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I still contend that Uconn is still very well positioned and that further movement will happen much sooner than later. Only two things in my mind would kill UConns chances. 1. The Big 12 expanded with Cincy and Byu. 2. ESPN locked up the B1g. Neither has happened. So the more time I have to digest yesterday's news, the better I think it was for Uconn. I doubt the schools and networks left out of yesterday's announcement will roll over and play dead. Things are just starting, not ending! Pull up a chair and enjoy the ride. My guess now is ESPN ponies up more money to lock in the acc, gives nd a sweetheart deal to be a permanent member and adds uconn. Both ESPN and the acc need nyc more than ever. There is only one way to get it.
 
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Will the B1G and Fox will want more east coast to compete with ACC/ESPN? If so, unless the rumors of a mass exodus from ACC are true, the B1G may have to pry at least one ACC school out to get the ball rolling and get some prisoner dilemma mojo working in their favor. I can see the B1G/Fox agreeing to cover the exit liability/litigation expenses for one ACC school (especially if FSU) but do they take the risk of covering exit liability of two exiting ACC schools? Or do they find a cheap date/partner for the ACC school now to (i) mitigate their financial exposure, (ii) fortify east coast basketball content and add a worthy east coast rival for UMD, (iii) get the undisputed greatest WBB basketball brand in the world (iv) pick up good hockey, soccer, baseball, lacrosse and other Olympic sports and (v) scare the sheet out of the remaining ACC schools that will be left picking their a$$es looking for tier 3 rights?

I recognize that this is a frucking made up scenario - sorry- its how I cope. Please please please please please please please please please please please please please - let something like this or B12 or something be happening. PLEASE! *Also please support my unofficial sponsor: Don Julio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
 
djct1999 said:
I still contend that Uconn is still very well positioned and that further movement will happen much sooner than later. Only two things in my mind would kill UConns chances. 1. The Big 12 expanded with Cincy and Byu. 2. ESPN locked up the B1g. Neither has happened. So the more time I have to digest yesterday's news, the better I think it was for Uconn. I doubt the schools and networks left out of yesterday's announcement will roll over and play dead. Things are just starting, not ending! Pull up a chair and enjoy the ride. My guess now is ESPN ponies up more money to lock in the acc, gives nd a sweetheart deal to be a permanent member and adds uconn. Both ESPN and the acc need nyc more than ever. There is only one way to get it.
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I agree with most of this but I think ESPN also has the goal of locking up Texas long-term while migrating the failed Longhorn Network to a more profitable network model, while not paying up to 7 B12 schools that bring little in terms of market or revenue. So I think ESPN will try to solve several problems at once by creating an ACC - ND - Texas (maybe Oklahoma+Kansas too) network. UConn could be a part of that. They may also have an opportunity to work with the Pac, whose network has not been as profitable as hoped, partly because they lack eastern distribution.

I am also suspicious of the numbers thrown out for the B1G-Fox deal. I suspect the headline numbers are a maximum rather than a guaranteed payout, and the B1G has to hit various metrics to get those numbers. I suspect this was a friendly Fox-B1G deal designed to generate an impression that B1G content is more valuable than it is and put pressure on ESPN, CBS, NBC, etc to offer bigger bids on the second half. Fox is a B1G partner via BTN and could easily help them out by structuring the Tier 1 deal to permit these terrific headlines, without changing its expected payout much.

I don't think ESPN rolls over for the B1G and I bet the money differential between conferences will be less than current buzz anticipates.

And I think we're seeing a Fox vs ESPN competition with the northeast, ND, and Texas as major dominoes yet to fall. UConn as the lone available northeast property that moves the needle is likely to get picked up in that competition.
 
Awful Announcing Take:Big Ten schools will see media revenues skyrocket thanks to new TV deal

>>Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany’s threat that the conference could move to Division III if forced to pay players looks even more laughable now, and college sports leaders must answer where all of that money is going if not to the athletes.

Many costs in college football are fixed, and schools aren’t adding legitimate expenses — like new sports — to keep up with that kind of revenue. It’s impossible for a Big Ten school to claim that it legitimately needs $25 million more in 2018 than it did in 2015 in order to survive.

Since Big Ten schools are nonprofits, they are not allowed to make a profit, which is much harder to accomplish or to justify with tens of millions of additional television revenue coming to the universities. Therefore, they will find ways to spend that money lavishly, like on coaching salaries, administrative pay and shiny new facilities, to make it look like they still run a deficit.

Most significantly, nearing a $30 million bump in revenue, can these schools and conferences continue to implement a system where the athletes themselves aren’t able to attain a share of the massive increase in wealth?<<
 
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I'll be interested to see what kind of an effect this has on Big East ratings. In theory, ratings should probably more than double from the small pittance audience numbers they have drawn the last few years. If it doesn't, then that will say ALOT about Big East basketball in its current state.
 
