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OT: Big 12 signs new media deal - $2.28 billion over 6 years

shizzle787 said:
I think the doomsayers are forgetting something important: the sport of football is under assault due to CTE issues. There is no guarantee due to lawsuits that it will be sponsored by colleges in 30-40 years.
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We've heard this forever. It is still the most popular sport enjoy watching.
 
shizzle787 said:
Watching-yes. Playing-not exacly.
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I think football is doing a much better job of reducing head injuries and many players wear guardian caps (padding) in practice. Although football participation is in a slow decline, there are many factors involved. Sure, some parents don't want their kids to play football, but the fall of the 3 sport athlete is having an even bigger impact as many kids focus on one sport. I see top youth baseball, basketball, and hockey players stop playing football to play fall ball or train. Demographics play a role as well as towns with declining student populations will probably have declining sports participation.
 
noeynox said:
The rise of perennial hoops doormat Rutgers is kind of a tell. I think he laid out his thesis pretty well off the top of his head. We have been utterly dreadful and when they canned Diaco we had to bring in Edsall on the super cheap to further sink the program. Doesn't take a genius to conclude that more money allows you to cover up mistakes. UConn resorted to trying to not pay Ollie his contractual buyout due to being broke. People saying the money hasn't given those programs an advantage are the ones trolling.
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UConn had more than enough money to pay Ollie. After the decision they were given, like what? Maybe 72 hours to pony up $11 million. The decision not to pay Kevin Ollie was based on the belief that he reached his contract and this was an entitled to be paid. I don’t think anyone for saw that the arbiter would, essentially, tear up the provision in Kevin‘s contract that said you are fired without compensation if you breach NCAA rules. Once that happened, the odds were against the university prevailing.

Likewise, I think the school thought that Randy Edsall could bring us back to at least being a competent football school. As it turns out, they were wrong. But for that hire, I’m sure his affordability definitely played a role and then deciding to roll the dice with him.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I was originally replying to @zls44 comment directed at @Stinger92860 where he used "national brand" of athletics; not just basketball.

Basketball is obviously on much more even footing, but the growing disparity in revenue between P5 schools and BE schools will make it harder to sign and retain coaching staffs and/or continually invest in facilities.

We're obviously in a good position now with respect to basketball, but the tv dollar gap between us and Rutgers over the next decade is just going to be preposterous at a level of say ~$600M to ~$80M. Is it sustainable for UConn to extend quality coaching in light of that ever growing disparity.. hopefully.
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I can’t tell if you’re a Rutgers, Syracuse, or Pitt fan. I’m guessing Syracuse
 
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Fishy said:
Well, the Big East was destroyed and its parts were distributed all over the college sports landscape.

Did you think you were making a winning argument here?
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Did it survive as a major basketball conference with a great TV deal?
 
CL82 said:
Uh, no.
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Visibility wise yes and the deal is similar to the basketball portion of the other major conferences.
 
shizzle787 said:
Visibility wise yes and the deal is similar to the basketball portion of the other major conferences.
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And my income is similar to Bill Gates… up to a point. :rolleyes:

The big east was gutted and most of its valuable content was distributed to other conferences where withered on the vine. Some of the remaining schools bound together and formed a new conference that makes pennies on the dollar compared to the major conferences. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to be here, but in all honesty it isn’t sustainable for the members schools if they intend to compete at the highest levels of the sport.
 
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FlippinCrazy! said:
I can’t tell if you’re a Rutgers, Syracuse, or Pitt fan. I’m guessing Syracuse
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You're right. The Big 10 paying league members annually what we'll pull in over the course of two decades is actually a good thing and won't effect the competitive landscape at all.
 
shizzle787 said:
Visibility wise yes and the deal is similar to the basketball portion of the other major conferences.
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The deal does not even cover the cost of paying our basketball coaches…
 
Fishy said:
The deal does not even cover the cost of paying our basketball coaches…
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Neither does the Olympic sports portion of the ACC, Big 12, or Pac-12 contracts.
 
gampelcrazies said:
Nothing better than fans arguing/bragging about TV money that means nothing to them
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This is why it’s so damn important.

huskymedic said:
Assuming this is from Mora’s Weekly Sunday Media availability:

Not sure @ this point what the actual question was to elicit the response but he’s clearly laying the financial groundwork/expectations…

(It’s a quick 1:46 listen)
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Stinger92860 said:
This is why it’s so damn important.
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Going to take alot more than that TV money to fix things. Fans and the university need to step it up.

BC gets more TV money than us. How’s that working for them?
 
gampelcrazies said:
Going to take alot more than that TV money to fix things. Fans and the university need to step it up.

BC gets more TV money than us. How’s that working for them?
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In terms of their financials? It’s pretty well, actually. BCU ends up with over 30 million a year more in revenue annually. That shortfall ends up being paid for by state of Connecticut taxpayers. Media money matters.
 
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gampelcrazies said:
Going to take alot more than that TV money to fix things. Fans and the university need to step it up.

BC gets more TV money than us. How’s that working for them?
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Lol…Actually, TV money would fix darn near everything. UConn is defying the odds on a lot of fronts given how crap the revenue currently is. Give them another $35M in non-taxpayer revenue and let’s see what happens.

But “fans arguing about revenue” is a newly fashionable take, so have at it.


shizzle787 said:
Neither does the Olympic sports portion of the ACC, Big 12, or Pac-12 contracts.
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I hate to say this….you are painfully stupid.

There is no “Olympic sports portion” of their contracts. They have contracts and those contracts result in revenue that is 10 times the size of ours.
 
I'm not saying it wouldn't help out. It would a lot. But it wouldn't completely change the athletic department. Fans have to start donating/buying tickets more and the university has to invest/support athletics more.
 
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