(04-26-2014 03:59 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  What is the selling point to ESPN for the MAC? The MAC has visibility on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. So how does a one bid conference in basketball and a conference located in the Great Lakes region improve their revenue to one million per school with ESPN?

If the MAC goes with NBC or Fox or CBS, they may get the money, but they lose the ESPN visibility. Just ask CUSA how well that is working out. But at least CUSA has the CCG on ESPN. The MAC would not have that.

I think the rising tide has been at the P5 level and with a couple of basketball conferences. I think the MAC and SBC are undervalued, but I just don't think ESPN will give them a million per school. ESPN has too much content to pay that much.

ESPN having CUSA title game was to settle the lawsuit ESPN filed against them. That runs through 2015.