Big East's Next Media Deal

[August_West]

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

More people care about the Band "Goose" than UConn Football. Everyone has their hobbies. UConn Football fan is a fine hobby, far be it for me to judge someones hobbies. No problem there. There are definitely UConn Football fans. Just not very many. And 1/2 dont even make it into the game, the other half come in at 1/2 time.

 

[ZooCougar]

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.

Well. If you care about things such as money and NIL and not having an even bigger budgetary gap with the schools we want to be peers with them maybe you should reconsider. A more well rounded athletic department benefits everyone.

Honestly, I can’t imagine a perspective that’s dumber and more counterproductive than yours.

 

[John]

More people care about the Band "Goose" than UConn Football. Everyone has their hobbies. UConn Football fan is a fine hobby, far be it for me to judge someones hobbies. No problem there. There are definitely UConn Football fans. Just not very many. And 1/2 dont even make it into the game, the other half come in at 1/2 time.

based on the small crowds I was seeing at the end of the Ollie era, there were a lot of basketball "hobbyists" who weren't making it to games. Lets see what happens with football in the next couple of years.

 

[ZooCougar]

More people care about the Band "Goose" than UConn Football. Everyone has their hobbies. UConn Football fan is a fine hobby, far be it for me to judge someones hobbies. No problem there. There are definitely UConn Football fans. Just not very many. And 1/2 dont even make it into the game, the other half come in at 1/2 time.

UConn home games get more people than UConn basketball. Even with less than 50% of the place filled.

Your position is stupid. People do care and hope the program improves so that they can justify getting invested again.

 

[ZooCougar]

based on the small crowds I was seeing at the end of the Ollie era, there were a lot of basketball "hobbyists" who weren't making it to games. Lets see what happens with football in the next couple of years.

I’m trying not fall into the trap of dissing one of our programs (Although there is no bigger waste in of resources than college soccer which is beyond useless in this era) we need all of them to do well.

Adub is seeing the world through a straw here.

 

[August_West]

Well. If you care about things such as money and NIL and not having an even bigger budgetary gap with the schools we want to be peers with them maybe you should reconsider. A more well rounded athletic department benefits everyone.

Yeah I don’t count my rooting interests success and failures by budgetary gaps. And NIL has nothing to do with that either.

 

[Chin Diesel]

$5.5M and a free bagels for the women’s soccer team at Dunkin’.

I'd counter with $5.5M and no bagels. Those things from Dunkin' are an abomination to the real thing.

 

[August_West]

based on the small crowds I was seeing at the end of the Ollie era, there were a lot of basketball "hobbyists" who weren't making it to games. Lets see what happens with football in the next couple of years.

Indeed there were small crowds . Which is more proof that football is folly, because of the fickleness of northeasterners.

 

[That Guy]

based on the small crowds I was seeing at the end of the Ollie era, there were a lot of basketball "hobbyists" who weren't making it to games. Lets see what happens with football in the next couple of years.

I'm definitely more of a die hard UConn bball fan than I am a football fan, but even I have to admit that I wasn't watching the team on TV and definitely not going to games during the last 2 seasons of Ollie.

 

[SECONN]

UConn home games get more people than UConn basketball. Even with less than 50% of the place filled.

Your position is stupid. People do care and hope the program improves so that they can justify getting invested again.

I was at the Holy Cross game. Did not go back until last years BC game. I could not give my season tickets away.

New product, new era. I plan to go to a few games this year but when the product is dreadful.....like Ollie basketball as well as football you lose the non UCONN grads like me who supported the team for years. We will come back if the product is competitive.

The stadium will sell out again soon.

 

[shizzle787]

If we get 7 million, keep the same TV exposure (all games on linear), and stay at 11 (or add Gonzaga), I will take that.

 

[August_West]

UConn home games get more people than UConn basketball. Even with less than 50% of the place filled.

Your position is stupid. People do care and hope the program improves so that they can justify getting invested again.

You can’t compare apples to apples there. Football is a different animal on a grander scale. The middle of pack p4 averages 50k . Even the crap teams

 

[mike012]

If we made it to the CFP like Cincinnati did. We would be in the BIG the next day. Cheat or buy as many players as needed. We just need that one miracle season then we are set.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

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.

