(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 12:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Divisions are done. This is the last year. If we get the waiver, it's a done deal.

If we don't get the waiver, then we are stuck with divisions and an unbalanced schedule so we can play a CCG, but it won't be our choice.

I think we'll get a waiver for 2 or 3 years, at least.

Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

Disagree. The issue is not the quality of the teams, but the loss of a large media market.

ESPN is going to feel the loss of millions of lost revenue from one of its AAC markets. It is a profit-driven corporation, and as such, will be strongly motivated to find suitable profit replacement(s).

(09-27-2019 09:53 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-27-2019 09:30 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  [quote='jedclampett' pid='16321065' dateline='1569301471']
It is said that the 2020 FB season will be "division-less."

Question: will it remain that way forever, or will the AAC have East and West Divisions again in a year or two?

Why don't you use this as your avatar...
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(09-27-2019 10:24 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 12:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Divisions are done. This is the last year. If we get the waiver, it's a done deal.

If we don't get the waiver, then we are stuck with divisions and an unbalanced schedule so we can play a CCG, but it won't be our choice.

I think we'll get a waiver for 2 or 3 years, at least.

Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

Disagree. The issue is not the quality of the teams, but the loss of a large media market.

ESPN is going to feel the loss of millions of lost revenue from one of its AAC markets. It is a profit-driven corporation, and as such, will be strongly motivated to find suitable profit replacement(s).

But they didn't have much of that market, or what they DID have, they will still have because of professional sports.

(09-27-2019 10:38 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(09-27-2019 10:24 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 12:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Divisions are done. This is the last year. If we get the waiver, it's a done deal.

If we don't get the waiver, then we are stuck with divisions and an unbalanced schedule so we can play a CCG, but it won't be our choice.

I think we'll get a waiver for 2 or 3 years, at least.

Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

Disagree. The issue is not the quality of the teams, but the loss of a large media market.

ESPN is going to feel the loss of millions of lost revenue from one of its AAC markets. It is a profit-driven corporation, and as such, will be strongly motivated to find suitable profit replacement(s).

But they didn't have much of that market, or what they DID have, they will still have because of professional sports.

We simply disagree.

You don't think ESPN will lose any market share in and around UConn or with UConn fans around the country, and I think that they will, given the fact that UConn games will be broadcast by their competitor, FoxSports.

Not only will the UConn market go to FoxSports, but ESPN will no longer have the UConn media market in all sports. They are already starting to feel the loss of income in their pocketbook, and its only a matter of time before they get the markets (FB, MBB, WBB) replaced, which will probably require adding a FB only and a non-FB AAC university.

(09-27-2019 09:52 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 03:58 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 12:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Divisions are done. This is the last year. If we get the waiver, it's a done deal.

If we don't get the waiver, then we are stuck with divisions and an unbalanced schedule so we can play a CCG, but it won't be our choice.

I think we'll get a waiver for 2 or 3 years, at least.

Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

ESPN definitely lost most of the potential UConn viewership market (although UConn's BB teams will bring some cash in for ESPN until April.), and will not be regaining it afterwards.

My disagreement with you about this is that ESPN is not going to be sitting pretty with 11 markets, when it "signed up" for 12 markets.

ESPN is going to be in the hole (down one market). Companies like ESPN are not going to be content - they're not going to sit still.

I'm telling you that losing a sizable NE sports viewership market is going to bug the hell out of ESPN, and they're not going to be busting their back-sides until they get the AAC back up to 12 teams in both sports.

This is not a crisis for the AAC yet, but it is in the process of becoming a crisis for ESPN.

This isn’t a crisis for either the AAC or ESPN. The AAC would be smart to stay at 11 at all costs (and not expand in football or basketball). Then they won’t have to split the pie more ways. As for ESPN, they can just adjust the AAC TV deal downwards.

