Big East TV deal "could exceed" ACC

[Joe C.]

Originally Posted by Thegreatone

Interim commissioner was on 700 WLW with Dan Hoard on Sunday discussing the future of the Big East. He said the Big East TV deal was going well and he believes it could exceed ACC package. it was not mentioned if he was talking about per team or as a lump (Big East has more teams to split the $$$ with than ACC).

I have been following this closely and here are some notes and predictions:

- ESPN has until Oct 1st to negotiate a TV deal with the Big East. No other networks can make an offer until that point. The Big East did hear what NBC and other networks had to say about how they would present the big east in earleir meetings.

- I think ESPN would offer about 13-15 million per year to FOOTBALL playing teams. ACC currently gets 17 per team.

- This amount of money would put the Big East way above all the mid majors and close to the other BCS conferences.

- I don't think that is good enough for the Big East. The deal breaker will be if ESPN decides to put the Big East Champ in the Orange Bowl. If they do, we will stay with ESPN.

- If ESPN doesnt put us into a former BCS game I think we go to NBC. I believe the offer would be around 14-17 million per team.

- I also think the Big East/NBC would create its own bowl game. I think NBC would make the payout significant. Have "Football Night in America" crew do the pregame. Offer the Big 10 #2 or the Big XII #2 to participate.

- You put that game as close to the Orange Bowl as you can. You directly compete because NBC would make it the biggest college football game of their year and the Orange Bowl is the lowest priority of the major bowls to ESPN. You could do major damage to the ACC and Orange Bowl.

Why would NBC make such a big offer?

- The Big East brings the biggest markets and TV sets of all the major conferences and it isnt close. More than Big 10, SEC or Big XII.

- While they may not be the dominate team in the area they create interest. For example, USF may not be the "it" team in Florida or Tampa even but there will be significant interest and TV sets on. How many OSU fans keep an eye on UC games? A ton. IF SMU has a great year the entire state of Texas will watch.

- NBC could put college football on their network (NBC, MSNBC is rumored, and of coarse NBC Sports) from noon until midnight with the widespread national members.

No matter what people say, most people only care about regional teams, their conference or top 10 games. Pac 12 might be much better conference but who watches any Pac 12 games outside of USC? **** most do not watch SEC games outside the top 10. It just so happens they have a ton of top 10 teams ha.

Should be very interesting.

I have pointed out a couple of errors in sentence construction for you to study. Please get it together...

[98bearcat]

Originally Posted by Joe C.

I have pointed out a couple of errors in sentence construction for you to study. Please get it together...

Seriously! You quoted a monster-length post just to point at clerical mistakes? And now I'm wasting time and space being flabbergasted by it......

[ucfan34]

Originally Posted by Joe C.

I have pointed out a couple of errors in sentence construction for you to study. Please get it together...

That's all you're going to contribute? Really!?

Edit: 98Bearcat beat me to it. I am flabbergasted as well.

[hangarninetysix]

Originally Posted by Joe C.

I have pointed out a couple of errors in sentence construction for you to study. Please get it together...

I literally laughed out loud.

[richard k.]

Originally Posted by 98bearcat

Seriously! You quoted a monster-length post just to point at clerical mistakes? And now I'm wasting time and space being flabbergasted by it......

Geez - he neatly pointed out the mistakes in red - what more do you guys want?

[BearCatMarcher]

Originally Posted by ucfan34

That's all you're going to contribute? Really!?

Edit: 98Bearcat beat me to it. I am flabbergasted as well.

Back in the day, he was one of those guys who printed out all 20 pages of a website for a report citation :P

[bearcatd]

Back on subject. There's an additional source of income for UC once the Big East gets their TV contract that I haven't seen mentioned. If this contract leads to more exposure, UC will be able to charge more for advertising. Not to mention, we might also be able to get some bigger sponsors. An example - a P&G isn't going to sponsor anything at UC if UC isn't a national (or international) brand. Get UC on NBC once a week nationally and you might see someone like P&G throwing some money at some advertising in the Nipp. More exposure = more viewers = more interest = more money = stronger program. A lucrative TV contract would lead to other sources of income, giving UC athletics more stability. It might get some local sponsors off their butts too. We'll see I guess.

[RedRocker]

Originally Posted by ucfan34

That's all you're going to contribute? Really!?

Edit: 98Bearcat beat me to it. I am flabbergasted as well.

Probably a bored high school English teacher or prof getting his red pen ready for his students next week.