AAC $1 Billion Media Rights Deal - Part 2

[DeepGreen]

https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/UConn-expresses-reservations-about-AAC-media-deal-13723220.php

Some reservations about this deal??  Where there's smoke, there's fire.

[RiseUNT]

I think uconn will be the first fracture in the break of aac. They are losing 40 million a year and only have one regional rival.

Worst case scenario is they move to big east and drop down football one level. 

Best case they move to acc.

 

[RiseUNT]

Just now, RiseUNT said:

I think uconn will be the first fracture in the break of aac. They are losing 40 million a year and only have one regional rival.

Worst case scenario is they move to big east and drop down football one level. 

Best case they move to acc.

 

Just looking at that map how is that conference sustainable?

[emmitt01]

6 minutes ago, RiseUNT said:

Just looking at that map how is that conference sustainable?

Similar to the way this one is...which is to say not for long. 

[DeepGreen]

About as far-flung a CUSA.  Smart move would be-

Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane, UH, smut, UNT, nutsak(if needed), La Tech, So. Miss, Troy, maybe Arky State, and a few others. Texas State-San Marcos?

[DeepGreen]

2 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Similar to the way this one is...which is to say not for long. 

All I can do is sadly shake my head at that map too.

[RiseUNT]

8 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

About as far-flung a CUSA.  Smart move would be-

Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane, UH, smut, UNT, nutsak(if needed), La Tech, So. Miss, Troy, maybe Arky State, and a few others. Texas State-San Marcos?

😝

[RiseUNT]

8 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

All I can do is sadly shake my head at that map too.

Seems like everyone is wait for the next shakeup mode.

 

[untjim1995]

2 hours ago, CK2 said:

We would drop all of our athletics before we join a shitstain conference like that.

Which is exactly how every power member feels about y’all being in a conference with you...

[FirefightnRick]

3 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Which is exactly how every power member feels about y’all being in a conference with you...

Stop ruining everyone’s “ignore” setting.

 

Rick

[emmitt01]

7 hours ago, CK2 said:

We would drop all of our athletics before we join a shitstain conference like that.

Promise?

 

And who TF is “we”?   I didn’t know Houston was letting their Make A Wish kid dictate conference affiliation.  

[RiseUNT]

On 3/29/2019 at 12:47 PM, RiseUNT said:

I think uconn will be the first fracture in the break of aac. They are losing 40 million a year and only have one regional rival.

Worst case scenario is they move to big east and drop down football one level. 

Best case they move to acc.

 

Boom

[greenminer]

On 3/29/2019 at 8:19 PM, FirefightnRick said:

Stop ruining everyone’s “ignore” setting.

 

Rick

Bingo! Stop replying to trolls, my friends! Especially ones who out-right admit to coming here to troll!

[greenminer]

On 3/29/2019 at 12:47 PM, RiseUNT said:

They are losing 40 million a year and only have one regional rival.

Can you elaborate on this?

Brett just reported that each AAC school gets 7+ mil/year from their TV/media deal.  CUSA schools get $450K.  Seems like a no-brainer move up.

Edited June 22, 2019 by greenminer

[RiseUNT]

2 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Can you elaborate on this?

Brett just reported that each AAC school gets 7+ mil/year from their TV/media deal.  CUSA schools get $450K.  Seems like a no-brainer move up.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-uconn-sports-athletic-department-finances-revenue-expenses-20190117-2wdp5gimnvhlliwykl6npcmy7u-story.html%3FoutputType%3Damp&ved=2ahUKEwiJ6_qu2_3iAhVO2qwKHYGWB1wQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0k9Q4SdJK-PGmHk55ckuc-&ampcf=1

[greenminer]

@RiseUNT thanks! Huge facepalm on my part.  I read that $$ loss like you were referring to the AAC in general, not UCONN.

[RiseUNT]

So is the ESPN deal even signed off on?

Did they agree to pay some of the bigger money makers more?

Are some of the schools signing to be locked in long term?

[untjim1995]

Kudos to UConn. They recognize where their bread gets buttered. Hoops matters big time there and they miss their old rivals that were located closer to them than anything the AAC offers.

The Big East just won big time for hoops too

[untjim1995]

Just now, CK2 said:

Clearly you havent been paying attention to Uconn basketball lately. They were bottom feeders in the AAC

Their women are great and they win a natty just 5 years ago. Everyone knows they are a tremendous program. The AAC really lost cred as a men’s league when they fell back. People laughed at Cincy, Wichita State, and y’all being their bellcows—absolutely no prayer of being anymore than a Sweet 16 league once UConn fell back.

As it turns out, UConn realized y’all brought nothing to their programs and bolted ASAP. As in something y’all got shown to not be able to do when the Big 12 did to UH’s application what UNT did to your grades for stating admitted here as a student.

[untjim1995]

29 minutes ago, CK2 said:

Yet your own beat writer immediately put out an article seeing if UNT can join our conference. Plus you got many of your fellow posters wanting in.

You put out some nonsense about nothing being brought to the table whewhen UConn has been at the bottom of the AAC in every category. 

 

You tried to shit talk us losing a close game to Kentucky in the Sweet 16, how about you let me know when UNT even SNIFFS the bathroom door handle of the arena the NCAA Tournament is being held at.

I don’t remember saying one word about us being in the AAC or anything else regarding our athletics. I just posted the facts about UConn being way above y’all in the hierarchy of college sports. And they are going to make more money for their best sports while playing teams that their fans care about.

Nowhere did I mention us going into your conference.