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Mike Aresco talks about UCF football and #1 claim, P5-P6, 18 NFL Draft Picks, AAC basketball tourney moving from Memphis next year to Fort Worth and new Dickies Arena for three years. Said never going back to old hybrid Big East Model. Wichita was an exception but wouldn't rule out a top shelf BBall only school if the right opportunity came around. Happy with 12 teams at present. Mentions great hires in Hurley and Hardaway. Indicates headquarters likely moving to Dallas. Discusses potential of better TV contract although not B1G or SEC $$. Says should be much better due to performance and ratings. Aresco's done a great job and best guy for launching the AAC. Compares the AAC to Jet Blue. Says many counted the AAC for dead. Starts at 23.4 mark. Contract talk at 38.28. Whole interview around 22 min.

The 1pm Show | Tuesday, May 8

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Worth a listen. He seems to be very confident that we will be making a lot more money on the next contract. He called our current contract a “rounding error” in ESPN’s world.
 

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I listened. I thought it was a good interview. He was rather confident that the AACs next tv deal would be a meaningful step up.
 
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He is doing his job.

Which is ore than I can say for the old BE commishes. Most of the old BE guys only did half their job. All they really did was protect Providence basketball. The BE should have moved to NYC the minute that Gavitt retired.
 
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I know this flies in the face of your "pseudo" narrative, but the Old BE commissioners (really Tranghese) had the incredible task of keeping a leaky structure afloat whilst many parties had far different agendas. It was a frigging mess. And he did not create it (except as an administrator at the time) ... but keeping BC & Syracuse happy - not embracing Penn State - then the devolution of all: it was more than being about where they had an Office.
 
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You are right but while I think Tranghese was fine dealing with an impossible hand his replacement was awful. The rockstar of commissioners
 

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I listened. I thought it was a good interview. He was rather confident that the AACs next tv deal would be a meaningful step up.
It can't just be a step up. It can't be two steps up. It needs to be at least a flight of stairs. 2 x current rounding error is just as immaterial.
 
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The AAC comp to JetBlue would be great if we 8x'd our current TV payouts. Sure it's a pretty upstart but they've actually made money
 
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The Supreme Court's decision should lead to upward pressure on all sports TV contracts. Being able to bet on every play on your phone while watching had that effect in the EU.
 
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The Supreme Court's decision....
...is likely to be huge. It’s one thing to bet on the outcome of a game such as betting $100 on the Huskies +17 (lol). But that bet doesn’t require you to be watching the contest. Now, with the ability to bet during the game, there’ll be more eyeballs on handheld devices but also (and just as importantly) watching TV sets. You’ll watch TV as you bet on your phone—to bet on whether the next play will be a pass or run—or a fair catch—or a field goal make or miss—the options will be endless.
Expect a greater competitive media climate and more $$ being offered when the new TV contracts are up for renewal. I think it’s a game changer for sure.
 
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...is likely to be huge. It’s one thing to bet on the outcome of a game such as betting $100 on the Huskies +17 (lol). But that bet doesn’t require you to be watching the contest. Now, with the ability to bet during the game, there’ll be more eyeballs on handheld devices but also (and just as importantly) watching TV sets. You’ll watch TV as you bet on your phone—to bet on whether the next play will be a pass or run—or a fair catch—or a field goal make or miss—the options will be endless.
Expect a greater competitive media climate and more $$ being offered when the new TV contracts are up for renewal. I think it’s a game changer for sure.
If the allocation of the extra $$ stays in the same relative proportion as the TV dollars now, how does this benefit Uconn/the AAC?

This may be the end for me watching any sports. It will be hard to watch them without thinking what coach, ref, player has a substantial vested interest in a certain outcome. Every controversial call, wacky turnover, dropped ball will look suspicious.
 
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If the allocation of the extra $$ stays in the same relative proportion as the TV dollars now, how does this benefit Uconn/the AAC?

This may be the end for me watching any sports. It will be hard to watch them without thinking what coach, ref, player has a substantial vested interest in a certain outcome. Every controversial call, wacky turnover, dropped ball will look suspicious.

