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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3085718, member: 1329"] Here's the thing that the one person in this thread in favor of ESPN+ is missing: Unlike a real company who gets market share by being early into a new market, it doesn't matter if the AAC is "early" into streaming on ESPN+. Even if it catches on and say 30 million people have ESPN+ by the end of the contract... we're still getting paid 6.5 million dollars. 12 years from now. We're getting 6.5 million. Which is 4.5 million in today's dollars. We're under water as a high major conference now, and we'll be in worse position monetarily 10 years from now. Plus, streaming as a mindset is about on demand (Millennial checking in). It's binging and watching when you want it. No one is "stream surfing" and saying hey it's 7:30 on a Thursday, let me see what's on my streaming networks right now. Oh an AAC college basketball game. It's UConn vs. USF. I'll check in. Let me see how the Huskies are looking. The ESPN+ subscriber numbers are irrelevant for exposure except those that are already fans. The only exception would be palpable internet buzz. A game is getting talked up on Twitter. Guess what, that only happens in interesting games with something at stake. A rivalry game where both teams are good, etc.. But guess what: ESPN is poaching every single one of those games. So the streaming aspect is irrelevant. [/QUOTE]