Quote Originally Posted by Dawg06 View Post
That essentially what we have now except that Tech doesn't get the subscription money from CBS/C-USA. You are talking third tier rights so you wouldn't have any good inventory to work with. All of our football games are televised so we wouldn't have the rights to any football games. You'd only have the MBB home games that weren't televised (Millsaps, UT-Arlington, NC Central, Jackson State, LSUS, Southern, Prairie View, Southern Miss, Charlotte, UTSA, North Texas, & Rice). Then you'd pretty much have your pick of WBB and baseball home games, but what are those sports worth?
No, I'm talking about Tech (and every school) taking full rights of their broadcasts/streaming. All individualized streaming to their market. No traditional national broadcasting (as that seems to be dying off). ESPN would be back to just reporting on what happened in the game (the highlights after it's over), not profiting off the universities. There are negatives... it would be impossible to elevate your brand and you wouldn't be able to watch schools you can't afford to watch (or don't want to pay to watch... like a #1 vs a #2 that sounds intriguing in Week 10, for example). But you could buy it if you wanted to. I bet LSU would / could charge $200 a game where Tech would just charge $20 a game.