UConn football may be hot garbage, but anyone is delusional if they think that UConn was worth even a penny less than the $6.9mm per year on the next TV deal between having the greatest WBB team of all time, one of the top national championship MBB teams of all time, and the only FBS football team in a state of 3.5mm people. Make no mistake. ESPN will adjust for UConn’s departure. They are likely just still crunching numbers so that they don’t reduce it more than they need to as the AAC schools shouldn’t be penalized since they couldn’t control our departure. I am guessing that ESPN takes 4mm off the table per year, so that still gives the AAC teams maybe like 3mm to split amongst themselves as extra money. Everyone is a winner. ESPN gets some cash back and AAC schools each get like an extra 275K per year more than the 6.9mm they were expecting.

I think the bolded is about right (it's a little incongruous with the italicized part, but okay).
I honestly think its a little higher. https://www.csnbbs.com/thread-879317-pos...id16201782

I dont think anyone has ever questioned the BRAND value lost - UNPARALLELED brand for WBB, very good brand for MBB. People have questioned the current contributions of UConn MBB to the tourney credits and RPI lately, but even most of those think Hurley will get them back on the right track. I would suggest thst UConn has a strong part of that 3.5 miilion population as UConn fans...but not so much UConn football fans.

And we're told that 75% of the $83M average annual value of the AAC to ESPN comes from football...a $1M WBB program, and a MBB brand, and 3.5 million rabid Husky basketball fans in the Nutmeg State don't have much to with that $62.5M value of the AAC.

(09-28-2019 09:51 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(09-27-2019 09:52 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 03:58 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

ESPN definitely lost most of the potential UConn viewership market (although UConn's BB teams will bring some cash in for ESPN until April.), and will not be regaining it afterwards.

My disagreement with you about this is that ESPN is not going to be sitting pretty with 11 markets, when it "signed up" for 12 markets.

ESPN is going to be in the hole (down one market). Companies like ESPN are not going to be content - they're not going to sit still.

I'm telling you that losing a sizable NE sports viewership market is going to bug the hell out of ESPN, and they're not going to be busting their back-sides until they get the AAC back up to 12 teams in both sports.

This is not a crisis for the AAC yet, but it is in the process of becoming a crisis for ESPN.

This isn’t a crisis for either the AAC or ESPN. The AAC would be smart to stay at 11 at all costs (and not expand in football or basketball). Then they won’t have to split the pie more ways. As for ESPN, they can just adjust the AAC TV deal downwards.

UConn football may be hot garbage, but anyone is delusional if they think that UConn was worth even a penny less than the $6.9mm per year on the next TV deal between having the greatest WBB team of all time, one of the top national championship MBB teams of all time, and the only FBS football team in a state of 3.5mm people. Make no mistake. ESPN will adjust for UConn’s departure. They are likely just still crunching numbers so that they don’t reduce it more than they need to as the AAC schools shouldn’t be penalized since they couldn’t control our departure. I am guessing that ESPN takes 4mm off the table per year, so that still gives the AAC teams maybe like 3mm to split amongst themselves as extra money. Everyone is a winner. ESPN gets some cash back and AAC schools each get like an extra 275K per year more than the 6.9mm they were expecting.

...we're told that 75% of the $83M average annual value of the AAC to ESPN comes from football...

Since UConn FB hasn't contributed much to the annual value of the AAC to E$PN, most of UConn's value to E$PN has been attributable to their WBB program, due to the fact that UConn's MBB program has performed poorly over the past few seasons, and that their program has been severely tarnished as a result of the severe NCAA sanctions against UConn. Essentially, UConn men's basketball is a brand associated as much with recruiting violations and NCAA sanctions as with any tainted glory UConn may have falsely achieved under Calhoun and Ollie.

UConn has to some extent been a ball and chain - or a dead albatross hanging around the AAC's neck - that the AAC has had to drag around, and this has been particularly true since the most recently announced NCAA sanctions against the UConn MBB legacy due to rule violations.

(09-27-2019 10:24 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 12:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Divisions are done. This is the last year. If we get the waiver, it's a done deal.

If we don't get the waiver, then we are stuck with divisions and an unbalanced schedule so we can play a CCG, but it won't be our choice.

I think we'll get a waiver for 2 or 3 years, at least.

Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

Disagree. The issue is not the quality of the teams, but the loss of a large media market.

