2021-22 Basketball happenings around the American Athletic!

[Stickboy46]

[shock]

if we can somehow get u/everymanawildcat (GIF maker on Reddit) in the american, we would get top notch content like this daily.

[proshox]

They get 37M a year WITH Texas and OU. They won't get that when the contract is reopened due to a change in composition

i doubt they get $37M without OU and Texas in the league. ESPN won’t burn that kind of cash… they will hold the gold, let lawyers battle it out, and the B12 schools remaining will ultimately get a fraction of the $$

[proshox]

So this is all very interesting, but a merger between AAC and B12 school will make it harder, not easier to be consistently awesome in basketball.

[Stickboy46]

So this is all very interesting, but a merger between AAC and B12 school will make it harder, not easier to be consistently awesome in basketball.

Yes we should definitely go back to the valley. Maybe go down the MEAC while we are at it

[ShockerPrez]

Egos, money and childhood games. What more could one ask for.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

So this is all very interesting, but a merger between AAC and B12 school will make it harder, not easier to be consistently awesome in basketball.

Oh not this again. How about we just move down to D2 so we can win a National championship every year? We’d be awesome!

[Shock Top]

WuShock hanging in the Phog.

That would be a great day.

[Stickboy46]

WuShock hanging in the Phog.

That would be a great day.

But we would also have to hang a jayhawk .... Cancels out unfortunately

[pie n eye]

So this is all very interesting, but a merger between AAC and B12 school will make it harder, not easier to be consistently awesome in basketball.

I don’t buy it. Didn’t you say the same thing about moving to the American?

In our four years as members we have a 1st and 2nd place finish and never finished worse than 5th. We made the NCAA tourney two of three eligible years. We are poised to compete for a championship next year

Outside of Houston and Cincinnati no other team can match that.

Adding B12 teams would increase competition and make it unlikely that one team dominates the league. That’s not a bad thing. Outside of KU and Gonzaga that’s the norm and even KU has been knocked off their perch two of the last three years.

No one can tell the future. There’s a chance adding members to the league could damage the program. I think there’s a far more likely chance that it increases excitement, funding, interest, etc.

[ShockerPrez]

Better comference = Better recruits.

We will compete just fine.

[pinstripers]

If I were a betting man, I’d say KU considers the AAC as its distant third option. Their options (as they consider them):
1. B1G
2. Big East with independent football (the UConn model)
3. AAC with at least 3 other B12 members
4. Hold the B12 together

yep

[Stickboy46]

Better comference = Better recruits.

We will compete just fine.

And ESPN isnt luring them with 7 million.. if it happens, our partial cut goes up too.

[shock]

i doubt they get $37M without OU and Texas in the league. ESPN won’t burn that kind of cash… they will hold the gold, let lawyers battle it out, and the B12 schools remaining will ultimately get a fraction of the $$

No. There is a formula in the contract. Without Texas and OU, the b12 is worth around 12m per school, without OSU as well it drops to about around 7m.

[WuTheOne]

ESPN controls the large market cities, but not necessarily great ratings in those cities. Making the B12-2-2 leftovers available with local interest in those markets should drive viewership, and increase the value of the package to ESPN.

Adding a couple large market teams to the B12-2-2 leftovers would require sharing any increased viewership with Fox, Mickey ain't gonna be sharing anything with Fox if there is any way to avoid it. The elephant in the room is ESPN, and it's our elephant.