(10-12-2019 03:25 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If a program like UMass, formerly of the CAA fb conference, can make an FBS schedule, given enough time in advance, then I don’t see while JMU or Stony Brook can’t do the same thing.

JMU or Stony Brook isn't going to get the waiver to jump to FBS as an independent though.

UMass made their indy schedule as a lame duck MAC school. UMass rejected full MAC membership, MAC terminated UMass' football affiliation in....March 2014, effective for the 2016 FBS season.

Liberty, according to rumor, threw around a LOT of money building their schedule.

And I don't see James Madison or Delaware or a SUNY etc looking at UMass, UConn and New Mexico State and saying "Where do we sign up?"

I finally had time today to look at the point of this thread. We've talked about UConn's challenges in putting together a schedule for 2020. It's pretty bleak for 2021, too.

15 schools have an opening, but have not scheduled an FCS home game. (Maryland, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, East Carolina, Houston, Temple, Tulsa, FIU, ODU, Southern Miss, UAB, ULM). Sure, they could schedule UConn instead of an FCS team as a body bag game, but there's no strong reason to.

10 schools have openings and no FCS game (or have more than one opening and no FCS game). TCU, SMU, UCF, Middle Tennessee, Fresno State, UNLV, Colorado State, Hawaii, San Diego State, and New Mexico State.

UConn has 1 FBS home game signed for 2021, Purdue, plus FCS Holy Cross. Where are they going to find 3 home games? Let's see.

TCU and SMU have not signed to continue the Iron Skillet series. In 2021, TCU has 4 Big 12 home games plus Cal, and 2 openings. If they sign an FCS game and SMU, they're full. And if SMU plays TCU, SMU is full.

Hawaii could play UConn for a 6th home game, but I don't see them scheduling an 8th road game on the East Coast for the kind of money UConn is likely to offer.

Colorado State and San Diego State have a spot for a 13th "Hawaii exception" game. SDSU has 7 home games.

So the reasonably good prospects are UCF, Middle Tennessee, Fresno State, UNLV, Colorado State, SDSU and New MExico State.

(10-08-2019 02:48 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(10-08-2019 02:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  When was last time Yale played an FBS opponent?

2014. Yale beat Army 49-43 in OT, at Yale.

Gracias.

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

The new ESPN contract should stay the same for the remaining AAC schools. The only change I see is ESPN removing UConn's share if the conference doesn't pick up a replacement for them.

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

Actually--thats not true. I would agree, it was certainly a possiblity---but ESPN had already expressed a willingness to discuss letting SNY broadcast games. I would also add that UConn has zero ability to sell those games to SNY under the Big East deal they signed, so---given they immediately signed their third tier rights away a second time (to the Big East this time) leads me to believe SNY was more of an excuse rather than the real reason behind the UConn move.

(10-13-2019 02:35 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

Actually--thats not true. I would agree, it was certainly a possiblity---but ESPN had already expressed a willingness to discuss letting SNY broadcast games. I would also add that UConn has zero ability to sell those games to SNY under the Big East deal they signed, so---given they immediately signed their third tier rights away a second time (to the Big East this time) leads me to believe SNY was more of an excuse rather than the real reason behind the UConn move.

Disagree. UConn likely worked some kind of deal with FS1 to incorporate SNY (unless FS1 agreed to air all UConn games). The more limited television exposure with the ESPN+ deal was our breaking point.

(10-13-2019 12:52 PM)panite Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

The new ESPN contract should stay the same for the remaining AAC schools. The only change I see is ESPN removing UConn's share if the conference doesn't pick up a replacement for them.

Spot on. If the AAC doesn’t find a replacement school with a similarly large fan base, odds are that ESPN drops the money down. If they find a suitable replacement, then the money is still there.

That said, it doesn’t matter regardless. If the total current contract value split 12 ways goes down with our departure, but the revised contract still pays the same $6.9M per school split 11 ways once you take us out, it is all the same.

So, I guess that is what I am saying. The contract will almost definitely go down and the remaining AAC schools won’t get to keep our share like some free money payday bonanza. But, if at the tail end of the day they end up getting the same exact $6.9M per school, then there is peace in the valley. Plus, now you have to spilt football bowl proceeds fewer ways and NCAA basketball tourney credits fewer ways. So that ensuing TV contract pay cut still nets AAC members more money for the duration of this current TV contract (emphasis on duration of this contract - UConn’s subtraction in hoop may be a palpable hit in the next contract in 12 years).

(10-13-2019 10:01 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 12:52 PM)panite Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

The new ESPN contract should stay the same for the remaining AAC schools. The only change I see is ESPN removing UConn's share if the conference doesn't pick up a replacement for them.

