(01-17-2022 08:20 AM)KnightLight Wrote: (01-12-2022 05:34 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote: (01-12-2022 01:38 PM)dave108 Wrote: (01-11-2022 05:38 PM)Cubanbull1 Wrote: Cincinnati: Home; Kennesaw St, Miami OH and Indiana/ Away; Arkansas
East Carolina: Home; Campbell, NCST and ODU/ Away BYU
Houston: Home; Kansas and Rice/ Away;UTSA, Texas Tech
Memphis: Home; North Alabama, North Texas, Ark. St./ Away; Miss State
Navy: Home; Delaware/ Away; Air Force/ Neutral; ND and Army
SMU: Home; Lamar and TCU/ Away; North Texas and Maryland
Temple: Home; Lafayette, UMass, Rutgers/ Away; Duke
Tulane: Home; Alcorn St, So.Miss, UMass/ Away; Kansas St
Tulsa: Home: Jacksonville St, No.Illinois/ Away; Wyoming and Mississippi
UCF: Home: SC State,Georgia Tech and Louisville/ Away: FAU
USF: Home: Howard and BYU/ Away: Florida and Louisville
Future Members
Charlotte: Home: William Mary and Maryland/ Away: Georgia St and South Carolina
FAU: Home: UCF and SE Louisiana/ Away: Ohio and Purdue
Rice: Home: McNeese and Louisiana/ Away: Houston and USC
UAB: Home: Alabama AM and Georgia Southern/ Away: Liberty and LSU
UTSA: Home; Houston and Texas Southern/ Away; Army and Texas
North Texas: Home: Texas Southern and SMU/ Away; UNLV and Memphis
technically, fwiw, UC's game next year with Miami is a "road" game - but, Miami plays every other of their home games in the series at Paul Brown Stadium. So, it will be played downtown, on the river, not at Nippert - and, i know, it really shouldn't matter much
Since we're doing this....
Well, actually... the Notre Dame Navy game at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium on 12 November is a Navy home game in the home-and-home series which was recently extended to 2032.
The important point for this board is that the game is part of the AAC inventory in the primary media rights deal with ESPN. So this, plus one NMCMS game will be on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 with all the "AAC on ESPN" branding you could want.
The crowd will almost certainly be pro-ND (I'd guess 60-70% Irish). But that's okay because their ticket $$$ will be coming back to Annapolis.
Otherwise, will have "home game" features such as the entire Brigade of Midshipmen marching on, flyover/parachutists, etc.
We have a solid relationship with M&T and the Ravens organization, so these are always good events.
Actually, CBS/CBS Sports owns the rights to all Navy Home Games....as Navy was not going to give up their valuable Army/Navy game to ESPN.
AAC had to agree to this deal or Navy wad never going to join the conf.
You're wrong.
Army-Navy remains separate from other Navy inventory. That was part of the membership agreement signed January 2012.
At that time -- and up through Navy actually coming on board in 2015 -- Navy was still under its prior independent TV contract with CBSSN - and actually, there were always three separate contracts: Army-Navy, the CBSSN contract, and the NotreDame at Navy CBS contract.
The CBSSN and Notre Dame Navy contracts ran through 2017 - they expired before the existing AAC contract.
So the AAC had two year's worth of inventory - Navy's 2018-2019 home games - that was totally not spoken for, and a year lead time on the AAC contract negotiations. (But the Army-Navy standalone contract had already been renewed a year prior.)
^^^ this part is basic fact ^^^
---- the part between these lines is less declarative because negotiations aren't publicized ----
My understanding is that Commissioner Aresco went first to ESPN - both to build on the ongoing relationship AND to test the waters somewhat for the full contract negotiations a year away. ESPN wasn't interested in the slate of Navy home games -- quite likely because ANOTHER carve-out in the 2012 membership agreement is that Navy home games have to be on Saturdays.
CBSSN, however was very interested -- CBSSN LOVES branding as the home of Service Academy football.
Buuuut...there still was some interest on the part of ESPN. Held out of the AAC-CBSSN deal was the Notre Dame at Navy games and the choice of ONE Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium game (excepting the Air Force at Navy game) each year for whoever won the primary media rights deal.
----end the deductive / speculative part, back to basic facts ----
But the May 2018 deal for the 2018-2027 seasons of Navy home games, specifically did NOT include the Notre Dame at Navy games and ONE NMCMS game each year - held out for the primary rights holder in the AAC-ESPN deal which began in fall 2020.
That's why you had...2020 BYU at Navy (a replacement for the cancelled ND-Navy Dublin game) on ESPN, 2020 Tulsa at Navy on ESPN2, and 2021 Cincinnati at Navy on ESPN2.
This was reported in May 2018, AND was widely discussed on this board.
Quote:First and foremost, Navy’s home game with Notre Dame that is held in even years will become part of the American Athletic Conference television package beginning in 2020.
“Getting the Navy-Notre Dame game every other year is extremely valuable,” Aresco said. “That is really, really important.”
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Additionally, the primary rights-holder for American Athletic Conference football will have first choice of broadcasting one Navy home game per year, other than Air Force. That means not all Navy home games will be televised by CBS Sports.
https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/na...y,amp.html