Experts Say UConn Should Have Backup Plan As Big 12 Meets Monday To Tackle Expansion

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Experts Say UConn Should Have Backup Plan As Big 12 Meets Monday To Tackle Expansion

 

[donyell34]

Back up plan ! This might be it.

 

[MexicoHusky]

Back up plan ! This might be it.

Agreed. Why is joining the A10 in football a viable backup plan but remaining in the AAC is not.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Thank Christ for experts! Who else would have thought about constructing a plan B?!?

 

[John]

Experts Say UConn Should Have Backup Plan As Big 12 Meets Monday To Tackle Expansion

So I sez to myself, I sez, what we need is one of them fancy gaddugm backup plans.

 

[Robertelamin]

Monitoring the situation.

 

[UConniki]

Agreed. Why is joining the A10 in football a viable backup plan but remaining in the AAC is not.

Big East for MBB/ A10 MFB

 

[champs99and04]

Big East for MBB/ A10 MFB

The A-10 is not a football conference.

 

[Jay-Bone]

The A-10 is not a football conference.

We're not a football team.

 

[UCweCONN]

Big East for MBB/ B10 MFB

There was a typo. I fixed it.

 

[champs99and04]

We're not a football team.

Word?

 

[BUConn10]

Agreed. Why is joining the A10 in football a viable backup plan but remaining in the AAC is not.

Because the AAC's TV contract deal is bad, like historically bad. So bad in fact that several smaller, much less competitive conferences make a significant deal more. Whoever negotiated this contract for the AAC basically let ESPN have all the leverage and dictate the terms simply for the exposure they bring with their network.

 

[husky99]

Our backup plan is the aac.
We are f e d

 

[CardiacAndre7]

I say we just create a new conference with all dog mascots. Obviously us, Washington, Northeastern and NIU, will be the heads, but we could get Georgetown, Georgia, Butler, Mississippi State, and Yale.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Big East for MBB/ A10 MFB

Now, there's a cerebral solution.

 

[KemBuckets21]

This is disheartening. I got my hopes up for this one...Almost to diamond stone levels...Fingers crossed things change.

 

[AtlHusky]

Big East for MBB/ A10 MFB

What would we do with WFB?

 

[UConniki]

Now, there's a cerebral solution.

I was responding to ndakotahusky, and that was what I thought the article was suggesting... not what I was suggesting.

 

[Fishy]

Because the AAC's TV contract deal is bad, like historically bad. So bad in fact that several smaller, much less competitive conferences make a significant deal more. Whoever negotiated this contract for the AAC basically let ESPN have all the leverage and dictate the terms simply for the exposure they bring with their network.

Nope.

First, there aren't "several" smaller conferences making significantly more. The Mountain West makes a little bit less and the rest are just making peanuts. Conference USA makes about $200,000 per team - the Sun Belt makes $100,000 a piece.

Second, the American didn't negotiate a contract with ESPN. They went out on the open market and negotiated the best deal they could - as it happens, that was with NBC Sports. All ESPN did was exercise their right to match.

And the only way the mythical re-entry into the Big East has an impact on revenue is if we cut football to the bone and essentially withdraw from any future consideration for a power conference.

 

[dennismenace]

I say we just create a new conference with all dog mascots. Obviously us, Washington, Northeastern and NIU, will be the heads, but we could get Georgetown, Georgia, Butler, Mississippi State, and Yale.

Maybe we could expand and have an all conference Board of "The Boneyard".

 

[NorwalkHusky]

 

[uconnell]

Big East for MBB/ A10 MFB

NO

 

[Paesano]

Backup plan is for Rutgers or BC to get kicked out of their respective conferences to open up a spot for us. I honestly don't know how impossible that scenario is. So I can still hope....

 

[UConniki]

NO

Wow I thought I already made the point clearly that that's not what I was suggesting or supporting. I guess not clearly enough.

 

[Jaker]

With our win over cincy in fooseball, we should have leap frogged them for a big12 invite.