(06-12-2019 09:34 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(06-12-2019 09:30 AM)YNot Wrote:  

(06-12-2019 12:58 AM)AuzGrams Wrote:  Another ESPN deal makes sense. But NBCSN in particular going after BYU football rights would be a cheap, yet very effective football move if they wanted to add more sports without too much interference of some of the other niche content they have.

NBCSN - Minimum 5 BYU home football games per year + 1 possible game on NBC or on usual NBCSN (BYUtv with same day replay) & possible neutral site game each year featuring BYU or Notre Dame on NBCSN.

It would need to favor more than one possible game on NBC and include a decent bowl game. BYU has 3 or 4 games that could be worthy of NBC broadcast most upcoming seasons. But, I'm not sure there are bowl games available for NBC to even bid on the broadcast rights. So, ESPN deal makes sense.

If NBCSN wanted BYU and a bowl game they could bid on the Arizona Bowl but that'd just be a MWC vs. BYU bowl, which I don't think BYU would want.

NBC would need to somehow grab the Holiday Bowl or RedBox Bowl and somehow give BYU reasonable access to that bowl game against a P5 opponent - for instance, BYU would be eligible when we reach a certain number of wins (within 1 win of the P5 teams that are also eligible for selection?) or a top-25 ranking. Then, the Arizona Bowl v. MWC could serve as an adequate alternate destination. But, that seems like too many dominoes that would need to fall.

ESPN and access to the 16 ESPN Events bowls is the low-hanging fruit.