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Old 06-25-2019, 09:40 AM   #1
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UConn and AAC realignment?

What do we do when Uconn is out? Add a team? Stand pat? Add more than one team? Who would it be? Football and basketball? Boise or BYU? Army or Air Force? Find a football team and a BB team?

Will anyone join? What makes the AAC stronger? Will future alignment ever really happen with so many tech companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook bidding to cover sports in the future?

If the AAC (or UC) can partner with the right tech company we may not need to join the power conferences although I would prefer it for SOS reasons. Will tech companies bid on covering a single team? Would Alabama make more as a sole entity than they would sharing conference money? Will that break up the current power conference media structure?

Here is a snippet from a conversation about realignment regarding big tech written about 1 year ago. Big tech has a lot more money to work with.

Again, back to my friend at Amazon. “We’re still seven or eight years away,” he said, “but if we had to restructure the landscape today, we would not start by negotiating with a conference. We don’t care about the SEC, Big 12 of Big 10 as a whole. In our opinion, those entities are not our focus.

“Instead, we would want to identify 30 or 40 teams that command the biggest audience. That may be by reputation or location, but generally we all know that there are members in every one of these conferences that frankly don’t move the needle.

“We would not want to pay for broadcast rights for a team with a fraction of the audience when we could use most of our available cash to tie down high profile teams.



UC would likely benefit in a situation like this over bottom feeding P5 teams. But we have to remain relevant and posture for 5 years from now.
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