B1G Ramblings

[KryHavok]

The Big East would do it because it’s a low-revenue league outside of the power conference structure. Our AD isn’t even sure we’re going to be on the right side of the divide if/when it comes and this would take care of that concern.

But it makes no sense for the ACC. The Big East adds no value unless the entire conference wants to take the Cal/Stanford deal.

The fact that it hasn’t happened and isn’t happening should be some evidence of that, but we will keep creating fantastic rescue scenarios until the end of time here.

Agreed. It's a real head scratcher why anyone would be advocating for an all cretins crew and Big East merger. Like, why? Tobacco road has less than zero incentive to bring in the Big East. Hell, they've refused for yearSSS to bring in the BEST that the Big East has to even offer (meaning UConn), so why even waste 1 kilocalorie of energy thinking about such a stupid arrangement of those shidiots bringing along less marquee names? Anyone think Puke and UNC are salivating at the notion of playing St. John's or Creighton? LMAO!

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The Big East would do it because it’s a low-revenue league outside of the power conference structure. Our AD isn’t even sure we’re going to be on the right side of the divide if/when it comes and this would take care of that concern.

But it makes no sense for the ACC. The Big East adds no value unless the entire conference wants to take the Cal/Stanford deal.

The fact that it hasn’t happened and isn’t happening should be some evidence of that, but we will keep creating fantastic rescue scenarios until the end of time here.

That is not remotely the right premise for future realignment. Future media contracts are going to be connected in some way with subscriptions, so bundling to drive more subscriptions will be life or death for the conferences.

Look at other segments of media. Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Comcast kept trying to defend the old model long after Netflix had blown the old model up. Now Netflix, whose original content is mostly unwatchable spit, has crushed all the legacy players despite their superior libraries. Disney/Hulu, the one broadcaster that adjusted, is the only one even in the game against Netflix. Ironically, if the first three had just moved quicker, they probably would have won, because once they did move, the subscriptions quickly followed. They were just too late.

Every TV revenue split in the future is likely to be somehow performance based.

If UConn gets boxed out forever over the next 5 years, we are going to kick ourselves over the multiple ways we could have saved the program but did nothing because no one could even think about thinking outside the box. I agree with you that the "ask nicely" camp will drive strategy right to a quiet demise of the UConn athletic program.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Agreed. It's a real head scratcher why anyone would be advocating for an all cretins crew and Big East merger. Like, why? Tobacco road has less than zero incentive to bring in the Big East. Hell, they've refused for yearSSS to bring in the BEST that the Big East has to even offer (meaning UConn), so why even waste 1 kilocalorie of energy thinking about such a stupid arrangement of those shidiots bringing along less marquee names? Anyone think Puke and UNC are salivating at the notion of playing St. John's or Creighton? LMAO!

If you think there is no way UConn would be added to one of the P4, then are you saying that you want to shut down the football program?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

An example of the linear thinking that has killed UConn athletics was the decision to stay in the AAC to collect a few million more in exit fees when the smart move would have been to leave with the Big East in 2012. UConn's basketball program would never have hit the decline it did in the mid-2010's, and the football program would have been better off independent than in that Deliverance Hell Hole of a conference we were in. We would have been invited to the Big 12 as full members when Texas and Oklahoma left.

The AAC fanboys only have themselves to blame for that one.

 

[KryHavok]

If you think there is no way UConn would be added to one of the P4, then are you saying that you want to shut down the football program?

No nelson, I'm not saying that AT ALL, don't put words in my mouth (you need to act smarter than that). We're fighting what looks like a hopeless battle, but it's still a battle that should be fought. We are a basketball school that ironically needs to be "saved" by its football program. I DID say that merging the Big East with the all cretins is an utterly asinine concept. I want UConn to succeed, and as much I like the Big East and the history that it had (as well as our part in that history), we've run our course with that league as it cannot sustain us if we wish to remain nationally relevant on the athletic stage. Though I despise the all cretins crew, I would bend the knee for UConn to be in that league, but it hasn't happened and may never happen. But closing the football program, get out of here with that drivel! I would no sooner want the all cretins to win the CFP and NCAA BBall tourneys every year for the next 25 years than lose our football program.