Thoughts on upcoming G5 media contracts from Matt Sarzniac's College Sports Media Blog.

There could be a large amount of college sports to renegotiate with the rights agreements for three of the Group of Five conferences (the American, the Mountain West and the Sun Belt) plus Army football expiring after the 2019-20 athletic year. Its a lot of inventory to potentially hit the open market all at the same time in both football and men's basketball, presumably in late 2018 or early 2019.

Before that, C-USA will be negotiating new rights agreements starting this year for deals expiring from ESPN, CBS Sports Network and STADIUM after 2017-18, while their agreement with beIN Sports runs for an additional year to 2018-19. BYU's agreement with ESPN for football will expire after the 2018 season and they should be working through exclusive negotiations in the near future. The WCC, where BYU competes in most other sports, has its contract with ESPN expire after 2018-19 as well.

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(06-19-2017 10:57 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Thoughts on upcoming G5 media contracts from Matt Sarzniac's College Sports Media Blog.

There could be a large amount of college sports to renegotiate with the rights agreements for three of the Group of Five conferences (the American, the Mountain West and the Sun Belt) plus Army football expiring after the 2019-20 athletic year. Its a lot of inventory to potentially hit the open market all at the same time in both football and men's basketball, presumably in late 2018 or early 2019.

Before that, C-USA will be negotiating new rights agreements starting this year for deals expiring from ESPN, CBS Sports Network and STADIUM after 2017-18, while their agreement with beIN Sports runs for an additional year to 2018-19. BYU's agreement with ESPN for football will expire after the 2018 season and they should be working through exclusive negotiations in the near future. The WCC, where BYU competes in most other sports, has its contract with ESPN expire after 2018-19 as well.

http://mattsarzsports.blogspot.com/

What is good about the upcoming TV schedule is we will have some metrics for Thursday and Friday games where AAC team plays another AAC team against both the PAC 12 and ACC intra-league contests. MWC and BYU in that mix as well.

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K sir rah sir rah, what ever will be will be. The future's not mine to see, K sir rah sir rah.

(06-19-2017 10:57 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Thoughts on upcoming G5 media contracts from Matt Sarzniac's College Sports Media Blog.

BYU's agreement with ESPN for football will expire after the 2018 season and they should be working through exclusive negotiations in the near future.

http://mattsarzsports.blogspot.com/

BYU will be a good barometer for us.

Over 2015-16, they've been delivering 3-4M viewers per year for their football home games.

The same period, we've been delivering 2-3M viewers per year per school for our home games. Of course, our package will include basketball too.

So our whole contract should be something close to BYU's football package.

(06-19-2017 10:57 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Thoughts on upcoming G5 media contracts from Matt Sarzniac's College Sports Media Blog.

There could be a large amount of college sports to renegotiate with the rights agreements for three of the Group of Five conferences (the American, the Mountain West and the Sun Belt) plus Army football expiring after the 2019-20 athletic year. Its a lot of inventory to potentially hit the open market all at the same time in both football and men's basketball, presumably in late 2018 or early 2019.


http://mattsarzsports.blogspot.com/

Don't like this. They can pretty much hold out until the MWC and Sun Belt sign their horrible deals, then offer us a "premium" that is a slight step up. Already mad about this, and it hasn't even happened yet.

3.5 mil

(06-20-2017 07:00 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  K sir rah sir rah, what ever will be will be. The future's not mine to see, K sir rah sir rah.

wow.
que sera, sera

(06-20-2017 07:28 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  3.5 mil

What about our coach?

I would love to see a network like NBC and CBS be bold and get the American, Mountain West, Army, and BYU all in the room and come up with a plan.

My first proposal is that NBC for tier 1 one and CBS as a secondary partner pay somewhere between 6 million to 10 million to the Mountain West and the American, creating a new P7 or P5 plus 2 structure. Creation of a basketball challenge and a New Years bowl game between the top two team in each league. The key is to separate from the MAC, C-USA, and Sun Belt because as long the Mountain West is the best of the rest out west the American will always be roughly looked at as their equal in football.

What would make things more interesting would be for NBC/CBS to pay BYU and Army around the same dollar amount to become scheduling associates of the MWC and American. Each school would play six to eight games against those two conferences and would share bowl tie-ins.

Essentially NBC, CBS, NBC Sports, and CBSSN would become the home of the American, Mountain West, BYU, and Army to compliment Notre Dame and the SEC on the main networks and be primary content on the cable networks.

Its going to be interesting in the next couple of years. The MW spring meeting had some heavy discussion about TV contracts, so we are already prepping.
I think you'll see the MW do something different this time around. My thoughts are possibly, signing with Stadium for some OTA games when the Sinclair/Tribune merger is approved. The Tribune stations fill in pretty much all the gaps in the MW footprint and I think we'll see our MWDN playing a bigger role. However, we still will line up with a national network and hopefully NBC/NBCSN would be interested.

(06-20-2017 07:48 AM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  I would love to see a network like NBC and CBS be bold and get the American, Mountain West, Army, and BYU all in the room and come up with a plan.

My first proposal is that NBC for tier 1 one and CBS as a secondary partner pay somewhere between 6 million to 10 million to the Mountain West and the American, creating a new P7 or P5 plus 2 structure. Creation of a basketball challenge and a New Years bowl game between the top two team in each league. The key is to separate from the MAC, C-USA, and Sun Belt because as long the Mountain West is the best of the rest out west the American will always be roughly looked at as their equal in football.

