Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[Triple B]

1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said:

and all 6,000 fans will be there...I know USF is not one to bash on attendance but when I see Georgia State on tv for games at the dome it is a lot worse than USF.

The dome held 71,000. Their new configuration of Turner Field will be for 23,000 so even if they still have the 6K it won't look near as bad ...

[NewEnglandBull]

3 hours ago, Triple B said:

The dome held 71,000. Their new configuration of Turner Field will be for 23,000 so even if they still have the 6K it won't look near as bad ...

That's actually pretty sweet

[Bull Matrix]

6 hours ago, Triple B said:

The dome held 71,000. Their new configuration of Turner Field will be for 23,000 so even if they still have the 6K it won't look near as bad ...

Yes!!! Now you get it!! Been hoping USF gets a similar sized OCS to help with atmosphere 

[charsibb]

4 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

That's actually pretty sweet for a junior high school in Texas

FIFY

 

[MMW]

 

15 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

That's actually pretty sweet for a junior high school in Texas

10 hours ago, charsibb said:

FIFY

 

LOL

Edited May 11, 2017 by MMW

[BullFan98]

19 hours ago, Mama_Bull said:

The AAC commish spoke about this recently. He is exploring other sources of revenue, such as GOOGLE and various internet entities.

He downplayed that idea somewhat on Monay on the Beat Of Sports in Orlando.

From a thread on the American BBS board:

Aresco was on the beat of sports in Orlando this morning... 

 

Some super interesting tidbits:

• Aresco mentions he hopes to "remedy" the lack of money in the next TV contract.
• Talked about adding multiple basketball schools but they thought it could cause long term damage to the conference adding non-football focused schools.
• "Alert but inactive" when it comes to expansion.
• In light of ESPN cuts, Aresco says they are concerned but feels ESPN will turn it around in two years, and doesn't think cord-cutting affects properties that bring value. He thinks they could do a secondary deal, but doesn't "want to poke ESPN in the eye." Says online streaming could happen, Silicon Valley says AAC is the main league showing interest in that regard.
• On bowls, Liberty Bowl and Russell Athletic could come back to the American after these contracts end. He wants a quasi contract bowl that a champion could play a better Big Ten or PAC-12 team, even if they don't make NY6. He doesn't want a champion playing a 6-6 team. Wants better opponents.
• Aresco sounds as if he wants to keep a relationship with ESPN in the next TV contract, wording things a little differently than past interviews. 

 

http://csnbbs.com/thread-817306.html

 

Hopefully we are thinking outside the box.  There are a lot of other options now outside of the traditional players who are all scrambling to take market share from ESPN (Hulu, Google, AT&T, Twitter, Amazon, among others).  No long term contract.  When ESPN gets its mojo back, which it will (this is just a cycle in the industry), then we will be in a better position to renegotiate or jump ship to another outlet.  ESPN has been no friend to the AAC. 

[Sellular1]

30 minutes ago, BullFan98 said:

Hopefully we are thinking outside the box.  There are a lot of other options now outside of the traditional players who are all scrambling to take market share from ESPN (Hulu, Google, AT&T, Twitter, Amazon, among others).  No long term contract.  When ESPN gets its mojo back, which it will (this is just a cycle in the industry), then we will be in a better position to renegotiate or jump ship to another outlet.  ESPN has been no friend to the AAC. 

The NHL left ESPN and went to Comcast/OLN/Versus each team got $1million more per season.  The bad news was half the country didn't get Versus channel.  A short sighted Gary Bettman almost killed the NHL.  If you remember, ESPN and ESPN2 had NHL games on every night during the season.  Then suddenly had zero presence in half the country.  Then the NHL signed a slightly better deal with NBC Universal for 10 years.  So ESPN wants to fill the massive programming void by losing the NHL (and their pissed at eachother) so ESPN goes down the path of "creating" programming.  Every stupid kind of Texas Holdem tournaments to giving half hour slots to idiots like Steven A Smith...

The NHL is a great product and in the 30 or so cities that have a team most are financially stable.  I just think the NHL lost the casual fan who tuned into ESPN to catch a game.

I hope the AAC doesn't do something shortsighted that will piss off ESPN.  It will be like when the 3 Amigos get fired by Harry Flugelman

[Triple B]

3 minutes ago, Sellular1 said:

The NHL is a great product and in the 30 or so cities that have a team most are financially stable. I just think the NHL lost the casual fan who tuned into ESPN to catch a game.

The trade-off there was less Barry Melrose .... which comes close to making up for the loss of those casual fans.

[Sellular1]

6 minutes ago, Triple B said:

The trade-off there was less Barry Melrose .... which comes close to making up for the loss of those casual fans.

We refer to him as Barry Jell-Rose

[Triple B]

3 minutes ago, Sellular1 said:

We refer to him as Barry Jell-Rose

Or Barry Mull-Rose ...