Spot on. If the AAC doesn’t find a replacement school with a similarly large fan base, odds are that ESPN drops the money down. If they find a suitable replacement, then the money is still there.

That said, it doesn’t matter regardless. If the total current contract value split 12 ways goes down with our departure, but the revised contract still pays the same $6.9M per school split 11 ways once you take us out, it is all the same.

So, I guess that is what I am saying. The contract will almost definitely go down and the remaining AAC schools won’t get to keep our share like some free money payday bonanza. But, if at the tail end of the day they end up getting the same exact $6.9M per school, then there is peace in the valley. Plus, now you have to spilt football bowl proceeds fewer ways and NCAA basketball tourney credits fewer ways. So that ensuing TV contract pay cut still nets AAC members more money for the duration of this current TV contract (emphasis on duration of this contract - UConn’s subtraction in hoop may be a palpable hit in the next contract in 12 years).

It's amazing how much you UCONN people need to see the AAC lose something to validate your imagined worth to the conference. It seems to me that ESPN has had plenty of time to have amended the AAC contract downward or at least to have put in some language that would allow them to withhold that 12th share until a replacement is found. However they haven't done or hinted towards either of those options. It appears that the programs they deemed valuable are still under their umbrella and the one that wasn't was allowed to leave.

(10-13-2019 10:44 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 10:01 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 12:52 PM)panite Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 03:35 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Getting a little extra % of the CFP split will be nice. Hardly a windfall, but a nice little extra present under the tree. Exactly zero reason to believe that AAC’s deal with ESPN will be affected on a per-member basis.

Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

The new ESPN contract should stay the same for the remaining AAC schools. The only change I see is ESPN removing UConn's share if the conference doesn't pick up a replacement for them.

Spot on. If the AAC doesn’t find a replacement school with a similarly large fan base, odds are that ESPN drops the money down. If they find a suitable replacement, then the money is still there.

That said, it doesn’t matter regardless. If the total current contract value split 12 ways goes down with our departure, but the revised contract still pays the same $6.9M per school split 11 ways once you take us out, it is all the same.

So, I guess that is what I am saying. The contract will almost definitely go down and the remaining AAC schools won’t get to keep our share like some free money payday bonanza. But, if at the tail end of the day they end up getting the same exact $6.9M per school, then there is peace in the valley. Plus, now you have to spilt football bowl proceeds fewer ways and NCAA basketball tourney credits fewer ways. So that ensuing TV contract pay cut still nets AAC members more money for the duration of this current TV contract (emphasis on duration of this contract - UConn’s subtraction in hoop may be a palpable hit in the next contract in 12 years).

It's amazing how much you UCONN people need to see the AAC lose something to validate your imagined worth to the conference. It seems to me that ESPN has had plenty of time to have amended the AAC contract downward or at least to have put in some language that would allow them to withhold that 12th share until a replacement is found. However they haven't done or hinted towards either of those options. It appears that the programs they deemed valuable are still under their umbrella and the one that wasn't was allowed to leave.

O...M...G. I literally just said that the AAC schools won’t lose a dime on the base contract per school and will make more once there is one less school to split bowl revenue and basketball tourney credits with. Your UConn obsession is fascinating. I imagine that there must be mental health counselors in Memphis to help you deal with our departure. If I need to talk you off a ledge or send a care basket of fresh fruit to lift your spirits, I am willing to do it. I am getting concerned.

(10-13-2019 11:20 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 10:44 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 10:01 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 12:52 PM)panite Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 08:47 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  Disagree. There is a reason that ESPN claimed the future rights to all UConn games and wouldn’t allow UConn to air certain WBB/MBB/football games on SNY any longer. They were hoping to lure all UConn fans (and certainly national WBB fans) over as ESPN+ subscribers. Connecticut is a fairly large fan base that ESPN will feel the loss of on the upcoming contract with those lost ESPN+ subscriptions. Too bad ESPN and Aresco couldn’t accommodate our very specific (yet reasonable) needs. That is why we left. Being streaming clickbait for the conference is nice and all, but it wouldn’t have worked for us. Why should UConn fans pay to have our basketball content buried on ESPN+ streaming just to subsidize the linear airing of the AAC football schools (where we never would have been featured as we are horrible in that sport).

I hope that the AAC contract stays the same for our soon to be former conference mates (after all, it isn’t coming out of our pockets, so if ESPN wants to still pay full value, more power to them). That said, if I were a company about to lose a few million dollars on subscribers, I would find a way to recoup it.

