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Message: [QUOTE="JavaMan, post: 3101506, member: 5562"] [SIZE=6][B]UConn Not Happy About New AAC/ESPN Deal[/B][/SIZE] [B][I]The Story:[/I][/B][I] Athletic director [B]Dave Benedict[/B] has spoken, and [URL='https://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-sp-aac-espn-tv-deal-uconn-20190327-20190327-zt7umeyhuvdjpksttvxds6lmje-story.html']UConn isn’t happy[/URL] with the new deal that the AAC signed with ESPN that will put many games, including women’s basketball, on the pay service ESPN+. [B]THE DETAILS:[/B] The AAC [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPsOmj6VybQ&feature=youtu.be']announced its 12-year deal with ESPN[/URL]that would put as many as [URL='https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2019/03/espn-and-american-athletic-conference-reach-long-term-media-rights-extension/']1,000 AAC games on ESPN+ eventually[/URL]. The majority of UConn men’s basketball and football games are likely to be on the pay service and there is a real chance that UConn won’t have a local home, such as the women enjoyed with SNY. ESPN’s linear networks (the ones you can get on your cable system) will still feature plenty of AAC games but a lot of them will be shifted to ESPN+, a streaming service that charges $5 a month. [B]UCONN NOT HAPPY:[/B] The school [URL='https://twitter.com/ManthonyCourant/status/1111010269797535746?s=20']released a statement[/URL] that took the AAC to task over the potential loss of the SNY partnership and the fact the games will be headed to a streaming service. The school said the obvious in the statement: While the deal is good for the conference, there are components for the deal that are specifically bad for UConn.[/I] [URL='https://uconndaily.com/2019/03/28/tensions-over-aac-espn-deal-uconn-not-on-board/'][B]MORE[/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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