Should be hearing more from him as spring meetings approach.
(05-08-2018 07:30 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]
Anything less than $10M a year is now a disappointment.
Not gonna lie but Mike Aresco's silence before this was a concern building up.
Based on his current quotes however it sounds as if he has something cooking $$$ in the back burner already.
(05-08-2018 07:52 PM)Joprior23 Wrote: [ -> ] (05-08-2018 07:30 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]
Anything less than $10M a year is now a disappointment.
I think 6-8 million is still our bank. We do not have teams that can pull the 8 million viewers on a Saturday night. Please do not cite me a Notre Dame/somebody game. The basketball seems to have gained value though. The Big East was getting 3million per. It would not be out of the ordinary for us to get similar dollars. The 10/11 million range may be possible.
This league definitely has three good important things going for itself
1. Well known respected programs
2. Huge Markets
3. Impressive tv ratings (on hand, finally)
The AAC should get a deal at least half of what the high revenue leagues currently get.
I know $$12 million each is quite a jump for many of you out there but let's be honest this current embarrassing pathetic crappy deal shouldn't of never been given to this league to begin with.
Disappointing that the Pre-season Football Polls have 2 MWC and FAU ahead of the AAC. Hope a few of our teams win some good OOC games this year. If we can put 3 in the Top 25 again this year, that would help a lot.
(05-08-2018 09:32 PM)AusTxPony Wrote: [ -> ]Disappointing that the Pre-season Football Polls have 2 MWC and FAU ahead of the AAC. Hope a few of our teams win some good OOC games this year. If we can put 3 in the Top 25 again this year, that would help a lot.
Not concerned here at all... This league has a few teams that will do well like Navy, Temple, UCF, USF, Memphis, Houston and possibly even Cincinnati.
In Houston's case, if our offense clicks on most cylinders early I'm confident our season ends results will be enough to place us in the polls.
"P5 range" ???
The worst P5 is making $25 Mil +. Either we're about to hit the jackpot, Aresco used the wrong word, or he doesn't know WTH is going on...
Good interview, Aresco sounds more confident about the TV deal these days. Loved that he talked up UCF more, as in the last interview I heard, he was not wanting to give them too much praise. Sounds like expansion with BYU is not happening, not that I thought it was.
(05-09-2018 06:38 AM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Good interview, Aresco sounds more confident about the TV deal these days. Loved that he talked up UCF more, as in the last interview I heard, he was not wanting to give them too much praise. Sounds like expansion with BYU is not happening, not that I thought it was.
I have a feeling he's playing the "fake it till you make it" game on this. I think he's trying to drive the narrative, but anything can happen once the talks actually start. Trying to manage my expectations.
At the very least, I would expect any deal approaching the numbers you guys are talking about being laden with contingencies around teams leaving the conference. i.e. $8-$10m under current structure, and $2m if any team leaves.
CBS Sports, the American Athletic Conference and Navy have agreed to a 10-year extension through the 2027 season that continues the long-standing tradition of CBS Sports Network as the home of Navy football. As part of the agreement, CBS Sports Network will continue to televise the majority of Navy home football games, including the Air Force at Navy game.
The network also will televise additional select Navy home athletic events, including basketball, baseball and lacrosse games.
“Navy is an incredible partner and our relationship with the institution continues to remain of utmost importance to CBS Sports,” said Dan Weinberg, Executive Vice President of Programming, CBS Sports. “We are thrilled to extend our partnership and showcase the best of Navy athletics and their student-athletes.”
"We are pleased to be able to extend the longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship between Navy and CBS Sports," said Mike Aresco, American Athletic Conference Commissioner. "Navy has enjoyed tremendous success on the football field as a member of our conference and we are proud that the competition within our conference will feature the remarkable student-athletes and coaches from the Naval Academy on one of the standard-bearers in sports television."
"I am very pleased that we will continue this long-standing partnership with our great friends at CBS," said Chet Gladchuk, Naval Academy Director of Athletics. "Over the years, CBS has played an integral role in producing a wonderful story that is Navy football and the Naval Academy. Another decade of sharing our midshipmen with the nation through the eyes of CBS productions for our home games is exciting and much appreciated."
Matt Sarzyniak mentioned a while back on twitter that he heard the AAC was working with CBS sports to extend the Navy deal. Seems like a sign that they will be involved directly the next go around. I guess the original contract didn't specify all of Navy's rights defaulting to ESPN when the contract ran out, but to the conference instead. Aresco didn't let the rights transfer to ESPN only to be sublicensed out, smart.
(05-08-2018 08:18 PM)rosewater Wrote: [ -> ] (05-08-2018 07:52 PM)Joprior23 Wrote: [ -> ] (05-08-2018 07:30 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]
Anything less than $10M a year is now a disappointment.
I think 6-8 million is still our bank. We do not have teams that can pull the 8 million viewers on a Saturday night. Please do not cite me a Notre Dame/somebody game. The basketball seems to have gained value though. The Big East was getting 3million per. It would not be out of the ordinary for us to get similar dollars. The 10/11 million range may be possible.
While not 8mil viewers and not a saturday primetime game, UCF vs USF on friday night got 4.7mill viewers (pitt vs miami on the same day same channel got 4.6M viewers) and 50% more YoY than Iowa vs Nebraska.
