Norfolk State @ NC A&T on ESPNU tonight but we can't negotiate CUSA for that slot???? What a damn joke our commissioner or whoever else it is in our conference that negotiated our crap TV.

MEAC??? Are you effing kidding me???

(10-06-2016 07:00 PM)TTT Wrote:  Norfolk State @ NC A&T on ESPNU tonight but we can't negotiate CUSA for that slot???? What a damn joke our commissioner or whoever else it is in our conference that negotiated our crap TV.

MEAC??? Are you effing kidding me???

The MEAC probably is getting next to nothing for the games outside exposure. I don't think you'd be happy with their media deal.

Imagine if CUSA had football games on ESPNU on Thursday nights...I don't give a darn if the money isn't that great but it's about EXPOSURE.

Then maybe you should join the Sun Belt where they get about 90k per year in TV money. I'd rather be on CBS Sports and making even a little more money honestly.

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(10-06-2016 07:45 PM)Rojogrande Wrote:  Then maybe you should join the Sun Belt where they get about 90k per year in TV money. I'd rather be on CBS Sports and making even a little more money honestly.

And how many Thursday night games on CBSSports does CUSA have this year????

BTW, I think everyone agrees that playing on CBSSports on a Thursday night > playing on ASN/BeIn/some random website on Saturdays. That being said,

NEXT Thursday night on CBSSports: Motorcycle/Auto Racing

NEXT Thursday night on ESPNU: more MEAC, North Carolina A&T @ Bethune-Cookman

Why can't CUSA negotiate some conference games for ESPNU on Thursday nights like the MEAC has????

LOL
The SWAC and MEAC have been the ESPNU Thursday night game for years. I doubt they will be replaced anytime soon. It's basically the only prime time coverage those conferences get from ESPN.

Want to know what is a joke. The best game ESPN could come up with is Memphis vs Temple. I'm not buying the AAC "we are power" crap. I'm watching tech vs western game. Don't know about you, but the channel they are on is working fine for me.

Screw ESPN. Happy with CBS sports

I like CBSSports too. But why doesn't CUSA have more CONFERENCE games than TWO on CBSSports??? How can ANY CUSA fan be happy with our deal with CBSSports???

CUSA's only two conference games on CBSSports are Rice/WKU (opening college football thursday night) and tonight's game, WKU/La Tech. Meanwhile, I see the MEAC has 3 conference games on ESPNU on Thursday nights and a Saturday game on ESPN Classic.

IMO, 3 ESPNU Th. night games + Sat ESPN Classic game is MUCH better exposure for our conference than the whopping TWO conference games we have on CBSSPORTS (both being WKU games vs. Rice and @ La Tech). That's not good exposure for our conference.

(10-06-2016 07:45 PM)Rojogrande Wrote:  Then maybe you should join the Sun Belt where they get about 90k per year in TV money. I'd rather be on CBS Sports and making even a little more money honestly.

Yeah, because $200k per year is so worth it for the lack of exposure we get.

Difference is, Sun Belt plays on Weds nights.....eff that.

(10-06-2016 08:21 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  LOL
The SWAC and MEAC have been the ESPNU Thursday night game for years. I doubt they will be replaced anytime soon. It's basically the only prime time coverage those conferences get from ESPN.

Want to know what is a joke. The best game ESPN could come up with is Memphis vs Temple. I'm not buying the AAC "we are power" crap. I'm watching tech vs western game. Don't know about you, but the channel they are on is working fine for me.

AAC has a sweet deal with ESPN. ESPN has a sweet deal with AAC. AAC provides decent, not great football, for a football hungry network. In many ways AAC really is a tweener league. Its certainly not power and never will be. Aresco however, has a nice thing going and is smart to market the conference as strongly as he can.

AAC is proving that is has some value for ESPN.

I'm not sure how much real exposure is left on Thursday nights now that the NFL has started using the time slot, especially on upper tier channels like CBSSN and ESPNU

(10-06-2016 08:47 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  

(10-06-2016 07:45 PM)Rojogrande Wrote:  Then maybe you should join the Sun Belt where they get about 90k per year in TV money. I'd rather be on CBS Sports and making even a little more money honestly.

Yeah, because $200k per year is so worth it for the lack of exposure we get.

Difference is, Sun Belt plays on Weds nights.....eff that.

SBC plays two Wednesday nights a year on ESPN2, and five Thursday night games on ESPNU (they've picked up a few more OOC games on Fridays and Saturdays as well). Let's tell the whole story.

SBC will get more TV and playoff profit sharing money per team this year.

Let's look at CUSA's conference games that are televised nationally on any basic TV package you get with Direct/Dish/Comcast:

Rice/WKU - CBSSports
WKU/LT - CBSSports
LT/USM - ESPN/2/U
WKU/Marshall - ESPN/2/U


Four....FOUR FREAKING conference games that can be seen by a national audience. That sucks...but hey, aren't we beating a dead horse. Our conference sucks this year.

TTT...

(10-07-2016 07:33 AM)mufanatehc Wrote:  I'm not sure how much real exposure is left on Thursday nights now that the NFL has started using the time slot, especially on upper tier channels like CBSSN and ESPNU

That implies that people watch the NFL game on Thursdays

Love that picture of the ROC BTW.

(10-07-2016 09:11 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(10-07-2016 07:33 AM)mufanatehc Wrote:  I'm not sure how much real exposure is left on Thursday nights now that the NFL has started using the time slot, especially on upper tier channels like CBSSN and ESPNU

That implies that people watch the NFL game on Thursdays

On Thursday, Sept. 15, 11.44 million watched NFL on CBS, and an additional 3.4 million watched the same game NFL on the NFL Network. 2.1 million watched ESPN College Football (#6 Houston at Cincinnati). 13.8 NFL vs 2.1 NCAA.

On Thursday, September 22, 13.2 million watched NFL on CBS, and an additional 3.4 million watched the same game on the NFL Network Channel. 1.8 million watched ESPN College Football featuring the national runner #5 Clemson at Georgia Tech in an ACC matchup. 16.6 NFL vs. 1.8 NCAA

Last week on Thursday, September 29, 7.9 million people watched Bengals-Dolphins on NFL Network (exclusive to NFL Network). 1.4 million watched college football (UConn at Houston). 7.9 NFL vs 1.4 NCAA

The largest Thursday night college football television audience ever is 4.9 million. In fact, the most watched regular season college football game ever on ESPN is 6.3 million. By comparison, the average Thursday Night NFL telecast ranges from 7-17 million. The lowest rated NFL game ever on Thursday night still has more far more eyeballs than the largest regular season college football game ever on ESPN.

So yes, that implies people are watching NFL on Thursdays.

I watched the NFL game. We could always go back to ESPN and play those fan favorite Tuesday and Wednesday games for exposure.

(10-07-2016 11:37 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  I watched the NFL game. We could always go back to ESPN and play those fan favorite Tuesday and Wednesday games for exposure.

...or we can just play Thursday nights on ESPNU like the MEAC does...and play the rest of our games on Saturdays and let ASN/BeIn/CBSSports/whoever else cover the game.

That's my whole point. The freaking MEAC has done that.

Put me in the camp that being on CBSSports sucks.. until they add the online ability to watch them. ESPN3 and FoxSportsGo are so far ahead of CBS its not even close.