(09-27-2016 10:04 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 09:29 PM)banker Wrote:  Out of sheer boredom, and frustration over the announced TV deal, I put together a plan for a CUSA network. When you really think about it, I think you could make it work. I think you would have to willing to take advantage of our time zones and also willing to make football a 3 day weekend with games on Thurday, Friday and Saturday - maybe even a few early season Sunday games. With the three days you could show 5 conference games a week and give everyone good TV exposure. All games could be available on the streaming option that comes with a subscription.

It could be done similar to the Big10 and SEC network, where they use alternative channels for games. It could all be done on Saturdays, with 3 conference games featured on each channel.

C-USA Net
9am- Conference Pregame Show
11am- early game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
2pm- Scoreboard Show
3pm- afternoon game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
6pm- Main Event Pregame Show
6:30pm- (C-USA vs. C-USA)
9:30pm- C-USA Saturday Recap

C-USA Alt would have the same schedule, but feature different conference games. Rotate start times so teams don't get stuck playing at the same time slots every week. No one wants an 11am kickoff every week, and no one wants to watch UTEP at midnight every week either.

geographically in timeframe speak, it's a no-brainer.....just gotta get the schools to agree to best method....

it's just not that hard.....

in today's world, it's the only option...

(09-27-2016 05:18 PM)TheChosenOne Wrote:  Just remember, it was the school Presidnets voting her in. The level of incompetence falls directly on those raising their hand supporting this hire/promotion. They heard same speak you're hearing now and felt she would lead us to the promise land.

Hell of a price to pay just to be stylish

(09-28-2016 09:36 AM)Coog82 Wrote:  Hell of a price to pay just to be stylish

So true. One of Dirty Harry's greatest hits.

(09-28-2016 09:36 AM)Coog82 Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 05:18 PM)TheChosenOne Wrote:  Just remember, it was the school Presidnets voting her in. The level of incompetence falls directly on those raising their hand supporting this hire/promotion. They heard same speak you're hearing now and felt she would lead us to the promise land.

"very stylish" fify

cagney and lacey are now more widely associated with internutz porn

This women is a full blown fool. She is a failure in every sense. Can someone name a positive she has produced. CUSA by far has the worst TV package in all of FBS. Absolutely unacceptable. And until everybody starts feeling this way and trying to hold people accountable, we better get used to being the worst conf in FBS.

Never thought I would be begging to have USM games covered by ESPN3 or American Sports Network.

(09-28-2016 08:57 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 10:04 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 09:29 PM)banker Wrote:  Out of sheer boredom, and frustration over the announced TV deal, I put together a plan for a CUSA network. When you really think about it, I think you could make it work. I think you would have to willing to take advantage of our time zones and also willing to make football a 3 day weekend with games on Thurday, Friday and Saturday - maybe even a few early season Sunday games. With the three days you could show 5 conference games a week and give everyone good TV exposure. All games could be available on the streaming option that comes with a subscription.

It could be done similar to the Big10 and SEC network, where they use alternative channels for games. It could all be done on Saturdays, with 3 conference games featured on each channel.

C-USA Net
9am- Conference Pregame Show
11am- early game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
2pm- Scoreboard Show
3pm- afternoon game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
6pm- Main Event Pregame Show
6:30pm- (C-USA vs. C-USA)
9:30pm- C-USA Saturday Recap

C-USA Alt would have the same schedule, but feature different conference games. Rotate start times so teams don't get stuck playing at the same time slots every week. No one wants an 11am kickoff every week, and no one wants to watch UTEP at midnight every week either.

geographically in timeframe speak, it's a no-brainer.....just gotta get the schools to agree to best method....

it's just not that hard.....

in today's world, it's the only option...

I'll even take it a step further...

Every morning at 6am, we could have a live studio broadcast of our own internet radio show covering all aspects of the conference. The radio show could be accessed on C-USA.com, or Iheartradio. The rest of the week could be dedicated to coach's shows, programs about our teams, like Beyond the Green, our other sports, and even promotional spots for our universities. Basketball, baseball, golf, soccer, tennis, swimming, volleyball, softball; all of these sports would receive significantly more coverage then they currently get. From midnight to 6am, we farm out the channel to infomercials.

I don't think it would be a goldmine, but I do think it would make us at least as much money as we're currently getting, and offer much more exposure to our athletic programs, and universities.

(10-01-2016 08:30 AM)MasMack Wrote:  This women is a full blown fool. She is a failure in every sense. Can someone name a positive she has produced. CUSA by far has the worst TV package in all of FBS. Absolutely unacceptable. And until everybody starts feeling this way and trying to hold people accountable, we better get used to being the worst conf in FBS.

