relax fellas. remember when the acc tried to add cuse and uconn not to long ago but ended up with cuse and pitt? we know what our value is to the acc. its somewhere between 18.5 and 20mil per year. we also know that ruty did the same as us and wasn't interested in the acc. but they didn't string it along, they just hung up the phone. they are worth around 30mil to the b10 but the nyc market/cablebox with other b10 schools really bumps the # for the league as a whole. so most likely as a whole we are worth somewhere in between 18.5 and 30mil. the acc tier 3 setup sucks for a school like uconn becuase our tier 3 is gold compared to most. thats why u hear schools like unc, uva and fsu crab. those schools have other sports that command tv and $. bball and baseball and soccer w/e. just how it is.
uconn boys hoops vs a crappy nbe schedule and some ooc games is worth 5+mil to sny
uconn girls vs the nbe and a usual healthy ooc to sny is worth 1mil all day
uconn soccer, puck and baseball can be sold to sny and played during non mets times/part of year and fill in slots that the network plays replays of stuff with and be a good solid piece also. talking another mil.
uconn fball is worth 2-5mil other games non tv network to sny. i would say atleast 8 of 12 games a year go to sny in the nbe. 500k per gets you 4 mil lets say. thats fair i think.
u know juice up sny, midnight madness on that friday night instead of a beer$ replay and the spring game and fri night puck games and tuesday afternoon soccer games.
that alone above gets u 10-11mil tier 3. the nbe contract would get uconn 2mil. thats that. acc teams get 19mil total for all tiers. we just made 12 to 13 mil playing hs teams and selling our inventory to a local nyc tv channel. just imagine when u trade michigan, pus and md or clem, fsu and unc for memphis, ucf and uh...
cut the crying and moaning. uconn tv wise is doing just fine. hell we actually are doing better with the contract then we were before. espn owning it makes us a easy phone call away from the acc if the b10 doesn't pick us.
the contract clearly syas its a "12 team" league with unknow slots to be filled teams wise still. its simply a cheap contract knowing the future is 12 cusa types who fill slots inventory wise. the acc/espn knows it has to get to 16 just liek the b10 and sec. it knows no matter if all acc teams stay or the b10/sec add from the acc eventually uconn and cincy for sure fall into a lsot somewhere. just a simple fact thats a time nightmare for this fanbase as it turns out. leadership told all of u to be patient so instead u all fly off the handle at a stupid contract that we shouldnt even care about.
were going to the b10 or acc. i dont give a flying f about this contract. even if the time table keeps getting pushed back for w/e logistics reason and we playa year or 2 in this league, we are not a 2mil school tv wise. were 10+ all day so stop the doom and gloom crap.
think about it. syracuse all sports vs the acc teams today in the conference are worth 19mil. uconn vs a bunch of community colleges and cincy is worth 11-13mil. thats a insult to cuse alum and they dont even know it. sny playing womens bball oer a cuse mens game was a insult that they still dont understand either. think about it.
you are all falling for the insiders everywhere the wrong way. if u like college sports its great entertainment, i love it and join in clearly...but they judge value based on who and where u are today. a couple months ago, rutgers was worth about 8mil all sports and had a crapy history and no tradition. now they are worth 45mil and a historic program. u have to understand the perception game. thats all. uconns perception right now is a community college cusa team becuase thats where we are lumped in with. but 2 years ago we were a big east team perception wise. were still a monster and when we get to a final spot we will be jsut fine.
when cuse and pitt left for the acc. espn pretty quickly made it clear that uconn and ruty were under consideration. we had a lot of drama with bc and other stuff go on with that also. if u look back at it and the worths of schools as we know they are done, cuse and pitt are low on the list. but heres the kicker. fsu not to long ago wasn't happy remember? they did a study about schools worths themselves to challenge swofford liking cuse and willing to take pitt. they valued wvu, uconn, lville, rutgers, cue, pitt, cincy in that order schools wise. think about that.
uconn is worth way more then perception. its going to get over 10mil in its sleep from sny total in a crappy nbe. when we go to the b10 or acc, we will cake. if its the acc, our tier 3 thru both bball programs will bump there contract about another pill per school. buckle up, sack up, shut up and play the perception game on the internets with other fanbases becuase uconn is a fight worth fighting for. if its not to u, then why are u here anyway.