What would make things more interesting would be for NBC/CBS to pay BYU and Army around the same dollar amount to become scheduling associates of the MWC and American. Each school would play six to eight games against those two conferences and would share bowl tie-ins.

Essentially NBC, CBS, NBC Sports, and CBSSN would become the home of the American, Mountain West, BYU, and Army to compliment Notre Dame and the SEC on the main networks and be primary content on the cable networks.

That would be a great idea with the exception to BYU and Army. Neither the MW or AAC really needs either one.

(06-20-2017 07:00 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  K sir rah sir rah, what ever will be will be. The future's not mine to see, K sir rah sir rah.

it's like watching someone with no idea of the lyrics attempt to do karaoke

(06-20-2017 07:32 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 07:00 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  K sir rah sir rah, what ever will be will be. The future's not mine to see, K sir rah sir rah.

wow.
que sera, sera

Centra flahrida

(06-20-2017 07:28 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  3.5 mil

With all the cable cutting and reduced profits I doubt it will be that much.

(06-20-2017 08:34 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 07:28 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  3.5 mil

With all the cable cutting and reduced profits I doubt it will be that much.

and yet the B1G just got an upgrade for half their content, the ACC will have a brand new network, and the SEC is seeing record profits in a deal that was started at the beginning of cable cutting.

These conferences, though much more valuable, exist in the same economy as we do. Value will still be valuable, and we've proven value. A raise is necessary just to get to where we should have been in the first place, without instability or Navy. Now we have all 3

Simple solution is reduce the g4 payouts more and hand that money over to the AAC. So we get a $20 raise and Long John Silvers gift cards.

(06-20-2017 09:18 AM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 08:34 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 07:28 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  3.5 mil

With all the cable cutting and reduced profits I doubt it will be that much.

and yet the B1G just got an upgrade for half their content, the ACC will have a brand new network, and the SEC is seeing record profits in a deal that was started at the beginning of cable cutting.

These conferences, though much more valuable, exist in the same economy as we do. Value will still be valuable, and we've proven value. A raise is necessary just to get to where we should have been in the first place, without instability or Navy. Now we have all 3

Great points Kruciff.

(06-20-2017 07:32 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 07:00 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  K sir rah sir rah, what ever will be will be. The future's not mine to see, K sir rah sir rah.

wow.
que sera, sera

He's speaking Latin New Voh

(06-20-2017 07:48 AM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  I would love to see a network like NBC and CBS be bold and get the American, Mountain West, Army, and BYU all in the room and come up with a plan.

Economically, it makes sense for the AAC and MWC to negotiate their football as one inventory. Former UH AD Bill Carr observed the same thing back in the mid 90s with respect to CUSA and the WAC.

With all that inventory across four time zones, the combination would have real economic power and leverage.

I might like to see a base amount guaranteed per school ($2M per year) and the rest based on who appeared on what channel (eat what you kill). I'd have to think about it.

However, I don't think Army or BYU would play along.

On the other hand, with both leagues' contracts coming up at the same time, it's also a perfect time to poach the MWC's top TV schools: Air Force and Boise primarily (and whoever they require to come with them -- likely SDSU and Colo St at a minimum).

If we poached two MWC schools, Memphis would move East. If we poached four, Tulane or Navy would join Memphis in the East.

(06-20-2017 09:58 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 07:48 AM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  I would love to see a network like NBC and CBS be bold and get the American, Mountain West, Army, and BYU all in the room and come up with a plan.

Economically, it makes sense for the AAC and MWC to negotiate their football as one inventory. Former UH AD Bill Carr observed the same thing back in the mid 90s with respect to CUSA and the WAC.

With all that inventory across four time zones, the combination would have real economic power and leverage.

I might like to see a base amount guaranteed per school ($2M per year) and the rest based on who appeared on what channel (eat what you kill). I'd have to think about it.

However, I don't think Army or BYU would play along.

On the other hand, with both leagues' contracts coming up at the same time, it's also a perfect time to poach the MWC's top TV schools: Air Force and Boise primarily (and whoever they require to come with them -- likely SDSU and Colo St at a minimum).

If we poached two MWC schools, Memphis would move East. If we poached four, Tulane or Navy would join Memphis in the East.

It's not a coincidence that the AAC, MWC, and BYU contracts come up for renewal at the same time.

You could grab essentially ALL of the MWC's TV value with the right 3 or 4 schools - the MWC's value is in filling the late kickoff timeslot. ESPN broadcasted 16 MWC home games in 2016 - and not a single MWC game that was not in the 10pm/10:30pm ET timeslot.

6 of the 16 were Boise St. home games. So, there were 10 non-Boise MWC games on ESPN2 and ESPNU last year - all in the late 10pm ET timeslot.

1 on ESPN - BYU @ Boise St.
11 on ESPN2 - including Boise St.'s other 5 home games.
4 on ESPNU

Even without an increase in the rights fees you increase the pro rata share if you cut off 8 of the mouths to feed.

You take the 4 MWC schools that can most easily deliver solid TV ratings - which includes those that have the ability to attract more P5 opponents to their home field. I note that from 2020 to 2025:

Boise St = Florida St., Oklahoma St., Michigan St., Oregon St., BYU (x3)
SDSU = UCLA (x2), Utah, Arizona, Washington St.

CSU = Colorado, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech
UNLV = ASU, Iowa St. (but likely to attract more with new NFL stadium)
Hawaii = Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Oregon, Arizona
SJSU = Oregon St., California
Fresno = Oregon St.
Utah St. = Washington St. (probably BYU)
Wyoming = Utah
AFA, Nevada, New Mexico = nada