Never thought I would be begging to have USM games covered by ESPN3 or American Sports Network.

+1000

(09-27-2016 09:21 AM)polkhigh Wrote:  Everything wrong with this conference could be seen coming since the exodus. You'd have to be completely stupid to not know this is the state we'd all find our selves in. The worst conference, terrible to no exposure, crap bowls, ect... You can't fix a problem unless you admit there is one.
For Marshall the problem is scheduling teams the fans arent familiar or interested in, can't watch the games on TV or even regional cable anymore, no money from TV or Bowls, going 12-1 top 25 just to play NIU at Boca, and now losing to MAC teams seems to be one. I'd rather go indy and keep scheduling 1 for 1's with the teams we have been and put all the games back on Root. People come out and spend money to see games against Ohio, ECU, Louisville, ect... Made more playing Louisville at home than what 10 years of the current CUSA TV deal will pay. Hell they only had to drive 3 hours to get here too.

More independents, the better.

(10-01-2016 10:02 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-28-2016 08:57 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 10:04 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 09:29 PM)banker Wrote:  Out of sheer boredom, and frustration over the announced TV deal, I put together a plan for a CUSA network. When you really think about it, I think you could make it work. I think you would have to willing to take advantage of our time zones and also willing to make football a 3 day weekend with games on Thurday, Friday and Saturday - maybe even a few early season Sunday games. With the three days you could show 5 conference games a week and give everyone good TV exposure. All games could be available on the streaming option that comes with a subscription.

It could be done similar to the Big10 and SEC network, where they use alternative channels for games. It could all be done on Saturdays, with 3 conference games featured on each channel.

C-USA Net
9am- Conference Pregame Show
11am- early game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
2pm- Scoreboard Show
3pm- afternoon game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
6pm- Main Event Pregame Show
6:30pm- (C-USA vs. C-USA)
9:30pm- C-USA Saturday Recap

C-USA Alt would have the same schedule, but feature different conference games. Rotate start times so teams don't get stuck playing at the same time slots every week. No one wants an 11am kickoff every week, and no one wants to watch UTEP at midnight every week either.

geographically in timeframe speak, it's a no-brainer.....just gotta get the schools to agree to best method....

it's just not that hard.....

in today's world, it's the only option...

I'll even take it a step further...

Every morning at 6am, we could have a live studio broadcast of our own internet radio show covering all aspects of the conference. The radio show could be accessed on C-USA.com, or Iheartradio. The rest of the week could be dedicated to coach's shows, programs about our teams, like Beyond the Green, our other sports, and even promotional spots for our universities. Basketball, baseball, golf, soccer, tennis, swimming, volleyball, softball; all of these sports would receive significantly more coverage then they currently get. From midnight to 6am, we farm out the channel to infomercials.

I don't think it would be a goldmine, but I do think it would make us at least as much money as we're currently getting, and offer much more exposure to our athletic programs, and universities.

Not only will it not be a goldmine but it would instead cost each member. No channel is going to be available that will pay for production, etc. and then pay the conference for content. It might payoff in time, but the conference has to start out by paying for the network rather than being paid. We are not the SEC nor are we even the AAC.

(10-01-2016 10:02 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-28-2016 08:57 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 10:04 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 09:29 PM)banker Wrote:  Out of sheer boredom, and frustration over the announced TV deal, I put together a plan for a CUSA network. When you really think about it, I think you could make it work. I think you would have to willing to take advantage of our time zones and also willing to make football a 3 day weekend with games on Thurday, Friday and Saturday - maybe even a few early season Sunday games. With the three days you could show 5 conference games a week and give everyone good TV exposure. All games could be available on the streaming option that comes with a subscription.

It could be done similar to the Big10 and SEC network, where they use alternative channels for games. It could all be done on Saturdays, with 3 conference games featured on each channel.

C-USA Net
9am- Conference Pregame Show
11am- early game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
2pm- Scoreboard Show
3pm- afternoon game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
6pm- Main Event Pregame Show
6:30pm- (C-USA vs. C-USA)
9:30pm- C-USA Saturday Recap

C-USA Alt would have the same schedule, but feature different conference games. Rotate start times so teams don't get stuck playing at the same time slots every week. No one wants an 11am kickoff every week, and no one wants to watch UTEP at midnight every week either.

geographically in timeframe speak, it's a no-brainer.....just gotta get the schools to agree to best method....

it's just not that hard.....

in today's world, it's the only option...

I'll even take it a step further...