The new ESPN contract should stay the same for the remaining AAC schools. The only change I see is ESPN removing UConn's share if the conference doesn't pick up a replacement for them.

Spot on. If the AAC doesn’t find a replacement school with a similarly large fan base, odds are that ESPN drops the money down. If they find a suitable replacement, then the money is still there.

That said, it doesn’t matter regardless. If the total current contract value split 12 ways goes down with our departure, but the revised contract still pays the same $6.9M per school split 11 ways once you take us out, it is all the same.

So, I guess that is what I am saying. The contract will almost definitely go down and the remaining AAC schools won’t get to keep our share like some free money payday bonanza. But, if at the tail end of the day they end up getting the same exact $6.9M per school, then there is peace in the valley. Plus, now you have to spilt football bowl proceeds fewer ways and NCAA basketball tourney credits fewer ways. So that ensuing TV contract pay cut still nets AAC members more money for the duration of this current TV contract (emphasis on duration of this contract - UConn’s subtraction in hoop may be a palpable hit in the next contract in 12 years).

It's amazing how much you UCONN people need to see the AAC lose something to validate your imagined worth to the conference. It seems to me that ESPN has had plenty of time to have amended the AAC contract downward or at least to have put in some language that would allow them to withhold that 12th share until a replacement is found. However they haven't done or hinted towards either of those options. It appears that the programs they deemed valuable are still under their umbrella and the one that wasn't was allowed to leave.

O...M...G. I literally just said that the AAC schools won’t lose a dime on the base contract per school and will make more once there is one less school to split bowl revenue and basketball tourney credits with. Your UConn obsession is fascinating. I imagine that there must be mental health counselors in Memphis to help you deal with our departure. If I need to talk you off a ledge or send a care basket of fresh fruit to lift your spirits, I am willing to do it. I am getting concerned.

Well I won't resort to base insults with you because UCONN S' fate means next to nothing to me personally. Since you're playing the word game. I'll just say this again simpler for you. ESPN so far has shown no inclination towards decreasing the AACS' overall contract amount, and until they do the current AAC teams are looking to not maintain their current yearly payout but actually get a nice little bonus from splitting UCONNS' share. Now as far as the CFP monies I never commented on that but those two extra shares are going to push the AAC teams yearly payouts to being closer to 8mil and that's not even counting basketball credits or bowl money.

We've signed an 8 year consecutive schedule agreement with Army.

Mike Traini from FightMassachusetts 247sports is hearing possible a much longer deal with UConn.

https://247sports.com/college/massachuse...57/?page=7

(10-14-2019 07:26 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 11:20 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 10:44 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 10:01 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 12:52 PM)panite Wrote:  The new ESPN contract should stay the same for the remaining AAC schools. The only change I see is ESPN removing UConn's share if the conference doesn't pick up a replacement for them.

Spot on. If the AAC doesn’t find a replacement school with a similarly large fan base, odds are that ESPN drops the money down. If they find a suitable replacement, then the money is still there.

That said, it doesn’t matter regardless. If the total current contract value split 12 ways goes down with our departure, but the revised contract still pays the same $6.9M per school split 11 ways once you take us out, it is all the same.

So, I guess that is what I am saying. The contract will almost definitely go down and the remaining AAC schools won’t get to keep our share like some free money payday bonanza. But, if at the tail end of the day they end up getting the same exact $6.9M per school, then there is peace in the valley. Plus, now you have to spilt football bowl proceeds fewer ways and NCAA basketball tourney credits fewer ways. So that ensuing TV contract pay cut still nets AAC members more money for the duration of this current TV contract (emphasis on duration of this contract - UConn’s subtraction in hoop may be a palpable hit in the next contract in 12 years).

It's amazing how much you UCONN people need to see the AAC lose something to validate your imagined worth to the conference. It seems to me that ESPN has had plenty of time to have amended the AAC contract downward or at least to have put in some language that would allow them to withhold that 12th share until a replacement is found. However they haven't done or hinted towards either of those options. It appears that the programs they deemed valuable are still under their umbrella and the one that wasn't was allowed to leave.

O...M...G. I literally just said that the AAC schools won’t lose a dime on the base contract per school and will make more once there is one less school to split bowl revenue and basketball tourney credits with. Your UConn obsession is fascinating. I imagine that there must be mental health counselors in Memphis to help you deal with our departure. If I need to talk you off a ledge or send a care basket of fresh fruit to lift your spirits, I am willing to do it. I am getting concerned.

