http://www.conferenceusa.com/sports/m-fo...14aah.html
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-footbl/...14aac.html
9 Confirmed for Rice. A&M is pending for ESPN.

CBS SPORTS NETWORK SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 11 Rice at Army 12:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT
Saturday, November 29 Rice at Louisiana Tech 12:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. CST

FOX SPORTS 1 SCHEDULE
Friday, November 21 UTEP at Rice 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST

FS1 or FSN SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 20 Old Dominion at Rice TBA
Saturday, October 25 North Texas at Rice TBA
Saturday, November 8 UTSA at Rice TBA
Saturday, November 15 Rice at Marshall TBA

FOX COLLEGE SPORTS SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 27 Rice at Southern Miss 3:00 p.m. EDT/2:00 p.m. CDT

NBC SCHEDULE
Saturday, August 30 Rice at Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT

ESPN SCHEDULE
Saturday, December 20 Gildan New Mexico Bowl 2:20 p.m. EST/1:20 p.m. CST
Tuesday, December 23 Boca Raton Bowl 6:00 p.m. EST/5:00 p.m. CST
Wednesday, December 24 Bahamas Bowl 12:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. CST
Wednesday, December 24 Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST
Friday, December 26 Heart of Dallas Bowl 1:00 p.m. EST/12:00 p.m. CST

ESPN or ESPN 2 SCHEDULE
Saturday, December 6 C-USA Football Championship Game TBA

I think the A&M game rides on whether or not they beat USC week one. If they beat them, it'll be on ESPN or ESPN2. If it's a loss, maybe Fox Sports SW? Of course, I hope most on here will be at Kyle Field!

(05-29-2014 01:32 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  I think the A&M game rides on whether or not they beat USC week one. If they beat them, it'll be on ESPN or ESPN2. If it's a loss, maybe Fox Sports SW? Of course, I hope most on here will be at Kyle Field!

Schedule need to be set in advance before then - at least between competing networks (ESPN v Fox).

So perhaps as many as 10 of our 12 games will be on TV? Impressive.

Is the Notre Dame game on NBC or NBC Sports Network?

thankfully no games on Comcast Sports....


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(05-29-2014 02:26 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  So perhaps as many as 10 of our 12 games will be on TV? Impressive.

Is the Notre Dame game on NBC or NBC Sports Network?

Pretty sure it is NBC. Don't recall live ND games on NBCSN last year.

Notre Dame is on Big NBC.

Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

I didn't really notice it before but I see that the UTEP game will be a Friday night affair. I guess the good news is it's the week before Thanksgiving at least. Or maybe we knew that all along - unless they've changed the schedule from this page, it was listed as a Friday game back in February.

http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-footbl/...14aaa.html

(05-29-2014 03:59 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

However, the games are scheduled on channels that no one is watching. F1, CBSSports and FSN CUSA games last year were watched by ~100-150,000 people. Mid-week ESPN2 games averaged 450-750,000 and ESPNU games were significantly higher than F1.

It's great Rice is on TV, but only the diehards are watching and it's tough to expand the brand with the CUSA TV package. I'd take one more ESPN or NBC game over all the FSN/F1/CBSSports games.

(05-30-2014 08:02 AM)WIowl Wrote:  

(05-29-2014 03:59 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

However, the games are scheduled on channels that no one is watching. F1, CBSSports and FSN CUSA games last year were watched by ~100-150,000 people. Mid-week ESPN2 games averaged 450-750,000 and ESPNU games were significantly higher than F1.

It's great Rice is on TV, but only the diehards are watching and it's tough to expand the brand with the CUSA TV package. I'd take one more ESPN or NBC game over all the FSN/F1/CBSSports games.

It's a good platform. I expect the next TV deal to be better. We have some good markets and some young programs. But this deal is good for us. The demand must exist. ESPN has some competition finally.

And, of course, the AAC has far superior television coverage across the major sports.

(05-30-2014 08:09 AM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(05-30-2014 08:02 AM)WIowl Wrote:  

(05-29-2014 03:59 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

However, the games are scheduled on channels that no one is watching. F1, CBSSports and FSN CUSA games last year were watched by ~100-150,000 people. Mid-week ESPN2 games averaged 450-750,000 and ESPNU games were significantly higher than F1.

It's great Rice is on TV, but only the diehards are watching and it's tough to expand the brand with the CUSA TV package. I'd take one more ESPN or NBC game over all the FSN/F1/CBSSports games.

It's a good platform. I expect the next TV deal to be better. We have some good markets and some young programs. But this deal is good for us. The demand must exist. ESPN has some competition finally.

