(07-19-2014 02:57 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 10:47 AM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  Sounds like a FCS TV package. With the quality and ease of accessing espn3 via Apple TV etc,[b] I prefer the Sun Belt's deal with ESPN in terms of viewing the games.[/b]

"BALTIMORE, July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) (the "Company" or "Sinclair") announced today that it has launched the American Sports Network ("ASN"), a collegiate sports initiative to be broadcast on a number of Sinclair's broadcast television stations, and has entered into comprehensive sports rights agreements with a number of distinguished NCAA Division I conferences including Conference USA, the Colonial Athletic Association, Big South Conference, Southern Conference, and Patriot League. The initiative will be led by Doron Gorshein, Chief Operating Officer of Sinclair Networks, a division of Sinclair, who joined the Company in January 2014. The announcement was made by David Smith, President and CEO of Sinclair."

That makes no sense to me. It's much easier to turn on the T.V. and change the channel to your local CW network. Most are in HD. Plus, most of the Sun Belt's ESPN games will only be available on ESPN3. Only a few will be aired on one of the ESPN channels. Sure some of your games might get carried on local stations, but those games probably won't get added to the ESPN3 lineup.

This deal allows for C-USA's tier 3 games to be aired on local Sinclair stations within our conference's geography. The games can also be syndicated to other broadcasters, and carried by Sinclair stations in other markets. Also, these games will be produced by Sinclair, but will still be available for viewing over the C-USA Digital Network. I don't think we will be dealing with terrible student produced stadium feeds like we had to deal with on ESPN3, back when UNT was in the Sun Belt.

When UNT was in the Sun Belt, only getting 3 conference games a season picked up by ESPN (1 on ESPN2 and 2 on ESPN3), I hated it. I think this C-USA deal with Sinclair is the perfect complement to our deals with Fox Sports and CBS Sports. This season every North Texas football game will be on T.V and I believe they will all be available online through the C-USA Digital Network too. It sure looks like a good deal to me.

I scan the watch espn app on my iPad and watch games there. If I really want to see an espn3 game, I will turn on the Apple TV and watch it on the big screen. This will continue to grow as a means to watch games, plus it reaches a national audience vs local programming.

Lmao so you pretty much have to do a google search and go to the fifth page just to find what channel a CUSA game is on? And even if you do find that many people wont have access to the channel?

Tallgrass you may as well go big and say 77 of 77 home games will be on TV per someone recording it with their cell phone.

(07-19-2014 07:18 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 02:57 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 10:47 AM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  Sounds like a FCS TV package. With the quality and ease of accessing espn3 via Apple TV etc,[b] I prefer the Sun Belt's deal with ESPN in terms of viewing the games.[/b]

"BALTIMORE, July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) (the "Company" or "Sinclair") announced today that it has launched the American Sports Network ("ASN"), a collegiate sports initiative to be broadcast on a number of Sinclair's broadcast television stations, and has entered into comprehensive sports rights agreements with a number of distinguished NCAA Division I conferences including Conference USA, the Colonial Athletic Association, Big South Conference, Southern Conference, and Patriot League. The initiative will be led by Doron Gorshein, Chief Operating Officer of Sinclair Networks, a division of Sinclair, who joined the Company in January 2014. The announcement was made by David Smith, President and CEO of Sinclair."

That makes no sense to me. It's much easier to turn on the T.V. and change the channel to your local CW network. Most are in HD. Plus, most of the Sun Belt's ESPN games will only be available on ESPN3. Only a few will be aired on one of the ESPN channels. Sure some of your games might get carried on local stations, but those games probably won't get added to the ESPN3 lineup.

This deal allows for C-USA's tier 3 games to be aired on local Sinclair stations within our conference's geography. The games can also be syndicated to other broadcasters, and carried by Sinclair stations in other markets. Also, these games will be produced by Sinclair, but will still be available for viewing over the C-USA Digital Network. I don't think we will be dealing with terrible student produced stadium feeds like we had to deal with on ESPN3, back when UNT was in the Sun Belt.

When UNT was in the Sun Belt, only getting 3 conference games a season picked up by ESPN (1 on ESPN2 and 2 on ESPN3), I hated it. I think this C-USA deal with Sinclair is the perfect complement to our deals with Fox Sports and CBS Sports. This season every North Texas football game will be on T.V and I believe they will all be available online through the C-USA Digital Network too. It sure looks like a good deal to me.

