(02-13-2015 10:37 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(02-13-2015 10:23 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 09:20 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 09:03 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 10:46 AM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Attendance isn't going to do much about television exposure. Baseball just isn't a good product for tv right now. There need to be innovations on that front.

Unfortunately for you guys (and for St Johns baseball), the biggest innovation in televised college baseball is the SEC Network. Strong baseball programs which have the potential to tap into large existing fanbases and a network with lots of open TV slots.

That's why Im shocked we are not utilizing the AAC Digital Network and ESPN-3 for baseball. ESPN has been working to aggregate digital content to make ESPN-3 a bigger premium network than it already is. If they can get more for ESPN-3 access fees---then the model becomes even more valuable. AAC baseball represents television rights they already own. All the AAC has to do is create a decent feed and I suspect ESPN-3 would be more than happy to provide the distribution platform. And if they ESPN is not interested, here is Aresco's chance to put the AAC Digital Network out ahead of every other G5 conference digital network. Create apps for the major streaming boxes (Roku, Apple Tv, X-Box, Amazon Fire, Google, etc) and stream baseball and softball games to users. That would put the AAC on the frontier of conference digital broadcasting.

If we are going to talk about being challenger conference, then that's the type of thing we need to be doing. We need to be the premier G5 conference in every respect.

Perhaps it is a cost issue. They can't justify the expense of a film crew, production staff and announcers. I think cbssports and all access offer a platform to pay to watch the games, the AAC probably didn't want to pay the licensing fees to tap into their content either.

Some people have said this is a step down from CUSA, I disagree I think this conference has a ton of potential in baseball. We have a shot at 3-4 bids every year.

The thing is, I dont even care if there are announcers, just stream it on ESPN3. Most schools already film it anyway, just tie in to that feed. Quality will differ, but its better than nothing.

We could get the audio from our school radio network – which some of us do anyway.

I'm interested in getting more into college baseball unfortunately Temple no longer has a team so I'll be trying to keep up with and root for the teams in this conference instead.

(02-13-2015 10:23 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 09:20 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 09:03 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(02-12-2015 10:46 AM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Attendance isn't going to do much about television exposure. Baseball just isn't a good product for tv right now. There need to be innovations on that front.

Unfortunately for you guys (and for St Johns baseball), the biggest innovation in televised college baseball is the SEC Network. Strong baseball programs which have the potential to tap into large existing fanbases and a network with lots of open TV slots.

That's why Im shocked we are not utilizing the AAC Digital Network and ESPN-3 for baseball. ESPN has been working to aggregate digital content to make ESPN-3 a bigger premium network than it already is. If they can get more for ESPN-3 access fees---then the model becomes even more valuable. AAC baseball represents television rights they already own. All the AAC has to do is create a decent feed and I suspect ESPN-3 would be more than happy to provide the distribution platform. And if they ESPN is not interested, here is Aresco's chance to put the AAC Digital Network out ahead of every other G5 conference digital network. Create apps for the major streaming boxes (Roku, Apple Tv, X-Box, Amazon Fire, Google, etc) and stream baseball and softball games to users. That would put the AAC on the frontier of conference digital broadcasting.

If we are going to talk about being challenger conference, then that's the type of thing we need to be doing. We need to be the premier G5 conference in every respect.

Perhaps it is a cost issue. They can't justify the expense of a film crew, production staff and announcers. I think cbssports and all access offer a platform to pay to watch the games, the AAC probably didn't want to pay the licensing fees to tap into their content either.

Some people have said this is a step down from CUSA, I disagree I think this conference has a ton of potential in baseball. We have a shot at 3-4 bids every year.

As others have mentioned, most schools already provide a production complete with announcers. We would just need to stream it to the existing ACC Digital Network or ESPN-3. My guess is the schools could upgrade the productions with little cost. For instance, Houston offers a Radio-TV degree and has plenty of equipment and willing students looking to get hands on experience in the field. Houston already has a professional radio play-by-play guy for baseball. I think we could create a pretty decent feed for little cost. I suspect most of the AAC schools are in the same boat.

We just announced that we will have the largest video board in all of college baseball announced installed by the seasons end. If we can do that, then I suspect we can provide a decent feed to ESPN or the ACC Digital Network if asked.