UConn Men's 2025-2026 Basketball Schedule TV/Times Announced

[80shusky]

8 games on Peacock is....several words Tom won't let us type here.

 

[Chief00]

That was my first reaction . I get that streaming is the future ( or present) but putting a marquee game on a network without max exposure hurts the product

You are obsoletely right. I said this on the football board and the fallout I received before the “next step “ shoe dropped. Now people hopefully understand better the point I was making, although some of them comprehend very poorly even after being embarrassed being wrong.

 

[zls44]

Good point, maybe I am not allset after all with Peacock. The “next steps” game deliveries I alluded to on the football board keeps getting even worse than I thought.
Val Ackerman should be terminated before the season starts. Where are the Big East Presidents?

Val was given a raise as part of closing the Peacock deal.

By the Big East Presidents.

“Val Ackerman’s salary saw a big jump in 2024 to $1.8M which looks to be driven via a $520K bonus. There is no explanation in the documents, though the timing could be related to the new media contract being signed. “

Analyzing Big East Fiscal Year 2024 Financials

Big East revenue and payouts continued to grow in 2024, with big changes ahead for 2025 and beyond.

painttouches.com

 

[zls44]

Another point from a business perspective is they did not pay enought of money! Val Ackerman is a disaster and has been her whole career. If you are going to ignore your Brand, customers and long term - at least get the short term big dollar. And she failed at that too.

You are worth what the market dictates you are worth.

 

[Ha Who]

Darn, I missed the days. The games were on CPTV.

 

[Waquoit]

Usually they offer a year for 20-25 bucks around Black Friday. You would miss the UMass Lowell game if you wait til then, if you don’t mind.

They had $20 deal just a couple of months ago. Yarders can’t say they weren’t warned.

 

[Waquoit]

Darn, I missed the days. The games were on CPTV.

When was that?

 

[Chief00]

You are worth what the market dictates you are worth.

You miss the point, you manage where you are in the market and position yourself for long term success. Val Ackerman instead has continued her long track record of failed results.

 

[auror]

Val was given a raise as part of closing the Peacock deal.

By the Big East Presidents.

“Val Ackerman’s salary saw a big jump in 2024 to $1.8M which looks to be driven via a $520K bonus. There is no explanation in the documents, though the timing could be related to the new media contract being signed. “

Analyzing Big East Fiscal Year 2024 Financials

Big East revenue and payouts continued to grow in 2024, with big changes ahead for 2025 and beyond.

painttouches.com

The Big East Presidents knew revenue sharing was coming coinciding with a major cash crunch at Universities, so they grabbed the biggest bag they could get. This isn't a Val thing. This is survival mode. You can talk about leadership and big picture and long term brand identity, but @Chief00 look at the Big East rosters this season and tell me how much money they should have been comfortable giving up on the deal and make their teams less competitive in order to stay on CBS Sports Network instead of Peacock.

 

[Chief00]

Val was given a raise as part of closing the Peacock deal.

By the Big East Presidents.

“Val Ackerman’s salary saw a big jump in 2024 to $1.8M which looks to be driven via a $520K bonus. There is no explanation in the documents, though the timing could be related to the new media contract being signed. “

Analyzing Big East Fiscal Year 2024 Financials

Big East revenue and payouts continued to grow in 2024, with big changes ahead for 2025 and beyond.

painttouches.com

Thanks for proving my point, as you continue to defend the woman the female players in the WNBA feel screwed them over. You are one sexist guy.
And you should realize whatever increases in revenue this incompetent Commissioner got in recent years was due to Championships won by Hurley, Wright and Geno. Nothing to do with her.

 

[zls44]

Thanks for proving my point, as you continue to defend the woman the female players in the WNBA feel screwed them over. You are one sexist guy.
And you should realize whatever increases in revenue this incompetent Commissioner got in recent years was due to Championships won by Hurley, Wright and Geno. Nothing to do with her.

I agree that Val stinks but the rest of this is CTE

 

[Icehawk]

Xfinity offers free Peacock with some of their packages. If you are a customer, it may be worthwhile to see what they can offer you.

 

[Chief00]

Xfinity offers free Peacock with some of their packages. If you are a customer, it may be worthwhile to see what they can offer you.

I think that’s what I have with Xfinity but does that cover Premium Peacock?

 

[freescooter]

Not sure this is a Val Ackerman problem, though she is terrible. It seems to be an increasing trend that the best teams and games are being put on streaming services across all the conferences

That is with 18 team leagues and such. The NBE has half the games. You want to try to keep up, though, you need to do whatever for money. And when you have half your league that is deadweight, that doesn’t help.

 

[aceboon]

NBC is relaunching NBC Sports Network and reportedly will be airing games that air "exclusively" on Peacock, but the new NBCSN will be in higher cable tiers so that it won't cannibalize it's Peacock subscribers. I still use cable, hopefully they throw the channel in the same tier that gets you all the conference sports channels

NBC officially relaunching NBCSN this fall

NBCSN is officially back, with NBC announcing Thursday that it will use the moniker on a new sports cable channel this fall.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

 

[Chief00]

Putting your best games on streaming may boost short term revenues and league commissioner bonuses, but is terrible for long term revenues and brand exposure. Streaming is essentially dedicated to existing dedicated fans not potentially building new ones. No growth. And that has indirect impacts that some of the well intention Casual Fans here don’t consider. For example, merchandising which impact both school and NIL revenues. You are not reaching enough of people only with your aging and most dedicated fan base. No growth, which is bad business.
So this is Val Ackerman’s comfort zone leaving a mess for whoever her successor is as she did in the WNBA.