Don’t understand why this would be the tipping point for you. Gambling on sports has been going on legally and illegally since the beginning of time. Only difference now is that it’ll be regulated. If a coach or player wanted to place a bet on their team for the last decade they could do it with a couple of clicks on their phone.
 
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If the allocation of the extra $$ stays in the same relative proportion as the TV dollars now, how does this benefit Uconn/the AAC?

Did I say it would? It may benefit everyone proportionately. It may, by increasing demand, have a slight leveling effect (because that there is a game becomes more important than who is playing). We'll have to see.
 

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The idea the Big East was unstable due to the basketball/football hybrid is a highly perpetuated myth.

The league was unstable because the football programs didn't have enough collective cache that prevented them getting picked off from other leagues.

If the league had a few more anchor tenants in football (say a Penn State and Florida State) the hybrid model wouldn't have mattered.
 

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The football schools wanted to get picked off for another conference and the whole thing began well before 2003.
 

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The Supreme Court's decision should lead to upward pressure on all sports TV contracts. Being able to bet on every play on your phone while watching had that effect in the EU.
This didn't occur to me, but you are spot on BL!
 
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The idea the Big East was unstable due to the basketball/football hybrid is a highly perpetuated myth.

The league was unstable because the football programs didn't have enough collective cache that prevented them getting picked off from other leagues.

If the league had a few more anchor tenants in football (say a Penn State and Florida State) the hybrid model wouldn't have mattered.

I think a more accurate way to put it would be that the league itself didn't have enough cache to keep its football playing members from looking elsewhere.
 

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I think a more accurate way to put it would be that the league itself didn't have enough cache to keep its football playing members from looking elsewhere.

That's another way to look at it, that I would agree with.

I feel like the Big East Football Conference, as a whole, was less than the sum of its parts.

Given that nearly every single team that ever played in the league besides UConn, USF, Temple, and Cincinnati have moved on to bigger platforms, it's tough to say that the league members weren't worthy of playing in the P5.
 
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If the allocation of the extra $$ stays in the same relative proportion as the TV dollars now, how does this benefit Uconn/the AAC?

This may be the end for me watching any sports. It will be hard to watch them without thinking what coach, ref, player has a substantial vested interest in a certain outcome. Every controversial call, wacky turnover, dropped ball will look suspicious.
How is it different than the SEC? I think you are looking at an incredible amount of regulation.
 

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...is likely to be huge. It’s one thing to bet on the outcome of a game such as betting $100 on the Huskies +17 (lol). But that bet doesn’t require you to be watching the contest. Now, with the ability to bet during the game, there’ll be more eyeballs on handheld devices but also (and just as importantly) watching TV sets. You’ll watch TV as you bet on your phone—to bet on whether the next play will be a pass or run—or a fair catch—or a field goal make or miss—the options will be endless.
Expect a greater competitive media climate and more $$ being offered when the new TV contracts are up for renewal. I think it’s a game changer for sure.

The impact of the ruling has been wildly overblown.

You can already do all these things today.
 

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The impact of the ruling has been wildly overblown.

You can already do all these things today.

Yeah, that's kinda my feeling too. This will pull in more dollars, but I just don't think its going to pull in wild sums. I guess the Super Bowl will see a spike in action given the massive and broad appeal. Gambling is entertain dollars in most households, so where do people spend less if they truly start spending more on sports betting? Less at the casino 2 hrs away? Less meals out? Less at concerts and sports tickets?
 
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The impact of the ruling has been wildly overblown. You can already do all these things today.
Perhaps, but it’s a far cry from “being able to do all these things today” to becoming the new paradigm in how games are watched—and the added value it may bring to various platforms. When shopping online began there were many who dismissed it on credit card security grounds or “I need to try on the clothes” arguments. So when Amazon started you could easily have said, what’s the big deal, I can “do all these things today”. But Amazon made the entire on-line shopping process easier to navigate, and the rest is history.
Let’s see what happens once the buzz about in-game wagering begins (spurred by incessant ads) and the wagering process becomes easier to navigate. My sense is if it becomes ubiquitous, the impact of the gambling ruling on TV revenue won’t be “overblown.” Just ask some Amazon investors.
 

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