(12-30-2020 09:56 AM)SVHerd Wrote: (12-29-2020 05:32 PM)WKUYG Wrote: (12-29-2020 05:03 PM)SVHerd Wrote: This is just one season, and yes it wasn’t good but this league has bigger issues on the whole than just losing bowl games this year. We get very little exposure, some member schools aren’t even close to the main draw in their market. CUSA leadership has to find a way to increase our national exposure and brand. That leads to better recruits and helps each member school at attract more students as well. Jmo
We fans need to make up our minds on what we are willing to do. I seem to recall most Marshall (CUSA) fans saying Saturday was the day they wanted to play 6 home football games on.
So now Marshall fans are welling to give up 2 to 4 home games each year and play those games on a week night? ESPN gets first and only vote on when those games are played.
I could be wrong but I seem to recall Marshall fans being one of the loudest groups against this. Am I mistaken? That is the one and only way to get espn interested enough to spend money. But even then isnt it a little too late. ESPN owns all of the rights to the conferences they sign and have more content than they can show on their networks....
why do you think CBSSN is showing less CUSA games? ESPN can sell them content to fill slots cheaper than they can buy it from CUSA. Lets be honest once more, the difference in ratings from any of us is not that much difference.
Not one CUSA school or SBC school or MAC school has a big enough built in following to draw ratings that would matter. Especially when it comes to CBSSN.
I'm interested in what any fan on this board thinks CUSA has that is worth more than what they are currently getting? The media contract Judy got for CUSA considering the above. Most every game a fan can sit in their home and watch their school play. Each school getting somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000. Doing that without Fox or ESPN willing to bid for the games...
deserves a lot more credit than fans give. Once more lets be honest, the leadership of CUSA is trying to polish up a pig, more likely pig **** and getting others to pay for it....
when they are already overloaded with pig ****
The fans against week day games are going to be the most vocal. I wouldn’t mind playing 2 games or so a season on a Thursday or Friday night. Maybe one away and one at home - IF it’s gets the league better exposure. I don’t want all my November games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays like MACtion but I can see why they do it.
I truly think if our games against EKU and App St weren’t on ESPN and CBS and nationally aired, we probably wouldn’t have been ranked. The exposure alone was invaluable. Of course we crapped the bed big time and didn’t fully take advantage of it. Jmho
Of course playing on espn and CSB gives you exposer but unless there a "Covid" every year none of us will be shown on CBS. If the CUSA contract was with espn, we get 1 game a year on the flagship and maybe the conference championship game. But when espn controlled that game they put it on espn2.
This year was different than any other year in our lifetime. Any other year and Marshall or the SBC schools wouldnt have been ranked so early on.
To sum all of this up the only way CUSA is going to get weekly games on espn2, espnu (which isnt any better than CBSSN or the OTA/Fox Regional/Stadium) and maybe 1game on espn...
Give espn complete control of the schedule making on dates and times. But for 80% of CUSA games any fan that wanted to watch that CUSA game...can do just that, with the current media deal. CUSA has two football games each week on TV, TV that a fan can scroll through their guild with their TV remote and find. CBS (networks) and ESPN have built in ratings where people leave their TV on those channels. So while it just a guess on my part that 15 to 20% of viewers for those ratings are ghost viewers (not watching). We are not getting many games on the flagships...
ratings this year in games G5 played vs last season were down as much as 80+% . The Marshall vs Appy St game was down over 80% in viewers from the game last season shown on CBS at the same time slot. For most games its the same way on the espn channels.....
Covid and the fear of it is the only reason G5s outside of the AAC got so much attention early on. Winning also helped those SBC schools. That is the one thing in all schools control....
Scoring more points than the other team. Its also what gets you ranked and ranked higher