Suddenly we are only getting $4 million? There is stability, and there is opulence. Don't need that to have stability. A university needs a workable budget in order to compete. Making $100 million is just obscene gravy.
There is a pool of athletes playing college ball every year. Ohio State and Texas can pull in $200 bazillion. They can still offer only so many scholarships and student-athletes are still going to play at non-P2 schools.
This stuff doesn’t bother me too awful much until I remember that Rutgers, Indiana, Minnesota, Miss St, and others will be enojoying this windfall as the rest of us fall off the map. That’s infuriating.
The only reason why it bothers me is that eventually we aren’t going to be able to hire quality coaches. And I don’t mean just for the money sports. I mean for the Olympic sports as well. Our facilities are great, so we are well positioned there, but eventually we will fall behind there as well. Look at Rutgers, it’s blowing through its big 10 money plus another $73M annually just trying to bring its facilities up to snuff. It just asked for another hundred million dollars from New Jersey taxpayers. This is an arms war end ultimately whomever has the best economic system, i.e. the best access to capital, is the party who wins in arms war.
I understand. I’ve accepted that unless we get really lucky somehow, we have already lost the arms race. I just get upset when jealousy takes over. Why should Rutgers or Indiana fans be able to have big time football and we can’t? That bothers me more that anything else. There are quite a few PeeWee schools along for the ride created by 8 or so schools.
If players become hired guns in college sports generally, and football in particular, becomes a de facto semi pro league, that’s when I think I will be out.
Unfortunately, it seems that is where we are headed and no one is trying to hide it. Ruining college sports for millions of fans is just vicious. I really hope the average Joe won’t let them get away with it and stops watching. Forcing all of us to become Bama fans is just stupid. What about all of the college towns that rely on big games for restaurants and hotels to survive? Most importantly, what about all of the kids, families and seniors that will be robbed of their fandom and favorite pastimes? It is a national issue that will affect the quality of life of many, me included. Screw these conferences.
Adapt and survive, isn't that what everyone says. A few may stop watching, most won't.
Didn’t most is here feel the same way 10 years when we were pushed aside in favor of Louisville? And don’t we need to know the composition of the ACC at the time of the presumed offer to know if it makes sense?
$40 million is a pipe dream. That’s a tremendous amount of money. Notre Dame doesn’t even receive that much right now. $40 million only looks small in contrast with the projected $100 million for the B1G. However, they’re only getting that much brpecause they’ve assembled a group with that kind of revenue generating capability. UConn will only get even 40 million when we have proven that we have that kind of revenue generating power.
What's your point. If you aren't in the P2, the only sensible course of action is to fold up shop? We already know the P2 is separating itself. So yeah, the rest can be competitive in whatever slop is thrown together here on out.
Meh. UCONN has brilliant coaches even while being belted around during CR. Penders, Hurley, Auriemma, Mora, Cavanaugh, It's not like excellent coaches are going to disappear because only the stinkin' richest 40 programs or so can afford them. The dollar amounts will change but no matter how disparate they become, there will always be a pecking order and excellent coaches will be available.
My point?
It may have started already when the guy from Simsbury spurned UConn to go to Rutgers for basketball. Such a move would be unheard of just a year or two ago! I wonder how much they were able to pay him?
Yet, both Penders and Mora were considered for other positions. Eventually we won’t be able to put up competitive offers.
Mora signed for about 1.5 million per year at UConn. For comparison BC coach makes 3 million- Fresno State coach 1.65 million
How appealing.
Maybe he wanted to play for the guy from Bristol. and what about the other guy from Bristol who chose UCONN?
Agreed. UCONN has an uphill battle just to get to MAC level competitiveness. But I look at it as, if you aint playing in the B1G or SEC, there may not be a big difference between playing in the ACC vs the MAC. We'll see.
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I would think that UConn would bring as much value to the ACC as Wake, Cuse, BC and Pitt at least. Very disappointing article.Professor Zimbalist: "“Their calculation basically is, we add a market, there are so many households in the market, that’s worth so much in television rights,” Zimbalist said. “On the other side, now we have to divide the existing money we have, which might diminish, amongst one more school. They look at those two tradeoffs, and I don’t expect that Connecticut is going to have options that are really attractive.”
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