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UConn’s next move.

At some point, ACC schools such as Virginia, UNC, Clemson, FSU and probably Miami and VPI will either be in the BIG or SEC. There’s just no way they stay on the sideline making 35-40 million while their contemporaries make 80-100.
 
EROCK CONN said:
At some point, ACC schools such as Virginia, UNC, Clemson, FSU and probably Miami and VPI will either be in the BIG or SEC. There’s just no way they stay on the sideline making 35-40 million while their contemporaries make 80-100.
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The companies that are paying the SEC and B1G already have the rights to those schools. Nobody is paying them to move until they can stop paying Miss ST, Vandy, Northwestern and Rutgers. If Apple or Amazon really get in the game it might change things.
 
Honest question, in 15 years will anyone even care about college sports? I feel like these media deals are a bubble waiting to burst. Live content for events few care for arent worth the money.
 
djct1999 said:
Honest question, in 15 years will anyone even care about college sports? I feel like these media deals are a bubble waiting to burst. Live content for events few care for arent worth the money.
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Absolutely. The better question is will college football be a thing in 30 years if individual schools are able to be sued for CTE.
 
shizzle787 said:
Absolutely. The better question is will college football be a thing in 30 years if individual schools are able to be sued for CTE.
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Thats not the better question. With guys like Saban leaving the game, less people will actually care. College football will become a ratings nightmare and networks wont pay.
 
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djct1999 said:
Honest question, in 15 years will anyone even care about college sports? I feel like these media deals are a bubble waiting to burst. Live content for events few care for arent worth the money.
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Kind of feels that way, doesn't it? Things go in cycles. Things that go up usually go down at some point. Things that go up fast come down faster. Feels like this entire money grab in college athletics will come to a crashing halt at some point. I don't know when but I feel like it's going to happen.
 
kobe said:
uconn is out of sight and out of mind for any P5 discussions and will be for the foreseeable future outside of some very niche situation where the acc is poached in about a decade or so.

im curious to know where uconn would have fallen had yall decided to stay in the aac and had some moderate success the past 3-4 years. but dropping out to indy to "save" basketball was effectively the killing blow to any future P5 conference.
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I keep telling you people to close the screen door so the flies don't come in.
 
uconndogs said:
There are no doubt schools in the ACC that are enormously concerned with what the SEC and BiG are doing with Texas/Oklahoma and USC/UCLA. Those conferences are setting themselves up for huge paydays given the markets they have and continue to penetrate. I would not be surprised if some of the ACC members try to bring the conference and media partners to the table before their GOR expire to see if a deal can be cut to join either the SEC or BiG. I have to believe Florida State, Virginia and UNC would be highly desired by either the BiG or SEC and I am sure they would be happy to go.

I just don't see what UCONN brings to the table that would entice either the BiG or the SEC. I don't think the NYC market is a viable argument and without that it's just not a major market target. When the ACC splinters UCONN will find a home with whatever results from the remainder of the ACC.
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NYC vs 2!! schools from Mississippi.
 
Palatine said:
UConn delivers the New Haven/Hartford Market which is the 30th largest in the country. They also have the #5 market on one border and the #1market on the other. Don't diss the number of eyeballs UConn brings to the table. It would make a significant impact for the B10.

Now, UConn sucks at marketing and has for a long time. They have recently tried to leverage New York which is good. But they continue to ignore Boston which they shouldn't.

But even just focusing on the 3.5 million folks in Connecticut. It would put them solidly in the top half of any P5 league.
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Well, if it was about media markets, the BIG would be doing everything in their power to steal BC from the ACC before they tried to get UConn.
 
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djct1999 said:
Thats not the better question. With guys like Saban leaving the game, less people will actually care. College football will become a ratings nightmare and networks wont pay.
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I honestly think coaches like Saban and Dabo are hurting the game, not helping. Fans of those teams get riled up, but everyone else is sick of Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State making up 3/4 playoff teams every single year. I watch UConn games, but have mostly stopped caring about college football as a whole because of lack of parity. It's boring. Maybe playoff expansion will help. Increased parity will bring more eyes to the mix.
 
Greedo said:
I honestly think coaches like Saban and Dabo are hurting the game, not helping. Fans of those teams get riled up, but everyone else is sick of Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State making up 3/4 playoff teams every single year. I watch UConn games, but have mostly stopped caring about college football as a whole because of lack of parity. It's boring. Maybe playoff expansion will help. Increased parity will bring more eyes to the mix.
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I wonder if college basketball fans thought the same way when UCLA was winning all those championships. I was too young at that point to know.
 
NowInStorrs said:
Do we really want to jump into a sinking ship ACC? UNC, FSU, Clemson, and Virginia are probably gone at some point. Potentially Miami, Louisville, and Duke as well.

ACC will be more like the early version of the AAC.
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Sure, it’ll be like a version of the American that actually contains teams are fans give a rats patootie about going to watch while earning tens of millions of dollars more from a media contract, but other than that virtually the same thing.
 
djct1999 said:
Thats not the better question. With guys like Saban leaving the game, less people will actually care. College football will become a ratings nightmare and networks wont pay.
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College football will become a ratings nightmare when guys like Saban leave the game? With all due respect, are you on crack?

