Uconn mens and women’s basketball are very big brands its the football side that is not
Feel free to say whatever you want, I was just curious about the point you're struggling to make. It seems the fact that they are Catholic universities matters to you. Your persistence in hammering that point along with multiple vague pejoratives speaks more about you than it does about the schools.
This is true, but in the scheme of what we are dealing with in terms of achieving media revenues, it is similar to owning the best Vespa while many of our peers own good to very good motorcycle
True but a lot of that is based upon the fact that football keeps its playoff revenue while basketball's revenues used to find the NCAA, and nonrevenue sport championships.
I totally agree and if changes ever come about to move away from that model, then we'll be in a better spot.
Don't hold your breath on that happening.
Not holding my breathe - it'll be hugely disruptive and I think Congress would get involved.
That doesn’t have anything to do with how much TV will pay a conference.
I actually feel like it may be coming, but only because it's the low hanging fruit for more cash for the P* universities.
No way that happens.
But it's by choice that it's so lowly valued. You can instantly flip that switch overnight and make it very valuable. The networks pay $1.1b every year for the NCAA tournament. If you can grab that money, the value of basketball skyrockets.
When Texas and Oklahoma announced they were leaving the Big12 for the SEC, the obituary for the Big12 was being written. Instead the conference survived, for now. Jump forward a bit, USC and UCLA depart the PAC, and though doom was spraypainted on the wall, they still had name and brands left. Then BLAM!, the storied conference shattered. No way the Big East has the power or financial cache to weather way may be coming. I like the league, don't hate on any teams as long as UConn wins all its games, but let's be real, if the PAC can be obliterated, the Big East can most assuredly be torn to shreds and cut out with little effort.
No way that happens?
UConn alumnus here. Respectfully I must disagree. UConn is the most successful PROGRAM in the past 25 years, not the biggest BRAND. If you are a TV executive looking to maximize ad revenue, who are you putting on your network first? Kansas, Duke, or UConn?
Biggest brand in the big east
That's not saying much, it's not like the big guns are still around.
Right, but that's a huge IF. How do you see that playing out? Who would move for that to happen and why do you think UConn would be in a position to reap those rewards?
Kind of not how it works, though I wish it did. Networks don't contract to broadcast specific schools. They have deals with conferences. Now, if all schools had to schedule their games with networks separately, and got paid for them separately, our circumstances improved dramatically. Connecticut is a huge national brand. Opposing teams jack up the prices when we come to town, and when we are on the traditional broadcast networks, or even a ESPN are ratings are extremely high .
I see it being a money grab by the P*conferences deciding that they don't want to share basketball revenue. If that happens, I think we get an invite based upon our success and national branding, but I'm not certain of that.