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Major Announcement... TV? (Update>CBSSN)

DaveHuskiesFan said:
Is this >$1M per year? or in total?
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huskymedic said:
Where you pulling that figure from?
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From the article:

Financial specifics weren’t available but the CBS deal, which is over seven figures for the four years, will benefit UConn in ways similar to the average of deals in place for teams in conferences such as Conference USA, the MAAC and Mountain West.
 
So the collateral damage here (and yes its probably entire too soon to speculate on this) might be UConn's relationship with SNY. I think they thought UConn football was boxed in and could be had for pennies. Now they go from having new stream of live action content to control to nothing. Will relations be strained (diminishing good relations on WBB and maybe odd MBB content)? Maybe, but its a chance we clearly have to take anyway.

Thinking aloud, maybe we just arent a good fit anyway for SNY. College football, although regional, thrives best on national linear programming where it can be binged by dedicated masses which hopscotch around based on emerging talent, emerging coaches, unique environments, unique match ups, etc etc. SNY wasn't well positioned to capitalize on that phenomenon as a regional sports carrier.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
From the article:

Financial specifics weren’t available but the CBS deal, which is over seven figures for the four years, will benefit UConn in ways similar to the average of deals in place for teams in conferences such as Conference USA, the MAAC and Mountain West.
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CashewCrew said:
From the article when it says it's at least a 7 figure deal
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Got it - I slid over the “+” in my head because I know I didn’t see a number.
 
Any takers still gonna try to argue the move out of the AAC wasn't the right one? Come on John and Palantine you have it in you!

Absent a P5 invite and what we were facing after that AAC tv deal this is the best outcome we possibly could have hoped for if the goal was to make UConn men's basketball a national power again and still have a football team playing games on national TV.
 
Waquoit said:
That's what I was thinking. This is so good I must be missing something.
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They’ve covering production costs and writing a check? National coverage? Linear television? Did we have to give the Hartford campus to CBS?

Exit 4 said:
So the collateral damage here (and yes its probably entire too soon to speculate on this) might be UConn's relationship with SNY.
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Probably not? The women’s hoop deal, which will continue, was the big thing for them. We’ll see how the rest plays out.
 
How does this compare with what the AAC pay out will be.
i know they have to pay for productions costs so best estimate.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
Any takers still gonna try to argue the move out of the AAC wasn't the right one? Come on John and Palantine you have it in you!

Absent a P5 invite and what we were facing after that AAC tv deal this is the best outcome we possibly could have hoped for if the goal was to make UConn men's basketball a national power again and still have a football team playing games on national TV.
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I'd really like to see someone who can piece together which people and which positions within UConn and media partners have changed since the original BE broke up and now.

Let's face it, if the day the AAC/BE split happened, someone would have told UConn they can stay in the BE for all sports, make football an independent and get a TV contract with CBSSN, UConn never plays an AAC game.
 
From Mike Anthony (the HC's best reporter!):

Rentschler Field in coming years is going to be visited by all sorts of logos and uniforms familiar and appealing to UConn fans, the type of teams you hate to lose to and love to beat. Think BC, Pitt, Syracuse, UMass, Rutgers. Some are already on the schedules well into the future. UConn is in conversation with others.

Pitt and Rutty to the Rent? Yes please!!!! Get one of those in 2021!!
 
Exit 4 said:
So the collateral damage here (and yes its probably entire too soon to speculate on this) might be UConn's relationship with SNY. ... Will relations be strained (diminishing good relations on WBB and maybe odd MBB content)? Maybe, but its a chance we clearly have to take anyway.
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Strained on whose part? UConn's because SNY was low-balling them? Or SNY because UConn took a better offer? In any case, I would imagine this is just business.
 
Rewster said:
How does this compare with what the AAC pay out will be.
i know they have to pay for productions costs so best estimate.
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Until numbers are released it's just a guess but has always been more than about revenue coming in. A big part for UConn was lessening the money coming out the back- The travel by plane, paying production cost for new AAC deal, etc. This seems to have done a very good job of minimizing AD costs.
 
Waquoit said:
Strained on whose part? UConn's because SNY was low-balling them? Or SNY because UConn took a better offer? In any case, I would imagine this is just business.
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Correct. SNY isn't going to bail on WBB just because they lost football in the fall.
 
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This has to make DB feel really good:

“It was a big challenge but I never lost confidence because I believe in UConn’s brand,” Benedict said. “It’s rewarding from the standpoint that I can go look at the guys on the football team and not have to be concerned about how they feel about what’s going to happen moving forward.”
 
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UConnJim said:
This is a major win for Benedict and UConn. Now, we need a bowl tie in.

As for SNY, it would not surprise me if CBS sold some games to SNY like the annual FCS game. And, it would seem that games will be streamed on CBS All Access.
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Article says only streamed games would be ones against FCS opponents
 
Exit 4 said:
News media running their stories - releasing at noon.

No SNY!!!

I'm not totally stunned SNY is not headling this contract. They wanted it all of it for free.

“All I can tell you is we're getting paid,” Benedict said. “We are being compensated and they're obviously covering the costs of production.”

Production costs would have fallen on UConn under the AAC-ESPN+ media contract.
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Article says that SNY may pick up the excess. It is good to have multiple bidders for our content.
 
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