Media Deal is Done :(

Side Show Joe · May 7, 2016

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2016/05/02/In-Depth/Media-rights.aspx

Conference USA, too, is expected to see its annual rights fee drop from the $7 million per year range to just around $1 million per year, sources said, as the conference replaced bigger college brands like Central Florida, Houston and Memphis with smaller ones like Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee State and Western Kentucky. The deal with CBS and ESPN still has not been announced formally, but the conference says it will soon make an announcement.

Conference USA’s current deals with Fox and CBS expire in June. Fox opted not to renew.

drex · May 7, 2016

Lovely.

UNT90 · May 7, 2016

Hello Sun Belt 2.0

Cougar King · May 7, 2016

Wow.

MeanGreen_MBA · May 7, 2016

18 minutes ago, UNT90 said:

Hello Sun Belt 2.0

Hater

UNT90 · May 7, 2016

Truth hurts, eh?

Look on the bright side, more whorin' looms on the horizon.

Rudy · May 7, 2016

And people still oppose the MWC if the option were there?

foutsrouts · May 7, 2016

45 minutes ago, Rudy said:

And people still oppose the MWC if the option were there?

Only blind people who have to be in bed when the street lights come on would oppose the MWC.

All About UNT · May 7, 2016

3 hours ago, MeanGreen_MBA said:

Hater

You need to go look up the definition of "hater". Now if you called him a jerk or a RichardNoggin for pointing this out then I get it...... until then you need to revist your book of applicable insults.

Wag Tag · May 7, 2016

10 hours ago, Side Show Joe said:

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2016/05/02/In-Depth/Media-rights.aspx

Conference USA, too, is expected to see its annual rights fee drop from the $7 million per year range to just around $1 million per year, sources said, as the conference replaced bigger college brands like Central Florida, Houston and Memphis with smaller ones like Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee State and Western Kentucky. The deal with CBS and ESPN still has not been announced formally, but the conference says it will soon make an announcement.

Conference USA’s current deals with Fox and CBS expire in June. Fox opted not to renew.

Winning fixes everything!

VideoEagle · May 7, 2016

8 hours ago, foutsrouts said:

Only blind people who have to be in bed when the street lights come on would oppose the MWC.

Or those who passed basic math. The MWC media contracts are going down as well, plus unlike CUSA, the MWC doesn't share their media dollars evenly. Does anyone seriously think we would get dramatically more people willing to buy season tickets to see Fresno and Utah State than the Florida's? Actual, measurable experience has shown the answer to that is no.

UNT90 · May 7, 2016

2 hours ago, Wag Tag said:

Winning fixes everything!

Stuck in the 90s.

TreeFiddy · May 7, 2016

I thought the league was earning roughly $1mm per team annually previously from TV?

foutsrouts · May 7, 2016

1 hour ago, VideoEagle said:

Or those who passed basic math. The MWC media contracts are going down as well, plus unlike CUSA, the MWC doesn't share their media dollars evenly. Does anyone seriously think we would get dramatically more people willing to buy season tickets to see Fresno and Utah State than the Florida's? Actual, measurable experience has shown the answer to that is no.

It wouldn't take much more than one individual to exceed the number of season tickets purchased to see the FU's, so I'd have to disagree with that. I think we would draw much better in the MWC even if you're comparing the draw of say AF, Boise, CSU, NM, and SDSU, to the draw of our only significant CUSA "attractions" in UTSA, UTEP, LT, Middle, and Rice. I guess the "UT's" have potential, but I haven't been impressed with their attendance draw thus far.

It would be nice for once to be in a conference with some schools that are considered the top universities in their respective states. Granted they're smaller states for the most part, but most MWC members are still top dogs in their territories. It's all a moot old argument anyway, since I suspect we're a long way from even approaching their radar.

Ben Gooding · May 7, 2016

17 minutes ago, foutsrouts said:

It wouldn't take much more than one individual to exceed the number of season tickets purchased to see the FU's, so I'd have to disagree with that. I think we would draw much better in the MWC even if you're comparing the draw of say AF, Boise, CSU, NM, and SDSU, to the draw of our only significant CUSA "attractions" in UTSA, UTEP, LT, Middle, and Rice. I guess the "UT's" have potential, but I haven't been impressed with their attendance draw thus far.

