I'm a Big 12 fan and respect your basketball program quite a bit, but I can't say I have followed UCONN football that much. The Big 12 would like a network, wanted expansion but the networks don't seem to be willing to pay for it and unfortunately it doesn't seem like adding G5 schools would cover their tv revenues for football.
So if the Big 12 offered UCONN among 4-6 schools a basketball only membership with a scheduling agreement for 2/3 games a year against a Big 12 football school, and then a cut of the conference network( based on the ability of that school to get cable companies or streaming subscriptions in a future delivery model). Unfortunately, the AAC only pays 1-2M for football tv revenue, so if in turn for any bball only member schools signing the rights to their football games to the network the league matched that type of a payout for football and then received T1 basketball revenue like the Big East got around 5M a year. If the bball only schools had 3 Big 12 games, played each other bball only member for football, that fills 6-8 games of the schedule and they could be an independent in football. It would give the conference network the bball only schools basketball and football content on the network to see if they could do a good job selling the conference network in their state/region.
If bball only schools could get 5M for bball plus 2M for football + %share of the network it would seem you come out ahead revenue wise. Also, if schools demonstrated they could do a good job selling network maybe in the future they would be added as full members. I think basketball has a good value for conferenece networks and maybe in the future with more streaming it would enhance the value of basketball increasing the T1 revenues also which would help these schools.
Teams like UCONN, Memphis, Cincy, Temple(?), BYU, New Mexico, UNLV, Houston(not a great bball school but playing Houston in football makes sense for the league) could be considered. SDSU & FSU might be a little too far west but who knows.
The Big 12 is a very good basketball conference and some of the teams mentioned above draw great for basketball so it wouldn't hurt the leagues basketball product overall. Its hypothetical but what do UCONN fans think of this arrangement if inclusion in a current P5 league for full membership is not available?
So if the Big 12 offered UCONN among 4-6 schools a basketball only membership with a scheduling agreement for 2/3 games a year against a Big 12 football school, and then a cut of the conference network( based on the ability of that school to get cable companies or streaming subscriptions in a future delivery model). Unfortunately, the AAC only pays 1-2M for football tv revenue, so if in turn for any bball only member schools signing the rights to their football games to the network the league matched that type of a payout for football and then received T1 basketball revenue like the Big East got around 5M a year. If the bball only schools had 3 Big 12 games, played each other bball only member for football, that fills 6-8 games of the schedule and they could be an independent in football. It would give the conference network the bball only schools basketball and football content on the network to see if they could do a good job selling the conference network in their state/region.
If bball only schools could get 5M for bball plus 2M for football + %share of the network it would seem you come out ahead revenue wise. Also, if schools demonstrated they could do a good job selling network maybe in the future they would be added as full members. I think basketball has a good value for conferenece networks and maybe in the future with more streaming it would enhance the value of basketball increasing the T1 revenues also which would help these schools.
Teams like UCONN, Memphis, Cincy, Temple(?), BYU, New Mexico, UNLV, Houston(not a great bball school but playing Houston in football makes sense for the league) could be considered. SDSU & FSU might be a little too far west but who knows.
The Big 12 is a very good basketball conference and some of the teams mentioned above draw great for basketball so it wouldn't hurt the leagues basketball product overall. Its hypothetical but what do UCONN fans think of this arrangement if inclusion in a current P5 league for full membership is not available?
