Sunbelt/ESPN deal

[Boomer]

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Maybe I’m missing your point but i find it very hard to believe that Espn and the National networks won’t be showing college football and basketball every weekend and every weeknight for hoops in 15 years

........Here is the deal....we need to go all out as a community....make it a BIG DEAL......call off school at 12 and let employees off early let all elem, mid, and high school students in for $1-$5 bucks.....getting the picture?

[CajunPride]

No here's the deal. If you are an elite team in the belt and have to play one or two week night games then you get some ----ing priority to have the best available Saturday for a home game in OCTOBER! Instead of 3 in November with 2 of those encompassing Thanksgiving. Are you listening sun belt? Change it or Lose it!!

[CajunNation]

I don't think "mass television" has the positive effect it once did.

You can (in theory) own your own broadcast these days (the technology is there) and still get "mass television" with road games.

In a world where there is no ESPN contract, there are a multitude of options for getting our product on TV/internet that do not require the midweek BS.

The best solution is to make a new conference ASAP.

[Cajun90]

Maybe I’m missing your point but i find it very hard to believe that Espn and the National networks won’t be showing college football and basketball every weekend and every weeknight for hoops in 15 years

Just look at ESPN's business model. They are cutting cost wherever they can. Attendance is down across the board at all sports events. The "reason" that the networks and ESPN have been successful is because they have historically been the only ones with the capabilities to produce and distribute the content.

That is no longer true. For example; I was at a soccer game out of town last night and two friends sitting next to me were watching LCA and another game on their phones. I've watched club soccer games livve in high def multiple times. The point is that it is easy and inexpensive to produce video content in this day and age and it will only get better over time. And I believe that the value of that ESPN "exposure" is going to become less and less of a positive moving forward.