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POLL: Indy vs AAC

Indy or AAC?

  • Independence

    Votes: 67 62.0%
  • AAC

    Votes: 41 38.0%

  • Total voters
    108
  • Poll closed .
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If you could choose, would you rather UConn stay in the AAC (hypothetically) or continue down the path towards independence?
 
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I'm going AAC. If we pull off a nice indi schedule, then that'd be awesome. But the deck is stacked against us. I'll go with the bird in the hand over the two (or none) in the bush.
 
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I'm going AAC. If we pull off a nice indi schedule, then that'd be awesome. But the deck is stacked against us. I'll go with the bird in the hand over the two (or none) in the bush.

Fair. The risk is a lot less in the AAC, but the rewards for (successfully) going independent are much higher in my opinion
 

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If you could choose, would you rather UConn stay in the AAC (hypothetically) or continue down the path towards independence?
Just to clarify, is the choice the AAC for FB only v. Indy? If so, I'm going to cede my vote to uconnbill.
 

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Since we know that "most of the AAC media deal is for football" I'd be okay with staying. I'll take "most" of the $7M (which is actually less) plus the $6m that ww are project to get from the NBE, plus another $2.5M from SNY for our T3 rights. So we'd be right around $15M for media rights. That's a nice statement that differentiates us from the G5.
 
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Since we know that "most of the AAC media deal is for football" I'd be okay with staying. I'll take "most" of the $7M (which is actually less) plus the $6m that ww are project to get from the NBE, plus another $2.5M from SNY for our T3 rights. So we'd be right around $15M for media rights. That's a nice statement that differentiates us from the G5.

I would assume that football membership would also include a cut of the bowl money.
 
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AAC. Learning that we can in the short term make more media money from football independence changes nothing. We will not survive without attracting recruits and putting fannies in the seats, and both of those are going to be very tough to do outside a conference.
 

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Fair. The risk is a lot less in the AAC, but the rewards for (successfully) going independent are much higher in my opinion
@Guapo, what do you think the rewards will be? I'm not looking for an argument but just wondering what your thoughts are on the issue.
 
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@Guapo, what do you think the rewards will be? I'm not looking for an argument but just wondering what your thoughts are on the issue.

More revenue and games against teams people in Connecticut have more interest in seeing
 
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Voted for indy, but best case is AAC through 2020 and then indy starting in 2021. Need time to put together the independent schedule. there are so many intangibles associated with staying in the AAC. Would it be as a full football member with bowl opportunities and payments? How much money would UConn get from AAC vs a SNY contract?
 
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The rewards for going Independent are playing New Mexico State and Liberty as much as possible. Prostituting the team to SEC bodybag games, and competing for nothing.
 
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More revenue and games against teams people in Connecticut have more interest in seeing
The best case independent schedule would be a couple of home-and-homes with mid to lower level P5. A couple of money games where UConn gets $1M+ to travel to SEC, B1G or B12. UMass, Army, local FCS that draws interest, BYU, Liberty, NM st., and fill the rest with CUSA, MAC. $2.5M from money games and then another $1M+ for SNY and the team is covering some costs.
 
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AAC. Learning that we can in the short term make more media money from football independence changes nothing. We will not survive without attracting recruits and putting fannies in the seats, and both of those are going to be very tough to do outside a conference.

This is fair argument; however recruits and fannies weren’t coming in the AAC.
 
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Those are buy games, like Wagner, that we (and every other school) play every year.

Don’t be a doofus.

That’s not being a doofus that’s being realistic. Wagner plays one of those a year. We’ll be playing 3-4 at least just to fill the schedule and pay the bills. There’s no appeal in that.

All those “interesting” teams that people want us play? You mean, Buffalo, Liberty, and NMSU? Maybe some Sun Belt. That’s the kind of team more often than not that will be visiting the Rent.
 
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The best case independent schedule would be a couple of home-and-homes with mid to lower level P5. A couple of money games where UConn gets $1M+ to travel to SEC, B1G or B12. UMass, Army, local FCS that draws interest, BYU, Liberty, NM st., and fill the rest with CUSA, MAC. $2.5M from money games and then another $1M+ for SNY and the team is covering some costs.

I’m ok with this, although I’d argue we could fill out another p5 game or two with 2 for 1’s
 

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