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UA Media/MAC-ESPN Deal


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Bottom line appears to be that the big MAC-ESPN media deal was built around MAC schools producing their own media coverage for ESPN3 when only 3 MAC schools were prepared to produce media coverage quality acceptable to ESPN. Buffalo, for example, brags that all their home basketball games this season will be broadcast live on ESPN3 -- a nice recruiting advantage over the Zips and other MAC East teams. It appears that the money that ESPN is paying the MAC may largely be the money that ESPN saves by not having to produce their own media coverage. No wonder the contract is locked up in a vault where no one can see the details except the deal-cutters who make the big salaries. I'm sure that GP1 will have some colorful comments to make about this latest abomination. :)

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If you've been on campus at all this semester and tried to use the wifi, you'd know that the network infrastructure is failing and needs replaced. Back in 2005, I think, we were one of the first schools to have campus-wide wifi and cutting edge network equipment. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated much since then.

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If you've been on campus at all this semester and tried to use the wifi, you'd know that the network infrastructure is failing and needs replaced. Back in 2005, I think, we were one of the first schools to have campus-wide wifi and cutting edge network equipment. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated much since then.

This is a huge deal. Kids today don't want to enroll at a school with inferior wifi. Upgrading the network would be one of the wisest decisions the UA could make.

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If the Hustle Belt article is true then compliments to the guy form the Cant Stater for caring enough to inquire about the details of this contract. If true, this article puts the MAC leadership in a very poor light for not immediately providing their members with a copy of such a contract. If true, this article puts UA's leadership in a very poor light since their interest was exceeded by someone from a student newspaper.

Is the $670,000 payment alluded to distributed to each MAC member or does each receive a fractional share of said $670,000.

Who at UA gets the $670,000?

Does each MAC school receive their payment whether they can meet espn's broadcast standard or not?

For an institution that seems to need money like we need oxygen, you'd think UA's alleged statement of "we haven't heard" would be drowned out by their banging on MAC's door for a copy of said contract.

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This raises fundamental questions of how the MAC operates as a conference. Do member institutions get a vote on major decisions affecting them or do conference executives have dictatorial powers to conduct business without oversight? If the institutions vote, how can they do so intelligently without having access to the details of what they're voting on? Approving a contract as far-ranging as this one would first require reading the details in the contract. If member institutions have not had access to the contract, then they have put their fate in the hands of those who run the MAC and no longer have control of their own destinies. Any journalist who isn't intrigued by getting answers to these questions probably belongs in another profession.

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