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JMick said:
Meh the Yankees used to have some games on the CW. I don't see what the big deal is.
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I don’t think I have the CW and I’m pretty sure I’m paying for everything lol
 
noeynox said:
Sometimes you have to give a little to get a lot. Once upon a time there was a 6 game series in football with Notre Dame in the works. People cried that the home games should be at the Rent (myself included), and the series went bye bye. We need to learn from our mistakes.
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10 games, if I recall correctly. I always thought the happy medium would've been to extend it to 12 games, or even 14 and squeeze a couple of games at Rentschler field in there. But you're right, hindsight is 20/20.
 
JMick said:
Meh the Yankees used to have some games on the CW. I don't see what the big deal is.
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No. The Yankees did not have a deal with the CW network, which is what the tweet said. They had a deal with the local station that was a CW affiliate to broadcast a small number of games over the air LOCALLY in NYC for folks who didn't or couldn't get cable.
 
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UConn Dan said:
I don’t think I have the CW and I’m pretty sure I’m paying for everything lol
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I think they've gotten into some contract disputes with certain carriers and I think some carriers dropped them for a time. They're probably making deals like this so people complain to their cable company and get them added back.
 
UConn Dan said:
IIRC, it had more to do with our contract with the Rent of a min of 6 home games per year. It could’ve potentially happened if we had 7 home games a year consistently but there was no appetite to alter the contract by the state.
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I don't remember the details but that should have never fallen apart like it did.
 
businesslawyer said:
No. The Yankees did not have a deal with the CW network, which is what the tweet said. They had a deal with the local station that was a CW affiliate to broadcast a small number of games over the air LOCALLY in NYC for folks who didn't or couldn't get cable.
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Ok whatever same difference. The games were on a CW channel, and it was available via cable. So if you are in ACC country and get the equivalent to channel 11 then you can see the game. I don't see it as being any different than SNY or CBSSN
 
CL82 said:
Angry Aubrey Plaza GIF by Parks and Recreation

No. I hate them all. Every last one of them.
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That post was about Pitt. It was the Pitt President who recommended vetoing the ESPN offer. That started the chain of events. Meanwhile, he was working behind everyone's back to leave the Big East. Talk about backstabbing!
 
JMick said:
Ok whatever same difference. The games were on a CW channel, and it was available via cable. So if you are in ACC country and get the equivalent to channel 11 then you can see the game. I don't see it as being any different than SNY or CBSSN
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NO, you are totally missing the point. The ACC deal is to show games on the CW network nationwide. The Yankees games were broadcast on Channel 11 in NY. They were not broadcast nationwide on the CW network. It's no different than Channel 3 showing a UConn victory parade without that meaning that it's being shown on the CBS network nationwide.
 
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ctchamps said:
Yormack is too aggressive and proactive to let that happen. He'll do everything he can to be the first to twenty and I'm sure he's working alongside one of the networks on this goal. He's not going to compete with the BIG or the SEC to be number one in football. He just has to maintain relevancy - that is be the third or fourth best football conference. But if he is able to make the B12 the overwhelming superior basketball conference than he can be the third spoke in any power play by aligning with one or the other of the two stronger conferences to get better deals. If he gloms the best of the basketball power houses that are currently available or almost available and if he has the backing of a network then when the ACC implodes it may not be a given that North Carolina and Virginia will be heading to the BIG.

North Carolina is most certainly a basketball first university and going to the BIG makes them a small fish in a big football pond. In the B12 North Carolina and Virginia would be among the biggest fish in the basketball pond. Remember North Carolina argued strongly for UConn but the football powerhouses of Clemson and Florida State vetoed that option. They may still have a bad taste from that experience. No doubt that if the financial differential that currently exists remains when the ACC breaks down then this won't be a consideration.

What has puzzled me from the start is how Yormack got such an incredible financial deal after Texas and Oklahoma announced they were leaving. The only thing that makes sense is that he approached a network on some idea that was an advantage to both the B12 and that network. And he had the cache within that network such that they believe he can pull it off. I do not know which network could benefit by increasing some of the B12's power at the expense of the BIG but I would like to hear other explanations why the B12 is getting so much money.
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Virginia and UNC are locks to the big 10 if the acc falls apart. Texas and Oklahoma have shown that being a big fish in a small pond is worth less than 100 million a year.

As for the B12 tv deal, part of it is that they are offering networks 20% more inventory than before. Add in the inflation in sport tv deals since the previous contract was signed, it's not hard to get to the $32 million figure they ended up at.

