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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 1849053, member: 549"] Thamel: [SIZE=4][URL='http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/10/17/big-12-expansion-future-media-rights-david-boren-bob-bowlsby?xid=socialflow_twitter_si']As expansion charade [/URL][/SIZE][URL='http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/10/17/big-12-expansion-future-media-rights-david-boren-bob-bowlsby?xid=socialflow_twitter_si'][SIZE=4]finally ends, where does Big 12 go from here[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=4]? Within: Where do schools go from here? (BYU, Houston Cincy, USF/UCF discussed) >>UConn: There’s been a popular media theory floated that UConn could explore moving to the Big East in basketball and then move football somewhere else. That’s highly unlikely, as the $10 million and 27-month wait that’s required to leave the AAC is virtually untenable. (Cutting back the 27-month window would cost more money.) UConn would have paid it knowing there was a Power Five payday on the other end, as it would have made the money back quickly. That wouldn’t be the case going to the Big East. UConn is one of many schools facing difficult financial decisions, as it’s nearly impossible to fund football on the AAC’s modest television contract. (The AAC deal runs through 2020 and pays just $126 million from ESPN for the entirety of the deal. There’s a secondary deal with CBS, but the spending significantly outweighs the income for most AAC schools.)<< >>AAC: One can imagine a few employees of the American Athletic Conference clinking glasses of celebration in Providence on Monday night. The outlook for the league looked bleak in August. But is sitting tight good enough? “We are not going to sit back and be identified as irrelevant and accept status quo,” said a source in the league. “We don’t want to be labeled by others as not adding value. It’s not true. We expect our leaders in the league to find solutions.” Could that mean the AAC looks at adding schools before its next television negotiation? That likely depends on whether the AAC can find value in the new media market—Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, etc. Would attempting to lure a brand name like BYU or Air Force change the financial paradigm on a deal? BYU would be unlikely to go, but much will depend on what the marketplace looks like in a few years. All we know is that it should look much different, but speculation beyond that is tricky.<<[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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