(06-18-2016 03:54 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(06-18-2016 12:41 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-18-2016 11:57 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  15 pages of pure comedy gold, thanks for the laughs fellows. Almost as funny as the Big 12 AAC expansion threads.

Main reason why CUSA contract is so meager, ESPN has lost 800 million and loses 10,500 subscribers a day. They are currently are at 2005 level. Same with the other sport networks. The networks have overpaid for P5 content and the losses are piling up from cord cutting the last 2 years.

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lol....Now that's comedy gold. Wake up dude, your Fox/CBSSN contract was reduced immediately upon the new CUSA membership arriving in 2013 (that has zero to do with ESPN and was years before cord cutting was an issue). That cut didn't have a thing to do with "cord cutting" or layoffs--but it was just an estimate of the immediate loss of value with CUSA's performance over the final years of the contract to set thier long term value.

I know its hard to admit it, but LaTech was worth a walloping $100K a year in media in the WAC. Changing to a CUSA patch---especially when most of 2011 CUSA has exited to stage left---was never going to make a huge difference in that value. I know its not 1 million a year, but the reality is LaTech got a raise moving to CUSA. So if ESPN is so shattered financially---why are they giving CUSA schools a raise?

For some reason there are a number of entitlement minded newbies in CUSA that thought their 1 million dollar paycheck had something to do with their teams. It didn't. It was a legacy gift from the 2011 version of CUSA. That CUSA doesn't exist anymore---and to the extent that it does---its now called the AAC. CUSA isn't the "first to renegotiate". They are actually the last of the heavily realignment altered conferences to renegotiate their contract. So what happened? Well, they got a haircut---just like the AAC got a media value pay cut from the old Big East contract they inherited. In spring of 2011, just prior to the old Big East falling apart, ESPN offered the old Big East an early extension of about 10 million a team. They rejected the offer. The replacement Big East (AAC) got 2 million a team. Notice that's about the same devaluation that struck CUSA. It is what it is.

The good news is its just a 2 year deal. Just keep building your programs and that number will steadily rise from here.

That's out of touch with the economics of the current situation. ESPN is dragging down Disney stock because ESPN is hemorrhaging money at this point. All the previous contracts were sign before the massive exodus from TV. That money train is long gone.

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Doesn't matter what G5 does to improve. No G5 conference is getting ratings to justify an increase, in a time of massive losses. UH had 1 game in the Top 20 TV games in the Houston Market this past year. All the rest were SEC and Big12, Big1G games; and Houston had an incredible year. P5 games drive the ratings not G5

The MAC has already renegotiated for more money, Bahgdad Bob.

Face it, the TV contract debacle has 100% on CUSAs stupidity.