CBS BBall Contract: $571,000 Per School, Per Year

[nelsonmuntz]

The dumbest thing the AAC did financially was not having the schools sell their media rights individually. UConn would have easily beat the $2 million a year in media rights. ECU is probably the only school that would have ended up worse off.

 

[noeynox]

Didn't ECUs AD, Terry Holland propose just that? I know the presidents of these schools are extremely smart people, but they make decisions that really make you shake your head

 

[frankthetank]

The dumbest thing the AAC did financially was not having the schools sell their media rights individually. UConn would have easily beat the $2 million a year in media rights. ECU is probably the only school that would have ended up worse off.

Actually, probably only UConn, Navy and maybe Cincinnati (not coincidentally, the three most valuable brand names in the AAC) would be able to be better off financially if schools were to sell their media rights individually, which is exactly why that was a non-starter for the other schools. Ironically, ECU might actually have been OK under this system since they have a fairly loyal fan base and could sell football games to one of the RSNs based in the South (which is why Terry Holland was open to it). Schools like Houston, SMU, Tulane, USF and UCF that have large markets on paper but weak fan bases in reality are the ones that would get pummeled under an individual rights system. It's an issue where what would have been good for UConn simply wasn't good for the vast majority of the other AAC schools.

 

[Hoophound]

Didn't ECUs AD, Terry Holland propose just that? I know the presidents of these schools are extremely smart people, but they make decisions that really make you shake your head

Maybe they did it so that they could all renegotiate together in 3 years. If they made varying agreements for different terms then it would be a mess. It probably would have worked out pretty well for us though.

Their intent is clearly to try and win games and renegotiate. I think they are basically closing their eyes, crossing their fingers and praying they make some noise and legitimize the conference over the first few years.