Memphis vs UCF the next week did over 3.3 million in a noon timeslot, the worst for football viewership.
We need more games like that but pac and big 12 don't get many games at 8 million either, I would be surprised if the PAC had any conference games at 8mil at all.
(05-08-2018 09:32 PM)AusTxPony Wrote: [ -> ]Disappointing that the Pre-season Football Polls have 2 MWC and FAU ahead of the AAC. Hope a few of our teams win some good OOC games this year. If we can put 3 in the Top 25 again this year, that would help a lot.
that was one poll. Many polls have UCF in the top 20 (sports illustrated, sporting news, S&P+, etc.).
(05-09-2018 09:32 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]Matt Sarzyniak mentioned a while back on twitter that he heard the AAC was working with CBS sports to extend the Navy deal. Seems like a sign that they will be involved directly the next go around. I guess the original contract didn't specify all of Navy's rights defaulting to ESPN when the contract ran out, but to the conference instead. Aresco didn't let the rights transfer to ESPN only to be sublicensed out, smart.
I totally agree with you on this. I think this is a way to guarantee some attractive inventory to CBS that ESPN can't touch ahead of further contract negotiations on an overall league package. We may have also impressed CBS with our tv ratings for the bball semi-finals and conference finals to the point where they feel confident enough to offer up a bid this time around
(05-09-2018 09:53 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote: [ -> ] (05-09-2018 09:32 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]Matt Sarzyniak mentioned a while back on twitter that he heard the AAC was working with CBS sports to extend the Navy deal. Seems like a sign that they will be involved directly the next go around. I guess the original contract didn't specify all of Navy's rights defaulting to ESPN when the contract ran out, but to the conference instead. Aresco didn't let the rights transfer to ESPN only to be sublicensed out, smart.
I totally agree with you on this. I think this is a way to guarantee some attractive inventory to CBS that ESPN can't touch ahead of further contract negotiations on an overall league package. We may have also impressed CBS with our tv ratings for the bball semi-finals and conference finals to the point where they feel confident enough to offer up a bid this time around
I feel like there's almost zero chance we get on a local CBS affiliate where I live (NC), rather than CBSSN. With ESPN, we get on actual ESPN and ESPN2 every now and then.
(05-09-2018 10:28 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote: [ -> ] (05-09-2018 09:53 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote: [ -> ] (05-09-2018 09:32 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]Matt Sarzyniak mentioned a while back on twitter that he heard the AAC was working with CBS sports to extend the Navy deal. Seems like a sign that they will be involved directly the next go around. I guess the original contract didn't specify all of Navy's rights defaulting to ESPN when the contract ran out, but to the conference instead. Aresco didn't let the rights transfer to ESPN only to be sublicensed out, smart.
I totally agree with you on this. I think this is a way to guarantee some attractive inventory to CBS that ESPN can't touch ahead of further contract negotiations on an overall league package. We may have also impressed CBS with our tv ratings for the bball semi-finals and conference finals to the point where they feel confident enough to offer up a bid this time around
I feel like there's almost zero chance we get on a local CBS affiliate where I live (NC), rather than CBSSN. With ESPN, we get on actual ESPN and ESPN2 every now and then.
Agree, CBSSN would be awful. No one watches that channel. Unless were getting a $10M+ per team bump to go there it would be a disaster to leave ESPN. Also consider ESPN won't talk about us once we leave and we'll basically fade from any public view. Finally, CBSSN is the absolute worst channel to watch sports, they have a million commercials and games take forever. All in all CBSSN would be a major downgrade from ESPN.
(05-09-2018 10:29 AM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote: [ -> ] (05-09-2018 10:28 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote: [ -> ] (05-09-2018 09:53 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote: [ -> ] (05-09-2018 09:32 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote: [ -> ]Matt Sarzyniak mentioned a while back on twitter that he heard the AAC was working with CBS sports to extend the Navy deal. Seems like a sign that they will be involved directly the next go around. I guess the original contract didn't specify all of Navy's rights defaulting to ESPN when the contract ran out, but to the conference instead. Aresco didn't let the rights transfer to ESPN only to be sublicensed out, smart.
I totally agree with you on this. I think this is a way to guarantee some attractive inventory to CBS that ESPN can't touch ahead of further contract negotiations on an overall league package. We may have also impressed CBS with our tv ratings for the bball semi-finals and conference finals to the point where they feel confident enough to offer up a bid this time around
I feel like there's almost zero chance we get on a local CBS affiliate where I live (NC), rather than CBSSN. With ESPN, we get on actual ESPN and ESPN2 every now and then.
Agree, CBSSN would be awful. No one watches that channel. Unless were getting a $10M+ per team bump to go there it would be a disaster to leave ESPN. Also consider ESPN won't talk about us once we leave and we'll basically fade from any public view. Finally, CBSSN is the absolute worst channel to watch sports, they have a million commercials and games take forever. All in all CBSSN would be a major downgrade from ESPN.
Whoever said we won't be on ESPN anymore? Did I miss something?? We can chop our inventory up anyway we want to guarantee max money and exposure.
