The quote below is from Dave Brown, ESPN's Director of College Football Programming. The quote helps explain why the MAC's television deal gets better every year. You can find the entire article here:
<a href='http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1091616933115450.xml' target='_blank'>http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindeale...16933115450.xml</a>

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[Quote]"ESPN had a great year last year," Brown said. "And the MAC had a better year than ESPN. We've adopted the MAC."

Brown said MAC games ranked behind only the SEC and ACC in popularity on ESPN and said two of the Top 10 games from last season were MAC games. [Quote]

I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that we are not saturated with MAC games. So when we do get one on TV, we tune in.

well..the fact that the league's biggest games were on weeknights is also a big help.

IULurker Wrote:

Quote:"ESPN had a great year last year," Brown said. "And the MAC had a better year than ESPN. We've adopted the MAC."

Brown said MAC games ranked behind only the SEC and ACC in popularity on ESPN and said two of the Top 10 games from last season were MAC games.

That's some sweet action!

It also got mailed to my hometown paper. The one w/ the mindset of, "Never mind that shrinking readership, we're gonna cover what we want to cover!"

You mean people didn't tune in to watch the 12 oclock MWC games?

IULurker Wrote:The quote below is from Dave Brown, ESPN's Director of College Football Programming. The quote helps explain why the MAC's television deal gets better every year. You can find the entire article here:
<a href='http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1091616933115450.xml' target='_blank'>http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindeale...16933115450.xml</a>

Great article.
Informative all around.

Thanks for linking to it.