New AAC ESPN Contract Value Poll

[tcf15]

 

[UConn Dan]

You know what they say, UConn's trash is Tulane's treasure

 

[Guapo]

POLL WITHIN A POLL:

1) for the glass half empty people (say, led by @whaler11 ); how would a “rabbit out of the hat” result (say, over 10 mil) impact your view of the conference and the future of UConn athletics, if at all?

2) for the glass half full people (say, led by @Dooley ); how would a horrible deal (say, less than 6 mil) impact your view of the conference and the course UConn should chart going forward, if at all?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

As someone who subscribes to all the streaming services and has a Roku I guess I’m fine with that route.

As someone else asked, would ESPN+ content be up for grabs to SNY or locals? I remember watching games on like WB11 as a kid and it was called ESPN+.

 

[Sky ball]

What are the home and away records vs P5. Since most games are away I think?

 

[whaler11]

As someone who subscribes to all the streaming services and has a Roku I guess I’m fine with that route.

As someone else asked, would ESPN+ content be up for grabs to SNY or locals? I remember watching games on like WB11 as a kid and it was called ESPN+.

That was ESPN Plus which did syndication production.

The new ESPN+ is not going to have content anywhere but ESPN+.

 

[whaler11]

POLL WITHIN A POLL:

1) for the glass half empty people (say, led by @whaler11 ); how would a “rabbit out of the hat” result (say, over 10 mil) impact your view of the conference and the future of UConn athletics, if at all?

2) for the glass half full people (say, led by @Dooley ); how would a horrible deal (say, less than 6 mil) impact your view of the conference and the course UConn should chart going forward, if at all?

10 mil and I’d doff my cap to Mr Aresco and never speak ill of him again.

Would buy UConn time to get some real solutions in place.

From an interest standpoint the league is always going to suck. I’m never going to care about SMU and nationally nobody is ever going to care about the American.

 

[billybud]

What are the home and away records vs P5. Since most games are away I think?

Oh yeah...more away games.

I didn't want to plow through all of them...but I did look at UCF 2010-18.

VS

...ACC......3 home, 1 neutral
...Big 12...1 away, 1 neutral
...B1G......1 home, 4 away, 1 neutral
...SEC......2 home, 2 away, 3 neutral

Home...6
Away...6
Neutral...6

 

[CL82]

No...the results are the results...I just sifted data further...P5 wins...and the nature of those wins.

No, he was talking about being competitive with P5 teams and you chose a different metric wins against teams with a winning record. Apples and oranges, right?

 

[Guapo]

10 mil and I’d doff my cap to Mr Aresco and never speak ill of him again.

Would buy UConn time to get some real solutions in place.

From an interest standpoint the league is always going to suck. I’m never going to care about SMU and nationally nobody is ever going to care about the American.

That’s fair. Follow up question; what is the number that Areseco has to reach in order for you to think this deal is ok?

 

[CL82]

POLL WITHIN A POLL:

1) for the glass half empty people (say, led by @whaler11 ); how would a “rabbit out of the hat” result (say, over 10 mil) impact your view of the conference and the future of UConn athletics, if at all?

2) for the glass half full people (say, led by @Dooley ); how would a horrible deal (say, less than 6 mil) impact your view of the conference and the course UConn should chart going forward, if at all?

That's why I set up the polls to show voters. You are spot on. This poll is a consumer (fan) confidence indicator, not an indicator of the deal.

I consider myself in team @Dooley. I'd define a horrible deal the first choice (decreasing value) and the second choice (flat value) as a horrible deals Double the existing deal is also a bad deal but somewhat less bad. Above $4M but < $10 we build a narrative that we are the best G5 conference. But $10 or greater our narrative is that we are >G5 but<P5.

This deal is a very interesting test of how ESPN views us and whether it wants to support the conferences continued existence.

 

[tcf15]

I wonder if a grant-of-rights was signed - could explain why Memphis president and Aresco are so happy (from December): American Athletic considers grant-of-rights for schools to sweeten next media rights deal

 

[CL82]

Would buy UConn time to get some real solutions in place.

What would you envision those real solutions to be?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Is Leiato like 15 in this clip?

 

[whaler11]

That’s fair. Follow up question; what is the number that Areseco has to reach in order for you to think this deal is ok?

id be pretty impressed if they get 8

 

[FlippinCrazy!]

I wonder if a grant-of-rights was signed - could explain why Memphis president and Aresco are so happy (from December): American Athletic considers grant-of-rights for schools to sweeten next media rights deal

I would think though that Memphis would be against grant of rights while aresco would want one.

 

[Towney007]

id be pretty impressed if they get 8

Same, I just have a hard time seeing how they get more than six. As fun as the UCF/Memphis/USF/Houston football successes have been - nobody watches them.

 

[Guapo]

Same, I just have a hard time seeing how they get more than six. As fun as the UCF/Memphis/USF/Houston football successes have been - nobody watches them.

“Nobody watches them” I think is a little unfair. The AAC championship game has gotten higher TV ratings than the PAC’s.

 

[JMick]

Same, I just have a hard time seeing how they get more than six. As fun as the UCF/Memphis/USF/Houston football successes have been - nobody watches them.

ESPN themselves is partially to blame for that. If they're paying more, hopefully their coverage changes too

 

[JMick]

“Nobody watches them” I think is a little unfair. The AAC championship game has gotten higher TV ratings than the PAC’s.

The PAC is a dead conference walking. I love PAC after dark but their viewership numbers are brutal

 

[JMick]

POLL WITHIN A POLL:

1) for the glass half empty people (say, led by @whaler11 ); how would a “rabbit out of the hat” result (say, over 10 mil) impact your view of the conference and the future of UConn athletics, if at all?

2) for the glass half full people (say, led by @Dooley ); how would a horrible deal (say, less than 6 mil) impact your view of the conference and the course UConn should chart going forward, if at all?

$10mm - extremely impressed
$8-9mm - good, not great.
$6-7mm - about what I expect
<$5.1mm - shut down football

 

[Guapo]

Same, I just have a hard time seeing how they get more than six. As fun as the UCF/Memphis/USF/Houston football successes have been - nobody watches them.

For the example, this would be the second highest rated college basketball game this year behind only Duke/UNC from the other night (which did a 3.2).

Note, this game was not exciting and it was a blowout UCF win over Cincinnati delivers top television ratings for ESPN/ABC

 

[djct1999]

$10mm - extremely impressed
$8-9mm - good, not great.
$6-7mm - about what I expect
<$5.1mm - shut down football

+ <$5.1mm - fire Aresco

 

[JMick]

+ <$5.1mm - fire Aresco

At that point I don't even care because we shouldn't stay in the conference

 

[SirHypeAlot]

is this announcement today?