I ran the numbers cause I have too much time on my hands. Most schools have the future scheduled for broadcast, but Georgia Southern and South Alabama (just SB not scheduled) do not (for both BB and SB). I looked at total number of games broadcasted versus not. I also looked at conflicts (whether it was not broadcasted because something else was being broadcasted on same date).
All 12 schools broadcast baseball games, while 7/10 broadcast softball (South Alabama, Georgia State, and App State do not broadcast softball). We are about 6 of 12 in baseball and 4 of 10 in softball.
Baseball (games broadcasted/total games)
1. Coastal 30/30 (all)
2. Georgia Southern 30/30 (all)
3. Troy 25/29 (four non-broadcasted were during basketball season)
4. South Alabama 10/12 (both non-broadcasted games were conflicts with MBB or WBB; schedule does not have TV information for future games)
5. App State 17/22 (no conflicts)
6. Louisiana 18/28 (7 with no conflicts, 3 with conflicts)
7. Texas State 21/33 (all 12 non-broadcasted games are conflicts)
8. Little Rock 18/32 (1 conflict, 13 non-conflict)
9. Arkansas State 15/27 (all 12 with no conflicts)
10. UTA 11/27 (7 games conflicted, 9 non-conflicted)
11. ULM 9/27 (2 conflicts, 16 non-conflicts)
12. Georgia State 9/31 (all 22 with no conflicts)
Softball (games broadcasted/total games)
1. Georgia Southern 16/16 (all)
2. Texas State 16/19 (1 conflict, 2 non-conflict)
3. Coastal 22/32 (8 conflicts, 2 non-conflict)
4. Louisiana 17/26 (6 conflict, 3 non-conflict)
5. Troy 16/26 (4 conflict, 6 non-conflict)
6. UTA 11/20 (0 conflict, 9 non-conflict)
7. ULM 6/20 (5 conflict, 9 non-conflict)
8. South Alabama 0/14
9. Georgia State 0/21
10. App State 0/16
We want to be the standard in the SBC. We should start acting like it.
10k to produce sounds right...now monitize that to between 4 and 6 times to calculate commercial sales divided by the number of commercial availability, there's your answer as to why possibly more games arent done. Sat time is expensive, crew and tech guys aren't cheap. $40,000 revenue target, divided by 74 avails/:30 second commercials (?) = $540 a commercial..ain't happening in this market. And that's just my estimate, I'll reserve the right to be wrong...
There is no way a game cost $10k to produce and steam on ESPN+. I respect the hell out of Jay, but I can’t buy that.
For what it’s worth, Joel told me last year the baseball broadcasts involve 6 students and 2 freelancers, as well as himself. There’s also two commentators (which honestly, I think are redundant to baseball. There are schools that use radio for stream. But I’ll defer to them for this)
A friend of mine who’s son is a former LHS pitcher now UNO said the remaining of their home games will be on the plus. No excuses. I thought Dr Maggard was bringing us to big time early on but lately he appears to be going backwards. Freaking UNO is doing a better job with broadcasting games.
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