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All this doom and gloom based on fog of war type informatiin is mind boggling.
Truths and half truths and lies get jumbled together.
UConn's athletic department budget is the highest by $20m of any school not in a power 5 conference. Even of those schools in the power conferences, and in spite of uconn receiving no appreciable big east tv recpvenue while others receive $15-$25m, uconn still outranks 25 schools.
the only fbs schools with a higher academic ranking not in an fbs conference are Rice and Tulane. Rice is a tiny school. Tulane is, well tulane. and has been for 30 years. the same buzz we heard uconn make athletically in the late 90's is the same buzz being made in academic circles today.
uconn is in one of the most densely populated areas of the country. it captures nyc based on its brand more than and at worst equal to rutgers, especially when you factor in bb. uconn captures its primary market, the state of connecticut equal to the fervor of many sec schools. while sec schools captive market is based largely on football, uconn's captive market is spread across fb, men's bb, and women's bb.
uconn's htd-nh dma is #30, with 700,000 households. sw ct, nyc, hudson river valley is not included in that figure. that is hard, quantifiable captive audience numbers. based on that alone, uconn would bring value, but that value is magnified by the penetration into nyc.
the fallacy in a lot of the doom and gloomers is that football drives the bus. it does for certain conferences and their network partners. but it doesn't for the big ten model. the big ten cares about enough quality content that cable companies are prodded into carrying the btn. that business model is predicated on extracting most of the revenue from footprint states. so while fb is king in the sec, a fan calling up to ask to watch a girl's bb game and demand it be carried is the same in the eyes of the cable company. that fan is a subscriber.
additionally, in spite of what you may think, the ncaa tourney is more valuable than the entire new payoff/bowl system. the ncaa tourney is valued at $1b. the playoff/bcs, even adding in contract bowls, earns far less than $1b. the difference is that the ncaa keeps the money.
delany doesn't like that. gordon gee has already said it- that money's gonna come back, the only question is when. the ultimate goal is to have fewer conferences sharing mire dollars. the same model used in the fb playoff distribution. it is an evolutionary process. but it is difficult not to see that it is an inevitable one.
which gets me back to my premise- nothing has changed for uconn if you look only at the big picture. uconn's good fortune to come isn't so much a function of uconn's attributes, per se; rather it stems from a decision by delany to abandon the nebraska model once the btn's actual implementation was able to be analyzed. and uconn fits that model in so many ways to sunday.
it is the logical next step of the btn.
and you don't have to traipse around with tin foil wrapped around your head to see something truly odd with the statements and public information coming out of uconn. those statements are not in accord with what any viewer would expect, unless those statements are dictated by uconn's interest ny the big 10.
And before anyone says, well mcmurphy says we're screwed, the catholic presidents said x, tell me who knew in mid november that the big ten was poised to expand? did mcmurphy? his sources are the catholics/big east. delan learned in 2010. he put the hammer down. there will be no loose lips.
by the way, like a crazy man waving his arms in traffic, i still am waiting for two things:
any public mention of the acc by uconn, including lobbying, after the md add, and before the monday invite of louisville. the only quotes implicating uconn's efforts in the acc is a quote by jacobs that manuel worked his "hump off" that came from someone that knew what manuel was doing. that someone is unknown. we have no facts, no emails, no sources said pres x, which starkly stands in contrast with cincy and louisville. by the way, manuel didn't work his hump off. he went unexpectedly early to the usvi to watch uconn play new mexico in the finals and stayed thru the girls tourney. and yes, pres herbst was there, seen frolicking daily at the beach. if everyone says uconn was the next logical add to the acc, and uconn doesn't get added, ipso facto uconn lobbied. what has happened is that assumptions have become facts, and have been repeated by enough people until they are hardened truths.
second, the narrative that the catholics were angry at how cincy and uconn acted after louisville was added. show me any statement, sourced or unsourced from uconn, that proves that narrative. exactly what has uconn said since louisville left? a banal statement not mentioning anything by manuel. a statement by herbst re reseaerch. manuel at the img conference saying nothing, except be basketball brand is strong, nothing by herbst at the img forum she skipped out on, nothing by manuel in two separate radio interviews.
uss ct is wrapped loud and proud in tinfoil, and is going full speed ahead.y
Truths and half truths and lies get jumbled together.
