DNR article today where our CAA commish states that for the second year in a row, there will be no CAA TV contract!!!

Hey, I liked the way it turned out last year. Between, MASN, CSN, NBCSports, HTS or whatever they are calling these channels now, we had every game on TV, Our own TV Network. We are the Notre Dame of FCS!

Lets hope Bourne is putting this in place again this year.

Not outraged, its typical of what the CAA is now (which is a whole different discussion). We have set a precedent last year of finding our deal and confident we will be able to find something similar this year.

Feels like we have more time to work out Deals this year.
I could be wrong on the timing

It does feel like this was announced earlier than last year. I think last year everything was announced within a month of the season starting.

Hard to get mad at the incompetence of Joey d. We know what we have with him. Minor league commish in a minor league conference

No contract for the second straight year. What does that tell you about the CAA? VCU, GMU, ODU, GSU all saw the writing on the wall. I believe we've been in the CAA for like 40 years but time to shoot this dead horse. 'Ol Yeager was a joke but D'Antonio is a clown.

PG, I agree, I like the way it turned out last season, hoping for just a little more. Seems like the beginning of the season we had a lot of exposure with it tapering off there at the end, only to be picked back up again for the playoffs. I'd say JB did a nice job given what he had to work with in that it was so late before he could get started.

I'd be shocked if JMU wasn't already working on a TV deal. I'm pretty sure it was a given at this point.
Regardless of that, the CAA is a joke.

Can you tell me what the article is saying? I do not have a subscription, and I am curious. I am a Towson Fan, and I am with you all on this. It is a discrace that the commish cannot get a TV contract for the CAA. What a Dumb A@#

Does that apply to all sports or just Football?

Welcome to the future of college sports television. Linear channels only want to cover the P5. The G5 will be facing the same reality when their next round of TV contracts come up in the next half a decade. It's streaming only for those not in the ACC, SEC, etc.

At least JMU now knows and can have additional time to work individual tv games on our own and not at the 11th hour?

(05-11-2018 03:36 PM)Potomac Wrote:  Welcome to the future of college sports television. Linear channels only want to cover the P5. The G5 will be facing the same reality when their next round of TV contracts come up in the next half a decade. It's streaming only for those not in the ACC, SEC, etc.

At least JMU now knows and can have additional time to work individual tv games on our own and not at the 11th hour?

Everyone realizes this but the commish’s lackadaisal effort is what’s most annoying. He should be trying to lock in a league wide streaming deal that’s worth a damn. Instead he’s just let his consulting group buddies that no one has ever heard of lock in the conference with this ****** college sports live for another season. He’s a joke.

(05-11-2018 03:52 PM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:36 PM)Potomac Wrote:  Welcome to the future of college sports television. Linear channels only want to cover the P5. The G5 will be facing the same reality when their next round of TV contracts come up in the next half a decade. It's streaming only for those not in the ACC, SEC, etc.

At least JMU now knows and can have additional time to work individual tv games on our own and not at the 11th hour?

Everyone realizes this but the commish’s lackadaisal effort is what’s most annoying. He should be trying to lock in a league wide streaming deal that’s worth a damn. Instead he’s just let his consulting group buddies that no one has ever heard of lock in the conference with this ****** college sports live for another season. He’s a joke.

I think it’s a multi-year deal. We’d have to pay fees to exit it and that’s assuming we have a better option to go to. When you have member schools unwilling to invest in streaming equipment and two voices to talk into a microphone, what else can you do? You can’t hold them at gun point and force them to spend money they don’t want to.

(05-11-2018 05:56 PM)Potomac Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:52 PM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:36 PM)Potomac Wrote:  Welcome to the future of college sports television. Linear channels only want to cover the P5. The G5 will be facing the same reality when their next round of TV contracts come up in the next half a decade. It's streaming only for those not in the ACC, SEC, etc.

At least JMU now knows and can have additional time to work individual tv games on our own and not at the 11th hour?

Everyone realizes this but the commish’s lackadaisal effort is what’s most annoying. He should be trying to lock in a league wide streaming deal that’s worth a damn. Instead he’s just let his consulting group buddies that no one has ever heard of lock in the conference with this ****** college sports live for another season. He’s a joke.

I think it’s a multi-year deal. We’d have to pay fees to exit it and that’s assuming we have a better option to go to. When you have member schools unwilling to invest in streaming equipment and two voices to talk into a microphone, what else can you do? You can’t hold them at gun point and force them to spend money they don’t want to.

He shouldn’t have signed a multi year deal with a ****** streaming service that’s only going to feature the only team anyone actually watches once a season.

(05-11-2018 06:30 PM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 05:56 PM)Potomac Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:52 PM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:36 PM)Potomac Wrote:  Welcome to the future of college sports television. Linear channels only want to cover the P5. The G5 will be facing the same reality when their next round of TV contracts come up in the next half a decade. It's streaming only for those not in the ACC, SEC, etc.

At least JMU now knows and can have additional time to work individual tv games on our own and not at the 11th hour?

