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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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The longer we go into Friday without an announcement; the more worried I become.

This has all the making of a Friday afternoon news dump saying “the AAC has agreed to terms with ESPN paying member schools 4 million dollars each. Areseco said ‘we consider this a huge win for our conference, we’ve doubled our value and look forward to hosting ESPN’s College Gameday at Houston tomorrow.’”

Kill me now.
 
Anyone have any idea when the announcement will come? Any shows or press conferences or anything that will be times to watch? I thought a deal would’ve been announced much earlier this week...
 
Guapo said:
The longer we go into Friday without an announcement; the more worried I become.

This has all the making of a Friday afternoon news dump saying “the AAC has agreed to terms with ESPN paying member schools 4 million dollars each. Areseco said ‘we consider this a huge win for our conference, we’ve doubled our value and look forward to hosting ESPN’s College Gameday at Houston tomorrow.’”

Kill me now.
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This was this past Monday... was there other intel that it was going to be definitively announced today?
 
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Guapo said:
Ah, well nevertheless! My fear of a Friday afternoon news dump persists
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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).
 
intlzncster said:
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).
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And there's been a lot of bumps in the road.
 
CL82 said:
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And there's been a lot of bumps in the road.
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intlzncster said:
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).
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We are doomed, it is what it is.
 
intlzncster said:
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).
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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!
 
UConnNick said:
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!
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We are still UConn*

But yes, yes this is all good. In Danny I trust!
 
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HawkHusky said:
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
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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.
 
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No surprise that the deal will likely line up with the expiration of other major conference deals. 2022-2023 likely a year of reshuffling:
 

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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.
 
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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.
 
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
 
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Storrs South said:
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.
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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.
 
conorg223 said:
No surprise that the deal will likely line up with the expiration of other major conference deals. 2022-2023 likely a year of reshuffling:
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That's obviously because we're going to the Big 10 in the next round of conference realignment.

@Butch
 
gampelcrazies said:
Free UConn Football tickets vs. Wagner with the purchase of football season tickets.
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... and we move you to the top of candidate list when we need a new AD.
 
Drew said:
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
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Thanks. That's probably right.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
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.
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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.
 
Storrs South said:
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.
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those numbers include more than media. thats the full number with bowl money and tourney credits
 
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