(03-07-2019 05:44 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 05:14 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 04:38 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 03:42 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 12:29 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  FWIW, I'm not saying the UConn and Navy special deals weren't good deals for the AAC to make. They very well might be. But, they are not consistent with that quote from Aresco's claiming that the AAC on principle does not do special deals.

Ah, UConn doesn't have a special deal. Every team got their third tier women's basketball rights. UConn is just the only one who can really make money off it.

Similarly the Army/Navy game is one of the games that the conference returns rights to. Memphis, Houston, and Cincy have all sold a game to a regional network that did not fall under the ESPN deal. In all those cases they recieved the financial gain, not the conference. Navy can just sell their game for a lot more and while valuable has less importance than the Notre Dame game does in the contract, particularly since it was under long term renewal with CBS before the rights would fall to the conference. Other than their Olympic sports and the Army game all media revenue generated by Navy, including the games sold to CBSsports, enters the conference pool and is distributed evenly.

This is also the case for the big Xii teams, as OU sells its games ppv style. Hawaii has a seperate ppv deal that causes the media money to be distributed to Hawaii based on appearences in normal media games for the MW. Boise benefits from its special deal which is really just an agreement to pay based on appearences and Boise is always picked.

Our deal is no the same as the Big12.

Only that there is not a guarenteed number of games for each team that fall under their control. Like us they must provide a certain number of games to their partners. Any games not covered fall back to the school's control (in the big xii there is minimum, the AAC doesn't have that), which is why everyone is trying to get those extra home games. The only guarenteed rights for each school at the moment is half a season or so of women's games for the AAC. For the big xii it's like 1 football game, 3 basketball, and 5 women's. I may be off on the minimum number of particular games.

Getting extra home games has nothing to do with obtaining third tier rights. Thats all about increased in stadium revenue (plus you also cut travel costs and make a getting to a bowl easier since that 7th home game is almost always a cupcake FCS). As for our deal---ESPN owns all our rights. Everything. Only when they decide not to broadcast a game do the rights fall back to the school---and even then---the school only gets regional rights. ESPN retains the national and digital rights. Thats no doubt why the deal that Aresco hinted was coming a few years ago with Amazon fell through.

ESPN gets guarenteed 11 teams six home games for football (as Navy wasn't part of the deal and then split off to be sold to CBSsports as 4 of 5 home games) anything beyond that falls to the school and they can shop it wherever they want. They get a set number of home regular season games for basketball as well although I don't know its number.

There are third tier rights, it's only for women's basketball which is why they don't have every game on ESPN3. They may not call it that, but it's a package of games that return to the schools control out of conference inventory.