While the PAC may not be looking at expansion, it should be. It can obtain quality schools that are not prohibited from moving by grant of rights penalties. They are looking to improve their media rights deal in coming years and more inventory for a platform is not a bad thing. I know basketball is not moving the needle, but UH, Tech, OSU, and Kansas add value there.
You, and others, keep calling ESPN “the rodent”.
Would you prefer our CUSA days where we were not as consistently on TV and on many networks?
Our time with AAC and ESPN has been good for us and they have even pimped us up many times!
5 Likes
Losing one is a lot less bad than losing two. Half as bad, you might say.
The argument for UCF is mostly about keeping the perception of competitiveness.
BYU is brand and value.
Cincinnati is competitiveness and location (a little bit brand and basketball)
UH is mostly market/value (a little brand, basketball, and competitiveness)
Memphis is basketball (a little bit competitive and brand)
Every school but us also gets “not in Texas” points, while UCF and BYU lose points on location.
ESPN has been good for us, compared to the viable alternatives.
Extremely glad that they matched NBC’s offer.
1 Like
Yes let’s go the big 12 with no tv contract after 2025 or before that,
Money. Even if we met the requirement to be AAU, we don’t bring money. Well, how about potential, value down the road, the future is bright, and so forth? Why should the B1G pay us over $40 million dollars per year? Because we are nice people?
I started calling espn the rodent because it best describes a network that is killing college football. The very essence of college football that is. It does not bother you? No worries that is your personal,opinion.
Collective action problem. I can be convinced to stay put as long as Cincinnati stays put, but I don’t think Cincinnati stays put.
Nothing to stop ESPN from offering the AAC more money to prevent us from leaving and strengthen our position, but I don’t think that has been on the table.
Now would be a good time to sign a short-term GOR, but I don’t think that has been on the table either.
Kill college football? ESPN has been our ally over the last decade.
Would you rather abandon them and go with whatever network supports UTSA or UNT or TX ST?
Uhm… no. They have never been our ally. ESPN is the reason we aren’t in the B12 right now. They paid the B12 members to not take any schools, including us in 2016. I don’t begrudge ESPN. They are about making money, which is their right.
But ally? No, not in my opinion.
1 Like
Coverage is much better than CUSA days.
Disney’s constant efforts at consolodation in order to increase revenue may well kill college football/screw us over.
Both things can be true - false dichotomy.
What happens if the big 12 takes Cincy and UCF and then the AAC takes
BYU and Boise. Who is ESPN going to back up
ESPN knew that the big 12 was going to die they did not want any teams from the AAC moving there.
Why would BYU come to the AAC for less money? They make more than us.
I never wrote that.
The rodent treating us nicely?
How did the rodent treat UFC undefeated season?
They ridiculed them.
How did the rodent helped us getting into a P5 conference?
The rodent EXTERMINATED the idea.
Are you writing about the rodent helping the AAC?
How many times did the rodent run cfp included or even talked about having G5 schools in its stinky cheese party bowl invitational?
NEVER
How many times did the rodent network pundits said that the G5 schools were worthy about being included in the big stinky bowl invitational known as the cfp?
NEVER
The rodent sees the AAC as a “buffer” for its Power Conferences market.
They see us as a bridge between the AAA NFL P5 system. To the rodent network we are AA. Not AA batteries but a way of covering the entire country.
Are you satisfied to be AA? I know you are not and neither am I.
The rodent network has no rights to kill college football as we know it. We are talking mostly public schools not NFL franchises. This is why there is a direct link with tax payers money going to these P5 schools. The rodent has made a power move where there is no longer a competition for schools competing at the FBS Div I level.
If we lose two of our biggest programs, Boise and BYU aren’t coming.
1 Like
Where did you see that both are coming? Please let us know. That is news to me.
BYU makes $6million per year from ESPN.
The rodent has helped turn a bunch of CUSA/Big East castaways ( UH, UCF, UC) into the darlings of college football at times.
They have really put us in the picture more and more each season… they have as much to do with our growth (from an exposure stsndpoint) as the individual universities from an investment standpoint
3 Likes
There are no current plans for them to come. I was working from Pearland’s premise.