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OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
Doug Smock does a great job covering Marshall sports. In his new article he states that Conf USA teams will make $250,000 a year in the new tv deal. I wonder if it is even that much. Where is the money coming from in this new tv contract? No money from ESPN, 1 million or so from CBS and no money from BEIN network( at least I think no money). Plus the league will have to pay for their ESPN 3 content. Is it possible that they league actually as a tv contract in which they are in negative financial territory?

Smock article:
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/201.../160529671

Not buying that this new TV contract is about being the first G5 tv contract negotiated since ESPN began to loose money. I think it is more about market valuation more than anything else. Its actually stunning imo. If I was Marshall I would look at returning to the MAC. If I was in CUSA I would be angry at the CUSA brass for spinning this contract into something that it is not.

Also, at what point does the drop in money mean layoffs within sports departments. I think what we are seeing is a market driven separation in college athletics. To me its extraordinary that a conference drops in value this much.

Question: Would adding App State, Ga Southern, ULL and Ark State increase the value of CUSA? I think it would.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
Another CUSA article on the AAC board...

We all knew we were going to a better conference when we left... I mean... Why do you want to discuss it?
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
Yikes
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
(05-27-2016 08:56 AM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:  Another CUSA article on the AAC board...

We all knew we were going to a better conference when we left... I mean... Why do you want to discuss it?

If Mods think it is better for Conf Realignment that is fine. My apologies if this is not the right place for this.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
wgaf ?
And a new thread for it to boot. smfh
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
That is still way too high. There is not a team in that conference worth over 10k a year. I think they massively overpaid for that garbage.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
Sunbelt and FCS members in the c-USA still got a big raise.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
No reason a league with WKU, UTEP, UAB, ODU and Charlotte can't evolve into a nice hoops conference.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
(05-27-2016 01:31 PM)Chappy Wrote:  No reason a league with WKU, UTEP, UAB, ODU and Charlotte can't evolve into a nice hoops conference.

Decent but still just good teams outside the bubble. 1-2 bid league with 14-16 mouths to feed. How many members now? I thought they would get around $300k each which was my original guess. Crazy with that number they have to cover production costs. Meanwhile the big 10 gets $250 million per season for 1/2 of content.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
OP's link didn't work...

I found the article already in the archives

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports/2016...sa-tv-deal

Long term it doesn't look good for the league to survive...plays into my theory that about 72-80 teams will evolve into a new P4/5/6 (take your pick). The rest will merge into a super FCS.

Marshall IMHO has a puncher's chance to make the cut but no likely. I think the bulk of the schools will come from the AAC and MWC...maybe 1 or 2 spots for a NIU, Marshall, etc...

Let's say 80 FB programs, remember the NCAA Hoops tourney is a huge money maker...I see at least another 100-150 schools staying eligible for the Hoops tourney and other NCAA D-1 championships.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
CUSA teams are all going to have to play all thier OCC games against P5 teams and as away games, just as MAC teams do! At least they can make a million dollars by being homecoming and preconference warm yp games for P5 teams.07-coffee3
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
The move to 14 just didn't work. CUSA is basically a bloated Sun Belt. They have more inventory, but its Sun Belt level inventory.

And then UAB football comes back from the dead. Death blow right there for the league.

Best thing CUSA could do is merge with the Sun Belt and then split and create like three 8 team leagues. Minimize costs, minimize travel. For example...

East

Charlotte
Old Dominion
App State
Coastal Carolina
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
Florida Atlantic
Florida International

That right there looks like a conference. Rivalries in there...games you can travel to. Try and get any type of regional TV deal you can.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
(05-27-2016 08:55 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  Question: Would adding App State, Ga Southern, ULL and Ark State increase the value of CUSA? I think it would.
The answer to that would be no.
Have you seen the Sunbelt TV contract?
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
(05-27-2016 03:11 PM)HamiltonJames Wrote:  
(05-27-2016 08:55 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  Question: Would adding App State, Ga Southern, ULL and Ark State increase the value of CUSA? I think it would.
The answer to that would be no.
Have you seen the Sunbelt TV contract?

Neither GaSouthern nor App State were in the SB when the current tv deal was created. I think both of those schools have added value for the next go around.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
(05-27-2016 03:11 PM)HamiltonJames Wrote:  
(05-27-2016 08:55 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  Question: Would adding App State, Ga Southern, ULL and Ark State increase the value of CUSA? I think it would.
The answer to that would be no.
Have you seen the Sunbelt TV contract?

Yes. Its basically the same as CUSA's. Any advantage CUSA schools have in TV earnings is more than eaten up by the cost of flying teams from eastern locations like FIU or Marshall all the way to UTEP. I know some don't like it, but the reality is TV see's the two leagues as essentially equal. Why not create two tight regional leagues (one eastern and one western) that likely have about the same TV value but much lower travel costs? Might sell more tickets to traveling fans as well.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
Wow, CUSA is getting peanuts for their deal
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
That's unfortunate, a lot of the cusa teams deserve better, it's going to make it so hard to sustain many good programs in the g5, all the while the rich keep getting richer.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
(05-27-2016 02:02 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  CUSA teams are all going to have to play all thier OCC games against P5 teams and as away games, just as MAC teams do! At least they can make a million dollars by being homecoming and preconference warm yp games for P5 teams.07-coffee3

the MAC doesn't play all of its OOC games vs P5, and not every P5 game is a away/buyout.
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RE: OT: Marshall beat writer: New CUSA contract pays less than $250,000 a team per year.
CUSA over expanded. Now that you can have a championship game with 10 schools, there is no reason to have more than that.
I agree they should look into consolidating with SunBelt into smaller conferences. Which is why I see the AAC remaining at 10 should they ever lose 2 schools to Big12 unless they can bring in BYU, Army or schools from MWC
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