(04-06-2017 05:28 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: Hawaii has been waiting 50 years for a PAC invite. For whatever reason, PAC won't bite.
Don't think it's quite at the PAC level. In any case, not going to bring in enough TV viewers to justify giving them a full share of the TV deal.
(04-06-2017 06:20 PM)jrj84105 Wrote: The Hawaii rule that allows mainland schools an extra game if they travel to Hawaii also allows Hawaii a 13th game for traveling to the mainland. So what I proposed for Hawaii was:
-12 annual home games: one game versus each PAC school.
-1 annual mainland game: this game to be played at a PAC stadium. So Colorado would host CSU vs Hawaii, or BYU vs Hawaii at Utah, or SJSU vs Hawaii at Cal. PAC school gets all the gate receipts.
-Hawaii gets a new stadium which is PAC financed: this would be something like a 0% loan with a payment arrangement wherein a portion of the loan is forgiven for each year Hawaii participates in the agreement.
-Hawaii revenue: Hawaii would get a full portion of PAC network revenue with graduated equity in the network. So about 3-4M per year comparable with MWC earnings. Hawaii would NOT get a share of the ESPN/FOX or subsequent first tier deal.
-Hawaii would maintain the entirety of its local TV deal.
Hawaii would at face value have a big uphill climb for competing with PAC schools given the revenue disparity, but Hawaii has the biggest home field advantage in CFB by a distant margin, so they wouldn't be going 0-13 every year. bowl games would likely be few and far between.
I think this would be a better, and somewhat more realistic proposal. And by realistic, I mean perhaps a 0.1% chance instead of a 0% chance.
- 12 annual games: one game versus each PAC school, 6 home and 6 away
- for a PAC home game, the PAC team keeps 100% of game revenues, for a Hawaii home game, the PAC team gets 50% of game revenues
- Hawaii gets a new stadium, which it finances and builds on its own
- PAC would completely own the TV/internet streaming rights to every game between PAC and Hawaii, regardless where it was played, and Hawaii would get 50% of the the revenues just from those games
- Hawaii would get 0% of any other PAC revenues (TV or otherwise)
- It would be up to Hawaii and each of the visiting PAC schools to respectively decide if it wanted to play a 13th game, each season. Possibly Hawaii would bring in an FCS team for a 7th home game, some years
This last one is really a separate proposal:
- Hawaii would always get to host the Hawaii bowl, regardless of its record, against some bowl eligible team
Not going to happen, either, but I think it's more reasonable.