So what's next?

[Hoophound]

Frank's point shines light on something I am always harping on, marketing. UConn needs to work with Nike, IMG, Under Armour or whoever to build the mystique around our basketball programs. The brand needs nurturing by the school, sponsors and ESPN. I'd be all over ESPN to give us some of UK's promotional perks given our bogus payout. We need to shake something out of ESPN for this meager existence.

 

[UC313]

Frank's point shines light on something I am always harping on, marketing. UConn needs to work with Nike, IMG, Under Armour or whoever to build the mystique around our basketball programs. The brand needs nurturing by the school, sponsors and ESPN. I'd be all over ESPN to give us some of UK's promotional perks given our bogus payout. We need to shake something out of ESPN for this meager existence.

Spitballing here. What does the state have that can entice the mouse? As much as id like the tax breaks back, its gonna be really hard to take away something thats all ready given. If the accn is going to be their bread and butter revenue producer theyre going to need to address their streaming power. Bspn is scrambling to add servers for their new pairing with bamtech (for mlb i think). If their infrastructure cant handle baseball i dont know howll theyll handle the accn in a new digital age. The state needs a trump card. Time to squeeze that bag of apples a little here.

 

[upstater]

Well, that's an interesting and valid point. UConn's geography was definitely a negative for the Big 12 for being too far while there's a possible redundancy issue with the ACC and Big Ten. The benefit that Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas all have is that they can be slotted into any of the Big Ten, SEC or Pac-12 quite easily from a geographic standpoint (and the ACC could stretch for them, too). There are good things for UConn's geography on paper (namely its location between NYC and Boston), but it's an open question whether that geography matches up well with what the P5 leagues are looking for.

You have never ever ever once given UConn credit for the state of Connecticut. It is bizarre and absurd. You tout states of similar population with 2 P5 schools, but you can't mention the fact that Connecticut dominates its state, gets high ratings, has a sports channel charge 2.65 per month for 1.3m cable homes because it has UConn's tier 3 package. It boggles the mind that you do this, but you never ever acknowledge it. There is no redundancy.

 

[The Funster]

You have never ever ever once given UConn credit for the state of Connecticut. It is bizarre and absurd. You tout states of similar population with 2 P5 schools, but you can't mention the fact that Connecticut dominates its state, gets high ratings, has a sports channel charge 2.65 per month for 1.3m cable homes because it has UConn's tier 3 package. It boggles the mind that you do this, but you never ever acknowledge it. There is no redundancy.

FTT is only reflecting the thoughts of the people and insitutes that he blogs about. If those people are myopic and self-centered then that is the viewpoint he'll adopt. Listen to what the president of ISU said about adding "lesser" teams to the Big 12. That demonstrates how self deluded some of these presidents really are.