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CL82 said:
No they really don't. That would be the worst of all possible worlds.
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No one can be watching a 1-5 UConn football team and suggest they want us. Gonzaga is the canary in the coal mine.
 
Don’t see how basketball only helps us become a full member anywhere. You are giving up everything that conferences value from us for pennies. Once you do that you can’t sell UConn the full package anymore as adding value, you have to sell UConn football alone as adding value. Conferences aren’t gonna just do us a favor down the road
 
kemba said:
Don’t see how basketball only helps us become a full member anywhere. You are giving up everything that conferences value from us for pennies. Once you do that you can’t sell UConn the full package anymore as adding value, you have to sell UConn football alone as adding value. Conferences aren’t gonna just do us a favor down the road
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Apparently they don't value anything as it relates to us. First Oregon/Washington agreed to a half share for rhe duration of the B1G contract now SMU has gone in for for free. It's pretty much game, set, match. No sense getting upset over it.
 
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greenday61892 said:
What a friggin joke lmfao, as if we need any more reason to believe we're blackballed by the P4
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I assume Yomark offered us the same deal as Gonzaga.
Perhaps Benedict is trying to negotiate full membership down the road who knows.
 
It is absolutely nuts to me how much people will twist themselves into a pretzel to justify UConn's exclusion, now they're not questioning an "all sports" inclusion of a school that doesn't even have football and brings $0.00 from the sport while UConn's "downside" is their football. At least we have it and can bring money at all from it it's so infuriating at this point
 
kemba said:
Don’t see how basketball only helps us become a full member anywhere. You are giving up everything that conferences value from us for pennies. Once you do that you can’t sell UConn the full package anymore as adding value, you have to sell UConn football alone as adding value. Conferences aren’t gonna just do us a favor down the road
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The problem for UConn is not getting enough TV revenue from the BE for what it brings in both men's and women's bball. If UConn could get value, it wouldn't need to look elsewhere, at least for the time being. This is why the prospect of non-football sports to the ACC might be a consideration (no matter what anyone says, a basketball ACC package would dwarf the B12 package, and that goes even if FSU, Clemson and Miami leave, though UNC leaving is another thing).
 
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upstater said:
The problem for UConn is not getting enough TV revenue from the BE for what it brings in both men's and women's bball. If UConn could get value, it wouldn't need to look elsewhere, at least for the time being. This is why the prospect of non-football sports to the ACC might be a consideration (no matter what anyone says, a basketball ACC package would dwarf the B12 package, and that goes even if FSU, Clemson and Miami leave, though UNC leaving is another thing).
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What does Notre Dame currently get a non-football member? I don't think it's radically different from the Big East number.
 
upstater said:
The problem for UConn is not getting enough TV revenue from the BE for what it brings in both men's and women's bball. If UConn could get value, it wouldn't need to look elsewhere, at least for the time being. This is why the prospect of non-football sports to the ACC might be a consideration (no matter what anyone says, a basketball ACC package would dwarf the B12 package, and that goes even if FSU, Clemson and Miami leave, though UNC leaving is another thing).
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Not an uninteresting thought. Basketball only now and hop to full when the others dip??
 
CL82 said:
What does Notre Dame currently get a non-football member? I don't think it's radically different from the Big East number.
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Notre Dame gets a 20% share or 8million or 2x what UConn gets in the BE
 
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AZHuskiePop said:
If we were guaranteed 4-5 football games a year as an Indy you just upped your Indy status to a step below p4 I would go BB only to the B12 or ACC . UConn has not shown the ability to cut a deal
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We need to be talking about this with all of the p4 leagues. There is no future in the Big East. Thanks for saving us from the AAC but the league is not built for the long haul
 
The Viking said:
I assume Yomark offered us the same deal as Gonzaga.
Perhaps Benedict is trying to negotiate full membership down the road who knows.
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I would think this is the case. I think big east is gonna get left behind. This isn’t gonna end well for any schools but affiliated with football programs. And, don’t for a minute think that the basketball powers need UConn basketball to be good. They don’t care.

They would just as soon never come to storrs again.
 
I thinks going to big 12, getting a share of their hoops and non football money is good. And maybe at next contract even admission works. Perhaps a bowl tie in and a scheduling arrangement.

Things like that.
 
JohnFSilver said:
I would think this is the case. I think big east is gonna get left behind. This isn’t gonna end well for any schools but affiliated with football programs. And, don’t for a minute think that the basketball powers need UConn basketball to be good. They don’t care.

