Big East's Next Media Deal

[uconnyankee]

We definitely add some good value to the BigEast, but they were a pretty thriving league without us. Honestly I was surprised, because when the C7 split and they did their additions I thought they were destined for the dust. But they proved everyone wrong. They built a nice little niche of a hoops league that has garnered a ton of respect.

Villanova stepped up sure.
Let’s be honest though, UConn in that league is a big bump. TV, attendance, and recruiting. If Texas and Oklahoma can squeak, and FSU can squeak, why shouldn’t UConn?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Here's the thing about subscriptions for football -- it only covers home games. Are there really that many diehard UConn football fans that don't go to home football games that this is going to work? I'd have to see it to believe it.

Are you saying UConn football has a steep hill to climb to be financially viable? Thank you, Captain Obvious.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

That's almost $10 Mil a year per team and would be a great number. If they can pull that off and eventually get to a place where football is good they can do a streaming deal and get to a place where they can bring in $20 mil combined. I would just stay as an independent.

That's what I would be shooting for. If Apple steps in and offers the Big East a nice contact, will Fox send in B12 to take UConn?

If the Big East is smart, they go for a combo of linear and streaming. Maybe something with Fox/ESPN and Apple/Amazon.

UConn football should definitely do the same to get a better deal. We are being ripped off right now with CBSSN.

 

[businesslawyer]

Are you saying UConn football has a steep hill to climb to be financially viable? Thank you, Captain Obvious.

If you need it in words of one syllable (which apparently you do) what I am saying is no matter how right you may be about the future of consuming sporting events from home, I think that, for now, we are much better off on CBSSN than we would be streaming only. Both in terms of

 

[businesslawyer]

Villanova stepped up sure.
Let’s be honest though, UConn in that league is a big bump. TV, attendance, and recruiting. If Texas and Oklahoma can squeak, and FSU can squeak, why shouldn’t UConn?

I don't know. Maybe because other conferences would pay them money to join? Or they think they could make as much money without a conference? Neither of which seems to be the case with us.

 

[ZooCougar]

That's what I would be shooting for. If Apple steps in and offers the Big East a nice contact, will Fox send in B12 to take UConn?

If the Big East is smart, they go for a combo of linear and streaming. Maybe something with Fox/ESPN and Apple/Amazon.

UConn football should definitely do the same to get a better deal. We are being ripped off right now with CBSSN.

Ripped off?

As opposed to what other offers? We’re lucky to be on TV. We could be on that awful platform UMass was on.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

That's what I would be shooting for. If Apple steps in and offers the Big East a nice contact, will Fox send in B12 to take UConn?

If the Big East is smart, they go for a combo of linear and streaming. Maybe something with Fox/ESPN and Apple/Amazon.

UConn football should definitely do the same to get a better deal. We are being ripped off right now with CBSSN.

The Apple deal with the Pac 12 was going to end up as a combo of linear and streaming. The initial reports were that ESPN would pay $2MM per school for the top games, which meant the real numbers was $5MM. I don't know how that would impact the Apple deal financially, but the Pac 12 would have gotten linear distribution for its top games.

 

[August_West]

They literally added us with the idea in mind that we would keep shopping around.

Nobody cares if we talk to other conferences. It’s expected.

I don’t hate the Big East. It’s a solid place to hold up for a while.

But it’s not a winning long term solution.

Right on all , but my point is in the meantime it doesn't give us any leverage to ,say, look for a sweetheart Deal in the BigEast like Gonzaga gets in their conf.

 

[August_West]

They are nothingburger without us now that Jay Wright is retired.

LOL You dont know dick about hoops. The league has the best lineup of college basketball coaches in the country

 

[hoopsfan22]

LOL You dont know dick about hoops. The league has the best lineup of college basketball coaches in the country

And the biggest lineup of schools no one cares about.

 

[August_West]

And the biggest lineup of schools no one cares about.

Not true at all.

Look at 2022 when the ACC tourney went head to head with the BET in NYC. Tell me who cared about what more.