Well I won't resort to base insults with you because UCONN S' fate means next to nothing to me personally. Since you're playing the word game. I'll just say this again simpler for you. ESPN so far has shown no inclination towards decreasing the AACS' overall contract amount, and until they do the current AAC teams are looking to not maintain their current yearly payout but actually get a nice little bonus from splitting UCONNS' share. Now as far as the CFP monies I never commented on that but those two extra shares are going to push the AAC teams yearly payouts to being closer to 8mil and that's not even counting basketball credits or bowl money.

And the AAC's future contract means nothing to me personally. If you get $8 million per school, good for you. It isn't coming from us, it is coming from ESPN, so enjoy your new found cash. However, with that 12 year albatross of a TV contract around the AAC's neck, you are going to need at least $8 million. If you use an inflation calculator to find the future value of money, you will see that if we assume an annual inflation rate of 3%, your 8 million now will have a worth of about $5.6 million near the end of this contract 12 years from now.

Here is a dollar inflation calculator to play around with:
https://www.adirondackbank.com/mobile/ca...Dollar.asp

Seeing that travel costs keep rising and that the AAC is on the hook for ESPN+ production costs, I can imagine some of the schools in the AAC having a hard time getting by on that cash. But as long as you are happy with it, who am I to criticize. Enjoy!

Looking at the schedules, I think UConn should target a '23-30 series with UMass (they already play in '20 and '21) and a '22-29 series with Army. That would be a good start.

I would target NMSU for an 11/28/2020 game in Las Cruces, as the Aggies only have 5 home games, and they have the Hawaii exception allowing a 13th game -- a fair weather November 28 game is hard to come by. The return game say 10/23/2021 in East Hartford makes sense also. NMSU looks pretty open in 2024 or 2025 onward, so a series with them as a follow up seems possible. Liberty doesn't have any openings until 2023 or 2024. I'm not sure they are at all realistic or even desirable an opponent for UConn.

I think 2020 they will have to settle for adding NMSU and maybe three other G5 level opponents of mostly SBC and C-USA flavor. Probably two P5 money games, and definitely a 2nd FCS opponent. Not pretty. 2021 will also be ugly. It wont be until 2022 that you'll start to see a more balanced schedule.

I expect UConn will start releasing some information before November 1st game hosting Navy, or officially shortly after. They have to get some positive information out to ticket holders before the last home game November 23rd against ECU. The last two home games are when you start selling next year's tickets.

(10-17-2019 03:19 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Looking at the schedules, I think UConn should target a '23-30 series with UMass (they already play in '20 and '21) and a '22-29 series with Army. That would be a good start.

I would target NMSU for an 11/28/2020 game in Las Cruces, as the Aggies only have 5 home games, and they have the Hawaii exception allowing a 13th game -- a fair weather November 28 game is hard to come by. The return game say 10/23/2021 in East Hartford makes sense also. NMSU looks pretty open in 2024 or 2025 onward, so a series with them as a follow up seems possible. Liberty doesn't have any openings until 2023 or 2024. I'm not sure they are at all realistic or even desirable an opponent for UConn.

I think 2020 they will have to settle for adding NMSU and maybe three other G5 level opponents of mostly SBC and C-USA flavor. Probably two P5 money games, and definitely a 2nd FCS opponent. Not pretty. 2021 will also be ugly. It wont be until 2022 that you'll start to see a more balanced schedule.

I expect UConn will start releasing some information before November 1st game hosting Navy, or officially shortly after. They have to get some positive information out to ticket holders before the last home game November 23rd against ECU. The last two home games are when you start selling next year's tickets.

They'd have more luck announcing the football schedule at basketball games. that was the point of switching conferences, right?

(10-17-2019 10:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 03:00 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 07:26 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 11:20 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 10:44 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  It's amazing how much you UCONN people need to see the AAC lose something to validate your imagined worth to the conference. It seems to me that ESPN has had plenty of time to have amended the AAC contract downward or at least to have put in some language that would allow them to withhold that 12th share until a replacement is found. However they haven't done or hinted towards either of those options. It appears that the programs they deemed valuable are still under their umbrella and the one that wasn't was allowed to leave.

O...M...G. I literally just said that the AAC schools won’t lose a dime on the base contract per school and will make more once there is one less school to split bowl revenue and basketball tourney credits with. Your UConn obsession is fascinating. I imagine that there must be mental health counselors in Memphis to help you deal with our departure. If I need to talk you off a ledge or send a care basket of fresh fruit to lift your spirits, I am willing to do it. I am getting concerned.