Appreciate you at least dropping the pretense that you hope UConn FB does well.

We'd be in exactly the same spot with or without football, so rest assured you can smack talk the 327 Butler fans at msg this spring.

 

[uconnyankee]

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

So that’s it…. we have 1000+ pages of people discussing the topic only to have it boil down to ‘nobody wants us, we have no value’….

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!

 

[uconnyankee]

More people care about the Band "Goose" than UConn Football. Everyone has their hobbies. UConn Football fan is a fine hobby, far be it for me to judge someones hobbies. No problem there. There are definitely UConn Football fans. Just not very many. And 1/2 dont even make it into the game, the other half come in at 1/2 time.

And when UConn wasn’t winning where we’re all the UConn BB fans?

 

[ZooCougar]

You can’t compare apples to apples there. Football is a different animal on a grander scale. The middle of pack p4 averages 50k . Even the crap teams

Yeah it’s almost like football is important or something.

Your 50k number is bs.

 

[HuskyHawk]

You can’t compare apples to apples there. Football is a different animal on a grander scale. The middle of pack p4 averages 50k . Even the crap teams

No, they don't. Closer to 40k.

The only thing you've said that is realistic is that the region doesn't prioritize college football. That's true, and I think a huge part of why we've been left out so far. People keep thinking it's all on-field and that's just part of it. When nobody in Connecticut schedules a fall wedding on a Saturday, you'll know UConn football has arrived. Even our basketball fans whine about getting to games. The fans at some of the schools we've taken shots at over the last couple of weeks rearrange their life to get to games.

Does CT still play HS football on Saturday? I don't know, but if they do, that's telling. HS football players are your core audience and fan base. They can't be playing on Saturday afternoon.

 

[CL82]

I’m trying not fall into the trap of dissing one of our programs (Although there is no bigger waste in of resources than college soccer which is beyond useless in this era) we need all of them to do well.

Adub is seeing the world through a straw here.

Actually he's just trolling. August is best understood if you remember that virtually everything he posts is intended to generate responses for his own entertainment.

 

[CL82]

You can’t compare apples to apples there. Football is a different animal on a grander scale. The middle of pack p4 averages 50k . Even the crap teams

Perhaps, but your point was about the number of people who care. Indisputably more people go to a Connecticut football game than a Connecticut basketball game. It was a silly point to me, but that doesn't mean you get to run away from it and "move the goal post", as it were.

 

[ZooCougar]

Perhaps, but your point was about the number of people who care. Indisputably more people go to a Connecticut football game than a Connecticut basketball game. It was a silly point to me, but that doesn't mean you get to run away from it and "move the goal post", as it were.

It’s not silly. Even at its reduced state football fans make a significant financial and otherwise investments. And more and more fans are returning.

We’ve got great basketball support too, but the opportunity in football is tremendous.

Also he’s just trolling and he needs to blow it out of his old ass.

 

[August_West]

Actually he's just trolling. August is best understood if you remember that virtually everything he posts is intended to generate responses for his own entertainment.

I'm not. (though Im not averse to that) I believe I'm right. And you have been here long enough to know Im right when it comes to CR. You've been here as long or longer than me. We have had our kibitzing about CR over the years . What have I said different than I said 10 years ago?

 

[August_West]

It’s not silly. Even at its reduced state football fans make a significant financial and otherwise investments. And more and more fans are returning.

We’ve got great basketball support too, but the opportunity in football is tremendous.

Also he’s just trolling and he needs to blow it out of his old ass.

If anyone expected anyone to attend football games in CT we shouldve built a 65000 seat house somewhere.

 

[CL82]

I'm not. (though Im not averse to that) I believe I'm right. And you have been here long enough to know Im right when it comes to CR. You've been here as long or longer than me. We have had our kibitzing about CR over the years . What have I said different than I said 10 years ago?

Yeah, but the fact that you frequently come on the conference realignment board to talk about why our obsession with it is pointless seems like a troll to me. For what it's worth, I have very little objection to people trolling because that's like 90% of the Internet. I have some objection to people trolling in aptly, but that's not you.