Everyone realizes this but the commish’s lackadaisal effort is what’s most annoying. He should be trying to lock in a league wide streaming deal that’s worth a damn. Instead he’s just let his consulting group buddies that no one has ever heard of lock in the conference with this ****** college sports live for another season. He’s a joke.

I think it’s a multi-year deal. We’d have to pay fees to exit it and that’s assuming we have a better option to go to. When you have member schools unwilling to invest in streaming equipment and two voices to talk into a microphone, what else can you do? You can’t hold them at gun point and force them to spend money they don’t want to.

He shouldn’t have signed a multi year deal with a ****** streaming service that’s only going to feature the only team anyone actually watches once a season.

Hey, cut Joey D some slack. He doesn't have time for unimportant stuff like TV deals. He's got to be at Delaware's Men's Crochet & Needlepoint team practice or on-site to award the conference championship trophy to the Women's Miniature Golf team at Billy & His Baby Momma.

Straight forward deals with ESPN (and their multiple streaming platforms)? Ha! That's for some conference with a commish who has way more time on his/her hands.

(05-11-2018 10:05 AM)PGJMU2 Wrote:  DNR article today where our CAA commish states that for the second year in a row, there will be no CAA TV contract!!!

Hey, I liked the way it turned out last year. Between, MASN, CSN, NBCSports, HTS or whatever they are calling these channels now, we had every game on TV, Our own TV Network. We are the Notre Dame of FCS!

Lets hope Bourne is putting this in place again this year.

I didn't think we did have every home game televised. According to last year's schedule UNH wasn't.
Home:
ETSU: CSN-MA+
NSU: MASN2
Maine: MASN
VU: MASN2
UNH: None
RU: MASN2

As far as away:
@ ECU: ESPN3
@ UD: CSN+, CSN-P, SNY
@ W&M: COX YURVIEW / WHSV MY VALLEY
@ URI: none
@ Elon: none

IF RU could get every one of their 5 home games regionally televised last year by CSN or CSN+, there's no reason JMU can't do the same:
http://www.richmond.com/sports/ur-strike...daec5.html

Of the away games, NC State should be ESPN3, and RU chould be CSN MA or CSN+. I don't have much hope for the other 4 away games.

(05-11-2018 06:30 PM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 05:56 PM)Potomac Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:52 PM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  

(05-11-2018 03:36 PM)Potomac Wrote:  Welcome to the future of college sports television. Linear channels only want to cover the P5. The G5 will be facing the same reality when their next round of TV contracts come up in the next half a decade. It's streaming only for those not in the ACC, SEC, etc.

At least JMU now knows and can have additional time to work individual tv games on our own and not at the 11th hour?

Everyone realizes this but the commish’s lackadaisal effort is what’s most annoying. He should be trying to lock in a league wide streaming deal that’s worth a damn. Instead he’s just let his consulting group buddies that no one has ever heard of lock in the conference with this ****** college sports live for another season. He’s a joke.

I think it’s a multi-year deal. We’d have to pay fees to exit it and that’s assuming we have a better option to go to. When you have member schools unwilling to invest in streaming equipment and two voices to talk into a microphone, what else can you do? You can’t hold them at gun point and force them to spend money they don’t want to.

He shouldn’t have signed a multi year deal with a ****** streaming service that’s only going to feature the only team anyone actually watches once a season.

Joey signed a multi-year deal with his two buddies (CSMG) who in turn signed us up for a multi year with College Sports Live and Stretch. They are listed as "partners" of CSMG, and I'd bet there are "commissions" (kickbacks) involved for CSMG on the whole deal.

It stinks to high heaven, and should have been cause to show Joey the door. Alger would implicitly have to admit he made a mistake leading the committee decision to hire a former BE NCAA Compliance Officer. Is it shocking that a former Rutgers diversity/compliance lawyer would make this choice though? I'm sure those two hit it off from day one.

What I'm hoping/praying for is some way for JB to work a streaming deal for JMU on ESPN yet. I'm less confident we get all our home games on regional networks this year, though would be very happy if we can match last years exposure. At least there is some time now to work on it.

Maybe this year with the announcement in May it will give us more time. CofC signed a multi-year deal with Learfield for their media relations, so they’ll probably get something better this year.

Still, they could at least do a deal with NBC Sports Washington to carry some games. Or MASN.

(05-11-2018 07:07 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  Hey, cut Joey D some slack. He doesn't have time for unimportant stuff like TV deals. He's got to be at Delaware's Men's Crochet & Needlepoint team practice or on-site to award the conference championship trophy to the Women's Miniature Golf team at Billy & His Baby Momma.

Straight forward deals with ESPN (and their multiple streaming platforms)? Ha! That's for some conference with a commish who has way more time on his/her hands.

Post like this are why you're the best haha. Those mini-golf trophies aren't going to hand themselves off, you know.

Just giving you all a heads up to go ahead and get your B'ing and M'ing out of the way now. If you want an ESPN streaming deal, it's now via ESPN+, which will bust your budget and plummet you into the red overnight when you pay $5 a month.