"CBS decided to exit the negotiations for college football's most-watched TV package after making an aggressive bid in the neighborhood of $300 million per season -- a massive increase from the $55 million it currently pays annually."
The new SEC contract is supposedly going to ESPN/Disney and that should mean and additional $20-30 million per school every year in the new contract. The landscape is going to change massively in the next decade.
https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/...19/12/SEC.aspx
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Originally posted by red_n_black_attack View PostWould we benefit from a media deal that includes streaming content in the tv package? Sometimes you can get to a tv and the digital content is already on hand.
The other conferences were using Stadium, Facebook Live and Twitter to stream which were mostly free but pretty terrible as far as production quality went unless CBSSN or ESPN3 was doing the feed like we saw with the Marshall football on Facebook.
The part of the AAC contract that irked some of the conference members was that for ESPN+ broadcasts, the home team is responsible for the production. Some of the conference members don't have a broadcast media department and suddenly had to figure out how to to do all that inside their Athletic Dept budget. We're in good shape here with the Bearcats TV crew but others were not ready for this. There were still question marks about this whole issue when Bohn departed for USC. Aresco and company at AAC HQ pretty much screwed this part of the contract up I think, to ESPN's monetary benefit. Since Aresco used to work in TV with CBS, you'd figure he have a better understanding that some schools don't have the budget for this.
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Would we benefit from a media deal that includes streaming content in the tv package? Sometimes you can get to a tv and the digital content is already on hand.
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A little OT but the Mountain West just signed with CBS/FOX. I have a sense the streaming media deal that the MWC, CUSA and Sun Belt signed are headed down the drain.
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If you approach this purely from the standpoint of demographic trends then you want to pick up a southern or western market, that's where the population growth is occurring and is projected to continue to occur. Northeast and Midwest populations have been stagnant or declining. Metro areas may still grow in those regions but total state-by-state population in the rust belt is trailing that seen in the sunbelt.
Here's a visual of population trends:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s...nty-2010-2018/
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Originally posted by RedRocker View PostWith a new stadium on the way and their recent success on the football field and history with UC, I’d look at UAB. Decent metro market although 3rd FBS program behind Alabama and Auburn.
So, IF we have to add another member, this is where I would look. A caveat to this is that program poaching is so distasteful, and we'd be very upset if one or more AAC schools not named UC were taken, so this is not my favorite exercise.
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With a new stadium on the way and their recent success on the football field and history with UC, I’d look at UAB. Decent metro market although 3rd FBS program behind Alabama and Auburn.
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Originally posted by Lobot View Post
I'd revisit Air Force but the current administraction at the AFA seems to think that the MWC is too difficult for them to deal with due to travel and conference strength.
If the AAC finally decides to expand, TV will have a major say in any pickup. ESPN/CBS would want a decent market. NIU, while in northern Illinois, isn't going to draw the Chicago market.
FAU had very poor attendance this season. The Owls drew 30K for UCF, but how many of those people drove down from Orlando to Boca Raton? The next largest crowd was 17,700. FAU is in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale TV market (#16, per Neilsen), but how many TV's were set to Owls' games?
From a TV standpoint, GA State would make sense, to an extent (#10 Atlanta market), but they'd drag down the AAC from a football perspective, unless they beefed up their program. Sagarin Predictor ranked them #118, which would be third worst in the AAC.
In a nutshell, there really isn't a prime G5 candidate. If there was, Aresco and Company already would've pulled the trigger.
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Originally posted by Illuminerdski View PostI would look into adding Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan or Buffalo. All would be in larger metro areas and Buffalo would allow a New England-ish presence lost by UConn.
I'm not sure that geographics play a huge role in these decisions but the geographic center of the league is Nashiille where there's no team. The HQ for the AAC is about to move to Dallas from Providence RI and the basketball tourney is in Fort Worth for a few years. This all leads me to believe they'd prefer the conference to expand in a southern or western direction. I think you try and poach Colorado State or maybe add UAB or FAU. I'd revisit Air Force but the current administraction at the AFA seems to think that the MWC is too difficult for them to deal with due to travel and conference strength.
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I would look into adding Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan or Buffalo. All would be in larger metro areas and Buffalo would allow a New England-ish presence lost by UConn.
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Originally posted by Bearcats1232002 View Post
But who do you add? There isn't a team left that brings something to the table for football AND basketball. Appalachian State for football? VCU for basketball? I think the Big East will go after VCU so they will have 12. I think this is the most pressing issue for UC athletics going forward and I don't think there are any good solutions other than a power 5 invite.
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Basketball only would have to be Dayton. Big time fan base, and a lot of upside in a better league. And of course, somebody in the league that's less than an eight hour drive.
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Originally posted by Lobot View PostSpeaking of which ESPN is trying to tweak the AAC package becuase of UConn. I think the inference by ESPN is that we need to have a 12th team eventually and do divisions again.
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Speaking of which ESPN is trying to tweak the AAC package becuase of UConn. I think the inference by ESPN is that we need to have a 12th team eventually and do divisions again.
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