I scan the watch espn app on my iPad and watch games there. If I really want to see an espn3 game, I will turn on the Apple TV and watch it on the big screen. This will continue to grow as a means to watch games, plus it reaches a national audience vs local programming.

Is this your preferred method for watching GSU games, when you cannot attend? I'm not a fan of watching games on tablets, laptops, or phones.

(07-19-2014 05:02 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 04:53 PM)Tallgrass Wrote:  it would be nice if CUSA Commish Banowsky in meeting with ESPN and FOX for the first time could say something like this: "Sinclair has been very good to CUSA since they entered into the picture and now they have laid a very attractive offer in front of the conference to build upon and expand the CUSA telecasts of the first two years. But we told Sinclair that ESPN and FOX also have been very good to CUSA and we feel we owe it to them to see what new and expanded programming that they might be considering before making any final decision."

How have ESPN and FOX been "very good to C-USA"?

Bump

(07-19-2014 09:28 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 07:18 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 02:57 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(07-19-2014 10:47 AM)GSU Eagles Wrote:  Sounds like a FCS TV package. With the quality and ease of accessing espn3 via Apple TV etc,[b] I prefer the Sun Belt's deal with ESPN in terms of viewing the games.[/b]

"BALTIMORE, July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) (the "Company" or "Sinclair") announced today that it has launched the American Sports Network ("ASN"), a collegiate sports initiative to be broadcast on a number of Sinclair's broadcast television stations, and has entered into comprehensive sports rights agreements with a number of distinguished NCAA Division I conferences including Conference USA, the Colonial Athletic Association, Big South Conference, Southern Conference, and Patriot League. The initiative will be led by Doron Gorshein, Chief Operating Officer of Sinclair Networks, a division of Sinclair, who joined the Company in January 2014. The announcement was made by David Smith, President and CEO of Sinclair."

That makes no sense to me. It's much easier to turn on the T.V. and change the channel to your local CW network. Most are in HD. Plus, most of the Sun Belt's ESPN games will only be available on ESPN3. Only a few will be aired on one of the ESPN channels. Sure some of your games might get carried on local stations, but those games probably won't get added to the ESPN3 lineup.

This deal allows for C-USA's tier 3 games to be aired on local Sinclair stations within our conference's geography. The games can also be syndicated to other broadcasters, and carried by Sinclair stations in other markets. Also, these games will be produced by Sinclair, but will still be available for viewing over the C-USA Digital Network. I don't think we will be dealing with terrible student produced stadium feeds like we had to deal with on ESPN3, back when UNT was in the Sun Belt.

When UNT was in the Sun Belt, only getting 3 conference games a season picked up by ESPN (1 on ESPN2 and 2 on ESPN3), I hated it. I think this C-USA deal with Sinclair is the perfect complement to our deals with Fox Sports and CBS Sports. This season every North Texas football game will be on T.V and I believe they will all be available online through the C-USA Digital Network too. It sure looks like a good deal to me.

I scan the watch espn app on my iPad and watch games there. If I really want to see an espn3 game, I will turn on the Apple TV and watch it on the big screen. This will continue to grow as a means to watch games, plus it reaches a national audience vs local programming.

Is this your preferred method for watching GSU games, when you cannot attend? I'm not a fan of watching games on tablets, laptops, or phones.

I'd say it's much like the CUSA-Sinclair deal. The Sinclair deal is getting games on TV that were not going to be seen otherwise. Watching on tablets or phones is not ideal, but there are times when people are out and about or not at home. In those times it's better than nothing.

So 10 of 77 football games will not be broadcast at all.

And 30 of 67 broadcasted games will be on Sinclair's regional/digital ASN?

That's better than having those 30 games go untelevised, but good grief that's a lot of Tier 3 inventory and untelevised games.

(07-20-2014 06:45 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  So 10 of 77 football games will not be broadcast at all.

And 30 of 67 broadcasted games will be on Sinclair's regional/digital ASN?

That's better than having those 30 games go untelevised, but good grief that's a lot of Tier 3 inventory and untelevised games.

