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Posted: 1/26/2017 12:46 PM
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Posted: 1/26/2017 3:44 PM
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the123kid wrote:expand_more
$700K for us.

Still, it's a trade-off. The MAC has sold its soul (and fans) to ESPN. That doesn't mean that we have to like it.
Cat? Tell me what soul has been sold? It seems like a perfectly good deal in my book. How many games a year are affected by this? Maybe 2 football and 2 basketball? That's a pretty small price to pay.

I think the 700K covers all of it from espn and then they sublease the rights to other networks for games.
I believe that to date in 2016-17 that three Ohio basketball games have been affected by TV time/date change:

Home vs Kent - moved to Friday
At BGSU - Moved from noon to 4pm
Akron - move to noon from 3:30pm
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Recovering Journalist wrote:expand_more
Read it all but it still doesn't say how much we get per year.
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
A useful reference:
http://www.hustlebelt.com/2014/8/19/6045303/explaining-th...
Read it all but it still doesn't say how much we get per year.
This is what I saw in that article.

Since then, Brett McMurphy of ESPN (and several others) have reported that this 13-year deal with ESPN is worth more than $100 million, or roughly about $8 million a season. That factors out to about $670,000 per school, per season, a big improvement over the roughly $120,000 each school received under the previous $1.4 million a year deal, a nearly 500 percent increase in annual payouts.
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Inconvenient start times for TV are blamed for reduced fan turnouts. The game choreography may be turning some folks away. Dimming the lights for starting lineups, blasting hip-hop music the players love but older fans don't particularly care for all of that. Part of the reason why the Hunter years drew well is local HS basketball fans would turnout for some of the in-state stiffs he recruited. They like the idea of watching the local kids play. National recruiting, perimeter offense isn't the Ohio Basketball they knew. Half court offense with guys standing around on offense watching the guard feed it into the big guy is what they know.
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Uncle Wes wrote:expand_more
Inconvenient start times for TV are blamed for reduced fan turnouts. The game choreography may be turning some folks away. Dimming the lights for starting lineups, blasting hip-hop music the players love but older fans don't particularly care for all of that. Part of the reason why the Hunter years drew well is local HS basketball fans would turnout for some of the in-state stiffs he recruited. They like the idea of watching the local kids play. National recruiting, perimeter offense isn't the Ohio Basketball they knew. Half court offense with guys standing around on offense watching the guard feed it into the big guy is what they know.
This is a great get off my lawn post. (And, there's a lot of truth in it too.) I think the horse is dead. TV>Fans-in-stands.
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Part of the reason why the Hunter years drew well is local HS basketball fans would turnout for some of the in-state stiffs he recruited. They like the idea of watching the local kids play.
11 kids on our roster are from Ohio. Only one of our top eight in minutes played (Gavin Block) isn't. Next I'm going to guess you are going to say basketball was better when you had to bring the ball upcourt uphill both ways through waist deep snow, barefoot...and we liked it.
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the123kid wrote:expand_more
$700K for us.

Still, it's a trade-off. The MAC has sold its soul (and fans) to ESPN. That doesn't mean that we have to like it.
Cat? Tell me what soul has been sold? It seems like a perfectly good deal in my book. How many games a year are affected by this? Maybe 2 football and 2 basketball? That's a pretty small price to pay.

I think the 700K covers all of it from espn and then they sublease the rights to other networks for games.
Not arguing it's a bad deal. Just saying that for us (as fans), it's inconvenient. And it does seem to be the "tail wagging the dog" a bit when your game dates/times are all set by TV.
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