You brought up Title IX lawsuits.
The origin of them was UND fixing its budget issues circa 2016, and doing it in a way that the suits were dismissed by the courts.
You'd rather UND have not fixed its budgets back then?
Those who didn't fix issues in 2016 are being forced to do it now.
I brought up the lawsuits because you keep bringing up fake news about NDSU's Title IX problems. They don't exist.
NDSU didn't have significant budget issues in 2016 because we didn't join a conference two time zones away in a desperate attempt to keep a racist nickname.
Your problems aren't our problems. Stop projecting.
At Nevada they sponsor more women's sports than men's..That balances things out pretty well..
Yes, though the vast majority of games not on linear TV are carried on ESPN+, which is actually preferable to ESPN3. It looks like they are slowly killing off the ESPN3 product, it gets the lower tier games now.
ESPN gets full exclusive rights to all games in their G5 contracts with MAC, SBC and AAC. There is no Learfield type arrangement allowed, and they require all these games to be produced to ESPN standards. Some of the games they choose to sub-license to other networks like NFL Network and CBSSN. They do this quite a bit with the MAC and SBC, and also sometimes the AAC games. Basically, ESPN *IS* Learfield in these agreements and is the primary rights holder who decides on the distribution channels.
We better *hope* there are exit clauses in the Learfield deal, and they don't have to be bought out or get a slice of the revenue, because otherwise we'll be making even less than the rest of the conference we join.
Yeah there’s no way we’d defer, delay anything if the AAC invite came. You accept that every day of the week and twice on sundays.
I think everyone including admin can handle media doing media things, but no president wants to make an enemy of his faculty. And you also have to be careful of the reputation in the academic realm of the athletic department running the school vs the other way around.