This!
Guys, you’re getting worked up in the actual merit of the claim, and not looking at how this can help them, and us. The very fact that they actually can claim an NC, in any shape or manner, just shows that the playoff format needs another revision to include a G5 champion. We Coogs should be supporting this completely. I can’t believe Aresco and the AAC haven’t backed this fully and went on full campaign mode for the Knights.
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When a team wins a national championship they don’t just win the CFP trophy, they win about 5 other trophies by organizations recognized by the NCAA to name a National champion. So if any of the recognized Major selector names a team a national champion, then that team may make claim to a national championship. But with UCF claiming a title it could result with a CFP expansion to include group of 5 conferences to give them a legitimate chance at a title. Personally I feel an 8 team playoff consisting of the 8 highest ranked conference champions. This way there’s no way anyone can claim a title from another organization and will end split titles.
Sounds like someone talked to Aresco before this interview. My guess… ESPN told him to tone it down or else.
Compare Aresco’s to AD Danny White…
You either get it or you don’t. ESPN’s CFP is stupid and bad for football.
Sounds like this title claim by UCF might be hindering tv contract negotiations.
Gee wiz Aresco!!!
“I don’t know of I hear about that or not.”
“The rhetoric needs to be toned down.”
Not talk you want to hear from your commissionaire.
But, he did rattle off a lot of wins (ours and others) and he did blast the CFP committee, the term “G5”, floats the idea of improving a bowl tie-in with a major conference champ that neither of us are in the CFP.
Then into basketball talk…which is nice to hear as well.
I wonder if UCF’s Danny White is any relation to UFC’s Dana White.
Cary you have brought us the most important interview since our exclusion from the P5.
Aresco is without a doubt an espn peon. Case in point(s)
Remember friends when the G5 commissioners voted for the cfp? This should tell everyone that our so called leader is in the tank.
Now who is Michael Aresco?
espn and cbs are part of his resume. I kid you not. Coincidence I do not think so.
What did he do at CBS?
That’s right he was directly involved with the SEC, ncaa, BIG10 & Turner tv contract
Yes you are right he might be totally independent and serve us with the best intentions. I know he is a lawyer.
His answers to the radio intw speak for themselves. Our current tv contract and the way we are treated by espn speaks for itself.
Sadly, many in my profession have forgotten the true role of journalism: “To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Among those is the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum, who compared UCF fans to “cockroaches crawling out of their holes in the middle of the night” after the euphoric Peach Bowl victory over the high-and-mighty SEC. And then Finebaum arrogantly advised the Knights to, “Know your place, UCF.”
Translation: From Finebaum’s SEC-financed, multi-billion-dollar perch, there is no room at the inn and no seat on the bus for the poor folk of college football.
Finebaum also says it’s “buffoonery” that UCF is claiming a national championship, but fails to point out that college football history is rife with storied programs claiming national titles they may or may not deserve.
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I usually don’t care for Bill Connelly but the man’s 1000% right on all of these.
I don’t know the slightest thing about how TV contracts work, but would it be inconceivable for us to say “screw you” to ESPN and jump to Fox or one of the up and coming streaming services (Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, YouTube)? It irks me to no end that ESPN makes so much money off our conference while paying us peanuts and disrespecting us every chance they get. Would it destroy us to kick them to the curb and try our hand somewhere else?
If the answer is yes, be gentle. I truly do not understand how TV contracts work.
The debate is over.
UCF is #1
It is a scam, controlled by the cartel. Sadly our own AAC commissioner is in bed with the cartel. What better way to keep us quiet than by having a cartel’s peon to preside over us? Aresco has been exposed and should be dismissed at once. We need a media negotiator? There are plenty to choosefrom. This is hugely concerning for our leaders. We have made huge investments with a clear P5 inclusion in mind. At present unless the PAC12 rebels against their “time slot” our inclusion appears less and less likely.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy that Aresco was hired with those contacts and history. That’s specifically why he was hired. With those contacts, they were hoping the Big East might get a tv contract approaching the now P5 conferences. It wasn’t looking bad until the basketball only teams nixed the offers then the conference blew up
Contract is up in 2019 and they should be negotiating this year with ESPN, can’t leave prior to that. They can always look for other offers from other channels and services and I’m sure they will. Last time around, the conference was just starting out and no one knew what the strength was. NBC was the only one to offer, but they low-balled us and ESPN matched it. Conference went with ESPN because of “exposure.”
The positive for us this time around is that live content, especially live sports content, is a huge ratings winner for the networks. I think the report came out yesterday that 70%+ of the top rated content on traditional networks were live sports. That number should only get higher next year which makes any live sports property that can draw ratings a valuable commodity. So far, the AAC has shown that it can provide highly rated content at times. That should mean a raise of some sort and the expectation that I’ve seen is that we’ll at least double our contract and bring in closer to $10M a year from somewhere.
Of course, the negative is that ESPN or FOX is probably the best fit for our conference in order to maintain that exposure. FOX really hasn’t wanted to deal with G5 conferences so far and are in the process of selling off their regional sports networks to Disney. ESPN has been cutting costs and may not want to spend a ton of money on a property that they aren’t seeing as a P5. Of course, ESPN needs content for their channels, their new streaming service that they are about to launch this year, and rhode regional channels they just picked up from FOX.
It would be nice if CBS or NBC got involved and decided to partner with us and market us well. They both have openings on their schedules on Saturdays and could be a force to help us make a bigger P6 push. Both also need content for their sports networks, especially as both move towards streaming platforms.
Then, there are the streaming options. I’m just not sure that option is the best one for the AAC right now. Remember, the conference needs exposure and streaming isn’t up to the level that traditional channels are, yet.
We’ll see. This is why Aresco was hired and he’ll earn his money or we’ll feel very ripped off.
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