Interesting article. Seems the sports media money bubble may be starting to deflate, at least a bit. Indicates that Conference USA's deal is dropping from $14M per year to about $2M per year when renewed.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/2...id-in-2014

Of course, the deflation will be felt hardest by the smaller conferences and less renowned schools. But the MAC has a few years cushion with the current contract.

If the Conference USA deal will now be worse than the MAC's, maybe the MAC can lure a couple strategic teams into the fold? WKU would be a great addition, and even luring Marshall back would expand the media market footprint of the league in a good way.

Malarkey. The MAC front office got lucky with the timing, signing a contract during a bubble which seems to be ready to burst for those unfortunate enough to have contracts in transition. It was no stroke of genius in CLE.

(05-05-2016 07:02 AM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Interesting article. Seems the sports media money bubble may be starting to deflate, at least a bit. Indicates that Conference USA's deal is dropping from $14M per year to about $2M per year when renewed.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/2...id-in-2014

Of course, the deflation will be felt hardest by the smaller conferences and less renowned schools. But the MAC has a few years cushion with the current contract.

If the Conference USA deal will now be worse than the MAC's, maybe the MAC can lure a couple strategic teams into the fold? WKU would be a great addition, and even luring Marshall back would expand the media market footprint of the league in a good way.

Marshall is all about the South.

(05-05-2016 11:58 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(05-05-2016 07:02 AM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Interesting article. Seems the sports media money bubble may be starting to deflate, at least a bit. Indicates that Conference USA's deal is dropping from $14M per year to about $2M per year when renewed.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/2...id-in-2014

Of course, the deflation will be felt hardest by the smaller conferences and less renowned schools. But the MAC has a few years cushion with the current contract.

If the Conference USA deal will now be worse than the MAC's, maybe the MAC can lure a couple strategic teams into the fold? WKU would be a great addition, and even luring Marshall back would expand the media market footprint of the league in a good way.

Marshall is all about the South.

I despise Marshall University...but there's no denying the MAC took a huge loss when they left.

(05-05-2016 11:58 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(05-05-2016 07:02 AM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Interesting article. Seems the sports media money bubble may be starting to deflate, at least a bit. Indicates that Conference USA's deal is dropping from $14M per year to about $2M per year when renewed.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/2...id-in-2014

Of course, the deflation will be felt hardest by the smaller conferences and less renowned schools. But the MAC has a few years cushion with the current contract.

If the Conference USA deal will now be worse than the MAC's, maybe the MAC can lure a couple strategic teams into the fold? WKU would be a great addition, and even luring Marshall back would expand the media market footprint of the league in a good way.

Marshall is all about the South.

funny thing is they all proclaim to be from the south and are Johnny Rebs to the core, but their ancestors split off from Virginia and became a Union state during the Civil War.......

(05-05-2016 07:31 AM)toledobigmike Wrote:  Malarkey. The MAC front office got lucky with the timing, signing a contract during a bubble which seems to be ready to burst for those unfortunate enough to have contracts in transition. It was no stroke of genius in CLE.

AND, the MAC gets the money it does because it's willing to play Tuesday night games in November.

(05-05-2016 03:51 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(05-05-2016 07:31 AM)toledobigmike Wrote:  Malarkey. The MAC front office got lucky with the timing, signing a contract during a bubble which seems to be ready to burst for those unfortunate enough to have contracts in transition. It was no stroke of genius in CLE.

AND, the MAC gets the money it does because it's willing to play Tuesday night games in November.

yes, by all means - the MAC should invite Marshall back. Let's see if they can get caught with institutionalized cheating for a 3rd time and if they can buy the rights to the MAC championship games again. Maybe Pruett could come back and get caught on camera picking his nose 6 times each game. Great memories...and the only time they came to Toledo to play other than for the MACC game, they were drubbed 42-0 and it was not worse because Pinkel did not want to embaress them any further. And the response from Pruett - he didn't like the way we ran the score up on them. It was freakin' 35-0 at half time. Because we threw about 3 passes in the second half with 2 of them from a back-up, we were running up the score.

No thanks - not in my lifetime do I ever want to see those a$$holes in the same league.

(05-05-2016 05:06 PM)Terry Wrote:  

(05-05-2016 03:51 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(05-05-2016 07:31 AM)toledobigmike Wrote:  Malarkey. The MAC front office got lucky with the timing, signing a contract during a bubble which seems to be ready to burst for those unfortunate enough to have contracts in transition. It was no stroke of genius in CLE.

AND, the MAC gets the money it does because it's willing to play Tuesday night games in November.

My sentiments exactly.