It would be nice for once to be in a conference with some schools that are considered the top universities in their respective states. Granted they're smaller states for the most part, but most MWC members are still top dogs in their territories. It's all a moot old argument anyway, since I suspect we're a long way from even approaching their radar.

Their attendance draws haven't been good to Apogee bc we suck and nothing is ever on the line. It's like Kentucky football complaining about Vanderbilt alum draw to a UK home football game. No one cares in that case and no one cares in this one.

UNTexas · May 7, 2016

Totally off topic but I'm not starting a thread over it, what are the dates and game for Homecoming in the Fall?

Edited May 7, 2016 by UNTexas

Wag Tag · May 7, 2016

1 hour ago, UNTexas said:

Totally off topic but I'm not starting a thread over it, what are the dates and game for Homecoming in the Fall?

HiJacked!!!

UNTexas · May 7, 2016

36 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

HiJacked!!!

risinggreen · May 8, 2016

9 hours ago, foutsrouts said:

It wouldn't take much more than one individual to exceed the number of season tickets purchased to see the FU's, so I'd have to disagree with that. I think we would draw much better in the MWC even if you're comparing the draw of say AF, Boise, CSU, NM, and SDSU, to the draw of our only significant CUSA "attractions" in UTSA, UTEP, LT, Middle, and Rice. I guess the "UT's" have potential, but I haven't been impressed with their attendance draw thus far.

It would be nice for once to be in a conference with some schools that are considered the top universities in their respective states. Granted they're smaller states for the most part, but most MWC members are still top dogs in their territories. It's all a moot old argument anyway, since I suspect we're a long way from even approaching their radar.

That's not quite true. I hear that this guy and his posse have relocated here just because season tickets are available to see his beloved FUs.

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GrandGreen · May 8, 2016

Makes it sound like team turnover is primary reason for drastic drop. It is not, if the conference had not changed a team; there would have still have been a substantially reduction. The networks overbid before and most conferences are going to see significant reductions in TV money.

UNT90 · May 8, 2016

17 hours ago, UNTexas said:

Totally off topic but I'm not starting a thread over it, what are the dates and game for Homecoming in the Fall?

Would the Hattiesburg Hustler dare to double down on Butt Cookman?

North Texas Shep · May 8, 2016

Well shit! That sucks, but I still expect to get wins. If CUSA starts beating these other conferences and more watch the games, it should get a better deal.

Rudy · May 8, 2016

2 hours ago, North Texas Shep said:

Well shit! That sucks, but I still expect to get wins. If CUSA starts beating these other conferences and more watch the games, it should get a better deal.

If CUSA wins games, but no one is able to watch on TV, did they ever happen?

Cerebus · May 8, 2016

On 5/7/2016 at 9:54 AM, TreeFiddy said:

I thought the league was earning roughly $1mm per team annually previously from TV?

The total of the three deals with ESPN, Fox, and CBS totalled about 1.1 million per year per team.

This deal will also be multi part, so we'll see what the total comes out to be.

Cerebus · May 9, 2016

On 5/7/2016 at 11:13 PM, Rudy said:

And people still oppose the MWC if the option were there?

And why the hell would they want us? Serious question. Could we bring in more money than we would dilute the tv rights deal by? Doesn't look like it.

At this point, I think it is obvious that CUSA is way to large at 14. The SBC is about to go to 9. I say CUSA/SBC swap teams

New SBUSA:

North Texas
Rice
UTSA
UTEP
Southern Miss
La Tech
UAB
Ark St
NMSU
ULL
Tex St
ULM

New CBC:

WKU
MTSU
Marshall
FAU
FIU
ODU
Charlotte
App St
Geo Sou
Geo St
Troy
USA

Call the conferences whatever you want. Get everyone more regional in all sports. What sense does it make for us to send the VB team to Miami? Why does Marshall want to send the softball team to San Antonio?