3 of the 10 not televised by the cbssn, fox and asn contracts have already been picked up by local tv stations in the affected areas. That leaves only 7, some of which will get a tv nod later in the fall, that could be internet exclusives. Not bad for a conference ravaged by realignment and rebuilt. The AAC has great exposure and while C-USA can't compare with our expsoure there are still 7 AAC games listed as internet exclusives by Mattz tv schedule so our 7 is not that big a deal.

This new deal is for 2 years and will undoubtedly go thru some growing pains. We have not seen one broadcast yet to gauge the production quality or reach of the broadcasts. Some games may be widely distributed and most just regionally, but the added exposure is certainly better than no added exposure. I just hope that it does well enough to grow in popularity and get renewed and expanded in the future. C-USA has a lot of recovering to do and it's going to take time and effort to get it's footing back underneath it and this is just one step that needed to be taken.

(07-20-2014 08:09 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 06:45 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  So 10 of 77 football games will not be broadcast at all.

And 30 of 67 broadcasted games will be on Sinclair's regional/digital ASN?

That's better than having those 30 games go untelevised, but good grief that's a lot of Tier 3 inventory and untelevised games.

3 of the 10 not televised by the cbssn, fox and asn contracts have already been picked up by local tv stations in the affected areas. That leaves only 7, some of which will get a tv nod later in the fall, that could be internet exclusives. Not bad for a conference ravaged by realignment and rebuilt. The AAC has great exposure and while C-USA can't compare with our expsoure there are still 7 AAC games listed as internet exclusives by Mattz tv schedule so our 7 is not that big a deal.

This new deal is for 2 years and will undoubtedly go thru some growing pains. We have not seen one broadcast yet to gauge the production quality or reach of the broadcasts. Some games may be widely distributed and most just regionally, but the added exposure is certainly better than no added exposure. I just hope that it does well enough to grow in popularity and get renewed and expanded in the future. C-USA has a lot of recovering to do and it's going to take time and effort to get it's footing back underneath it and this is just one step that needed to be taken.

I disagree with the bolded statement. The retooled and rearmed CUSA has already established a nice set of bowls and, most of all, those bowls are nicely balanced between east and west. Second, the new CUSA-14 has DOUBLED the number of its TV telecasts, something the old CUSA-12 with Houston, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, ECU, Memphis, and UCF, were not able to do.

In terms of building competitive football teams, I agree with your statement. Remember both UCF and TCU built their very strong teams in CUSA....but it took both schools some time to do that after hiring their good football coaches. I would also add that many of the Nbe/AAC invitees were not so successful in CUSA and a conference name change doesn't suddenly transform a struggling Nbe/AAC invitee into an automatic powerhouse.

(07-20-2014 08:09 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 06:45 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  So 10 of 77 football games will not be broadcast at all.

And 30 of 67 broadcasted games will be on Sinclair's regional/digital ASN?

That's better than having those 30 games go untelevised, but good grief that's a lot of Tier 3 inventory and untelevised games.

3 of the 10 not televised by the cbssn, fox and asn contracts have already been picked up by local tv stations in the affected areas. That leaves only 7, some of which will get a tv nod later in the fall, that could be internet exclusives. Not bad for a conference ravaged by realignment and rebuilt. The AAC has great exposure and while C-USA can't compare with our expsoure there are still 7 AAC games listed as internet exclusives by Mattz tv schedule so our 7 is not that big a deal.

This new deal is for 2 years and will undoubtedly go thru some growing pains. We have not seen one broadcast yet to gauge the production quality or reach of the broadcasts. Some games may be widely distributed and most just regionally, but the added exposure is certainly better than no added exposure. I just hope that it does well enough to grow in popularity and get renewed and expanded in the future. C-USA has a lot of recovering to do and it's going to take time and effort to get it's footing back underneath it and this is just one step that needed to be taken.

I disagree with the bolded statement. The retooled and rearmed CUSA has already established a nice set of bowls and, most of all, those bowls are nicely balanced between east and west. Second, the new CUSA-14 has DOUBLED the number of its TV telecasts, something the old CUSA-12 with Houston, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, ECU, Memphis, and UCF, were not able to do.

In terms of building competitive football teams, I agree with your statement. Remember both UCF and TCU built their very strong teams in CUSA....but it took both schools some time to do that after hiring their good football coaches.

