After the CAA failed to come up with a package, JMU went out and made their own. They will have seven (!) games on TV. Four on MASN/MASN2. Two on CSNMA and our game on Cox. Well done, JMU.

http://www.dnronline.com/update/dukes-un...4e5fa.html

In addition to JMU, CAA members Delaware, Richmond and William & Mary have also announced their own television deals.
Delaware landed a deal for three of its games to air on television. Richmond will have five of its games air on television and William & Mary will have just the JMU game broadcast on television.

Good for them. This is the new normal I think.

(09-06-2017 09:50 AM)Mrs. Got Ribe Wrote:  After the CAA failed to come up with a package, JMU went out and made their own. They will have seven (!) games on TV. Four on MASN/MASN2. Two on CSNMA and our game on Cox. Well done, JMU.

http://www.dnronline.com/update/dukes-un...4e5fa.html

In addition to JMU, CAA members Delaware, Richmond and William & Mary have also announced their own television deals.
Delaware landed a deal for three of its games to air on television. Richmond will have five of its games air on television and William & Mary will have just the JMU game broadcast on television.

If an individual school (albeit the national champions) can do this then why the heck couldn't those schmoes in the league office do likewise for the entire league? It is absolutely incredible to me how easily some of these people give up when they encounter just a little resistance whereas others (JMU) persevere through to the end to get the job done. I must grudgingly admit that my respect level for JMU has been rising in the last few years. It breaks my heart that I can't say the same for the media side of the W&M athletic department.

Also, apparently (well, at least it didn't say it in the article), none of those televised Delaware and Richmond games involve W&M (even though both are road games for the Tribe).

Couple of quickies.

JMU is paying to have this done.

The W&M games against Richmond and JMU are being televised.

http://www.richmondspiders.com/news/2017...ckage.aspx

Using Paul's temininology, I'm not sure why one has a conference when individual schools have to go this route.

(09-06-2017 11:21 AM)nj alum Wrote:  Couple of quickies.

JMU is paying to have this done.

The W&M games against Richmond and JMU are being televised.

http://www.richmondspiders.com/news/2017...ckage.aspx

Using Paul's temininology, I'm not sure why one has a conference when individual schools have to go this route.

Autobids/playoffs and rivalries are about all I can think of.

CAA did a pathetic job. A farce that there is no schedule of CAA games on a channel like Comcast,
NBC or CBS sports, etc.

We'll feel it even worse during basketball season.

I'm not sure that this type of deal is any better than the online streaming stuff we have. I wouldn't be surprised if JMU is losing money on this

Couldn't we just broadcast our own feeds on ESPN3? Not sure how that works.

(09-06-2017 02:43 PM)ttgwm02 Wrote:  Couldn't we just broadcast our own feeds on ESPN3? Not sure how that works.

We can, Liberty and a few others do that. ESPN3 is just a middle-man. The commentators, graphics, and everything are the producing school. It's a matter of getting them to pick it up. I assume there is a minimum quality level, but I have to think we are at or close to that. I doubt there's much (any?) money in that, but it's exposure.

(09-06-2017 02:40 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  I'm not sure that this type of deal is any better than the online streaming stuff we have. I wouldn't be surprised if JMU is losing money on this

Call me a dinosaur but I still prefer to watch a game on a decent-sized screen (not big screen by any means) and from my relatively comfy couch than on a computer screen on a desk chair that gets mighty uncomfortable at the 2-hour mark.

The article quoted the JMU AD as saying they still figured to make a little money from selling ads above the $30K per telecast fee. It all comes back down to the question: are we a serious, credible, Division I sports-playing institution or aren't we? Sports cost money. If it was only just about money then why not just drop every sport? Conversely, if we are going to play sports at a Division I level then we need to fund it accordingly.

With this new Commissioner, and the lack of a league-wide deal, maybe we need to question whether the CAA is a serious, credible Division I league. (No, wait, can I retract that question? I don't want to get NJ Alum started on talking about switching leagues again). :o)

(09-06-2017 03:44 PM)Zorch Wrote:  

(09-06-2017 02:40 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  I'm not sure that this type of deal is any better than the online streaming stuff we have. I wouldn't be surprised if JMU is losing money on this

Call me a dinosaur but I still prefer to watch a game on a decent-sized screen (not big screen by any means) and from my relatively comfy couch than on a computer screen on a desk chair that gets mighty uncomfortable at the 2-hour mark.

