The A10 would take UConn in a heartbeat, and I believe the Big East would too. The Big East has experienced a downtick in attendance (albeit in an off year for several programs), and PC, SJU and SHU would love another guaranteed draw on their home schedule. Fox would like us too. The Big East makes a lot more money per school than the American. Football independence will be no worse than the AAC, and likely a lot better if we can get a contract with SNY.
There will be a lot fewer games against FCS schools going forward. The Big 10 has already discontinued them, and I expect other conferences to follow suit, or at least strongly discourage them. That leaves a lot of games and spots in schedules to fill. Scheduling as a football independent will not be that tough, and UConn will just fill November with games against the academies and BYU.
All the financial data supports my position. The ratings and attendance data show that it is possible to get into the Big East. The scheduling trends mean that the biggest challenge of football independence, the schedule, may not be as big a problem going forward. And the AAC is strangling the life out of our athletic program.
Me being right, and you being wrong, is not a temper tantrum. I don't understand why so many people continues to argue with me on this when the fact pattern is increasingly strong in my favor.
Please oh wise sage tell me who Uconn will be scheduling as an independent that will be so much better than the AAC? The B1g is going to 9 games. The ACC teams are not all going to schedule Uconn in 1 season but I will give you 1 game per year from Wake or Cuse or maybe even Pitt but rarely will those be at home. C-USA and the MAC may be going to 9 game schedules which limits your chances of getting them on the schedule. So tell me how the great scheduling trend in the new format benefits an independent Uconn. A steady home diet of W. MI, Buffalo, Umass, RI/ME/UNH, Army, NM State and Stoney Brook. BYU will not be an annual game. Uconn will not be able to afford the trip west every other year for that game. So tell me how that home schedule will draw so much better than the AAC.
Please tell me how great the recruiting for FB will be with Uconn playing on a sports regional that airs Uconn games generally when they are produced on someone else's dime? What recruit outside of NY and CT and maybe the occasional low level NJ recruit will care about Uconn FB?
Your plan basically says Uconn needs to make FB be what it is at Nova, FCS competitive. And with FB de-emphasized, maybe the BE takes Uconn. There is no guarantee their revenue projections sky rocket with Uconn included. In the meantime, the state has a stadium without a home team in East Hartford, attendance will top out at 10,000 and move back to an on campus stadium, the state loses hundreds of millions in sunk costs and more in debt service payments.
Please post all the links to the financial data that supports your position and we can do the math together. Let's not forget the financial penalty Uconn will have to pay withdrawing from the AAC, including giving up all the fees from the BE break up. Do the NPV analysis of the two scenarios over 10 years. In your scenario, don't forget to put the FB costs as a big negative (until they move to FCS and then you can use a smaller negative number due to fewer scholarships and cheaper coaching staffs) because there will be zero TV and bowl revenue there, and then tell me again how the numbers support your conclusion.
Even a broken clock is right a maximum of two minutes a day. That means it it is wrong 1,438 other minutes. You are not right just because you say so.
