THE AMERICAN!!!!! Given $1 Billion Over 12 Years by ESPN
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Looking at the Sun Belt, I'm not impressed. Look at Coastal Carolina. They are expanding the stadium to 20K, but right now it holds 15K. Gym holds 3K. Football is averaging maybe 9K or so, basketball is lucky to get 1000 to show up. Program is 83% subsidy. Student profile reminds me of WVU, 66% out of state students, mostly upper middle class or middle class, more northern than southern, probably drawn by the lifestyle more than the physics lab. 10K students.
Horry County has 333K people now, it had 70K in 1970 and 100K in 1980, and includes 1000s of full time and part time retirees. Again most from elsewhere, with no dog in the USC-Clemson deal. In that environment, drawing 10K people to a football game does not impress me.
More broadly around the SBC, I see (with urban Georgia State, which nobody in Atlanta gives a flying f*** about) I see rural or small city based colleges, with 30K or so football stadiums, 6 to 8 K basketball arenas, enrollments similar to ours, and, and I think this is the important part, subsidy rates that are generally well above 50%, most of them in the 60s.
In TV, all I could find was their new deal was reported as an "increase" over the $100K/year/school they were getting and, when fully in effect (some schools have old TV deals they have to work out) the league was guaranteed 10 football games and ONE basketball game on TV, with the schools producing everything else and placing it behind the ESPN+ paywall.
That sounds a lot like CUSA. It would be trading a Ford for a Chevy. One is about the same as the other. Schools seem a little more like us, and the travel would be a little better, but there is no way you pay the $7M buyout of jump from one to the other.
Horry County has 333K people now, it had 70K in 1970 and 100K in 1980, and includes 1000s of full time and part time retirees. Again most from elsewhere, with no dog in the USC-Clemson deal. In that environment, drawing 10K people to a football game does not impress me.
More broadly around the SBC, I see (with urban Georgia State, which nobody in Atlanta gives a flying f*** about) I see rural or small city based colleges, with 30K or so football stadiums, 6 to 8 K basketball arenas, enrollments similar to ours, and, and I think this is the important part, subsidy rates that are generally well above 50%, most of them in the 60s.
In TV, all I could find was their new deal was reported as an "increase" over the $100K/year/school they were getting and, when fully in effect (some schools have old TV deals they have to work out) the league was guaranteed 10 football games and ONE basketball game on TV, with the schools producing everything else and placing it behind the ESPN+ paywall.
That sounds a lot like CUSA. It would be trading a Ford for a Chevy. One is about the same as the other. Schools seem a little more like us, and the travel would be a little better, but there is no way you pay the $7M buyout of jump from one to the other.
I think we have to figure how much MU could contribute to some of these other places.
MU may not have all the money but it does have consistency in doing well in football and has improved a ton in basketball recently.
Huntington doesn't have a huge media market but its included in Charleston so take that with what you want of it.
Student body needs to increase however the quality of research programs has helped MU gain some ground overall in academia.
Huntington itself is moving, despite slowly, in a better direction overall. I like what Williams is doing with MU in some joint ventures.
There are more things MU can contribute but is this what an AAC or Sun Belt is looking for?
MU may not have all the money but it does have consistency in doing well in football and has improved a ton in basketball recently.
Huntington doesn't have a huge media market but its included in Charleston so take that with what you want of it.
Student body needs to increase however the quality of research programs has helped MU gain some ground overall in academia.
Huntington itself is moving, despite slowly, in a better direction overall. I like what Williams is doing with MU in some joint ventures.
There are more things MU can contribute but is this what an AAC or Sun Belt is looking for?
I live in Beckley....and we can't even get decent advertisement regarding MU....that is absolutely pathetic (newspapers, local tv stations & radio) !
Wrong again. Aac today announced 40 games on ESPN channels up fron 28 for FB so this 28 not going behind pay wall. FB games on tv increases. Basketball gets 65 on tv.
When the American playing on Espn+ it will be called the American Network. First year 500 games on ESPN + second year 750. These are things like VB, Track and Field.etc.
Your just plain wrong about this new contract and have been wrong about Aac all along.
Why challenge things so easily checked out?
https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-...rence-reach-long-term-media-rights-extension/
You look foolish.
Almost as foolish as a rando league that publicly proclaims itself as the equal of the P5, and then signs for one-fifth the money.
https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-...rence-reach-long-term-media-rights-extension/
You look foolish.
Almost as foolish as a rando league that publicly proclaims itself as the equal of the P5, and then signs for one-fifth the money.
Ha ha, yes i was correct. And at Press conference ESPN said the P6 concept was a good one.