 

[Chief00]

Then the league can return the NBC money.

You can barely see the wall in front of you. Good business people think next step and in Ackerman’s case - the next step is a less exposed brand nationally, which will mean recruiting and merchandising will take hits. Yet, she can’t see beyond her next bonus. Shame on the Big East Presidents for disincenting long term success.

 

[zls44]

You can barely see the wall in front of you. Good business people think next step and in Ackerman’s case - the next step is a less exposed brand nationally, which will mean recruiting and merchandising will take hits. Yet, she can’t see beyond her next bonus. Shame on the Big East Presidents for disincenting long term success.

Every single major conference and sports league has games on streaming. The NFL put a playoff game on Peacock.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Every single major conference and sports league has games on streaming. The NFL put a playoff game on Peacock.

And the Red Sox were on appletv for an important game or two as they were getting close to clinching a postseason spot. While streaming is growing, it's still not at a point where it's a net positive from a fans' accessibility standpoint.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

And the Red Sox were on appletv for an important game or two as they were getting close to clinching a postseason spot. While streaming is growing, it's still not at a point where it's a net positive from a fans' accessibility standpoint.

Good example. The Red Sox clinched that day and no one watched it happen. The NFL playoff game was known as the “free trial game” but that won’t work for Big East basketball as it spans several months. I’ve never really looked at how well ND football does on peacock but they are a national brand so not quite apples to apples. The real measure is how, say, Michigan State or Purdue basketball games do on peacock.

 

[woodchuck68]

Every single major conference and sports league has games on streaming. The NFL put a playoff game on Peacock.

Curious to see comparisons to the ACC and big 10. SEC seems set with most games on espn channels.

 

[zls44]

Curious to see comparisons to the ACC and big 10. SEC seems set with most games on espn channels.

ACC has games on ESPN+
Big Ten has games on Peacock and BTN+

 

[navery12]

Curious to see comparisons to the ACC and big 10. SEC seems set with most games on espn channels.

Michigan State had 6 games on Peacock last year, Purdue had 8 games on Peacock last year. So it's a trend everywhere, not just for UConn/Big East

 

[woodchuck68]

Michigan State had 6 games on Peacock last year, Purdue had 8 games on Peacock last year. So it's a trend everywhere, not just for UConn/Big East

Yeah I guess we'll have to see all this plays out but I think one can bifurcate two separate issues

The fact that the clear trend is to move sporting events to streaming networks and the fact that that kind of sucks for most fans particularly those with lesser means

And

And whether it is advisable for the Big East to be perhaps a tad earlier to this trend than others. ( although that may not be the case)

 

[alexd]

I've haven't worried about sports on Peacock.
According to my wife, we get it included with our Xfinity internet deal. 😉
I'll complain if it gets dropped before the hoops season starts.

 

[ctchamps]

Every single major conference and sports league has games on streaming. The NFL put a playoff game on Peacock.

I strongly doubt Chief is unaware of what is happening. It’s his tendency to utilize an emotional situation (in this case the access difficulty and added cost for fans) and incite anger for his personal agenda. Which is the removal of Val as BE commissioner.

What will be interesting for me is to observe how much traction he gets over this. Will disgruntled Boneyarders succumb to their emotions and join Chief in blaming Val for their negative viewing experience? Or will they read the facts that you and others are pointing out and understand this is a situation outside the control of conference commissioners?

What is happening in the world of media is obvious. ALL winning bidders for sports content are selling some of their winning content to other media entities. They make more money doing this. These other entities make more money as well because they know that enough fans will subscribe to offset their costs. Conferences are making more money as well albeit far less than the corporations.

All this profit comes at the expense of the fans viewing experience as well as team exposure. But that cost is universal and not at the expense of UConn or BE teams as those with agendas or emotional weakness prefer to make.

If the profits don’t happen the situation changes. That means fans have to stop watching and subscribing to the point that there are losses and not profits. I don’t think there is an individual in this community that doesn’t logically understand this. However logic is all too often overtaken by emotion. And this unfortunately can be exploited.

 

[jibsey]

This is why young people with more limited incomes most of whom are not on here use vpn (to protect against malware) and illegal aggregator streaming sites to access games. They cannot afford this craziness. How do I know? I asked my son how he and his friends watch the games.

 

[HooperScooper]

This is why young people with more limited incomes most of whom are not on here use vpn (to protect against malware) and illegal aggregator streaming sites to access games. They cannot afford this craziness. How do I know? I asked my son how he and his friends watch the games.

My son and his friends watched a lot of sports on illegal streams in college. He said everyone does.

 

[ctchamps]

This is why young people with more limited incomes most of whom are not on here use vpn (to protect against malware) and illegal aggregator streaming sites to access games. They cannot afford this craziness. How do I know? I asked my son how he and his friends watch the games.

Understandable for people in difficult situations to resort to illegal activity. But I imagine that many people do this who have adequate resources.

It’s entertaining watching how these illegal entities are being targeted. It’s another example of who gets the money. Governments and legitimate corporations versus illegal entities and consumers. When governments start penalizing consumers it will be interesting to see how many people choose to remain in an illegal activity. Sports “addiction” isn’t the same as drug addiction.

 

[Lafayette]

Might be too conspiracy theory but Ackerman was a known commodity. She gets het cash, tanks the league and UConn starts conference shopping.