SBC Media Deal

[Turbine]

... playing six guarantee games would be suicidal...

No silly, not 6 guarantee games.

Being they are stuck in a $2 mil conference with only 6 independent options, they can do 2 guarantee games in any given year. It would involve playing four P5 level games each year.

Three on the road one at home. Two road money games, one non payday road game, one P5 level team at Louisiana every year.

That is doable as a member of the SBC. double it as an independent.

[Duggie35]

Turbine,

I respect your opinion and everything you do to maintain this site, but I think your position on going Independent is just flawed. As much as G5 schools are searching for money, I would think if going Independent were a viable option, it would have been done by other schools by now. The only reason New Mexico State is Independent is because they got kicked out of the SBC, not because they wanted to become an Independent. All schools are looking to do what is in there best interest, and so far only Notre Dame has been able to benefit by being Independent. BYU tried it, but they have now jumped back into a Conference, deciding it is a better path forward.

Love you brother, but I can't find a way to agree with you on this topic.

[cajun_lannister]

Yep, all depends on what assumptions you make about how many people don’t show up.

Doesn’t matter in the end, because even if we shut off the ESPN feed tomorrow, it’s not like attendance is going to change in a significant way.

Why someone suggested we would gain 15k more fans if the games were blackout is wild ... maybe 500 more people would come tops

[Turbine]

...BYU tried it, but they have now jumped back into a Conference, deciding it is a better path forward.

BYU's stock never diminished as an independent.

If BYU's options were to go back to the WAC or Mountain West, they would have adamantly stayed independent.

As an independent they became extremely attractive to the Big 12.

Sometimes you need to step away to step back in.

[Policarp]

BYU's stock never diminished as an independent.

If BYU's options were to go back to the WAC or Mountain West, they would have adamantly stayed independent.

As an independent they became extremely attractive to the Big 12.

Sometimes you need to step away to step back in.

BYU has a smallish but national captive audience with financial support from their global church.....Complete with their own TV network. If anyone can survive as an indy....it would be BYU

[CajunNation]

BYU has a smallish but national captive audience with financial support from their global church.....Complete with their own TV network. If anyone can survive as an indy....it would be BYU

We wouldn’t have to have everything BYU had, but we would have to replace the exposure that comes with the SBC tv deal. That would mean we develop our own streaming capacity and/or TV deal and our own Bowl Tie-ins.

I believe the streaming part was in the initial consultant’s recommendation done years ago. It would require a considerable investment.

The Bowl Tie-in would either have to be a secondary deal with NOLA or a Bowl we create in Lafayette like Boise has with the Humanitarian.

[JMV JustMyView]

Why someone suggested we would gain 15k more fans if the games were blackout is wild ... maybe 500 more people would come tops

Blackouts in the local area would be stupid for sure.

[R1Letterman]

Team A (already in P5) has a $65M budget ($30 of which is from the P5 conf media deal)
Team B (a G5) has a budget of $38M ($2 of which is from the G5 media deal)

Why is the narrative that Team B needs about $30 mill more to “move up” to P5,
rather than: if they swapped places B would be better than A, what has A done to deserve to stay?

See also the rate of increase, number of wins in recent seasons and bowls….(and academics moving up to higher tier as well)

[Cantstandza]

Blackouts in the local area would be stupid for sure.

It would be brilliant and would get the lazy, fat azzes to the stadium.

[R1Letterman]

Blackouts in the local area would be stupid for sure.

is imposing blackouts up to the team?

[ZoomZoom]

Anyone has the media rights contact numbers for each G5 conference?

[HoustonCajun]

Full Super Conference scheduling is their achilles heel. The P5 learned this decades ago.

As soon as the Super Conferences realize that their image is taking a disasterous hit because half their members are sub .500 they will resort to what they are doing now. Namely trying to pad their overall record with out of SC scheduling.

Turbine, I've always been intrigued by what being a major Independent could do for our brand, status and revenue. Would you come up with a makeshift schedule for UL as an Indy with a mix of say 6 P5 schools, 5 G5 schools and 1 FCS school and what kind of revenue we could generate from that? With a 41,000+ stadium, we should be able to attract 2 P5 schools, 3 G5 schools and 1 FCS school for 6 home games.

Louisiana Ragin Cajuns can be developed into a national brand. The Big 12 said it looks at brand and geography for potential members. We have the geography. We created an immediate brand awareness with our win over Iowa State. A couple of P5 wins a year would do it for us. Winning the SBC will not move the needle much and get us a bowl game vs another G5 school that finished 3rd in CUSA. And what does $2 M revenue do when P5s are getting $100M? How much more can we generate as an Indy?

We will always be an attractive member to a G5 conference. How do we step up to the big boys?

Realizing it is probably not feasible nor something shared by most on this board, just thought it would be fun to play with this since realignment has now reared it's head again and we have some time before football starts up again. Besides, has anyone really done the comparative analytics on this option?