So there is a difference of $630,000 to go play on Tuesdays and Weds?
No thanks.
I would move to the MAC in a heartbeat if we could continue to play on Saturdays.
TV money.....
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So there is a difference of $630,000 to go play on Tuesdays and Weds?
No thanks.
I would move to the MAC in a heartbeat if we could continue to play on Saturdays.
But that won't happen. The MAC conference games are mostly on weeknights as can be seen in their TV Schedule release this week.
As I mentioned elsewhere...I wonder how much money we would actually net if we got say $650K more in TV revenue but had to play all the Tuesday and Wednesday games? My guess we would lose a lot of ticket sales. Maybe not the first year but before long we would have more empties and than filled seats and our net revenue would be about the same as it will be this coming season.
No media has mentioned what a loss of ticket revenue would be when talking about how much more money the MAC has in their TV contract. Not all CUSA teams would lose as much ticket revenue because they don't have great attendance but a place like Marshall that does fairly well and has a large fanbase outside of WV that drives back for games could suffer.
Anybody who watches those random weeknight MAC (or THE AMERICAN!!!!!! ) games knows what it does to the live gate. There are games where NOBODY is there. Almost literally nobody.
MU doing that means we lose everybody that does not live in Cabell or a county that ajoins Cabell. As much as some Spamites don't want to buy in to it, MU does have a statewide following. MU also has, due to the regional economy, a large disapora throughout places with better economies, many of whom also come in for games. And, sad to say, the students are not going to turn out for random weeknight games.
Attending a random weeknight game, even if you live in Beckley, Logan or Parkersburg is a loss of at least a half a day of work, and dragging your a** into work the next day having gotten home well after midnight. And that with no tailgating or anything else that makes college football special.
And, in the long run, eventually the MAC's contract runs out. And then. We are talking about a very short period for ESPN to fill. Esentually Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (the bigger conferences will play on Thursdays, and the NFL is taking that over anyway) from the end of regular season baseball (Oct 1) to the week before Thanksgiving. Some sharp pencil at ESPN, when the time comes, will look at what this "MACtion" gets in ratings (awful, especially since most of October is against baseball playoffs on other channels) and what they could get with more of its worthless filler (talking head idiots with their NBA spew, poker, 30 for 30 preaching, so on) which really does not cost anything.
I don't see how the MAC rights are worth ANYTHING when their contract runs out. Same for the Sun Belt. CUSA just was unlucky to be the first to be up for bid in the new "a la carte" TV system.
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