At the same time, UC will net continue to lose money on football, as it has for the past several years.
I'm not smart enough to run the numbers, but let's assume UC does not get into a bigger conference. Won't they be in dire financial straits 12 years from now due to football bleeding money?
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03-20-2019, 09:48 AM #11
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03-20-2019, 10:11 AM #12
The majority of the games will be on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU. I believe six football games, including the championship game, will air on ABC.
The majority of the games will also be on ESPN Plus. Unlike before, where you didn’t need a plus account to watch streams of ESPN/2/U games, you will for most of these. It’s my understanding that ESPN is looking to go that route in future contracts with other conferences.
This is much better than what they had before."You can't fix stupid." Ron White
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03-20-2019, 10:41 AM #13
This.
Gents, the reality of it is that this is a horrible deal for the schools that care: Houston, UCF, Memphis, and UC. I would put UCONN in that group but it's too far gone to matter at this point when it comes to football.
This isn't about "increasing from $2mm to $7mm" and considering that "better". This was always about the AAC not now or ever having enough leverage with a media partner to secure a truly lucrative deal, wherein LUCRATIVE is defined as providing enough cash flow to enable an athletic department to at least truly break even, if not be in the black, so to speak.
It would have been BAD and not horrible had it only stopped at the financial terms of it, especially because, as I understand it, the schools wanting out didn't "GOR" themselves. But the deal became HORRIBLE when they hit them with this financial package AND stuck them on ESPN+. Nobody with a clue doubts that streaming is coming, but come on. It isn't busting down the door in 2020. The AAC is at a critical point of survival. It's already bleeding to death financially. Now it has to go out and recruit players who will consider that they'll be playing in a viewer pool that tops out at 2 million total for the entire platform! No casual viewers, etc.
Brew, I'm not reading anywhere that the "majority" of their games are going to end up safely on those platforms. I would love for you to cite sources for that statement if you can. I'm not challenging you; I just am taking most of what I'm offering from the UCONN and Houston boards. They are not very happy with all this.
Aresco didn't exactly have a good day at the office on this one.Last edited by xudash; 03-20-2019 at 10:44 AM.
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03-20-2019, 10:58 AM #14
https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/...03/19/AAC.aspx
That kind of mentions it, but I’m mostly relying on what a friend at ESPN told me. No more than half the games will be on Plus, and even some of those will be available on the networks as well.
Any game that doesn’t suck will probably not require a plus account.Last edited by xubrew; 03-20-2019 at 11:01 AM.
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03-20-2019, 11:05 AM #15
So, basically, any game that anyone is going to be watching anyway is going to be on one of the real networks.
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03-20-2019, 11:15 AM #16
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03-20-2019, 11:21 AM #17
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Which isn’t good for exposure. Basically that’s what they currently have. Anyway most reports I saw were that the majority of games will be on plus. That’s just not good if you consider yourself any type of major conference
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexPutte...98841847521281
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03-20-2019, 11:29 AM #18
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03-20-2019, 11:46 AM #19
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That would clash with the reporting that a [B]majority[B] of the football and basketball games will be on plus
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03-20-2019, 11:48 AM #20
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