Before I begin this post, I want to state I have Dish TV, subscribe to the football package, and get a bunch of tv games from ESPN, FOX, and, yes, CSTV. As I drive around the Washington, DC area, I see more and more Dish TV satellites on homes.
Having said that, I would like to see CUSA also do a CSTV agreement....for Saturday afternoon games. CUSA could start a game at 11AM and then follow up with a second Saturday afternoon telecast beginning at 3PM. This is what Big-12 does with FOX and always has two FOX Saturday telecasts....sometimes three Saturday telecasts on FOX. For this reason also, I don't think FOX/SW is an alternative to ESPN for CUSA.
The problem for MWC and weekday nite games is the very, very cold temperatures which can turn bitterly cold in Oct and Nov. Weekday nite games should not be that problem in hot weather sites for CUSA in ECU, UCF, UAB, S. Miss, Tulsane, Rice, and Houston. Other remaining CUSA sites are warm weather sites unlike MWC. Therefore, I hope to see lots of weekday nite CUSA games on ESPN.
The CSTV/MWC effort, I don't think, is the big gamble that MWC critics portray it to be. For after all, CUSA won't have very many Saturday telecasts with ESPN....so why not put them on CSTV? CUSA, in conjunction with MWC games, would make CSTV efforts to succeed all that much better.
Yes, CSTV is a gamble. BUt, in a way, staying solely with ESPN is a gamble of your future also. The definition of lunacy is dong the same thing over and over again...and expecting different results. For CUSA and CSTV, what is the gamble here...when CUSA doesn't have that many Saturday games aired anyway? IMO, the alternatives to ESPN discussed on this board are not there...but CSTV is there, hungary and rearing to go. Let's jump on that horse and see how far CUSA can ride with it.
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