 

[August_West]

Yeah it’s almost like football is important or something.

Your 50k number is bs.

School	Conference	2022 Current Average	2021 Average	Year-over-Year % Change	5 Year Average	5 Year-over-Year % Change
Michigan	Big Ten	110,246	108,763	1.36%	110,603	-0.32%
Penn State	Big Ten	107,379	106,799	0.54%	104,985	2.28%
Ohio State	Big Ten	104,663	96,756	8.17%	103,372	1.25%
LSU	SEC	100,596	94,808	6.10%	99,241	1.37%
Tennessee	SEC	100,532	86,386	16.38%	92,796	8.34%
Texas	Big 12	100,242	91,939	9.03%	95,323	5.16%
Alabama	SEC	98,981	98,720	0.26%	100,988	-1.99%
Texas A&M	SEC	97,213	102,883	-5.51%	101,011	-3.76%
Georgia	SEC	92,746	92,746	0.00%	92,760	-0.02%
Florida	SEC	87,180	85,175	2.35%	85,350	2.14%
Nebraska	Big Ten	86,637	86,173	0.54%	88,911	-2.56%
Auburn	SEC	85,203	86,146	-1.10%	85,951	-0.87%
Oklahoma	Big 12	83,835	77,795	7.76%	84,233	-0.47%
Clemson	ACC	80,694	79,489	1.52%	80,500	0.24%
Notre Dame	Independent	76,193	72,817	4.64%	77,029	-1.09%
South Carolina	SEC	75,785	69,734	8.68%	75,366	0.56%
Wisconsin	Big Ten	74,159	73,466	0.94%	77,054	-3.76%
Arkansas	SEC	73,155	65,284	12.06%	61,781	18.41%
Iowa	Big Ten	69,250	66,777	3.70%	67,274	2.94%
Michigan State	Big Ten	69,047	70,135	-1.55%	71,538	-3.48%
Florida State	ACC	67,254	58,679	14.61%	65,746	2.29%
USC	Pac-12	64,487	56,215	14.72%	62,433	3.29%
Virginia Tech	ACC	64,356	58,729	9.58%	60,571	6.25%
Washington	Pac-12	62,933	62,046	1.43%	66,553	-5.44%
Ole Miss	SEC	62,575	56,472	10.81%	56,786	10.19%
Kentucky	SEC	60,289	56,301	7.08%	54,931	9.75%
BYU	Independent	59,674	61,647	-3.20%	57,701	3.42%
Iowa State	Big 12	57,344	60,704	-5.53%	57,399	-0.10%
Purdue	Big Ten	57,129	56,333	1.41%	48,762	17.16%
Texas Tech	Big 12	56,870	52,402	8.53%	55,034	3.34%
NC State	ACC	55,924	54,523	2.57%	56,438	-0.91%
Miami (FL)	ACC	54,964	43,698	25.78%	55,050	-0.16%
Oregon	Pac-12	54,950	49,468	11.08%	53,247	3.20%
Oklahoma State	Big 12	54,735	53,012	3.25%	54,395	0.63%
Pittsburgh	ACC	54,710	45,365	20.60%	42,561	28.55%
Missouri	SEC	54,525	46,516	17.22%	51,174	6.55%
Mississippi State	SEC	53,822	49,494	8.74%	56,030	-3.94%
Utah	Pac-12	52,057	51,817	0.46%	47,406	9.81%
Kansas State	Big 12	51,165	46,368	10.35%	49,629	3.10%
Rutgers	Big Ten	50,756	44,630	13.73%	39,413	28.78%
North Carolina	ACC	47,933	47,947	-0.03%	48,478	-1.12%
West Virginia	Big 12	47,658	51,583	-7.61%	55,835	-14.65%
Indiana	Big Ten	46,906	46,925	-0.04%	43,223	8.52%
TCU	Big 12	46,562	39,529	17.79%	42,905	8.52%
Baylor	Big 12	45,463	44,729	1.64%	44,250	2.74%
Minnesota	Big Ten	45,019	46,140	-2.43%	43,683