is going to be a lot closer to $10M than it is to the $4M that you initially predicted. For the record, I actually do have quite a few ties to these media companies and Aresco did use other non-cable media companies to actually sweeten this deal much more than it would have been. At the end of the day it was a trade off between giving the AAC exposure so that it can continue to grow and what the final payout was. They could have received more $$ per school per year from someone like Amazon as I had discussed. The schools ultimately decided that they valued the exposure they get on ESPN over a few million more per year.
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Im guessing the $'s would be more if the schools signed a GOR.
 
whaler11 said:
I think they have a little time if they don’t go bankrupt based on how Hurley has recruited.

They still gotta find a way to close the gap because now they can’t point to this as any kind of fix.

And good lord are the casuals gonna be PISSED. Chief is gonna be schooling them round the clock.
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And mind you I wanna be optimistic, but we’re outta cards to play and I don’t think we’ve got much of any time left. It’s time to make a call, I think. None of them are great, but again - we’re outta bullets.
 
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