Do you see the crowd sizes that show up to these Big 10 and SEC games?
 
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RayIsTheGOAT said:
College football will become a ratings nightmare when guys like Saban leave the game? With all due respect, are you on crack?

Do you see the crowd sizes that show up to these Big 10 and SEC games?
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few here can see anything, but they'll tell you aboot 2036, 2099, 23 skidoo, whatever. my fave is the ACC ends next tuesday, at 12:47 pm, and somehow having the zags will make us rolling in the clover. college football is the schnizzle of college athletics cash, and eyeballs, which lead to cash.
take here, for example. we have climbed off the mat, and, magically, the crowds are coming back, both at the stadium, and here at the yard.
sweeeeet. who knew?
is this where i am now expected to state some undying loyalty pledge to all things hoops, my favorite game, even tho in the real world it barely registers a blip on the cash scale compared to football?
i ain't greedy, and am now very thankful for our return to watchable and cheerable football, especially since it can help to pay the electric bill at state u.
hey snooop! u feel me?
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LIUCHusky said:
Not because the UCLA dynasty ended though.
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That was not the only reason, but that was a material part of it. Expanding the tournament, which was a big part of it, wouldn't have been nearly as big a deal if the same team won every year. The same reason why the college football playoffs are not as big a deal as they might be.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
College football will become a ratings nightmare when guys like Saban leave the game? With all due respect, are you on crack?

Do you see the crowd sizes that show up to these Big 10 and SEC games?
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Unfortunately, its not the crowd sizes at the games that matters. Its the eyeballs at home. They aren't watching.
 
djct1999 said:
Unfortunately, its not the crowd sizes at the games that matters. Its the eyeballs at home. They aren't watching.
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my turn! my turn!
'With all due respect, are you on crack?'

'ABC’s first “Saturday Night Football” game of 2022 drew the largest prime-time audience since the concluding game of the NBA Finals and the most viewers for a regular-season college football game on ABC since 2017.'
but wait, there's more!
'On its first full week of season, college football accounted for four of the top 20 prime-time programs, including Florida State’s 24-23 victory over LSU Sunday on ABC, which averaged 7.554 million viewers, second among prime-time programs between Aug. 29 and Sunday.

The week’s only other prime-time program to top 6 million viewers was the 121-minute “America’s Got Talent” episode Aug. 30, which averaged 6.363 million viewers. The NBC talent competition’s 61-minute episode Aug. 31 was fourth for the week, averaging 5.478 million viewers.'

TV ratings: Viewers were ready for college football
 
djct1999 said:
Unfortunately, its not the crowd sizes at the games that matters. Its the eyeballs at home. They aren't watching.
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They aren’t? I ran bars in the south. You know what our slowest days were? Saturdays during football season, because literally everyone stayed home to watch football. You’re insane if you think people don’t watch college football. I would wager it has more eyeballs weekly than most pro sports.
 
djct1999 said:
Thats not the better question. With guys like Saban leaving the game, less people will actually care. College football will become a ratings nightmare and networks wont pay.
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Yep, people will stop caring about college football once Nick Saban retires.

Somehow this makes sense in your head.
 
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i'll bet that right now, more than a few bowls are really hoping we make it to at least six wins. 7-5? then it could get really weird.
they like our cash potential -for them.
nutmeg money as visitors, an all that. we travel well.
and then the eyeball thing iffn only one team from New England is on the tube when the temps drop.

College Football USA - it's all aboot the benjamins.
 
What is a reasonable guesstimate of what UConn can expect to make from the UConn Network that will launch in late November? $9.99/ months x 12 months x ??? Of households = what. How much of the $9.99/ month is profit after expenses?
 
CTBballfan243 said:
What is a reasonable guesstimate of what UConn can expect to make from the UConn Network that will launch in late November? $9.99/ months x 12 months x ??? Of households = what. How much of the $9.99/ month is profit after expenses?
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It's free.
 
CTBballfan243 said:
What is a reasonable guesstimate of what UConn can expect to make from the UConn Network that will launch in late November? $9.99/ months x 12 months x ??? Of households = what. How much of the $9.99/ month is profit after expenses?
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Nothing?
dbmill said:
A couple questions on UConn+ answered in this Courant story:

www.courant.com

UConn launching ‘UConn+,’ new streaming digital network where fans can watch more Huskies content

UConn is launching its own sports-focused digital streaming network that will provide live and on-demand content, the university announced Tuesday. UConn+ is expected to launch in late November and…
www.courant.com www.courant.com

<UConn+ is expected to launch in late November and will stream features, live events, coaches’ shows, highlights and other on-demand content. The streaming service will be sponsorship-driven, according to UConn’s Vice President for Communications, Tysen Kendig, and the content will be free.>

<Also unaffected will be content currently available on the Big East Conference’s digital platform and its affiliation with FloSports.>
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