New AAC ESPN Contract Value Poll

[UConnNick]

It's amazing how conditioned we are after the last few years for the sky to fall in damn every situation. It's almost universal on the board. There was a time when most of us expected things to work out more often than not (and they did).

It's the old, pre-Calhoun Era mindset rearing its ugly head again. If you substitute Kevin Ollie for Dom Perno, we're right back in the mid-1980's mindset. The sky is falling again.

Ironically, that psyche is both good and bad, simultaneously. It's good because it cultivates the "us against the world" mentality that Calhoun and his teams rode to three NCAA titles, several other near misses, and old Big East domination. If the BY had existed in the mid-1980's, would anyone here have predicted all of that happening? You'd have been laughed off the board as a whack job.

And it's bad at the same time because losing sucks, which breeds negativity, and then that seems to take on a life of it's own, feeding on itself in a vicious cycle. The only real difference is that we are now post-Calhoun and we've already sat on the mountaintop for a long time. It was a revolution of rising expectations.

Our present situation reminds me of the line from "Wall Street" - "It's better to never have had money at all than to have had money and then lost it."

But we don't have to buy that notion. We are still UCONN. We caught lightning in a bottle once before. We can and will do it again. It will be that much sweeter when it happens for the second time. No school in the country has more combined NCAA basketball nattys than us. The game was invented in our backyard and that record is gonna stay with us!

 

[Guapo]

It's the old, pre-Calhoun Era mindset rearing its ugly head again. If you substitute Kevin Ollie for Dom Perno, we're right back in the mid-1980's mindset. The sky is falling again.

Ironically, that psyche is both good and bad, simultaneously. It's good because it cultivates the "us against the world" mentality that Calhoun and his teams rode to three NCAA titles, several other near misses, and old Big East domination. If the BY had existed in the mid-1980's, would anyone here have predicted all of that happening? You'd have been laughed off the board as a whack job.

And it's bad at the same time because losing sucks, which breeds negativity, and then that seems to take on a life of it's own, feeding on itself in a vicious cycle. The only real difference is that we are now post-Calhoun and we've already sat on the mountaintop for a long time. It was a revolution of rising expectations.

Our present situation reminds me of the line from "Wall Street" - "It's better to never have had money at all than to have had money and then lost it."

But we don't have to buy that notion. We are still UCONN. We caught lightning in a bottle once before. We can and will do it again. It will be that much sweeter when it happens for the second time. No school in the country has more combined NCAA basketball nattys than us. The game was invented in our backyard and that record is gonna stay with us!

We are still UConn*

But yes, yes this is all good. In Danny I trust!

 

[HawkHusky]

Memphis Commercial Appeal (through an FOIA request) is saying that this is the "total distribution" of the new deal:

2019-2020 (last year of current deal): bumped up to $5 Million
2020-2021: $8.5 Million
2021-2022: $8.5 Million
2022-2023: $8.5 Million

So according to them, the new TV deal (by itself) will be 3 years, $7 Million per school.

University of Memphis expects AAC media rights revenue distributions to double from new contract

 

[UofCT]

Is that good?

 

[Phoenixhusky]

I’d say that’s disappointing and shows the disparity between P5 schools and the rest.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Memphis Commercial Appeal (through an FOIA request) is saying that this is the "total distribution" of the new deal:

2019-2020 (last year of current deal): bumped up to $5 Million
2020-2021: $8.5 Million
2021-2022: $8.5 Million
2022-2023: $8.5 Million

So according to them, the new TV deal (by itself) will be 3 years, $7 Million per school.

University of Memphis expects AAC media rights revenue distributions to double from new contract

How are you figuring the 3 years at $7M, when it looks like the last year of the current dealing is getting bumped up to $5M and then the subsequent years are at $8.5M per school?

Edit: You're backing out $1.5M from 'total distributions' which would be bowl money or tourney credits it looks like.

$7M per team is pretty uninspiring. Now we wait to see how badly our TV exposure will be.