Please also remember that Nbe/AAC, excluding UCF, also has some proving to do. The Nbe/AAC invitees are assuming that they have suddenly been transformed to powerhouses via a simple conference name change. The Nbe/AAC invitees struggled in CUSA and did not put together the outstanding season/seansons that UCF, TCU, and Boise have done. For those Nbe/AAC fans contemplating responding to this post, tell me, what was your record in the Liberty Bowl against 6-6 BCS teams?

Tallgrass why do you love CUSA so much? Tulsa is in the AAC. Oklahoma State is in the Big 12 along with OU.

Your dream of misfortune on the Big East became true. And you seem to want to prop CUSA above the MAC and SBC which are the conferences CUSA now competes with.

(07-20-2014 10:01 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  Tallgrass why do you love CUSA so much? Tulsa is in the AAC. Oklahoma State is in the Big 12 along with OU.

Your dream of misfortune on the Big East became true. And you seem to want to prop CUSA above the MAC and SBC which are the conferences CUSA now competes with.

This rarely happens to me, but I'm confuse now (sarcasm)

I thought Tallgrass was a Oklahome State fan and hated everything related with CUSA.

(07-20-2014 03:14 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 10:01 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  Tallgrass why do you love CUSA so much? Tulsa is in the AAC. Oklahoma State is in the Big 12 along with OU.

Your dream of misfortune on the Big East became true. And you seem to want to prop CUSA above the MAC and SBC which are the conferences CUSA now competes with.

This rarely happens to me, but I'm confuse now (sarcasm)

I thought Tallgrass was a Oklahome State fan and hated everything related with CUSA.

Or he works for C-USA...Tulsa is in the American and Oklahoma State is in the Big XII...You can appreciate what C-USA has done for Tulsa but if you're a fan/alum of those schools than you are more concerned with that school and the league they belong too not the league you are very likely not play again except in the Post Season...

(07-20-2014 09:06 AM)Tallgrass Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 08:09 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 06:45 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  So 10 of 77 football games will not be broadcast at all.

And 30 of 67 broadcasted games will be on Sinclair's regional/digital ASN?

That's better than having those 30 games go untelevised, but good grief that's a lot of Tier 3 inventory and untelevised games.

3 of the 10 not televised by the cbssn, fox and asn contracts have already been picked up by local tv stations in the affected areas. That leaves only 7, some of which will get a tv nod later in the fall, that could be internet exclusives. Not bad for a conference ravaged by realignment and rebuilt. The AAC has great exposure and while C-USA can't compare with our expsoure there are still 7 AAC games listed as internet exclusives by Mattz tv schedule so our 7 is not that big a deal.

This new deal is for 2 years and will undoubtedly go thru some growing pains. We have not seen one broadcast yet to gauge the production quality or reach of the broadcasts. Some games may be widely distributed and most just regionally, but the added exposure is certainly better than no added exposure. I just hope that it does well enough to grow in popularity and get renewed and expanded in the future. C-USA has a lot of recovering to do and it's going to take time and effort to get it's footing back underneath it and this is just one step that needed to be taken.

I disagree with the bolded statement. The retooled and rearmed CUSA has already established a nice set of bowls and, most of all, those bowls are nicely balanced between east and west. Second, the new CUSA-14 has DOUBLED the number of its TV telecasts, something the old CUSA-12 with Houston, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, ECU, Memphis, and UCF, were not able to do.

In terms of building competitive football teams, I agree with your statement. Remember both UCF and TCU built their very strong teams in CUSA....but it took both schools some time to do that after hiring their good football coaches.

Please also remember that Nbe/AAC, excluding UCF, also has some proving to do. The Nbe/AAC invitees are assuming that they have suddenly been transformed to powerhouses via a simple conference name change. The Nbe/AAC invitees struggled in CUSA and did not put together the outstanding season/seansons that UCF, TCU, and Boise have done. For those Nbe/AAC fans contemplating responding to this post, tell me, what was your record in the Liberty Bowl against 6-6 BCS teams?

Last I checked Tulsa is a AAC Invitee/School...do you include them in your post as well...also, a fan/alum of a C-USA School-(UTEP) can see it will take time to rebuild....C-USA lost all of it Top Programs to the AAC in UCF, Houston-(which won 8 Regular Season Games with a extremely young roster), largest Football Fan Base-(ECU a school that averages around 50K for Football) and it Basketball Powerhouse Memphis...