Well I won't resort to base insults with you because UCONN S' fate means next to nothing to me personally. Since you're playing the word game. I'll just say this again simpler for you. ESPN so far has shown no inclination towards decreasing the AACS' overall contract amount, and until they do the current AAC teams are looking to not maintain their current yearly payout but actually get a nice little bonus from splitting UCONNS' share. Now as far as the CFP monies I never commented on that but those two extra shares are going to push the AAC teams yearly payouts to being closer to 8mil and that's not even counting basketball credits or bowl money.

And the AAC's future contract means nothing to me personally. If you get $8 million per school, good for you. It isn't coming from us, it is coming from ESPN, so enjoy your new found cash. However, with that 12 year albatross of a TV contract around the AAC's neck, you are going to need at least $8 million. If you use an inflation calculator to find the future value of money, you will see that if we assume an annual inflation rate of 3%, your 8 million now will have a worth of about $5.6 million near the end of this contract 12 years from now.

Here is a dollar inflation calculator to play around with:
https://www.adirondackbank.com/mobile/ca...Dollar.asp

Seeing that travel costs keep rising and that the AAC is on the hook for ESPN+ production costs, I can imagine some of the schools in the AAC having a hard time getting by on that cash. But as long as you are happy with it, who am I to criticize. Enjoy!

You act like we don’t know that. We were getting 2 million a year. The CUSA teams. before moving to the Big East, were getting just 1.4 million a year in 2011. We will be fine.

Agreed, everyone will be fine.

I am just wondering if these “take a dump on UConn” threads will eventually get old for people on this site. Different strokes for different folks, as they say. I don’t get all the hate surrounding our departure.

I think AAC can afford production costs of ESPN+, the teams in the Sunbelt are doing it.

If America East members like Binghamton University (a SUNY school from my hometown) can afford production costs of their sports (revenue and non-revenue) on ESPN3 and ESPN+ then I'm pretty confident that the American Athletic Conference members can too without breaking the bank.

(10-17-2019 10:21 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 03:00 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 07:26 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-13-2019 11:20 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  O...M...G. I literally just said that the AAC schools won’t lose a dime on the base contract per school and will make more once there is one less school to split bowl revenue and basketball tourney credits with. Your UConn obsession is fascinating. I imagine that there must be mental health counselors in Memphis to help you deal with our departure. If I need to talk you off a ledge or send a care basket of fresh fruit to lift your spirits, I am willing to do it. I am getting concerned.

Well I won't resort to base insults with you because UCONN S' fate means next to nothing to me personally. Since you're playing the word game. I'll just say this again simpler for you. ESPN so far has shown no inclination towards decreasing the AACS' overall contract amount, and until they do the current AAC teams are looking to not maintain their current yearly payout but actually get a nice little bonus from splitting UCONNS' share. Now as far as the CFP monies I never commented on that but those two extra shares are going to push the AAC teams yearly payouts to being closer to 8mil and that's not even counting basketball credits or bowl money.

And the AAC's future contract means nothing to me personally. If you get $8 million per school, good for you. It isn't coming from us, it is coming from ESPN, so enjoy your new found cash. However, with that 12 year albatross of a TV contract around the AAC's neck, you are going to need at least $8 million. If you use an inflation calculator to find the future value of money, you will see that if we assume an annual inflation rate of 3%, your 8 million now will have a worth of about $5.6 million near the end of this contract 12 years from now.

Here is a dollar inflation calculator to play around with:
https://www.adirondackbank.com/mobile/ca...Dollar.asp

Seeing that travel costs keep rising and that the AAC is on the hook for ESPN+ production costs, I can imagine some of the schools in the AAC having a hard time getting by on that cash. But as long as you are happy with it, who am I to criticize. Enjoy!

You act like we don’t know that. We were getting 2 million a year. The CUSA teams. before moving to the Big East, were getting just 1.4 million a year in 2011. We will be fine.

Agreed, everyone will be fine.

I am just wondering if these “take a dump on UConn” threads will eventually get old for people on this site. Different strokes for different folks, as they say. I don’t get all the hate surrounding our departure.

Honest question UCONNHusky. Has your administration tried to go to your future brethren to help fill out your schedules for a couple of years. It would seem like a no brainer. Although they're all fcs, I'd think that the NCAA would grant a waiver. At the same time it'll give your team a chance to gradually improve learn to win again
It could also help to nudge SNY into offering a tv deal with you all playing so many regional rivals,,,,, and on a side note it would give the NBE NBE FCS programs a chance to play an beatable FBS rival. That could actually generate interest and improve attendance.

According to the agenda for next week's University of Connecticut Board of Trustees meeting, UConn will travel to face UCF on November 21, 2021 with a $1M guarantee.

https://boardoftrustees.uconn.edu/wp-con...hments.pdf

(h/t Reddit /u/HuskyHistory2016)