The real genius from Yormack was getting the contract done before the PAC 12. It removed demand/money from the market and offered certainty to the league.
 
JohnFSilver said:
Where do you live? Ever been to Tolland, Farmington valley or northwest corner? Lot of hick areas and country style living. Not farms, but I would consider rural living.
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Most of eastern Connecticut is pretty light except coastal and towns surrounding the Thames River
 
gampelcrazies said:
I'm going to upset many here by saying this but MSG is nowhere near being a home game for UConn. We draw good there but it really hasn't felt like we have dominated MSG since the 2014 East Regional vs. Michigan St.

I don't get why UConn or any UConn fans would want conference home games moved to MSG. Why should we have to go out to Lawerence Kansas or Waco Texas but they can't come to Storrs or Hartford?
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Because there are only 1 or 2, maybe 3, NCAA schools that could sell out MSG and we are #1.
 
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ctchamps said:
Yormack is too aggressive and proactive to let that happen. He'll do everything he can to be the first to twenty and I'm sure he's working alongside one of the networks on this goal. He's not going to compete with the BIG or the SEC to be number one in football. He just has to maintain relevancy - that is be the third or fourth best football conference. But if he is able to make the B12 the overwhelming superior basketball conference than he can be the third spoke in any power play by aligning with one or the other of the two stronger conferences to get better deals.
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#3 in Football and #1 in Basketball is not a bad consolation prize. Outside of eyeballs and the money, there is also something to be said for actually producing and winning as a conference.
 
I wouldn't be opposed to moving all of our games at the XL Center to MSG. Seems like our deal there is pretty bad.
 
GoKU said:
Those pushing for UConn in the Big 12 are Yormark, Kansas, Baylor and West Virginia.
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That's a nice start to get the required buy-in and votes across the members and from the comments by Yormark in this article about how they are open to change then I think UConn has a legitimate shot.
 
UConn Dan said:
I thought that bio was BS but after doing a little googling maybe I should give him more credit. Just seems like he throws a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.

I may have found his linked-in and he has a career in sports production for local TV in Baltimore. Has had a stint at ESPN. Grad degree (working on) from Quinnipiac.
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I think he's new to the social media scene and is trying to appeal to a lot of people/growing his followers by posting a wide range of "stuff".
 
CL82 said:
For the record, no where in the quoted tweet does it say conference home games. It just says a Connecticut will host some games there. Perhaps will host them in some form of the big 12 tournament?
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Or maybe an early season Big12 non-conference doubleheader with UConn and another conference team in the other end of the doubleheader?
 
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JMick said:
The dream scenario is that we are in the Big XII, the ACC implodes, Big XII goes to 18 to keep up with the SEC and B1G.

The east coast division becomes UConn, Cinci, UCF, WVU, Cuse, Pitt, Duke, Louisville, Virginia Tech

The west coast is Baylor, BYU, Houston, Iowa St, Kansas, K-State, Oklahoma St, TCU, TTU

It's basically the perfect conference for us and easily the third strongest conference.
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I like this.

And Boston College University can go to the Patriot League, where they will hover around 0.500 and make the occasional early December bowl game.

Everybody wins!
 
GoKU said:
Those pushing for UConn in the Big 12 are Yormark, Kansas, Baylor and West Virginia.
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I think BYU would be for it, too. They have a mission to spread their religion.

They bought an ad in Times Square when they joined the Big 12.

 
People are running with that Jim Williams tweet.

www.heartlandcollegesports.com

UConn Booster Predicts It's Only a Matter of 'If Not When' Huskies Join Big 12

At least one person around UConn athletics believes it’s only a matter of time before the Huskies join the Big 12 Conference. At Big 12 Media Days on Wednesday, commissioner Brett Yormark said that the conference has a “plan” around expansion but didn’t mention any specific schools. But, he...
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UConn Dan said:
People are running with that Jim Williams tweet.

www.heartlandcollegesports.com

UConn Booster Predicts It's Only a Matter of 'If Not When' Huskies Join Big 12

At least one person around UConn athletics believes it’s only a matter of time before the Huskies join the Big 12 Conference. At Big 12 Media Days on Wednesday, commissioner Brett Yormark said that the conference has a “plan” around expansion but didn’t mention any specific schools. But, he...
www.heartlandcollegesports.com www.heartlandcollegesports.com
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there used to be a time that instead of just reporting on someone elses reporting, people would also talk to their own sources to see if they could corroborate what the other person said. nowadays people just repeat others for the sake of it. it's pretty terrible.
 
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