They would just as soon never come to storrs again.
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Big East is not getting left behind. Yormark thought basketball was a good opportunity for growth, but the Big 12 has diluted basketball by adding UCF, BYU, Arizona St., Utah, and Colorado. So, adding Gonzaga can offset some of that. That said, does anybody think Gonzaga will be Gonzaga in the Big 12? Of course not. BTW, the 4 new ads to the Big 12 currently are 1-8 in conference football games.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
We need to be talking about this with all of the p4 leagues. There is no future in the Big East. Thanks for saving us from the AAC but the league is not built for the long haul
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I disagree. It’s a top 2 basketball league in the country and has won a slew of national titles over the past 25 years. It’s not going anywhere, and with basketball getting more revenue expect Fox to pay more.
 
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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Notre Dame gets a 20% share or 8million or 2x what UConn gets in the BE
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That would mean the difference between staying or going would be an additional $4 million. Better, still not great. For what it's worth, isn't the next biggest contract estimated to be worth about 8 million per school?
 
UConnJim said:
Big East is not getting left behind. Yormark thought basketball was a good opportunity for growth, but the Big 12 has diluted basketball by adding UCF, BYU, Arizona St., Utah, and Colorado. So, adding Gonzaga can offset some of that. That said, does anybody think Gonzaga will be Gonzaga in the Big 12? Of course not. BTW, the 4 new ads to the Big 12 currently are 1-8 in conference football games.
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I think you are being naive e here. This isn’t just about basketball. Big east is a niche sport conference. Like hockey east.

I don’t like the late start to big east tv contract.

Big east is great for men’s basketball, but it doesn’t really rate outside of that sport.

Big 12 is making a concerted effort to own basketball. It is the best hoops conference. They have football money behind them. Big ten,sec own the football end of things and then there is acc.

Those four leagues are consolidating money and power. They are going to expand the tournament as well.

I don’t like where this is going from a hoops standpoint. Football is lost. Smu, Stanford/cal destroyed the notion of UConn ever getting a full share of anything anywhere, ever.

I been around this a long time. UConn going to have to take the life raft and protect it’s basketball and go to the big 12, maybe get a scheduling deal for football, which considering caliber of play of UConn right now is a proper deal for time being. I am assuming if zags are on the table UConn could have a similar offer, but more complicated .

I got no inside info, not even background information guys, just a guess. Not even a donor mentioned in passing to me.

So don’t Read into it. It just feels like wind blowing and I got a feeling.
 
CTBasketball said:
I disagree. It’s a top 2 basketball league in the country and has won a slew of national titles over the past 25 years. It’s not going anywhere, and with basketball getting more revenue expect Fox to pay more.
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I wish you were right. I just do not see it.

Here is thing. If UConn doesn’t jump, would St John’s, would Gtown, will Nova to an acc, big 12 looking to own hoops in a new world order?

Guys. It’s coming.
 
JohnFSilver said:
I wish you were right. I just do not see it.

Here is thing. If UConn doesn’t jump, would St John’s, would Gtown, will Nova to an acc, big 12 looking to own hoops in a new world order?

Guys. It’s coming.
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No inside info- but I happen to think after Zaga signs to the b12 the heat goes right to UConn to bring all but football and hockey to the b12.

If we don’t take it they will then go to SJU, Gtown or perhaps Nova.

Football stays independent for now. I think the only question besides dollars and cents is if football can have a narrow path to the b12 if we ever meet some performance requirements.

Hope to be wrong. Don’t think the smoke starts for us until after Zaga makes a deal.
 
Exit 4 said:
No inside info- but I happen to think after Zaga signs to the b12 the heat goes right to UConn to bring all but football and hockey to the b12.

If we don’t take it they will then go to SJU, Gtown or perhaps Nova.

Football stays independent for now. I think the only question besides dollars and cents is if football can have a narrow path to the b12 if we ever meet some performance requirements.

Hope to be wrong. Don’t think the smoke starts for us until after Zaga makes a deal.
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Well reports are Zaga would get $2. So no, we wouldn't take that deal. Travel is a little worse and more expensive. But $10m + a scheduling arrangement for football (sort of like the ND deal), I think we'd take that.
 
What if we were to win five or six football games this season? Would that change our candidacy for the ACC or B12?
 
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