If the league continues to having the success it has had so far this season we will get a better money tv deal in future

(10-03-2015 05:54 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(10-03-2015 11:32 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Imagine if we had been buried on NBCSN.

Well, that's what Aresco had in store for us, lol.

But he got us on ESPN with national coverage that has helped this conference quite a bit, didn't he?

Coulda shoulda woulda doesn't count.

(10-04-2015 11:32 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-03-2015 05:54 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(10-03-2015 11:32 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Imagine if we had been buried on NBCSN.

Well, that's what Aresco had in store for us, lol.

But he got us on ESPN with national coverage that has helped this conference quite a bit, didn't he?

Coulda shoulda woulda doesn't count.

Yep, and nbc screwed up big time by low balling. I believe they felt ESPN would not match the coverage they were offering. They were wrong, and missed out on basketball (where the AAC had both the previous champion and then current national champion) and is missing out on an AAC football that still has 4 of the 20 undefeated teams in the nation.

We have got to be really good for ESPNs bottom line right now.

(10-03-2015 06:38 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  BYU and Boise plus Air Force and Colorado State make the most sense. But nothing is happening unless ESPN is willing to raise the tv contract to 8- 10 million per team so not going to happen

That would actually make for a pretty darn good FB conference and would actually help a little bit to make the two divisions more geographically sensible. Navy and UConn would still be outliers, but I assume Navy would want to be in the same division with AFA.

EAST
Cincinnati, East Carolina, Memphis, Temple, Tulane, UConn, UCF, USF

WEST
AFA, Boise State, BYU, Colorado State, Houston, Navy, SMU, Tulsa

The first and most important step is to get CSU and Air Force to come over. If we weaken the MWC, then we might have a chance at landing two more good teams...but I tend to think that BYU will remain indy no matter what. We would ahve to get a $6-7 million a year contract to even begin to entice them and even then that only replaces what they currently make.

I am not certain that picking up Boise St would be worth it. Let them try to be the big fish in an even littler pond.