ESPN is going to feel the loss of millions of lost revenue from one of its AAC markets. It is a profit-driven corporation, and as such, will be strongly motivated to find suitable profit replacement(s).

Markets are useless going forward it is a direct to consumer model not a broadcasting model. Difference between using a net to fish and using line and bait.....net captures a lot, but not always the fish you want, or enough of them. Line means you catch less but are more likely to get the type of fish you want.

(09-27-2019 09:47 PM)panite Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 12:04 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  It is said that the 2020 FB season will be "division-less."

Question: will it remain that way forever, or will the AAC have East and West Divisions again in a year or two?

Went with number three because the waiver will go through at least 2021. No one on the horizon to join. This year is over for expansion. So is next year. Anyone who commits to the AAC and is accepted will need a couple of years to get out of their previous conference committeemen. Don't see anyone joining until the 2025 realignment period is over. AAC may be picked apart by then too. If the P5 conferences stand status quo in 2025 the AAC takes on another school for FB and goes back to divisions then.

Agree, waver will carry thru at least 2021. Earliest AAC will add a school is 2022 but more likely 2025 where there might be more movement.

Disagree. The issue is not the quality of the teams, but the loss of a large media market.

ESPN is going to feel the loss of millions of lost revenue from one of its AAC markets. It is a profit-driven corporation, and as such, will be strongly motivated to find suitable profit replacement(s).
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Markets are useless going forward it is a direct to consumer model not a broadcasting model. Difference between using a net to fish and using line and bait.....net captures a lot, but not always the fish you want, or enough of them. Line means you catch less but are more likely to get the type of fish you want.
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Whoa...."Markets are useless..." (?)

I don't understand your (broadcasting) argument. Are you saying that people in Cincinnati aren't going to be interested in watching Cincy play, even though they have to pay a certain additional amount to watch the games?

Let's put it this way - the AAC will soon start to be paid 7 times what the MWC is currently being paid because the AAC's media markets are so much larger than the MWC markets.

Case closed.

Now - for that reason, it seems fairly clear, E$PN is going to be losing the UConn regional market, and it's going to cost them at least 4 or 5 million $$ per year until they get that slot filled with another AAC team.

Most likely, they will rake in the most ca$h by adding a FB school and a non-FB school (i.e., 2 markets; 1 for each sport).

Now I thought that AAC was asking for waiver that was unpececented.
AAC did not expect to get waiver & was looking for rule change
AAC divisionless model has all 11 schools 2 short of round robin
MAC had 11 of 13 playing complete round robin within their division

Jed, I agree with you. I don't know where 4 of 5 million roll back of contract is coming from
AAC said contract would be cut 1/12 with loss of Conn
I would assume ESPN had projections on who will sell most subscription on ESPN +
I gotta believe Conn was #1
( FB, MBB struggling, WBB, baseball, hockey )

(10-02-2019 02:03 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  Now I thought that AAC was asking for waiver that was unpececented.
AAC did not expect to get waiver & was looking for rule change
AAC divisionless model has all 11 schools 2 short of round robin
MAC had 11 of 13 playing complete round robin within their division

Good points!

I don't even see why the AAC should have to ask for a waiver, since there is already ample precedent for conferences to have championships, regardless of how they set up their divisions or not.

If the AAC were to just go ahead and do whatever they wanted, would the NCAA come down hard on them and penalize them? I can't think of any reason why.

I find it weird sometimes that the NCAA is so corrupt in the way it just slaps mild sanctions on universities for severe rules violations and allows things like the P5 wantonly seizing 85% of all the $$$ that comes from E$PN, CB$, and the rest. Meanwhile, what we know of as the "NCAA" is not the National Collegiate Athletic Association per se (i.e., just an association of universities with athletic departments), but actual a completely independent stand-alone business entity with millionairre CEOs, CIOs, COOs, and all the rest, with millionairre lawyers and pay-backs, and corruption of every possible kind.

Dealing with a corrupt NCAA (i.e., the NCAA bu$ine$$ end, that is) makes the whole idea of waiting for the "permission" of a corrupt NCAA somewhat absurd, as I see it. Wonder what others think about this?

