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Message: [QUOTE="zls44, post: 3085499, member: 32"] [U]For MBB[/U] Realistically, the worst case for MBB is that SNY goes away and all of those games are on ESPN+, we're talking all the early season bodybag games along with a few conference games. Best case is they keep SNY and its just your Tulane, Tulsa, ECU games of the world. Not ideal, but not a death sentence. [U]For football[/U] Its really bad, but the program's a hulking crater anyway. Heck, it could help attendance! Why pay $5 to figure out how to stream a game to your Chromecast when you can get a ticket for $2 in the parking lot. But its going to be bad for them when it kicks in if they keep being this bad. If this contract applied to the coming year, there's an excellent chance UConn would have 10 of their 12 games behind a paywall. Imagine if 83% of MBB games were behind a paywall. [U]For WBB[/U] If WBB loses SNY and is only on ESPN+? Holy freaking shitballs is that gonna be a disaster. I love them to death, but every year I have to explain to the WBB board 100 times how ESPN's very basic and logical broadcast of the first weekend of the WBB tournament works [B]and thats on regular television[/B], there is no shot those folks are figuring out ESPN+. Plus you lose all of the shoulder programming, which they do a phenomenal job with and have won Emmys for. There's every chance this deal hurts WBB more than it hurts MBB or FB. [U]For Everything Else (hockey, soccer, baseball, etc)[/U] This is an outstanding deal and a massive step up. CBSi is an overpriced technical joke. For how far these programs have punched above their weight, now they'll all (ALMOST ALL, THE HOCKEY FAN SAID ANGRILY) have new on-campus facilities and a broadcast component to match. Well done. Jim Penders should be the happiest man on campus. [U]A Word On SNY[/U] The SNY folks don't get enough credit- they agreed to the first UConn deal when they were getting UConn home Big East conference games in MBB and FB & have stuck through it even though they don't get a UConn MBB game after the first two months of the year. They've stuck with it even after they got carriage on most CT systems and their access got worse. They're doing a year-in-review program for a MBB (check your DVR) they haven't televised in 3 months and they're agreeing to televise a CT college hockey tournament in Bridgeport the next 2 years. And they still televise UConn's FCS bodybag game. God bless 'em. Guess its still better than showing the Mets. [/QUOTE]

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