(12-11-2020 04:01 AM)OscarWildeCat Wrote:  

(12-10-2020 10:08 AM)chrisattsu Wrote:  

(12-09-2020 07:27 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  

(12-09-2020 07:17 PM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  

(12-09-2020 05:15 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  Well, tell those bumpkins you're gonna have to check your Nacogdoches to Beaumont Hwy 69 mentality at the door. You join the WAC so you CAN travel outside of Texas and expand your brand into new markets. SFA playing in Seattle. Sam taking on GCU in Phoenix. Lamar vs. CBU on TV in LA. ACU getting whooped in Chicago. Not only that, your recruiting grounds and pipelines will grow exponentially. The move to the WAC is a visionary one. If you only focus on the dollars, it won't make cents.

Regardless of what conference you're in no brand is getting built or expanded upon unless theres a TV deal. What does the WAC tv deal look like?

Oh, you bobbie cats and your TV deal. We get it, you got a TV deal. Happy for ya bud. Really am. Guaran-dang-tee ya though, the WAC basketball tourney in Vegas will be a made-for-TV event. And that Sunbelt tourney...well, you do have a TV deal.

Cmon IT, he wasn't trying to be a dick about it. This is an an honest question,

Just like professional sports some leagues are ESPN properties, others are FoxSports brands and other league just do their own thing.

The Southland tv deal previously SUCKED. They sold rights to ESPN and they are carried on the EsPn+ app and built a federation of over the air digital secondary channels (ie bunny ear 5.3).

The Big Sky has sports on free apps like Pluto TV.

The Sun Belt has the championship game and a few randos during on TV each year but most is handled through the app. During Covid, the Belt has taken advantage of teams not playing and some other leagues being affiliated with the fox sports properties to highlight their programs.

Because MWC and CUSA are not ESPN properties, their games aren't shown as much on that platform. I find their games on Fox Sports, NFL network, OTA, CBS Sports.... honestly it's a crapshoot.

Money aside, from a fan perspective the Southland tv rights deal with ESPN has been great. We recently moved from Abilene to Virginia. For a $12.95 a month I get a package that includes Disney, Hulu, and ESPN+. The ESPN ap allows me to watch virtually every ACU home game from the comfort of my living room. Before the deal, ACU games were only available via an unreliable subscriber service.