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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3222057, member: 44"] Yes UConn will continue to be an FBS school as an independent. They will schedule games without the benefit of a conference schedule. The AD has, apparently, received a lot of interest in scheduling us. SNY has indicated that they are interested in buying the broadcast rights to out home games. How does this advance our interests in joining the P5? Well you have play FBS football to join a P5 conference, definitionally, so having a team is better than not. Some have argued that leaving American hurts us and our chances to move to the P5. They may well be right. On the other hand, it is certainly a fair observation, that the move to the NBE has created some buzz for us. If we can schedule FB games and win them, I think we create a little niche for ourselves. In any event the American was a death by a thousand cuts. It was time. [B][U]EDIT:[/U][/B] On closing the "substantial AD debt," I've written about this in detail a lot. I won't do it again right now. Suffice it to say that: 1) on a net basis I believe the current NBE deal to worth more than the new American deal which begins in 2020 and ends in 2032. (The just under $7M of the American deal is reduced by @$2.M in production costs and @$2M in additional travel costs.) 2) Fox has indicated that they will open the existing deal if the NBE if we were to join so the existing NBE TV deal will be higher than the current amount. 3) The current NBE Fox deal ends in a few years. It is expected to be increase when renewed. 4) SNY has indicated that it is interested in broadcasting our football games. I anticipate that they will pay seven figures for those rights. 5) The NBE is rumored to willing to let us sell our T# rights to SNY. If this happens I would fully expect it to be worth several millions of dollars. 6) Keep in mind that much of the AD deficit is illusory: a) We current account for scholarships as if they were full freight out of state rates. No one actually pays those. A better way to account for them would be the incremental out of pocket costs. b) We rent the Rent and the XL from the CDRA at high rates (XL is $40K a game I believe.) This is money being paid by a state organization (UConn) to a state organization (the CDRA). It has the effect of aritifically inflating the AD expenses while minimizing the deficit that the CDRA operates under. Geno has suggested that a better way to account for the profitability of these games is simple to have UConn and CDRA split the profit. This makes sense to me. c) Some of the deficit that you are seeing is actually due to student club and rec sport programs and just student recreation. These are not actually "athletic department costs" in the traditional sense. 7) As noted above the move the NBE is estimated to reduce travel expense by $2M per year. [/QUOTE]

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