ESPN / ACC deal... $17 mil / school

[RS9999X]

If UConn was locked into this contract we'd be ecstatic. Give the ACC credit: they've taken a mediocre regional football product and gotten top dollar for it.

They need to change the song lyrics:

They call Alabama the Crimson tide....Call me Husky Blues

The bad part: it feeds the Flippers' and their egos and tells them that the on field product can suck with impunity. Pitt is gloating. SU is ready to hire back Greg Robinson. Sucking is in.

#Suck Harder

 

[RS9999X]

- $17 mil per school isn't bad.
- Can the NNBE (if it makes it that far) meet or exceed that number? (allowing for whatever variences due to the hoops onlies)
- Is it better to be featured at the optimum football timeslots on NBC or Fox Sports (but it's NBC or Fox Sports)... or sub-optimal football timeslots on the worldwide leader? (Big Fish/Small Pond or vice versa).

Did you see the UConn Women's $1.1 mil a year from SNY? How much more do you think they will pay for UConn men?

 

[UCFBfan]

If we have been ragged on for years as the worst conference ( even though we've been better than the ACC ) as a product of ESPN, I really shudder to think what happens when our games are no longer on the station. Big East Football would be lucky to get a 20 second highlight clip and extra lucky if the game wasn't made fun of for the duration of the clip.

This is going to happen even if the new deal is with ESPN. Look at the current situation. Last year College GameDay spent all of 5 minutes a weekend talking about a Big East game and that was usually a WVU game. Hell, even when they came to Morgantown they spent more time talking about Syracuse and Pitt leaving instead of WVU and the game. ESPN already has determined that they will never cover a Big East game the way they get on their knees for the ACC, B1G, Big12, Pac12, and SEC. So in the end, does it matter? I'd love for ESPN to give more credit to the Big East but have we even earned that....?? We haven't had a school go to the BCS with double digit wins in three years. I just don't see them caring about the Big East even if we stay with ESPN.....