(01-07-2018 02:13 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 12:48 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 12:14 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 11:51 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 11:30 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Wasn't the idea of NBC bidding on the AAC contract and showing an AAC game of the week before/after ND games discussed during the last AAC TV contract negotiations?

If I recall, NBC wasn't too interested in bidding against ESPN for the contract then. Has anything changed?

Not sure, but there's some reasons to believe why it would work. Let's say that only a few AAC/CUSA/MWC conference match ups bring ratings...games like UCF vs USF, Boise vs San Diego St, Houston vs Navy etc. the AAC and MWC, BYU have a nice amount of P5 home games coming up. From O week to week 4 (5 weeks) NBC-SN would have Saturday's full of great games to show like Florida St @ Boise, Tennesee @ BYU, Nebraska @ Cinci, West Virginia @ ECU, Oklahoma @ Temple, Utah @ BYU. These are just a few of the games scheduled for the future. Use those 5 weeks games and a game day live tail gate party at each of those games and by week 6 you've built some momentum for the Houston vs SMU game, Boise vs San Diego St conference games, plus the late season BYU vs MWC games and Army @ Air Force ...Plenty of good inventory. I think it's worth a 6 year experiment. Could blow up into something huge.

The problem is that NBC has never shown one bit of interest in any other non p5 conference other the AAC and that was when the AAC was a bigger risk than all the of the g5s combined. I could easily see NBC brokering a deal to pay the AAC enough to add maybe Byu and either Boise or Sdsu. I think the rest of the g4 would be considered not worth much at that point

Could be right about NBC having no interest in anyone else but I do remember watching some TCU MWC conference games on NBC-SN (it had a different name then) as well as watching some CUSA games on NBC-SN.

It was called Versus back then until NBC bought them. The MWC had a contract with them and CBS Sports which bought CSTV, the startup network the MWC ditched ESPN for. Versus showed lots of rodeo and MMA. But looking back, the MWC did not have a bad tv exposure compared to what they have now. They were on CBS Sports, Versus and The Mtn.

As far as NBC Sports, they’re really not relevant on Saturday afternoon/nights. How many figure skating and Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan documentaries reruns can they air?

Well, NBC Sports does have a contract to televise ND home hockey games on certain Friday and Saturday nights (ND is currently ranked #1 in college hockey by one publication and are 11-0 in Big Ten conference play....there, I got my plug in) during college hockey season.

So...some of those time slots during football season are already contractually filled with the ND hockey deal.