Big East - NBC 6 Year Deal Almost Done

[whaler11]

What this shows is that no one is worth too much on their own. The only reason anyone has value is because of who they play.

Tickets, television contracts - you can't try to tease any school's value out of what they get paid in a conference because it's the combination of schools that generates value.

 

[UCHuskies08]

Man, it's a good thing I'm smoking a blunt right now.

 

[Marty Jackson]

The main benefit in keeping football in the Big East is scheduling and bowl alliances. What bowl alliances do we get as an independent?

just wait.you think things cant get worse? how about those bowl alliances?

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I think the worst part about this whole deal is that our value to SNY takes a major hit.

Consider this, that SNY will occasionally get a decent Big East Basketball game to have UConn and that is something that regionally has interest. If NBC Sports has our Tier 1 rights, doesn't that mean they get first dibs at our games? In this case, with a league with only 4 basketball names in UConn, Temple, Memphis and Cinci, doesn't it stand to reason that every UConn conference game would be on NBC Sports and not SNY?

Same goes for football. UConn goes from the middle of the pack in BE football, to one of the top properties in the NBE football. With the lack of inventory again, doesn't that mean UConn won't have any SNY games aside from maybe the FCS and MAC games?

 

[huskymedic]

I think the worst part about this whole deal is that our value to SNY takes a major hit.

Consider this, that SNY will occasionally get a decent Big East Basketball game to have UConn and that is something that regionally has interest. If NBC Sports has our Tier 1 rights, doesn't that mean they get first dibs at our games? In this case, with a league with only 4 basketball names in UConn, Temple, Memphis and Cinci, doesn't it stand to reason that every UConn conference game would be on NBC Sports and not SNY?

Same goes for football. UConn goes from the middle of the pack in BE football, to one of the top properties in the NBE football. With the lack of inventory again, doesn't that mean UConn won't have any SNY games aside from maybe the FCS and MAC games?

Considering that Comcast/NBC Universal are equity owners in SNY, I'm sure there will be a bunch of cross-sharing.

 

[upstater]

I think the worst part about this whole deal is that our value to SNY takes a major hit.

Consider this, that SNY will occasionally get a decent Big East Basketball game to have UConn and that is something that regionally has interest. If NBC Sports has our Tier 1 rights, doesn't that mean they get first dibs at our games? In this case, with a league with only 4 basketball names in UConn, Temple, Memphis and Cinci, doesn't it stand to reason that every UConn conference game would be on NBC Sports and not SNY?

Same goes for football. UConn goes from the middle of the pack in BE football, to one of the top properties in the NBE football. With the lack of inventory again, doesn't that mean UConn won't have any SNY games aside from maybe the FCS and MAC games?

As I did some research at night, it appears ESPN owns all of UConn's tier 3 rights, and that any money for the games from SNY was immediately rerouted to the Big East, and shared among ALL the BE teams. So SNY contracts from ESPN, and ESPN sends the money to the BE. So UConn didn't benefit much from the SNY games other than getting great exposure.

The thing that may hurt UConn in this is in the IMG contract and the coach's show rights. With fewer games on SNY, the shows might not make as much, and IMG might not up the value of the contract (which, given the great ratings, probably was in the works). But we shouldn't really worry about this. It was a 10 year contract and it's not going to run out in at least 5 years.

 

[CL82]

If he asked Cincy and UConn for a GOR, then he shouldn't be in charge.

The Big East is a risky partner to do business with at the moment. Can't really see us getting much more than CUSA and company.

Agree with the 2nd part, but I think that he has to ask so that the value of what he has to offer is known.

As part of my CR 12 step program I try not to speculate on this too much, but sometimes I backslide.

 

[ZooCougar]

just wait.you think things cant get worse? how about those bowl alliances?

Exactly.

Zero is the number of bowls we'll have access to as an Indy.