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Conference distribution is tv money, ncaa tourney share money, and CFP shares. That’s about 1.5 to 2 million a year recently. So paying back the last two years will cost CUSA teams 3 to 4 million, which just so happens to be the supposed AAC tv payout. So that makes some sense. What doesn’t make a lot is sense is why CUSA teams would want to pay 3-4 million to go make the SBC’s 500k a year tv payout.

Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship. If we can get back to the subject at hand. The university funds athletics for a couple of reasons. 1) to legitimize the school and make it more attractive to students, 2) to create publicity and raise the public perception of the institution, 3) to create outreach to development target (donations). Basketball success is great. But we need football success in this state to really achieve the goals of the university. Talk of reducing resources to football is a non starter.

This is the football forum. Kansas is getting left behind, Gonzaga doesn't have a team at any level. We're in Texas, if it's not football success then our alumni, the media, etc aren't really going to care. We don't need to pick basketball over football. ALL our athletic programs almost died when we moved to 1-AA. Football has to be funded, this is Texas.

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Al Hurley already tried that. If that isn't working for Kansas or Gonzaga i'm not sure how it leads us to the promised land. Also we're in Texas.

I have to say this: The Arizona was not torpedoed, it was hit by horizontal flight bombers. I also have to say that while the CUSA commissioner has gotten absolutely flamed for the media deal, the reality is that the CUSA presidents are the ones who set conditions. They are the ones who didn't want to move games away from Saturday. Since the conference wouldn't budge on that, no ESPN deal.

Best throw all night. Laser to the perfect spot.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

If that's your best opening line, no wonder you don't have any. Consider asking about the other person's interests, everyone likes talking about themselves.

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Agree. Team has at least been competitive since about 4 min left in the second. Not exactly where we hoped to be six years into the SL regime, but better than we started this game.

His deep ball has been inaccurate, he's been better short, his feet help us. He's looks like the best option, but i'm not sure he's going to make the Maxwell short list.

Defensive rush has been getting close for a while, finally forces a sack/fumble.

I hate it so much. I have never heard it except when we are getting our backsides handed to us.

Aune should be the starter. He's not near perfect, but he makes more plays and his short game is better.

We've gotten some pressure, up until now their QBs have made some really good plays with pressure in their face.

Burns/Ragsdale are breathing life into this offense.

Back to back weeks not looking competitive against conference teams. It's been a long time since we have looked this bad.

ODU is close. JMU does, but they aren't FBS yet. BYU likely did but was private and didn't have to report.

They aren't going anywhere soon. Only way they improve media payout is going to to a P5. Moving to the AAC isn't worth the exit/entry fees, especially if they are hoping to make the P5 jump on the next wave. Since none of the P5 are ready to expand just yet, they are in the MWC until then. Don't forget they have an unequal distribution system in the MWC, something the AAC members are against.

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Cause they were wrong. Our TV contract proves it. Payout was $1.1M with the old schools, CUSA brought in a ton of teams in markets that they don't deliver, and now our TV payout is a pitiful. EDIT: Which is exactly the error none of the other conferencesare looking to repeat.

No one cares about the market a team is in. If that was true everyone would be beating down the door for Rice (Houston, #8 DMA) and Temple (Philadelphia, #4 DMA) to join. Advertisers (and therefore networks and conferences) care about how many eye balls the programs can deliver. When it comes to viewership advertisers care about the following counts: 1 Million viewers: Worth some national advertising campaigns, valuable for regional campaigns. 3 (or 4) Million Viewers: Definitely worth national campaign dollars, very high demand. 7 Million viewers: Super high demand from national campaign dollars. Through last week this years CFB schedule had only delivered 5 of these. UTSA doesn't deliver the SA market, they deliver like most G5 teams do. UTSA/ILL brought in 211K in Wk1. UTSA has had success on the field this year, and we're still out drawing them at the gate. So the first number the advertisers/networks/conferences are looking for is viewers. The conferences are also looking at total expenditures on athletics: HOU 73.6M NT 39.9M TXST 37.1M UTEP 32.9M UTSA 32.2M UTA 17.1M These numbers are from 2019, but it's the latest NCAA reported numbers I could find. Rice/SMU are private and did not report. The AAC/MWC is not looking at any of the remaining Texas teams because of TV viewership. No one left delivers high value there. The MWC has said they are looking for school near their own expenditure rate (about $50M/yr), no one available in Texas delivers that either. So why would they look at Texas teams? If anything it's recruiting. AAC already has SMU. I can't imagine the ponies being willing to sign off on anyone in Texas. I also have no idea how the AAC votes on membership. Could the MWC look at adding Texas teams for recruiting? Maybe. They are in a tough spot. There just aren't that many desirable football programs in the west. BYU was a big target for them for several years, but they are B12 bound. Could they lose BSU in the next round of P5 expansion? Look the only reason we would want to be in the AAC or MWC is network money. However, the reason OU/UT left the B12 is they felt B12 money was going to stagnate. If the B12 has hit its high water mark, then all the G5 conferences have to realize the days of free TV money is gone. The AAC is absolutely going to get their money chopped with the departures. The MWC knows their next contract is going to stagnate at best. These conferences aren't going to do anything that hurts their per team distributions. That's the main thing you have to keep in mind. If you can deliver more eyes (and spend more) than the teams in the conferences, they want you. MWC Athletics Expenditures: SDSU: 55M AFA: 54M CSU: 54M UNLV: 50M FSU: 50M BSU: 49M Wyo: 48M Nev: 43M USU: 41M

Starting in 2018 the NCAA allowed 10 Assistant Coaches and 1 Head Coach. Those are the only guys who can recruit off campus. Analysts can not, that seems to be something the NCAA stays on top off. Analysts are also not supposed to be able to coach on gamedays, though that seems to not be as enforced.