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Oh no, it's about the money. The grudges, the petty jealousies and biases, are just the factors that help people decide who they want to make the money with, and UConn people, and CT people, with big names, created a lot of grudges, and petty jealousies, and biases among a lot of people that are decision makers along the way in the past two decades, and we're left to make the money now, with others.
But it's been about the money all along. The money that goes along with college football television broadcasting. The turmoil now, is similar to what was happening 20 years ago, very similar. The difference now, is that there are only 4 independant colleges playing 1-A football, and in 1990 there were 28. The other difference is that in 1990, UConn was on the outside looking in, and now we're on the inside looking out.
But make no mistake, everythign that's happening is all about the money, and securing the best media rights deals that you can get.
The good news for UConn, is that we are essentially a free agent, with plenty of valueable content, more than any other right now, I think with men's and women's hoop value + football, and there are very few players left on the market, and we're lining ourselves up with them as best we can.
We need San Diego to make up their minds ASAP. It's certainly no irony, to me at least, that San Diego State right now is the monkey wrench holding things up, as far as I can tell, because in the world that deregulated broadcasting of college football created 28 years ago, it actually kind of makes sense that a new contract that involves media rights a short drive from the Atlantic Ocean, is intimately tied to a school 3,000 miles away and a short distance from the Pacific.
Again - it's all about the money, and securing the best media rights deal you can get.
