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New AAC ESPN Contract Value Poll

What will be the per school annual value of the purported new AAC deal with ESPN

  • Slightly less than we are getting now. ($1M - $2M)

  • About what we are getting now ($2M)

  • Well it's a good deal so ... uh twice what we are getting now. ($3M-$4M)

  • >$4M but < $10M

  • $10M

  • >$10M but < $15M

  • SEC money

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billybud said:
I think that you putting more than a few syllables in their mouth....the fact that they mentioned that eyes would be on UCF and Cincinnati for bolting...isn't exactly "completely dismissing" UConn (nor Houston, Memphis, et al).

It also says that is not happening this year because the Big 12 isn't expanding.
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no kidding the big 12 isnt expanding. no one else is either.

just after reading the fever dreams of cr here for years i didnt expect an article that puts uconn behind cinci and central florida to be a positive because the tv contract is predicted to be a whole 8 mill each
 
A multiplication of current revenue is a positive....

And yes, it isn't SEC or B1G money....but short of being picked up by a P5 conference, $8-10 million may be what the market (well, ESPN) will bear.

If only Amazon and others were more tooled up at the stage that ESPN made their offer....but lack of competition, as Whaler has posted, limits the incentive for ESPN in what is essentially a sole source bid.

An opening bid with no other paddles in the air becomes the final knockdown price.
 
Whaler doesn’t know chit. Lol.

Nothing he’s said has come true.
 
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Storrs South said:
Why is he the only one talking about the deal? Where is Aresco? Other member presidents/ADs? Herbst/Benedict?
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Has it been ratified by members yet? Maybe he is doing some lobbying
 
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Storrs South said:
Why is he the only one talking about the deal? Where is Aresco? Other member presidents/ADs? Herbst/Benedict?
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He is one of 3 AAC Presidents on the TV deal committee. Not sure who the other 2 are, but he seems to be the leader.
 
Storrs South said:
Why is he the only one talking about the deal? Where is Aresco? Other member presidents/ADs? Herbst/Benedict?
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Renu Khator is also on the committee.

Live look at the fine folks commenting in this thread. lol.
Whaler should make that bald dude in the middle his profile pic. rofl

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My guess is around $10 million or a little less. Of course I would like to see $12-15 million per school which would make the heIl UConn was in the past few years a little better.
 
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ucawn said:
Leagues trending up, I think ESPN realizes that too. I hate the everyone gets the same amount stuff. I’m sure the bottom half loves it but the top half of the league shouldn’t. They bring in all the money. ECU, Tulane and other bottom dwellers should not be getting the same amount of money as Cincinnati, UCF, Houston. Aresco gotta stop this and realize that the “national champions” UCF is getting the same amount to develop facilities and other things for football as ECU. And for basketball why is 0-13 Tulane which I don’t belive has aired on a network other that CBSSN all season get the same amount at UConn, Houston, Cincinnati, UCF who’ve been on ESPN and ESPN2 multiple times this year.
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I am sorry to say, but for the vaunted UConn basketball team to be in ninth place in this conference and near or at last place in football, puts UConn in the bottom dweller category.
 
My guess hasn't changed. I expect in the range of $8-9M. That's roughly triple the current payout. It's not P5 money, but goes a long way towards stabilizing most of the programs in the league. I assume Navy and WSU will each have a reduced payout.
 
HuskyHawk said:
My guess hasn't changed. I expect in the range of $8-9M. That's roughly triple the current payout. It's not P5 money, but goes a long way towards stabilizing most of the programs in the league. I assume Navy and WSU will each have a reduced payout.
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Completely agree. It's not P5 money but it does help put a sizable dent in AAC school subsidies. Not to mention, the exposure being on the ESPN platform (with streaming) is very good for the league.

The AAC is actually a very good league. If this is our forever home, we could do much worse. The top 3-4 AAC football finishers can always go toe-to-toe with 99% of the P5 (Alabama/Clemson exception...but nobody in the P5 can play with those 2 either). Over time, the bottom dwellers like us will (should!) come up some with an injection of more money and ESPN exposure. And I've said this many times before, the long term hoops projection of the AAC is actually much higher than the long term future of the Big East. Larger markets, bigger footprint and far more exposure playing on ESPN vs FOX. (Some) UConn fans just have to get off their high horses and become part of the solution instead of being part of the problem!
 
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Dooley said:
Completely agree. It's not P5 money but it does help put a sizable dent in AAC school subsidies. Not to mention, the exposure being on the ESPN platform (with streaming) is very good for the league.

The AAC is actually a very good league. If this is our forever home, we could do much worse. The top 3-4 AAC football finishers can always go toe-to-toe with 99% of the P5 (Alabama/Clemson exception...but nobody in the P5 can play with those 2 either). Over time, the bottom dwellers like us will (should!) come up some with an injection of more money and ESPN exposure. And I've said this many times before, the long term hoops projection of the AAC is actually much higher than the long term future of the Big East. Larger markets, bigger footprint and far more exposure playing on ESPN vs FOX. (Some) UConn fans just have to get off their high horses and become part of the solution instead of being part of the problem!
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The top 3-4 AAC football finishers can always go toe-to-toe with 99% of the P5?
 