 

[conorg223]

No surprise that the deal will likely line up with the expiration of other major conference deals. 2022-2023 likely a year of reshuffling:

 

[Chin Diesel]

Least surprising of all this is how a newspaper in Memphis can break stories like this but CT's flagship newspaper which is about 20 miles from Bristol couldn't break it and doesn't have sources to get info.

 

[Guapo]

Do I win a prize for nailing this number or...?

 

[UofCT]

So not good

 

[gampelcrazies]

Do I win a prize for nailing this number or...?

Free UConn Football tickets vs. Wagner with the purchase of football season tickets.

 

[Storrs South]

It's neither a win for the optimist or for the pessimist. ESPN bumps up the value of the last year on the current deal to $5, which helps, but $8.5 isn't the most inspiring number. Assuming UConn keeps T3 rights that ups the yearly TV income to somewhere around $10.

It's a neutral outcome in my opinion but will should help the AD that's currently short on cash.

 

[Drew]

FWIW after browsing a Memphis message board- the Memphis board of directors only provides data out 3 years in these quarterly meetings. Contract length could actually be longer than that

 

[UCDaveD]

The most "meh" number it could have possibly been.

 

[Drew]

It's neither a win for the optimist or for the pessimist. ESPN bumps up the value of the last year on the current deal to $5, which helps, but $8.5 isn't the most inspiring number. Assuming UConn keeps T3 rights that ups the yearly TV income to somewhere around $10.

It's a neutral outcome in my opinion but will should help the AD that's currently short on cash.

I agree on it being net neutral for optimists/pessimists but its massive for UConn because we are going to maintain essentially the same revenue stream we’re bringing in now from the BE exit fees. Was nervous we were going to have to take a pay cut.

 

[CL82]

No surprise that the deal will likely line up with the expiration of other major conference deals. 2022-2023 likely a year of reshuffling:

That's obviously because we're going to the Big 10 in the next round of conference realignment.

@Butch

 

[CL82]

Free UConn Football tickets vs. Wagner with the purchase of football season tickets.

... and we move you to the top of candidate list when we need a new AD.

 

[HawkHusky]

FWIW after browsing a Memphis message board- the Memphis board of directors only provides data out 3 years in these quarterly meetings. Contract length could actually be longer than that

Thanks. That's probably right.

 

[whaler11]

How are you figuring the 3 years at $7M, when it looks like the last year of the current dealing is getting bumped up to $5M and then the subsequent years are at $8.5M per school?

Edit: You're backing out $1.5M from 'total distributions' which would be bowl money or tourney credits it looks like.

$7M per team is pretty uninspiring. Now we wait to see how badly our TV exposure will be.

I read it as it’s going from about 2+ million to 5.5 or so.

If it were above 6 they would say triple.

 

[whaler11]

It's neither a win for the optimist or for the pessimist. ESPN bumps up the value of the last year on the current deal to $5, which helps, but $8.5 isn't the most inspiring number. Assuming UConn keeps T3 rights that ups the yearly TV income to somewhere around $10.

It's a neutral outcome in my opinion but will should help the AD that's currently short on cash.

those numbers include more than media. thats the full number with bowl money and tourney credits

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I read it as it’s going from about 2+ million to 5.5 or so.

If it were above 6 they would say triple.

Good point. Sigh.

Remember always fade the Boneyard.

 

[Guapo]

We are making some major jumps to conclusions here, the biggest being that anyone associated with the University of Memphis is able to do basic math.

 

[whaler11]

Good point. Sigh.

Remember always fade the Boneyard.

yeah I’d say that 8.5 is 5.5 from espn & cbs and 3 million projected in bowl/tourney credits.

 

[whaler11]

We are making some major jumps to conclusions here, the biggest being that anyone associated with the University of Memphis is able to do basic math.

is Memphis rogue or are they the planted leak?

 

[UConnNick]

If that's the deal it's vastly underwhelming. The only possible good thing about it is it doubles what the new Big East schools get from FOX, so maybe it will shut up some of the "drop football and back to the NBE" bozos. How the Memphis prez and Aresco can go around acting like it's the deal of the century is mind numbing. If this is the best Aresco can do, he should be fired.