You guys know me, I have been pretty negative about the TV contract and the direction of this conference in general.

IF, and its still an IF to me. If the new TV contract is in fact $9 million per year, that would be a huge win for our conference. I still say if as the only person we have heard this from is the new beat writer at WKU. I need to hear it from other sources before I take it as confirmed.

Anyways, if its the $9 million per year, thats a huge win for our conference if you ask me.

We have a lot of start up programs, and were coming off of a bad sports performance overall as a conference.

On top of it all, we get more exposure for our other sports, and mainly play on Saturdays.

If this contract is in fact $9 million/year, then I like this contract better than the previous one.

IF it is, in fact, 9M per annum then Brit left some pretty big shoes to fill... People on here like to talk about poor leadership at the top. Those people never had a commish named Wrong Waters...

BeIns kick-off times are 5:30, which is a great start time. If it's 9 mill per year, I agree it's a win for us.

http://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/wku/wk...bc6e9.html

And WKU keeps it's private deal with Fox College Sports to televise all of our games not picked up by another network. Great news for Hilltopper fans there!

Has another news or CUSA member source confirmed this?

If this is accurate then the deal is not nearly as bad as everyone thought. I agree it would be nice to see if it is correct.

WHY would the WKU AD give out the wrong information? IF-IF the info is wrong I am sure he would have heard about it from the league or other AD's by now.Also he would have contacted the reporter to give a correction or at least back peddle a bit.In the internet age these corrections happen QUICKLY.
The reporter would have tweeted out a correction already.


BUT....NONE of that has occurred. Therefore--SMILE!!!

(06-05-2016 03:02 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  WHY would the WKU AD give out the wrong information? IF-IF the info is wrong I am sure he would have heard about it from the league or other AD's by now.Also he would have contacted the reporter to give a correction or at least back peddle a bit.In the internet age these corrections happen QUICKLY.
The reporter would have tweeted out a correction already.


BUT....NONE of that has occurred. Therefore--SMILE!!!

The BGDN isn't USA Today...beat writers read message boards so I'm 99% positive this person asked if Todd meant for 1 year or 9 million for the total contract. But there is that 1% chance he didn't do his job.

I guess Todd could be mistaken but it is his job to know where the dollars are going to be coming from and how much needs to be replaced by cuts from the budget. If this was a mistake by Todd...

as TOPSTRAIGHT said I can't see him not correcting it after reading it in the paper. Unless it hasn't been pointed out to him. In that case Western has a lazy beat writer

Of course it's $9 million per year. When Selig of ODU said the contract was $9 million he did not specify that it was for one year so some C-USA haters jumped all over that. It just had to mean that it was for the length of the contract don't you know.

A reporter at BG asks the AD at WKU about the contract money and was told directly that it is $9 million per year. The C-USA haters can't stand that.

When the old contract was referenced as $14 million did everyone jump to the conclusion that it was $14 million over the life of the contract? Of course not. That's almost always the way a contract value is talked about. $14 million means per year. $9 million means per year.

The next question is whether Campus Insiders, as another digital partner , brings more to the deal. I'm guessing that the TV schedule didn't get released this past week because of them being added to our TV deal.

(06-05-2016 12:44 PM)chidave Wrote:  BeIns kick-off times are 5:30, which is a great start time. If it's 9 mill per year, I agree it's a win for us.

Absolutely!

AND our games will be following their soccer matches, which is their main event. If they cross promote, we could get pretty good viewership to be honest.

(06-05-2016 02:25 PM)redfan Wrote:  Has another news or CUSA member source confirmed this?

That's what I want to know.

It's not that I don't trust WKU's new beat writer, but I'm going to wait to hear it from another source before I get to excited. Could just be an honest mistake.

I will honestly be excited for $9 million a year.

I'm with you guys. I think that it is too at this point, but you never know.

With the time slots we have, only a 2 year contract, this is a win for our conference.

Plus the extra exposure for other sports besides football.

Wasn't last years package only 7mil per year?

(06-05-2016 03:31 PM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Of course it's $9 million per year. When Selig of ODU said the contract was $9 million he did not specify that it was for one year so some C-USA haters jumped all over that. It just had to mean that it was for the length of the contract don't you know.

A reporter at BG asks the AD at WKU about the contract money and was told directly that it is $9 million per year. The C-USA haters can't stand that.

When the old contract was referenced as $14 million did everyone jump to the conclusion that it was $14 million over the life of the contract? Of course not. That's almost always the way a contract value is talked about. $14 million means per year. $9 million means per year.

The issue with belief is every single official, president, and AD interviewed has said the contract value represents a cut from last year. So, either they are mistaken when they pretend like last years contract was paying 14 million a year or they are mistaken when they say its 9 million each year. Not to mention, we have multiple outlets reporting different numbers (ODU and Marshall beat writers have indicated significantly different numbers). It will eventually play out and everyone will know the answer. It may be 9 million a year (which is honestly in the ball park of what I was expecting a year ago--a moderate decrease). But right now, there seems to be a lot of conflicting information for some reason. The ODU AD seems to be much more open and talkative than most in that position (wish ours was that way)---my guess is he will eventually discuss it in his weekly radio interviews.

(06-05-2016 05:29 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-05-2016 03:31 PM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Of course it's $9 million per year. When Selig of ODU said the contract was $9 million he did not specify that it was for one year so some C-USA haters jumped all over that. It just had to mean that it was for the length of the contract don't you know.

A reporter at BG asks the AD at WKU about the contract money and was told directly that it is $9 million per year. The C-USA haters can't stand that.

When the old contract was referenced as $14 million did everyone jump to the conclusion that it was $14 million over the life of the contract? Of course not. That's almost always the way a contract value is talked about. $14 million means per year. $9 million means per year.

The issue with belief is every single official, president, and AD interviewed has said the contract value represents a cut from last year. So, either they are mistaken when they pretend like last years contract was paying 14 million a year or they are mistaken when they say its 9 million each year. Not to mention, we have multiple outlets reporting different numbers (ODU and Marshall beat writers have indicated significantly different numbers). It will eventually play out and everyone will know the answer. It may be 9 million a year (which is honestly in the ball park of what I was expecting a year ago--a moderate decrease). But right now, there seems to be a lot of conflicting information for some reason. The ODU AD seems to be much more open and talkative than most in that position (wish ours was that way)---my guess is he will eventually discuss it in his weekly radio interviews.

you keep repeating this so show me a link where anyone from CUSA said it wasn't 9 million a year? Not a beat writer that said "unnamed sources" but a actually CUSA AD, President, or from the conference office

If a school received 1.14 million last year and they are getting $642,857 on this contract in what world do you live in that that's not a decrease?

You and the couple ecu fans are so assumed with this that it's almost like it's your money. And before you say I really don't have any hard feelings and want to see CUSA really get this contract...

you know that's bullcrap

You took joy when you thought it was less than half this. Now that it's been reported as 9 mil a year...it's breaking your heart. For some reason. Hell I don't understand that as a former SBC member I would love to see those schools get more money. They deserve it and need it. But petty fans from the aac and SBC must not think that way

Attackcoog just likes to attack---I guess.




Sorry,couldn't help it.

I was hoping C-USA would get no drop or even an increase and ECU would get the escrow back.