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It's pretty sickening, considering that ESPN essentially drove this process in terms of the ACC shutting us out.
Yeah honestly at this point I think we may have better hopes with the P5 breaking off and starting essentially from scratch, at which point someone would pick us up. They know UConn is one of the 64 best athletic schools in the country, but conferences as they are these days are stuck with freeloading grandfathered programs like Purdue and Wake Forest and Vanderbilt and Oregon StateSicking yes. But they have a point. %$#& the NCAA!
Can you blame them? They just saw Uconn beat Kentucky, Florida and Mich St. They don't want any other non p5 conference taking what they believe is their right.
ABC/ESPN's broadcasting of college basketball ends on Selection Sunday. They'd love to start their own little wanker fest in March.the networks don't want to see March Madness decimated, at least whoever owns the rights
as for football, it already is in their hands
CBS/Turner have the TV rights for the NCAA tour. Thru 2024. They signed that deal for 11B in 2010.
The world at large has not updated their "Basketball Heavyweights" list since 1998.When schools like Kentucky (and other schools with mega-fanbases) realize that they can make more money by not having to share NCAA Tourney money with the likes of Butler, Seton Hall, George Mason, Dayton and other small schools with small fanbases that bring next to no revenue to the table, full autonomy split is game-on.
The good news for UCONN: if there is ever a NCAA Tourney split, you can bet your bottom dollar that UCONN's potential P5 value would soar. You'll need as many basketball heavyweights in the field as possible to negotiate a new TV contract.
ABC/ESPN's broadcasting of college basketball ends on Selection Sunday. They'd love to start their own little wanker fest in March.
Doesn't matter if there's money in it, ie natural rivalries, geographic conferences, etcit would never be the same, it's the small schools that make the nation love the brackets
more importantly, it wouldn't be a true national championship either, unlike football
we can agree to disagree, College Basketball is all about March Madness. You simply can't replace that
college football has been one sided for our entire lifetimes, not much changed there