Drew said:
To a lesser extent, CUSA is a loser in this also. Had games on FSN all of last year and can't imagine FOX being interested in their rights again after this
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Yeah... that was noted in the article above from Matt Sarzyniak. The bumping down the cable/satellite box will be something to watch
 
nelsonmuntz said:
A University of Indiana football game is worth about 50x what a UConn game is worth.
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What is this University of Indiana you speak of? Is it near Indiana University? On a second note, when making a negative point about a B1G school/team try using Purdue it's much more amusing.
 
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TruthNnumbers said:
What is this University of Indiana you speak of? Is it near Indiana University? On a second note, when making a negative point about a B1G school/team try using Purdue it's much more amusing.
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Purdue or Perdue? Somewhere in here, there is a chicken joke to be made.
 
I've always like the Perdue

Perdue: French: meaning lost, past participle of perdre < Latin perdere to lose
 
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Purdue may not be top sports program; but, the University did generate close to $400 million in research grants in 2014, which puts them in the top 20 nationally depending on which rating system is used. While such a number is not important to the XII and SEC, that is a major point in their favor within the B1G.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
Purdue may not be top sports program; but, the University did generate close to $400 million in research grants in 2014, which puts them in the top 20 nationally depending on which rating system is used. While such a number is not important to the XII and SEC, that is a major point in their favor within the B1G.
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I know, I know the B1G would never drop PU...they are a great school and all that. But come on and let a Hoosier have a dream will ya.
 
Dooley said:
Purdue or Perdue? Somewhere in here, there is a chicken joke to be made.
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They are known for a big drum and . . . That's all I got.

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Good read.

Frank the Tank's Slant: B1G TV Deal Coming Out Like a Fox

Digest this comment: "In effect, we’re about to enter into a world where Rutgers and Northwestern are going to earn significantly more TV money than Florida State, Oklahoma, USC and even Alabama and Notre Dame."

Another comment within:
>>In any event, the short length of the TV deal means that conference realignment talk might cool down in the immediate term, but will pick up a huge amount of steam in the next 5 years. Whether it’s a coincidence or not (and I tend to think “not”), the end of the 6-year deal term in 2023 is shortly before the expiration of the Big 12’s grant of rights agreement in 2025, which makes any possible damages for a Big 12 defector to be much lower and/or negligible compared to a Big Ten windfall.<<
 
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BE could be looking at games being shunted aside in favor of B1G, so how is that good for the BE?
And, if the ACC breaks up, the best of the old BE is going to get back together and squat right on top of the former also-rans.
 
upstater said:
BE could be looking at games being shunted aside in favor of B1G, so how is that good for the BE?
And, if the ACC breaks up, the best of the old BE is going to get back together and squat right on top of the former also-rans.
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But the Big East will have a better name than the North Atlantic Coast Conference.
 
huskymedic said:
Good read.

Frank the Tank's Slant: B1G TV Deal Coming Out Like a Fox

Digest this comment: "In effect, we’re about to enter into a world where Rutgers and Northwestern are going to earn significantly more TV money than Florida State, Oklahoma, USC and even Alabama and Notre Dame."

Another comment within:
>>In any event, the short length of the TV deal means that conference realignment talk might cool down in the immediate term, but will pick up a huge amount of steam in the next 5 years. Whether it’s a coincidence or not (and I tend to think “not”), the end of the 6-year deal term in 2023 is shortly before the expiration of the Big 12’s grant of rights agreement in 2025, which makes any possible damages for a Big 12 defector to be much lower and/or negligible compared to a Big Ten windfall.<<
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But Rutgers would need $50 million more a year to just equal FSU athletic revenue for 2014-15. Like most, he doesn't look at the total revenue picture.
 
pj said:
But the Big East will have a better name than the North Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Actually, the new conference is going to be called the North Atlantic Divisional Schools. (NADS)

The new conference will mandate that during all interconference contests (including national championship playoffs / tournaments), fans of member schools must root for the conference as a whole, rather than the individual schools. This will only be a temporary measure, designed to rapidly increase the new conference's Q factor for TV.

So instead of yelling "Let's Go Huskies!", you'll soon be cheering "Go Nads!".

Also sets up a debate as to which is better : our NADS or Delaney's Big 10.
 
billybud said:
But Rutgers would need $50 million more a year to just equal FSU athletic revenue for 2014-15. Like most, he doesn't look at the total revenue picture.
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His statement that Rutgers is going to earn significantly more TV money than Florida State is NOT incorrect though...
 
billybud said:
But Rutgers would need $50 million more a year to just equal FSU athletic revenue for 2014-15. Like most, he doesn't look at the total revenue picture.
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Rutgers has already scored a couple well rated (small slice of very BIG market) BTN games in NYC. Rutgers doesn't see that revenue directly, but the Big Ten is happy, and no doubt the new television deal is leveraging the addition of the new markets.
 
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