Why do we want the service academies? I don’t. Navy is enough.This proposed conference looks forced. I also don’t think it would push it to power conference status.
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The American people like and respect the service academies. They are the best of us.
Personally I would be honored to be in a conference with all of the service academy teams and would pledge a donation for knee braces for our D-Linemen.
If you are creating a Conference that has a playoff spot and that spot is the long-shot spot, the academies deserve to be a part of that.
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NO!
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TV audience=$$ Do you think the BIG 10 wanted Rutgers- a laughingstock? The Big wanted the NY TV market.
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I love and respect our service academies. That doesn’t mean they are the best option to build the best possible conference. Otherwise, the SEC would have probably added them a long time ago. I just think if we add all of these random schools (Thank goodness that they likely won’t) and make it 16, it just feels watered down. Plus, wouldn’t that be more mouths to feed? One main reason the BIG 12 stayed at 10.
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What conference is Army in now? Airforce? Are they raking in cash through tv money from those schools?
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for football
AF = MW
Army = IND
And are they raking in money from tv money? I doubt it.
Both weree offered and AF stayed at MW and Army chose to be IND
By the AAC? When? I certainly hope they don’t offer them now. I think Aresco is smart enough not to do so. I think he mentioned that he would only consider schools that truly add value.
they were offered at the same tine we offered Boise and SDSU
So when we were called the Big East for a short time. I’m glad they weren’t added.
It is about giving the public the illusion of what college Football was and could be. The service academies are important. A college football world where only Ohio State Clemson and Alabama matter, is a dying product.
ESPN wants eyeballs so as to sell Advertising.
To me that means Eastern and Central time zones.
So who is available in those time zones?
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The service academies don’t depend on tv revenue to fund sports.
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True
I used to like when I was a kid before the bcs where anyone team from the 4 or 5 major conferences sent their respective champs to the sugar, cotton, orange , rose etc then once over they’d vote on the champion depending on the outcome of those bowls. It created more interest where you’d watch all the big bowls. Notre Dame benefited a lot because they were always the at large team invited to one of those bowls like when they played us. They need to expand to 8 playoff spots to recreate a similar appeal where you’d watch all the big bowl games.
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But ESPN does and has our contract.
Cannot arbitrarily add schools without more ESPN $money. Otherwise our share declines.
Simply put for whom would ESPN increase our TV contract?
The Mountain Time Zone lacks eyeballs plus many residents are outside and do not find football on TV important.
There seem to be no top candidates to pursue. But BYU which has a National following. East and Central eyeballs.
Great question: As I recall, Air Force is in the Mountain West and Army is independent for football. But I could be mistaken.
sdsu releases a statement…sdsu calls it a “non story” but doesnt deny anything… indirectly just says if they move it has to be all sports, they cant do football only …football only seems to be what we are offering
I wasn’t talking about the schools benefiting from tv money, I was talking about the conference, since he is saying that adding the schools would boost tv money because of their market.