If I had my druthers, I'd love to see the AAC just make its own decision about whether to keep divisions or not between now and the next time when having divisions once again becomes eminently necessary.

Another way to say all this is that it seems like kind of a sham for the AAC to be all worried and sitting on pins and needles about trying to get permission to have championships with divisions or no divisions, when there is monstrous cheating and corruption going on that the NCAA business entity allows to go on with nothing more than a little slap on the wrist (even the so-called "death penalty" is just a slap on the wrist for programs like OSU and PSU, which are no worse off than they were before). Death penalty doesn't mean anything if it isn't actual death: at least a 10 year ban on the sport.

Either that, or leave the decision up to the AAC in direct consultation with E$PN. But that's just one man's view.

(10-02-2019 02:26 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  Jed, I agree with you. I don't know where 4 of 5 million roll back of contract is coming from
{1} AAC said contract would be cut 1/12 with loss of Conn
I would assume ESPN had projections on who will sell most subscription on ESPN +
{2} I gotta believe Conn was #1
( FB, MBB struggling, WBB, baseball, hockey )

Point 1 - AAC has never said anything of the sort.
Point 2 - do you have anything other than "believe: to support or quantify this?

(09-28-2019 09:51 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(09-27-2019 09:52 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 03:58 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:55 AM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(09-24-2019 01:03 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  Yeah, AAC will probably get that waiver, but it's possible that they will ditch the waver by 2021.

Rationale: ESPN is driven by $$$ alone. When they start to feel the pinch of losing the UConn market, that pain will drive them to add another market (or two more markets, one in FB, one in BB).

The AAC will need to have E & W FB divisions in order to attract one or two MWC teams to join the conference. We know that some MWC schools have reached out to Aresco. The handwriting is on the wall...

No one is going to miss the ninth best MBB team and the 12th best FB team in the AAC. Even that market tuned out.

ESPN definitely lost most of the potential UConn viewership market (although UConn's BB teams will bring some cash in for ESPN until April.), and will not be regaining it afterwards.

My disagreement with you about this is that ESPN is not going to be sitting pretty with 11 markets, when it "signed up" for 12 markets.

ESPN is going to be in the hole (down one market). Companies like ESPN are not going to be content - they're not going to sit still.

I'm telling you that losing a sizable NE sports viewership market is going to bug the hell out of ESPN, and they're not going to be busting their back-sides until they get the AAC back up to 12 teams in both sports.

This is not a crisis for the AAC yet, but it is in the process of becoming a crisis for ESPN.

This isn’t a crisis for either the AAC or ESPN. The AAC would be smart to stay at 11 at all costs (and not expand in football or basketball). Then they won’t have to split the pie more ways. As for ESPN, they can just adjust the AAC TV deal downwards.

UConn football may be hot garbage, but anyone is delusional if they think that UConn was worth even a penny less than the $6.9mm per year on the next TV deal between having the greatest WBB team of all time, one of the top national championship MBB teams of all time, and the only FBS football team in a state of 3.5mm people. Make no mistake. ESPN will adjust for UConn’s departure. They are likely just still crunching numbers so that they don’t reduce it more than they need to as the AAC schools shouldn’t be penalized since they couldn’t control our departure. I am guessing that ESPN takes 4mm off the table per year, so that still gives the AAC teams maybe like 3mm to split amongst themselves as extra money. Everyone is a winner. ESPN gets some cash back and AAC schools each get like an extra 275K per year more than the 6.9mm they were expecting.

I think the bolded is about right (it's a little incongruous with the italicized part, but okay).
I honestly think its a little higher. https://www.csnbbs.com/thread-879317-pos...id16201782

I dont think anyone has ever questioned the BRAND value lost - UNPARALLELED brand for WBB, very good brand for MBB. People have questioned the current contributions of UConn MBB to the tourney credits and RPI lately, but even most of those think Hurley will get them back on the right track. I would suggest thst UConn has a strong part of that 3.5 miilion population as UConn fans...but not so much UConn football fans.

