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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3048218, member: 405"] Here's a good place to start. Article from a New London, CT newspaper: "UConn Football Set Up To Fail" [URL="https://www.theday.com/article/20190624/SPORT01/190629719"]UConn football set up to fail by people who need to support it the most[/URL] Here is one fan's take on how the move to the Big East is the death knell of the football program: [URL="https://the-boneyard.com/threads/random-thoughts-about-the-last-24-hours.144699/"]Random Thoughts about the last 24 hours...[/URL] And to tie it all together with the future of the hoops program, this is a good thread to read, and a great first post to kick it off: [URL="https://the-boneyard.com/threads/the-view-from-section-241-the-nbe.144763/"]The View From Section 241 -- the NBE[/URL] So, to sum up, UConn isn't going to have the revenue to continue to compete long term at an elite level. Lots of schools have won championships and then been left behind. Just look at your new home in the Big East - it's full of "formerly great" teams: Georgetown, St. John's, DePaul (Final Four with Mark Aguirre, Terry Cummings and Clyde Bradshaw in 1980), Butler (Final Fours with Brendan Hayward and Shelvin Mack). I don't see any of them getting closer to another Final Four. I see their chances at another Final Four for any of them slowly slipping away. Short term, this will help with their recruiting for hoops, but the loss of money and the outstanding bills ($10M to Kevin Ollie, $14M exit fee to AAC, loss of AAC TV revenue and conference shares from NCAA tournament). Now they think they're going to sign a great new deal to get their football on SNY? Do you realize that Notre Dame gets $15M a year for the football contract with NBC? And they made $5.8M from the ACC. They make less money right now from TV than any of the P5 conferences - and that's NOTRE DAME !!! A team with a [U]national following[/U] (just like UConn ?? /s/ ) But Notre Dame makes mad cash from merchandise sales, so that helps prop them up financially. But some people say that NBC may not even renew the contract. Some people think that playing a national schedule and the demands of the TV contract require ND to play too tough a schedule to have sustained success in football, and that perhaps this should be the last contract with NBC, and they should join the ACC full time. [URL="https://saturdayblitz.com/2018/07/26/notre-dame-football-current-nbc-contract-last-one/"]Notre Dame Football: Current NBC contract should be the last one[/URL] In the Big East, the total payout is around $6M a year. Unless youConn completely drop football, that's not enough money to keep your athletic department going. How many programs are you going to have to drop? What will you do about your current $40M deficit and all the money you owe Kevin Ollie and the AAC? The lost money is going to ruin UConn basketball in the long run. [/QUOTE]

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