Actually, from most analysts it is expected that the next CUSA TV deal will be much worse on the financial and exposure side. ESPN is selling much of their excess (there's an overflow on games with them), such as AAC, to CBSSports for much less than what CUSA is being paid for by CBSSports.

It seems like a tough uphill struggle for most of us, financially. So why is D1 adding schools yearly? Are the prospects in this desert better than the one they are leaving?

(05-30-2014 08:09 AM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(05-30-2014 08:02 AM)WIowl Wrote:  

(05-29-2014 03:59 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

However, the games are scheduled on channels that no one is watching. F1, CBSSports and FSN CUSA games last year were watched by ~100-150,000 people. Mid-week ESPN2 games averaged 450-750,000 and ESPNU games were significantly higher than F1.

It's great Rice is on TV, but only the diehards are watching and it's tough to expand the brand with the CUSA TV package. I'd take one more ESPN or NBC game over all the FSN/F1/CBSSports games.

It's a good platform. I expect the next TV deal to be better. We have some good markets and some young programs. But this deal is good for us. The demand must exist. ESPN has some competition finally.

If you want to see what the future TV deals may look like, look at the coverage the Sunbelt has, and then project that. We are probably benefitting from the fact that Rice is now one of the most attractive schools in CUSA and the deal is still the one that CUSA/AAC made, not a deal that CUSA/Sunbelt made.

(05-30-2014 08:02 AM)WIowl Wrote:  

(05-29-2014 03:59 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

However, the games are scheduled on channels that no one is watching. F1, CBSSports and FSN CUSA games last year were watched by ~100-150,000 people. Mid-week ESPN2 games averaged 450-750,000 and ESPNU games were significantly higher than F1.

It's great Rice is on TV, but only the diehards are watching and it's tough to expand the brand with the CUSA TV package. I'd take one more ESPN or NBC game over all the FSN/F1/CBSSports games.

I wouldn't trade those games for 1 ESPN or NBC game. Who cares about everyone else, I get all those channels and losing access to watching those Rice games would suck! And thank goodness no CSS games that I couldn't watch in NOLA!

(05-30-2014 08:13 AM)WIowl Wrote:  

(05-30-2014 08:09 AM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(05-30-2014 08:02 AM)WIowl Wrote:  

(05-29-2014 03:59 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Outstanding exposure! Knock CUSA all you want, but there's no denying the fact that we get on TV.

However, the games are scheduled on channels that no one is watching. F1, CBSSports and FSN CUSA games last year were watched by ~100-150,000 people. Mid-week ESPN2 games averaged 450-750,000 and ESPNU games were significantly higher than F1.

It's great Rice is on TV, but only the diehards are watching and it's tough to expand the brand with the CUSA TV package. I'd take one more ESPN or NBC game over all the FSN/F1/CBSSports games.

It's a good platform. I expect the next TV deal to be better. We have some good markets and some young programs. But this deal is good for us. The demand must exist. ESPN has some competition finally.

Actually, from most analysts it is expected that the next CUSA TV deal will be much worse on the financial and exposure side. ESPN is selling much of their excess (there's an overflow on games with them), such as AAC, to CBSSports for much less than what CUSA is being paid for by CBSSports.

I've heard the opposite. Our last TV negotiations were done without the new schools and markets that we now have. It should go up. Anyway, it's a better deal than that of three other G5 conferences. The sky is not falling. Give this conference a little time to develop and mesh. AAC better watch it's back.

(05-30-2014 11:41 AM)Afflicted Wrote:  AAC better watch it's back.

That's good advice if for no other reason than the fact that any one of their conference mates would insert the knife if it were to benefit them. The same is true for the Sunbelt. As for the Sunbelt/CUSA posing any meaningful threat to the AAC (or vice versa), that's a fantasy.

(05-30-2014 10:07 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  It seems like a tough uphill struggle for most of us, financially. So why is D1 adding schools yearly? Are the prospects in this desert better than the one they are leaving?

The costs are close to the same until you drop to d3 where you lose scholarship costs. So ANY revenue from TV is generally a 'win' for FCS schools. Sort of the opposite reason why NcKinsey told us dropping to FCS was a non-starter.

(05-30-2014 12:40 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-30-2014 10:07 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  It seems like a tough uphill struggle for most of us, financially. So why is D1 adding schools yearly? Are the prospects in this desert better than the one they are leaving?

The costs are close to the same until you drop to d3 where you lose scholarship costs. So ANY revenue from TV is generally a 'win' for FCS schools. Sort of the opposite reason why NcKinsey told us dropping to FCS was a non-starter.

so basically the choice is move up or move down?