The article quoted the JMU AD as saying they still figured to make a little money from selling ads above the $30K per telecast fee. It all comes back down to the question: are we a serious, credible, Division I sports-playing institution or aren't we? Sports cost money. If it was only just about money then why not just drop every sport? Conversely, if we are going to play sports at a Division I level then we need to fund it accordingly.

With this new Commissioner, and the lack of a league-wide deal, maybe we need to question whether the CAA is a serious, credible Division I league. (No, wait, can I retract that question? I don't want to get NJ Alum started on talking about switching leagues again). :o)

An HDMI cable or a Roku/Chromecast type device can make that happen. Even for the dinosaur in all of us! The downside is always streaming quality. Even if your own speeds are blazing fast, if the production upload is slow or anything, it can cause buffering which, for me, always seems to happen about half a second after a QB launches a deep throw!

(09-06-2017 03:44 PM)Zorch Wrote:  

(09-06-2017 02:40 PM)TDenverFan Wrote:  I'm not sure that this type of deal is any better than the online streaming stuff we have. I wouldn't be surprised if JMU is losing money on this

Call me a dinosaur but I still prefer to watch a game on a decent-sized screen (not big screen by any means) and from my relatively comfy couch than on a computer screen on a desk chair that gets mighty uncomfortable at the 2-hour mark.

The article quoted the JMU AD as saying they still figured to make a little money from selling ads above the $30K per telecast fee. It all comes back down to the question: are we a serious, credible, Division I sports-playing institution or aren't we? Sports cost money. If it was only just about money then why not just drop every sport? Conversely, if we are going to play sports at a Division I level then we need to fund it accordingly.

With this new Commissioner, and the lack of a league-wide deal, maybe we need to question whether the CAA is a serious, credible Division I league. (No, wait, can I retract that question? I don't want to get NJ Alum started on talking about switching leagues again). :o)

I just plug my laptop into the TV with an HDMI cable.

Also, JMU has 20k students and 3 times the alumni base we do. They're gonna be a bigger draw than we are on TV, so if they;re barely making money on it I feel like we'd lose money.

And with a lot of these deals if the game is on TV you can't also have it streamed online. I like the fact that I can watch our games even if I'm not in VA.

(09-06-2017 03:49 PM)hktribefan Wrote:  An HDMI cable or a Roku/Chromecast type device can make that happen.

Say whaaaat? Thanks for the advice -- but unfortunately I'm not there yet. (I don't even own a cellphone).

Is CAA.tv still a thing? Can we watch streamed games that way like we could last year? As others have said, a cable feed is better, but the streaming was good enough most of the time.

In defense of the CAA, for the league to make a deal, a network would have to swallow broadcasting every team at least once. Also, all schools would have to chip in to "buy" the air time as JMU has done. I would bet that at least half the schools would pass on this.

BTW, ESPN3 stinks. The JMU Versus ECU game was essentially offline the entire game.

I have a roku stick but don't know how to use it to see a football game. Can you please explain??

(09-07-2017 09:04 AM)Herm61 Wrote:  
I have a roku stick but don't know how to use it to see a football game. Can you please explain??

Herm61, go to this link (https://channelstore.roku.com/details/117319/caa.tv/) and log into your Roku account, and you can add the channel so it will show up on your channel listing. You could also go to this link (Instructions for adding a channel) to add the channel to your list directly. The channel name is CAA.tv, but searching for CAA should be good enough to get it to show up.

Granted, this only works if the game is being broadcast on CAA.tv. I'm not sure how many W&M games will be there this year, but most of the conference basketball games were on there last year.

Herm61, also, if you have cable you can add the ESPN channel to get ESPN3 games. You'll have to log in with your cable account either on your computer or through the stick (I'd recommend the former; passwords are a pain without a keyboard) but then you'll get any games that show up on ESPN3. Most ESPN3 games are just links to local/school feeds, but they're games you can watch on your TV, so that's something.

Thank you! I didn't know.

It looks like very few games are being covered for football. Essentially so far, only the JMU and W&M games in September(home only) are showing up on CAA.TV. Not sure if more will be there once the conference play starts.

The game this weekend is available to be streamed for a one time cost of $8 through Norfolk State's website. Eventually, things will go in that direction everywhere. Otherwise, you can listen to Jay and the gang on the radio feed through the Tribe website if you can't the Tide FM station.

All Tribe Home games will be streamed like last year for football(hopefully basketball as well). The Richmond game will be televised as well I believe through the Richmond cable package(CSN or MASN I guess). Hopefully, I will be attending that one in person.