Or take a look at the attendance figures for the B10 tourney at MSG a few years back. How did that work out?

 

[king conn]

Not true at all.

Look at 2022 when the ACC tourney went head to head with the BET in NYC. Tell me who cared about what more.

Or take a look at the attendance figures for the B10 tourney at MSG a few years back. How did that work out?

UConn was in the Big East in 2022

And Jay Wright was there

 

[HuskyHawk]

And the biggest lineup of schools no one cares about.

Not true at all.

Look at 2022 when the ACC tourney went head to head with the BET in NYC. Tell me who cared about what more.

Big East has some good coaches and teams that people care about. It's not the short term that's the problem, it's the long term. Pitino won't last and St. Johns will revert to the moribund program it was. The landscape is changing and it's going to be harder to compete outside the P4. A handful of schools with enough cache and brand recognition will be fine, UConn included. Most will become what St. Joes is now, a shadow of its former self.

 

[August_West]

Big East has some good coaches and teams that people care about. It's not the short term that's the problem, it's the long term. Pitino won't last and St. Johns will revert to the moribund program it was. The landscape is changing and it's going to be harder to compete outside the P4. A handful of schools with enough cache and brand recognition will be fine, UConn included. Most will become what St. Joes is now, a shadow of its former self.

 

[Dizzy21]

Not true at all.

Look at 2022 when the ACC tourney went head to head with the BET in NYC. Tell me who cared about what more.

Or take a look at the attendance figures for the B10 tourney at MSG a few years back. How did that work out?

Big East Tourney drew less viewers on average than the P5, MW, AAC, and A10 for a solid 9th place. Some years it drops down to 10th behind a conference I wasn't even aware existed.

 

[ZooCougar]

LOL You dont know dick about hoops. The league has the best lineup of college basketball coaches in the country

I don’t.but it appears I know more than you.

 

[ZooCougar]

And nobody cares. It literally doesn’t matter.

 

[August_West]

And nobody cares. It literally doesn’t matter.

If you want to use the no one cares line. Let's use this one: No one cares (literally no one, not even in their own state) about UConn Football. No one goes to the games, no one watches the games. New England as a whole cares nothing for College Football. No one cares.

THAT is why we are where we are today.

 

[ZooCougar]

Right on all , but my point is in the meantime it doesn't give us any leverage to ,say, look for a sweetheart Deal in the BigEast like Gonzaga gets in their conf.

We shouldn’t ask for it. It might be nice to persuade without asking directly though.

 

[August_West]

It's like the Painting of Kramer in Seinfeld that the old couple buys:

“I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world.”

“I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges.”

“His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit.”

“He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can’t look away.”

“He transcends time and space.”

“He sickens me.”

“I love it.”

“Me too.”

 

[CL82]

If you want to use the no one cares line. Let's use this one: No one cares (literally no one, not even in their own state) about UConn Football. No one goes to the games, no one watches the games. New England as a whole cares nothing for College Football. No one cares.

 

[ZooCougar]

If you want to use the no one cares line. Let's use this one: No one cares (literally no one, not even in their own state) about UConn Football. No one goes to the games, no one watches the games. New England as a whole cares nothing for College Football. No one cares.

THAT is why we are where we are today.

First off, nationally if anyone cared about 5 National Championships then we wouldn’t be where we are.

Your precious basketball future will be more secure if that changes.

Your football hatred is cutting off the nose to spite your face.

Show some emotional intelligence for once.

 

[August_West]

First off, nationally if anyone cared about 5 National Championships then we wouldn’t be where we are.

Why would I care if anyone cared Nationally? I don't. At all. The only people who care about their team winning titles are the teams FANS. Everyone else hates it.

 

[John]

If you want to use the no one cares line. Let's use this one: No one cares (literally no one, not even in their own state) about UConn Football. No one goes to the games, no one watches the games. New England as a whole cares nothing for College Football. No one cares.

THAT is why we are where we are today.

amazingly, people do still care about UConn Football despite the previous horrors.