B1G Ramblings

[nelsonmuntz]

Based on what has happened lately expecting to get a full share joining P4 league is not realistic. So you would not be in favor of UConn joining P4 league if they only received 50% share for the first 10 years?

We don't have a 50% share for 10 years offer. The last two offers we got were:

ACC: Nothing. They didn't even offer us the SMU deal.

Big 12: Matched our basketball revenue for us to travel all over the country. They required a massive football investment through 2030, at which point they would consider us. The Big 12 and UConn ended up terminating discussions, although it is not clear who terminated them first.

Those are the two offers we had. If we beg our way into the ACC or Big 12 without a major revenue boost, we will have seen our last Final Four.

It is funny how many posters are adamantly against a Big East ACC merger despite that being the most likely path to getting UConn into a P4 conference.

 

[Hoophound]

We don't have a 50% share for 10 years offer. The last two offers we got were:

ACC: Nothing. They didn't even offer us the SMU deal.

Big 12: Matched our basketball revenue for us to travel all over the country. They required a massive football investment through 2030, at which point they would consider us. The Big 12 and UConn ended up terminating discussions, although it is not clear who terminated them first.

Those are the two offers we had. If we beg our way into the ACC or Big 12 without a major revenue boost, we will have seen our last Final Four.

It is funny how many posters are adamantly against a Big East ACC merger despite that being the most likely path to getting UConn into a P4 conference.

I don't think people are really against it, they just can't see how it would work. There's too much dead weight in the Big East. The ACC is full of dead weight too, but at least those schools can provide football games for content.
I'd love a merger, but when I think about, I realize that there should really only be a place for UConn, Nova and SJU. PC and Georgetown probably make sense too.

The other schools have various combinations of issues that hurt their viability whether its academics, location or lack of funding. For instance, Marquette and Creighton are the next best programs, but they have off the beaten path locations and other issues. Yes, the ACC is bi-coastal now, but I'm not sure that want to go to Nebraska for basketball games.

 

[CL82]

I don't think people are really against it, they just can't see how it would work. There's too much dead weight in the Big East. The ACC is full of dead weight too, but at least those schools can provide football games for content.
I'd love a merger, but when I think about, I realize that there should really only be a place for UConn, Nova and SJU. PC and Georgetown probably make sense too.

The other schools have various combinations of issues that hurt their viability whether its academics, location or lack of funding. For instance, Marquette and Creighton are the next best programs, but they have off the beaten path locations and other issues. Yes, the ACC is bi-coastal now, but I'm not sure that want to go to Nebraska for basketball games.

Why does PC make the cut?

 

[JwittersPAC]

Why does PC make the cut?

You only question PC making the cut? Why does Georgetown make the cut? You could even question St John since once their billionaire booster decides he is not providing funding anymore St John goes back to being mediocre. UConn (no brainer), and then Villanova with the rest of those teams being dead weight in a merger. It is really not a merger by ACC-Big East but just ACC cherry picking the best teams.

 

[CL82]

You only question PC making the cut? Why does Georgetown make the cut? You could even question St John since once their billionaire booster decides he is not providing funding anymore St John goes back to being mediocre. UConn (no brainer), and then Villanova with the rest of those teams being dead weight in a merger. It is really not a merger by ACC-Big East but just ACC cherry picking the best teams.

I can make an argument for St. John's because of New York, Villanova because because of Philadelphia, and Georgetown because of DC. But PC because of Providence? That's a bridge too far.

 

[UConnJim]

My recommendation is to not do anything until there is a big change to the whole landscape. I wouldn't be shocked if football breaks off or there is a lawsuit that forces it to break off. I wouldn't be shocked if several programs cry "uncle" on the spending and leave P4 leagues. I wouldn't be shocked if the prestige private universities broke off and formed their own league. I wouldn't be shocked if the shameless leaching by schools like BCU causes the P4 to go to performance revenue splits, which could cause some schools to drop out of P4 leagues. I wouldn't be shocked if the ACC and Big East merge.

We need one of those things, or something like it, to happen. We need to be added to a league as a full partner. We can't afford an SMU deal or a 10 year buy in.

The ACC is already at performance revenue splits after settling the FSU/Clemson dispute and you will really start to see that starting this year. Virginia Tech estimated that the range of payouts for the legacy ACC could be $20 million+ difference from the ACC "Success Initiative".

In the VT presentation, they showed that the bottom 4 schools for athletic operating expenses in the ACC are privates, so they are going to feel the financial stress over time.