[NU Sports] TV vs. the tele

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While requiring national TV is an attractive idea, I'm afraid that it's not
practical or doable at the moment.  Not all schools control the television
rights to their home games - NU being a prime example.  All Big Ten schools
have ceded TV rights to their non-conference home games  to the conference
so that BTN can pick up whatever ESPN doesn't. I believe the SEC does the
same thing and I'm fairly confident that the ACC has done so with its new
ESPN contract, as does the Big East.  C-USA may not, so Rice may control the
rights to its home games, but it's not a provision that could be routinely
required in all non-conference home and home contracts.
Mark

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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:08 AM, mlinhardt at netzero.com <mlinhardt at netzero.com
> wrote:

> I think it would be reasonable to put in any home-home contract that
> national TV will be required and the home team is responsible for paying any
> costs related for making that happen.
> For us that is not an issue with the Big Ten network, but if a road game is
> not televised nationally they must pay the Big Ten network to send a crew to
> the away site.
>
> I assume that the big ten network is available in all 50 states even if not
> every cable package has it.  If I have to go to a bar that is fine, but if
> my only recourse is radio or the internet that is not acceptable.
> My attempts to watch the internet for sporting events pretty much suck.
>  Watching time shifted TV is fine, because you can pause and wait for the
> buffer to fill and it does not really matter that you are mintues behind the
> actual action.
> And Rice could be even worse if it conflicts with a cubs game.  Force WGN
> to move us to a different station if there is a conflict instead of going
> internet only.
>
> Our Vandy trip was pretty good.  The drive to/from Chicago was reasonable.
>  Parking was free with only a short walk.  Tickets 40-ish yard line were
> reasonable.  Their stadium is pretty nice.  The fans not so much.  There was
> a lot of booing and negative commentary throughout the game.  Don't be a
> hater!  I did not hear any vandy fan call their players by name while we
> always call out when dan-dan, ebert(two thumbs up), schmidt(his name is my
> name too), arby(beef 'n cheddar), etal. make a play.  We had some tOSU
> female students behind us who were cheering against us, but not for vandy.
>  They consistently mocked our cheering.  We cheer for our team, not against
> the opponent and try to be a good visitor in everything we do.
> Kind of sad.  We were hoping for better from the vandy fans.
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Jonathan Hodges
> <snip>
> The Rice game is likely internet ppv only since it's an away game ther's
> not
> much NU can do about it.
>
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