ESPN hates us

[zls44]

@zls44 Is this true?

We meet on alternating Thursdays.

 

[Kitaman]

I can't remember the last time I went to ESPN.com

I left them a long time ago also, but lately Kemba brings me back, for a couple of minutes only though.

 

[Madmannsucks]

In all honesty, has something actually happened to cause a rift between UConn and ESPN?

Yeah, the demise of the old Big East.

 

[Husky25]

In all honesty, has something actually happened to cause a rift between UConn and ESPN?

UConn leaving the AAC means that ESPN is drastically overpaying for AAC Conference content.

On the other hand. Each ESPN+ subscription originating from the an AAC region is a direct offset.

They need about 100,000 subscriptions per fanbase per year to completely break even, and they just lost a dedicated pool about 1.5 Million households from which to draw UConn's contribution, plus what UConn would cover for other fanbases like ECU, Tulsa, and the like.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

UConn leaving the AAC means that ESPN is drastically overpaying for AAC Conference content.

On the other hand. Each ESPN+ subscription originating from the an AAC region is a direct offset.

They need about 100,000 subscriptions per fanbase per year to completely break even, and they just lost a dedicated pool about 1.5 Million households from which to draw UConn's contribution, plus what UConn would cover for other fanbases like ECU, Tulsa, and the like.

ESPN is run by vindictive idiots. The headline on the game recap is so absurdly stupid that the writer either hates UConn and/or is trolling UConn fans. Either way, it is not appropriate for a news organization.

I don't know about ESPN overpaying for the AAC, but the stupidest move ESPN could possibly have made was low-balling the Big East in 2011 in order to fund the ACC's raid. ESPN ended up paying tens of millions a year more for less content than they would have had if they had just made a reasonable offer to the Big East.

 

[scoscox]

they're drastically over paying for AAC basketball certainly. they're paying them like the best G5 football conference, which they probably are, at least for now

the thing about that is, almost all of the money they'll be earning will be poured into football and it still won't come close to covering expenses and life will basically be the same for their basketball programs.

 

[AllAbout5]

UConn was featured in SC Top 10. Don’t think ESPN hates us

 

[CL82]

UConn was featured in SC Top 10. Don’t think ESPN hates us

I don’t think they “hate us“ but we are about to become invisible on the ESPN networks. One thing that Disney excels at is cross promotion. Once we’re not an ESPN product we will become an afterthought at least until the tournament.