And the Jim Mora credibility factor: success wherever he's coached & the way he turned an underachieving UConn football team into a 6 game winner last season after losing his starting QB in the 1st quarter of the 1st game.
I don’t think that’s true at all as shown by the number of schools that hired Diaco after he was head coach at UConn. Diaco fit all the metrics you’re looking for when hiring a young up-and-coming coach. He was successful, enthusiastic, and charismatic. Unfortunately, he was also bat sh.it crazy and incapable of managing the football program.
I wish UConn had done more homework on that hire because the day he was announced, my cousin told me that the entire Notre Dame athletic department was ELATED that he was leaving them. Later that month I was at a fundraiser event (not related to UConn) where Diaco spoke and within a minute I thought he was totally unhinged. Sigh.
As soon as he busted out key/non key starters, winning breakfast, Batman and fish cakes I knew that you guys were in trouble. Sometimes people are truly eccentric but are low key geniuses in their field. (Mike Leach) The rest of the time they turn out to be Bob Diaco...
Wouldn’t securing adequate revenue to continue to fund the athletic department be necessary to “ensure our basketball programs are set up to continue dominating?”
One would think so, but when you look at our good friends Cuse, Pitt, L'Ville, and WVU they have all pretty much tanked their basketball programs after chasing the football money. I don't want the same thing to happen to us. As we are finding out, the grass isn't always greener.
You’re confusing correlational factors with causal factors. Their making nearly 10 times what we make in media money isn’t the cause for the decline of their programs. UConn has done an outstanding job keeping ourselves relevant, but $40-$70 million losses in the athletic department are not sustainable.
Moving from the Big East to the ACC causes teams to suck.
People need to stop bringing up the AAC like that was some choice. It was what the Big East became. I guess you can call it choice in that UConn stayed there to collect the money from tournament units, bowl payouts and naming rights to the new Big East, but the 2nd TV contract pretty much said this isn't a fit for us and the school did the right thing. An invite to ANY P5 conference is not the same thing as the AAC.
$1.2 million per school over six years is the value of the big east NCAA tournament credits.
Agree, although I don’t think the math works for adding basketball only schools, for reasons I’ve discussed before.
Yeah, it might not. Depends on what the BE is worth going forward and frankly that is hard to assess from the couch. Media folk have their prism, sometimes they over pay for a loss leader to anchor their platform and sometimes they operate on conservative value oriented metrics. Where the BE lands in this next contract is difficult to say at this hr. Need the P12 situation to resolve itself.
And yet you equate our media boost to NCAA credits, just saying.
No, I was just trying to answer your question. I didn’t understand what you meant by “media bonus.” Apparently what you meant was some notion of the brand value of winning another national championship. It definitely exists, but it is tough to quantify.
Trying to quantify what would be “enough money” to justify a move to the big 12, I came up with this:
I'm not saying turn down a nice offer. At the same time, there is the choice of going after the money and possibly sucking, ala SU and BCU. If you don't make the money in media rights fees but win natties, what's that worth? We don't know. But maybe it helps cover the deficit. Who knows, it's all a crap shoot. To @Beachview 's point, lots of SU posters are thinking of scenarios assuming the ACC dissolves and where to go from there. It's all good.
