(05-09-2017 05:02 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 12:29 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 12:05 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-07-2017 05:46 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(05-07-2017 01:10 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  But ... NBCSN *wasn't* such great exposure, at least as it is being discussed here. It wasn't ESPN, hence was what many around here call a backwoods underexposed network.

Aresco signed for both peanuts money and peanuts exposure. Aresco face-saving spinning aside, that's what actually did happen.

Having all your games on a national platform with 82 million subscribers with select games in NBC-Broadcast would be pretty good compared to most of your games on ESPN-3 with a smattering on ESPN-U. The current deal is even better than the exposure the last Media deal provided the old Big East (which was a BCS conference).

That sounds like moving the goalposts. The premise here was that outlets like FS1 and NBCSN are by their nature low-exposure outlets. So getting tons of games on them doesn't mean much in terms of exposure - at least that's what nBE fans are always told, you're not on ESPN then you're in some kind of wasteland of no exposure.

Not if your ESPN "exposure" is largely ESPN-3 with a smattering of ESPN-U (which was largely what the ESPN was proposing for the AAC). If that's the case---NBC-Sports with a handful of games on NBC-broadcast is a massive upgrade. Basically, it's the difference between the Sunbelt/CUSA exposure and MW exposure. I agree---The ESPN "match" was actually an "upgrade" because the platform is more watched. So sure--if offered equal exposure on ESPN or FS-1 then--sure ESPN is way better. Thing is---that's not what we were originally offered. We were looking at lots and lots of ESPN3.

I get that. But, Aresco turned that down to sign with NBCSN, which was regarded then and now as "low exposure". So I think it's fair to say that what Aresco signed for with NBC in 2013 was "peanuts money, low exposure".

Except that no other non-power conference had anything close to that. Every game on a national TV with some on a 3-letter network was unprecedented for a non-power conference. Literally every game would have been on a platform reaching 80 million or more. Yes, networks like NBC-Sports or Fox Sports-1 are lesser platforms than ESPN---but any non-power conference would sign is a second to have every game on Fox-Sports 1 or NBC-Sports. The AAC is the only G5 with that kind of exposure. Sunbelt and MAC are virtually all on ESPN-3. MW gest some games on platforms like the AAC--but at least a third of their games are on digital only platforms. CUSA is invisible on BeIn with a handful of games on CBS-Sports. That type of CUSA/MAC/SB exposure would have been disasterous for a new conference nobody had every heard of.