What went wrong this year?
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NJOWL said
Aside: Rutgers and Maryland do not get the same money the other B10 schools do, which is another reason why moving up is not all it’s perked up to be. I just wish more of our games were on ESPN.
Mac games get on tv, lots of them.Posted On: Dec 6th 2018, 10:48 AM #384010
I do not 4 of our 6 homes games played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
If we started playing games in the middle of the week to appease ESPN that will be the end of my season tickets.
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And unless your season tickets make up the nearly 300k/year difference between the MAC & CUSA media contract, then I don't think the school would mind a few Tuesday kickoffs. Not to mention, the extra exposure from being the only sporting event on TV.
Sources:
- MAC: The New MAC - ESPN TV Deal Explained - Hustle Belt
- CUSA: C-USA Inks TV Deal, Will Appear on Multiple Platforms - Athletic Business
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NJOWL said
Look, I would not be able to even go to Tuesday games - but I would definitely keep my 6 season tickets.
And unless your season tickets make up the nearly 300k/year difference between the MAC & CUSA media contract, then I don't think the school would mind a few Tuesday kickoffs. Not to mention, the extra exposure from being the only sporting event on TV.
Sources:
- MAC: The New MAC - ESPN TV Deal Explained - Hustle Belt
- CUSA: C-USA Inks TV Deal, Will Appear on Multiple Platforms - Athletic BusinessPosted On: Dec 6th 2018, 12:06 PM #384013
You would never grow the fanebase.
Those games on Tuesdays get a couple thousand. The MAC accepts what it is as a leuage and realizes they will never grow fan bases so they sell out for TV.
How many maction games did you honestly you watch this year? Those games don’t bring any real ex .
You just make your league a punchline.
The Mac and the belt shrugs it’s shoulders and the fans and say “we don’t care and rather fill slow ESPN gaps for just a couple hundred thousand extra per team”
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I can’t name a single player in that team without looking it up and I know more college football than most people.
Please save the “exposure” argument.
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If C-USA has not even explored this option then we may need a change at the top.
As for moving up, our best bet is UCF & Cincinnati get swallowed up by the Big12 and we take ucf's spot. Otherwise, there is no incentive for the AAC to expand.
Look, we don't have it so bad. Not to mention ODU & Charlotte, added for their media exposure, are pumping a lot into their programs. Who knows, maybe they will be good soon.
Back to the main point of the thread: put yourself back in time to December 2016. Someone comes up to you and says, "Hey, your school is going to hire Lane Kiffin. He will win the conference in his first year. Then win a bowl in our home stadium by almost 50 points. The year after that he won't even make a bowl game."
I would be giddy and gladly accept that, as I do today. This season was a let down, sure. But in the aggregate, I am more than happy with Lane and the direction of the program. Also only one rain delay this year was nice.
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I've shifted my hypothetical why-not to our own conference. There's gotta be another G5 realignment on the eventual horizon (after network contracts expire or maybe attendance dips further or maybe both and more, whatever).
I have nothing against our far-flung Texas partners, but I'd swap'em for some more Appalachian-based schools (App State, GA State and so on). I'm pro regional conferences, I guess. To me, it implies easier travel, higher attendance, better rivalries (in game and for recruiting). …south Florida schools will always be an outlier.
It doesn't matter, I'm not moving any needles here. And FAU, FIU and MIA won't be together in the ACC anytime soon. So it goes.
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Any serious talk about moves are predicated on two things. First, there has to be a spot. Second, the conference who has that spot has to be interested in you. There was a LOT of excitement generated from last season's 11 wins, conference crown, and bowl blow-out. But it takes several years of continued success for teams to get the call up when (and if) it ever becomes possible (look at Boise State).
So FAU should focus on being the best C-USA team, and should drive getting more than 1/2 the stadium filled, and if they have any pull they should push for Art's regionalization of the conference if they can. All of that other stuff comes after you become a program with a history of sustained success. And the Owls need to get really good where we are before we think about being somewhere else.
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