Big East's Next Media Deal

[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.

 

[FriarJ]

This thread is GOLD!

 

[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]

UConn was in the Big East in 2022

And Jay Wright was there

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]

This thread is GOLD!

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.

 

[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.