Troll grass is Britton Banowsky

(07-20-2014 05:55 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Troll grass is Britton Banowsky

possibly.

(07-20-2014 07:29 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 05:55 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Troll grass is Britton Banowsky

possibly.

I doubt it. Banowsky has Never promoted and puffed-up C-USA like Tallgrass has done.

(07-20-2014 08:06 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 07:29 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 05:55 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Troll grass is Britton Banowsky

possibly.

I doubt it. Banowsky has Never promoted and puffed-up C-USA like Tallgrass has done.

Well played, NG

(07-20-2014 08:06 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 07:29 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 05:55 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Troll grass is Britton Banowsky

possibly.

I doubt it. Banowsky has Never promoted and puffed-up C-USA like Tallgrass has done.

That's just wrong lmao.

(07-20-2014 09:06 AM)Tallgrass Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 08:09 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 06:45 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  So 10 of 77 football games will not be broadcast at all.

And 30 of 67 broadcasted games will be on Sinclair's regional/digital ASN?

That's better than having those 30 games go untelevised, but good grief that's a lot of Tier 3 inventory and untelevised games.

3 of the 10 not televised by the cbssn, fox and asn contracts have already been picked up by local tv stations in the affected areas. That leaves only 7, some of which will get a tv nod later in the fall, that could be internet exclusives. Not bad for a conference ravaged by realignment and rebuilt. The AAC has great exposure and while C-USA can't compare with our expsoure there are still 7 AAC games listed as internet exclusives by Mattz tv schedule so our 7 is not that big a deal.

This new deal is for 2 years and will undoubtedly go thru some growing pains. We have not seen one broadcast yet to gauge the production quality or reach of the broadcasts. Some games may be widely distributed and most just regionally, but the added exposure is certainly better than no added exposure. I just hope that it does well enough to grow in popularity and get renewed and expanded in the future. C-USA has a lot of recovering to do and it's going to take time and effort to get it's footing back underneath it and this is just one step that needed to be taken.

I disagree with the bolded statement. The retooled and rearmed CUSA has already established a nice set of bowls and, most of all, those bowls are nicely balanced between east and west. Second, the new CUSA-14 has DOUBLED the number of its TV telecasts, something the old CUSA-12 with Houston, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, ECU, Memphis, and UCF, were not able to do.

In terms of building competitive football teams, I agree with your statement. Remember both UCF and TCU built their very strong teams in CUSA....but it took both schools some time to do that after hiring their good football coaches.

Please also remember that Nbe/AAC, excluding UCF, also has some proving to do. The Nbe/AAC invitees are assuming that they have suddenly been transformed to powerhouses via a simple conference name change. The Nbe/AAC invitees struggled in CUSA and did not put together the outstanding season/seansons that UCF, TCU, and Boise have done. For those Nbe/AAC fans contemplating responding to this post, tell me, what was your record in the Liberty Bowl against 6-6 BCS teams?

Lol Wut?

I'm no college football historian but it was not long ago matter fact 2011 that Houston was 13-1 with a bowl win against Penn State. They were arguably one win from playing in a BCS bowl that season.

And dude I really wonder about you sometimes. Are you claiming TULSA struggled in CUSA? Tulsa arguably has been the best or one the best programs CUSA has ever seen if you look at all the championships. And again it was only 2012 when they were 11-3 and conference champs. Not to mention all the other 9+ win seasons they have had the last 15 years.

And ECU? How in the world have they struggled in CUSA?

Your seriously delusional man. The best programs were taken away.

And the Liberty Bowl is not just against 6-6 teams from some rag tag conference. 6-6 SEC teams would be CUSA champs most years. And 6-6 SEC teams would beat many 8 win Big Ten and Pac-12 teams.

At least with the SBC you have some long term members like Ark St, UARL, ULL, South Alabama that have been there decades. That is the core of that conference.

In CUSA all you have is USM and UAB in a 14 team conference that have been there over 10 years. I don't know what CUSA 3.0 is, quite honestly its a pretty bizarre grouping of schools.

UTEP, UTSA, UNT are very western oriented. Marshall, WKU and MTSU are in the OVC territory.

FAU /FIU are the odd couple. UAB, ODU, Charlotte is another grouping. Rice, LaTech, USM are your South Central schools.

Its a multiregional conference of 5-6 distinct regional groupings

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