And we're told that 75% of the $83M average annual value of the AAC to ESPN comes from football...a $1M WBB program, and a MBB brand, and 3.5 million rabid Husky basketball fans in the Nutmeg State don't have much to with that $62.5M value of the AAC.

The conversation should end right there. As a show of good faith by us, ESPN can have the full $27 value allocated to WBB as we, reluctantly, concede that $24 of which was carried by UConn WBB.

We might not have divisions but there are clearly tiers in the AAC

Tier 1: UCF
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Tier 2: The rest

Championship will always be UCF vs Runner-up

Don't worry about losing the UConn basketball market, UCF brings the national audience.

Mike Bohn, AD at the University of Cincinnati, said on a 50,000 watt radio station last night officials from the AAC will be in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon (UCF plays at UC that evening). The reason is the ADs will be going over scheduling for an 11 team league going forward. They will be working out the details on how they will be going forward, he discussed both football and basketball scheduling and the options for both sports. There is no plan to expand.

(10-02-2019 08:08 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Mike Bohn, AD at the University of Cincinnati, said on a 50,000 watt radio station last night officials from the AAC will be in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon (UCF plays at UC that evening). The reason is the ADs will be going over scheduling for an 11 team league going forward. They will be working out the details on how they will be going forward, he discussed both football and basketball scheduling and the options for both sports. There is no plan to expand.

Alright, I have to ask. In both of your posts on this, you mentioned the radio station wattage. 1) Why? 2) Is 50,000 good or?

(10-02-2019 08:08 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Mike Bohn, AD at the University of Cincinnati, said on a 50,000 watt radio station last night officials from the AAC will be in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon (UCF plays at UC that evening). The reason is the ADs will be going over scheduling for an 11 team league going forward. They will be working out the details on how they will be going forward, he discussed both football and basketball scheduling and the options for both sports. There is no plan to expand.

Thanks. Some people you can lead to water, but you sure as hell can't make them drink. The AAC has been about as clear as they can be on this. There will be no expansion, and there will be no divisions.

(10-02-2019 08:13 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(10-02-2019 08:08 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Mike Bohn, AD at the University of Cincinnati, said on a 50,000 watt radio station last night officials from the AAC will be in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon (UCF plays at UC that evening). The reason is the ADs will be going over scheduling for an 11 team league going forward. They will be working out the details on how they will be going forward, he discussed both football and basketball scheduling and the options for both sports. There is no plan to expand.

Alright, I have to ask. In both of your posts on this, you mentioned the radio station wattage. 1) Why? 2) Is 50,000 good or?

50K is the highest wattage allowed for an AM station. I posted it in the other thread because someone questioned the veracity of my post. Bohn didn't just make this comment on some fly-by-night station/podcast. It was the official Luke Fickell show (he subbed for Fickell last night) and it was broadcast at a restaurant in town in front of an audience.

(10-02-2019 08:47 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(10-02-2019 08:13 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(10-02-2019 08:08 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Mike Bohn, AD at the University of Cincinnati, said on a 50,000 watt radio station last night officials from the AAC will be in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon (UCF plays at UC that evening). The reason is the ADs will be going over scheduling for an 11 team league going forward. They will be working out the details on how they will be going forward, he discussed both football and basketball scheduling and the options for both sports. There is no plan to expand.

Alright, I have to ask. In both of your posts on this, you mentioned the radio station wattage. 1) Why? 2) Is 50,000 good or?

50K is the highest wattage allowed for an AM station. I posted it in the other thread because someone questioned the veracity of my post. Bohn didn't just make this comment on some fly-by-night station/podcast. It was the official Luke Fickell show (he subbed for Fickell last night) and it was broadcast at a restaurant in town in front of an audience.

Specifically , he noted for football they have to discuss if permanent geographic rival(s) would be involved in scheduling. Also going to discuss the top programs playing each other more often model like they do in basketball. He specifically mentioned the CFP and giving schools the best opportunity possible for the strongest strength of schedule.

Also for basketball they have to determine if they are going to a home/away for all teams making a 20 game conference schedule or stick with the 18 games currently. Stating UC favors the 18 game schedule allowing for more flexibility for scheduling key marquee games out of conference