(12-17-2019 05:35 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(12-17-2019 04:36 PM)YNot Wrote:  ESPN could actually SAVE a bit of money by paying only Boise State and Hawaii for their aggregate 12-13 games of home inventory, even if they paid each $5M+ per year.

Hawai'i is 5 hours behind the east coast during "standard" time and 6 hours behind during "daylight" time, and they typically start home football games at 6 pm Hawai'i time. ESPN isn't going to pay significant money for those games unless ESPN gets control over the start times. Not sure Hawai'i wants to hand ESPN the right to make their home games start a few hours or several hours earlier.

ESPN needs inventory for the 10/10:30pm ET time slot. That's 4/4:30pm Hawaii time. That's a great time for a local kickoff.

This year, Hawaii had 4 home games kickoff at 10:30pm or 11pm ET (or 4:30pm/5pm local).

An occasional 1pm local kickoff would mean a broadcast for the East Coast prime time. I doubt Hawaii would object to the money or the exposure.

And, I note that over the next 6 seasons, Hawaii hosts:
UCLA, Oregon, Arizona, Vanderbilt, Boise State (x2), and BYU...