jacobkdoyle
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Haha Virginia missed a 20 yard FG and UConn wins 13-10. College kickers are so bad.
A few good chances for AAC teams today:
Temple @ Penn State
Virginia @ UConn
South Florida @ Syracuse
East Carolina @ South Carolina
Maryland @ Central Florida
The AAC is getting severely beaten today.
Should the American try to expand to 16 in football only? It would look better when the TV deal is up in a few years, the playoff will inevitably expand to 8 so you could argue for an auto bid, and the Big 12 put themselves on a path towards death. Step up and be proactive and make yourself a contender for being a Top 5 conference. Some combo of BYU, Boise, SDSU, Air Force, Rice, Colorado State, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois type schools.
In my opinion, what the AAC needs to do, whenever their tv contract expires, is move to an alternative medium. Hulu, Netflix, shoot maybe even an HBO could be interested in moving into the live sporting events realm. The technology is available today. All you have to do is watch the NFL on twitter. They need to be the first to go in that direction and really stick it to ESPN and Fox since it is obvious they could give two ***** about the league or the premiere schools in the AAC.
Much like the Big 12 there is no need to expand unless it will bring in additional revenue. The only non-P5 schools not in the AAC that have any value are BYU (they rather be independent then admit they are lesser than Utah) and possibly Army and Air Force
The American is fine as is. I don't get the obsession with expansion. The only thing I'd like to see is a non-football member to even basketball to 12. To me, Wichita State would be great for this. But again it comes down to if they will increase revenue.
Make sense to me as well about expansion. If the Amweican added more teams, wouldn't that mean money has to be divided even further? That def doesn't seem like a good idea.
In my opinion, what the AAC needs to do, whenever their tv contract expires, is move to an alternative medium. Hulu, Netflix, shoot maybe even an HBO could be interested in moving into the live sporting events realm. The technology is available today. All you have to do is watch the NFL on twitter. They need to be the first to go in that direction and really stick it to ESPN and Fox since it is obvious they could give two ***** about the league or the premiere schools in the AAC.
I would agree with expansion and going to another media outlet such as Netflix or Amazon prime.
Ideally I see the best fit for these content providers to be 1 over-sized conference that can provide content at various time slots and some national draw names. Potentially 20 members, divided into an east and west, with a 10 teams in each. For football this would result in a Championship game where neither team has seen each other that year. In basketball the conferences can act as separate entities until the conference tourney, which would again add to the drama of East vs West.
East:
UC, UConn, USF, UCF, Memphis, Navy, ECU, Temple, Tulane, NIU
West:
UH, SMU, BYU, BSU, Air Force, UNLV, SDSU, CSU, Tulsa, Fresno
AAC tv contracts open up in 2019.
Dude you need to pitch this idea to someone. Man that sounds cool
The reality of what the American should do and what will actually do are 2 completely different things. The conference needs to differentiate themselves and understand they are not like the Power 5.
In reality, the conference will likely not expand and prepare themselves for streaming providers. Instead they will wait until the leftovers of the Big 12 negotiate a tv contract / P5 extension with tv partners to release OU/KU/Texas/OSU out of their GOR. Once this happens the new Big 12 expands by 6, and takes the best of the American away. The American will then back fill again, but lack any premier teams to make the conference as viable to Netflix/Amazon.
I've seen a lot of references to streaming services becoming a major player in this whole thing. As someone in the business, I can tell you that while certain services have begun positioning themselves for this type of move, the benefits to conferences and member institutions are currently minimal. There will be an initial overpay to enter the market, but for the immediate future those services don't have nearly the saturation of the major providers, plus those providers rely on sports to maintain their increasingly tenuous grip on the market...and both professional and collegiate entities rely on that cash heavily. I'm not saying the Amazons and Netflixes of the world aren't going to get involved on some level...it's just a little premature to believe they're suddenly going to outbid ESPN, FOX and the regional sports networks and steal the business away overnight. Chances are better that they partner with one of the current players or negotiate some lower Tier rights, and then see where it goes. Interesting times to say the least.
I've seen a lot of references to streaming services becoming a major player in this whole thing. As someone in the business, I can tell you that while certain services have begun positioning themselves for this type of move, the benefits to conferences and member institutions are currently minimal. There will be an initial overpay to enter the market, but for the immediate future those services don't have nearly the saturation of the major providers, plus those providers rely on sports to maintain their increasingly tenuous grip on the market...and both professional and collegiate entities rely on that cash heavily. I'm not saying the Amazons and Netflixes of the world aren't going to get involved on some level...it's just a little premature to believe they're suddenly going to outbid ESPN, FOX and the regional sports networks and steal the business away overnight. Chances are better that they partner with one of the current players or negotiate some lower Tier rights, and then see where it goes. Interesting times to say the least.