My guess is they turn down the ESPN deal and pick one up with Amazon Prime at $27m per school.

Big12 dissolves and we get WVU, Baylor, and TCU becoming a 15 team league with 3 divisions.

By 2030 UConn men and women have won 5 combined national championships and football is back on the map.
 
superjohn said:
The top 3-4 AAC football finishers can always go toe-to-toe with 99% of the P5?
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Well, nobody can go toe-toe-toe with Alabama or Clemson...not even in the P5. The real difference between the P5 and the AAC is not the top 1/4 of it. Far from it. The real separation starts in the middle and bottom tiers of the conference (read: us). When the time comes when we stop getting curb-stomped by mediocre P5 teams (and it will stop - hopefully!), then the bottom floor raises and the AAC really does begin to behave like a "power" conference.
 
*football comment notification*

Something I’ll be interested to see in the TV deal: better bowl tie-ins. The incentive for that is that a UCF or Memphis (or UConn, maybe perhaps some day) vs some big bad P5 team is a much bigger TV draw than a P5 team vs, say, Western Michigan.
 
Dooley said:
Completely agree. It's not P5 money but it does help put a sizable dent in AAC school subsidies. Not to mention, the exposure being on the ESPN platform (with streaming) is very good for the league.

The AAC is actually a very good league. If this is our forever home, we could do much worse. The top 3-4 AAC football finishers can always go toe-to-toe with 99% of the P5 (Alabama/Clemson exception...but nobody in the P5 can play with those 2 either). Over time, the bottom dwellers like us will (should!) come up some with an injection of more money and ESPN exposure. And I've said this many times before, the long term hoops projection of the AAC is actually much higher than the long term future of the Big East. Larger markets, bigger footprint and far more exposure playing on ESPN vs FOX. (Some) UConn fans just have to get off their high horses and become part of the solution instead of being part of the problem!
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Sorry bro, I don’t think I’ll ever adjust to this conference after being in the old big east. It just is what it is.
 
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Huskyforlife said:
Sorry bro, I don’t think I’ll ever adjust to this conference after being in the old big east. It just is what it is.
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Sure. It's definitely a different conference landscape from when you and I grew up with UConn. Sadly, the old Big East is dead and never coming back. The majority of teams I truly hated in the OBE back in the day: Syracuse, Louisville, Pitt, and Notre Dame are all gone too. Only Nova and Georgetown remain and we can always schedule them OOC (and have already done so). Would be great to see UConn in the ACC just to rekindle those old rivalries and also play against other teams we all hate - BC, Duke, UNC, etc. but until then, the AAC is the unquestioned better home for us in terms of money and exposure.
 
Dooley said:
Sure. It's definitely a different conference landscape from when you and I grew up with UConn. Sadly, the old Big East is dead and never coming back. The majority of teams I truly hated in the OBE back in the day: Syracuse, Louisville, Pitt, and Notre Dame are all gone too. Only Nova and Georgetown remain and we can always schedule them OOC (and have already done so). Would be great to see UConn in the ACC just to rekindle those old rivalries and also play against other teams we all hate - BC, Duke, UNC, etc. but until then, the AAC is the unquestioned better home for us in terms of money and exposure.
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The old Big East, Louisville? What are you 14 years old?
 
Dooley said:
Well, nobody can go toe-toe-toe with Alabama or Clemson...not even in the P5. The real difference between the P5 and the AAC is not the top 1/4 of it. Far from it. The real separation starts in the middle and bottom tiers of the conference (read: us). When the time comes when we stop getting curb-stomped by mediocre P5 teams (and it will stop - hopefully!), then the bottom floor raises and the AAC really does begin to behave like a "power" conference.
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I don't follow football closely but I find it hard to believe Temple, Memphis, and Cincinnati can go toe-to-toe with 99% of P5 teams.
 
superjohn said:
I don't follow football closely but I find it hard to believe Temple, Memphis, and Cincinnati can go toe-to-toe with 99% of P5 teams.
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Here's an idea: if you don't follow something closely, maybe you should stop arguing about it with folks who do. Better yet, maybe you should follow it closer so that you can come to the same conclusion as the folks who do! ;)
 
superjohn said:
The old Big East, Louisville? What are you 14 years old?
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I wish but sadly no. Unless you have invented your very own Delorian that you wouldn't mind letting me borrow. Then I can go back with my Sports Almanac, place a few long shot wagers and strum up enough cash to promote UConn to the ACC.
 
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superjohn said:
I don't follow football closely but I find it hard to believe Temple, Memphis, and Cincinnati can go toe-to-toe with 99% of P5 teams.
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Drop that number down to 75% and he's spot on.
 
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