Every morning at 6am, we could have a live studio broadcast of our own internet radio show covering all aspects of the conference. The radio show could be accessed on C-USA.com, or Iheartradio. The rest of the week could be dedicated to coach's shows, programs about our teams, like Beyond the Green, our other sports, and even promotional spots for our universities. Basketball, baseball, golf, soccer, tennis, swimming, volleyball, softball; all of these sports would receive significantly more coverage then they currently get. From midnight to 6am, we farm out the channel to infomercials.

I don't think it would be a goldmine, but I do think it would make us at least as much money as we're currently getting, and offer much more exposure to our athletic programs, and universities.

We could have our own version of "gameday" as well, where the game of the week has the all day live broadcast from that campus. The biggest issue is how does it pay for itself? Do we as a conference even have 50,000 people together who would pay for that? What would it cost to make it happen?

(10-01-2016 02:00 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(10-01-2016 10:02 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-28-2016 08:57 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 10:04 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 09:29 PM)banker Wrote:  Out of sheer boredom, and frustration over the announced TV deal, I put together a plan for a CUSA network. When you really think about it, I think you could make it work. I think you would have to willing to take advantage of our time zones and also willing to make football a 3 day weekend with games on Thurday, Friday and Saturday - maybe even a few early season Sunday games. With the three days you could show 5 conference games a week and give everyone good TV exposure. All games could be available on the streaming option that comes with a subscription.

It could be done similar to the Big10 and SEC network, where they use alternative channels for games. It could all be done on Saturdays, with 3 conference games featured on each channel.

C-USA Net
9am- Conference Pregame Show
11am- early game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
2pm- Scoreboard Show
3pm- afternoon game (C-USA vs. C-USA)
6pm- Main Event Pregame Show
6:30pm- (C-USA vs. C-USA)
9:30pm- C-USA Saturday Recap

C-USA Alt would have the same schedule, but feature different conference games. Rotate start times so teams don't get stuck playing at the same time slots every week. No one wants an 11am kickoff every week, and no one wants to watch UTEP at midnight every week either.

geographically in timeframe speak, it's a no-brainer.....just gotta get the schools to agree to best method....

it's just not that hard.....

in today's world, it's the only option...

I'll even take it a step further...

Every morning at 6am, we could have a live studio broadcast of our own internet radio show covering all aspects of the conference. The radio show could be accessed on C-USA.com, or Iheartradio. The rest of the week could be dedicated to coach's shows, programs about our teams, like Beyond the Green, our other sports, and even promotional spots for our universities. Basketball, baseball, golf, soccer, tennis, swimming, volleyball, softball; all of these sports would receive significantly more coverage then they currently get. From midnight to 6am, we farm out the channel to infomercials.

I don't think it would be a goldmine, but I do think it would make us at least as much money as we're currently getting, and offer much more exposure to our athletic programs, and universities.

We could have our own version of "gameday" as well, where the game of the week has the all day live broadcast from that campus. The biggest issue is how does it pay for itself? Do we as a conference even have 50,000 people together who would pay for that? What would it cost to make it happen?

No. Not even close!

Quote:"I'm not thrilled with Group of Five (name). If you guys can come up with a better name, I'm open to that. I don't know where it came from. It's a little hard to stomach. It's a challenge. We have to be innovative, take some chances."

Inspires confidence.

(10-01-2016 03:05 PM)TechRocks Wrote:  

Quote:"I'm not thrilled with Group of Five (name). If you guys can come up with a better name, I'm open to that. I don't know where it came from. It's a little hard to stomach. It's a challenge. We have to be innovative, take some chances."

Inspires confidence.

FC+S. Better than FCS, not quite as good as FBS.

(09-27-2016 11:57 AM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(09-26-2016 09:55 AM)HogDawg Wrote:  Judy MacLeod is a PR nightmare. She lays all her problems out on the table for everyone to see, and she has no clue how to promote this conference.

I also have a problem with any leader telling us how smart they are. Instead of bragging on the new social media hires and actually telling us what they are doing to inject new enthusiasm into CUSA, she told us she was smart enough to hire them because she knows nothing about it.

She appears to be good at building a fiefdom.

I'm not defending her but what nice things can you say about a ****** conference? That even after so much crap it still doesn't really smell that bad.

UTEP isn't helping our cause either, we need to get another coach. He sucks. If he was the supervisor in a job that had life and death consequences there would be a lot of dead people. He doesn't have any common sense. "Give it to Aaron" is his battle cry.

...I've never in all my years seen a Head Football coach wear a simple T-Shirt when coaching a game....and your QB is the worst I have ever seen...and I sincerely mean that...It makes me wonder how horrible your back up must be.