UConn's athletic department budget is the highest by $20m of any school not in a power 5 conference. Even of those schools in the power conferences, and in spite of uconn receiving no appreciable big east tv recpvenue while others receive $15-$25m, uconn still outranks 25 schools.
the only fbs schools with a higher academic ranking not in an fbs conference are Rice and Tulane. Rice is a tiny school. Tulane is, well tulane. and has been for 30 years. the same buzz we heard uconn make athletically in the late 90's is the same buzz being made in academic circles today.
uconn is in one of the most densely populated areas of the country. it captures nyc based on its brand more than and at worst equal to rutgers, especially when you factor in bb. uconn captures its primary market, the state of connecticut equal to the fervor of many sec schools. while sec schools captive market is based largely on football, uconn's captive market is spread across fb, men's bb, and women's bb.
uconn's htd-nh dma is #30, with 700,000 households. sw ct, nyc, hudson river valley is not included in that figure. that is hard, quantifiable captive audience numbers. based on that alone, uconn would bring value, but that value is magnified by the penetration into nyc.
the fallacy in a lot of the doom and gloomers is that football drives the bus. it does for certain conferences and their network partners. but it doesn't for the big ten model. the big ten cares about enough quality content that cable companies are prodded into carrying the btn. that business model is predicated on extracting most of the revenue from footprint states. so while fb is king in the sec, a fan calling up to ask to watch a girl's bb game and demand it be carried is the same in the eyes of the cable company. that fan is a subscriber.
additionally, in spite of what you may think, the ncaa tourney is more valuable than the entire new payoff/bowl system. the ncaa tourney is valued at $1b. the playoff/bcs, even adding in contract bowls, earns far less than $1b. the difference is that the ncaa keeps the money.
delany doesn't like that. gordon gee has already said it- that money's gonna come back, the only question is when. the ultimate goal is to have fewer conferences sharing mire dollars. the same model used in the fb playoff distribution. it is an evolutionary process. but it is difficult not to see that it is an inevitable one.
which gets me back to my premise- nothing has changed for uconn if you look only at the big picture. uconn's good fortune to come isn't so much a function of uconn's attributes, per se; rather it stems from a decision by delany to abandon the nebraska model once the btn's actual implementation was able to be analyzed. and uconn fits that model in so many ways to sunday.
it is the logical next step of the btn.
and you don't have to traipse around with tin foil wrapped around your head to see something truly odd with the statements and public information coming out of uconn. those statements are not in accord with what any viewer would expect, unless those statements are dictated by uconn's interest ny the big 10.
And before anyone says, well mcmurphy says we're screwed, the catholic presidents said x, tell me who knew in mid november that the big ten was poised to expand? did mcmurphy? his sources are the catholics/big east. delan learned in 2010. he put the hammer down. there will be no loose lips.
by the way, like a crazy man waving his arms in traffic, i still am waiting for two things:
any public mention of the acc by uconn, including lobbying, after the md add, and before the monday invite of louisville. the only quotes implicating uconn's efforts in the acc is a quote by jacobs that manuel worked his "hump off" that came from someone that knew what manuel was doing. that someone is unknown. we have no facts, no emails, no sources said pres x, which starkly stands in contrast with cincy and louisville. by the way, manuel didn't work his hump off. he went unexpectedly early to the usvi to watch uconn play new mexico in the finals and stayed thru the girls tourney. and yes, pres herbst was there, seen frolicking daily at the beach. if everyone says uconn was the next logical add to the acc, and uconn doesn't get added, ipso facto uconn lobbied. what has happened is that assumptions have become facts, and have been repeated by enough people until they are hardened truths.
second, the narrative that the catholics were angry at how cincy and uconn acted after louisville was added. show me any statement, sourced or unsourced from uconn, that proves that narrative. exactly what has uconn said since louisville left? a banal statement not mentioning anything by manuel. a statement by herbst re reseaerch. manuel at the img conference saying nothing, except be basketball brand is strong, nothing by herbst at the img forum she skipped out on, nothing by manuel in two separate radio interviews.
uss ct is wrapped loud and proud in tinfoil, and is going full speed ahead.y
