AAC/ESPN Update

[zls44]

From Steve LePore, who is in Bristol this afternoon.

https://twitter.com/stevelepore/status/370206535252574209

The American Athletic Conference may be headed for Wednesday nights in the future.

 

[specialisthusky]

I hope he is referring to basketball...but I know he's not.

 

[zls44]

I hope he is referring to basketball...but I know he's not.

Great minds think alike. Or in this case, you and I.

 

[coachcap]

Some of our best exposure games in the past have been on Wednesday nights.(WVU, PITT, Syracuse). FWIW, I was expecting this.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Beggars can't be choosers. Let's not forget who our conference mates are now. We are lucky all of our games aren't on ESPN3.

As long as they can make it work with scheduling, I think it is good exposure.

 

[Waquoit]

Beggars can't be choosers. Let's not forget who our conference mates are now. We are lucky all of our games aren't on ESPN3.
As long as they can make it work with scheduling, I think it is good exposure.

It's good if you like exposing how lame and desperate you are.

 

[Murph]

Wednesday nights are evil. You can't play the Sat before or after.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

It's good if you like exposing how lame and desperate you are.

We are definitely desperate. Once we blew the NBC deal and ended up on ESPN...we knew this was going to happen. If the choice is 12 games on Saturday on espn3 obscurity or 1 or 2 espn Wednesday night games with 10 espn3 games..I will take the latter. If you think ESPN is going to give prime spots to Tulane-Temple games...you are smoking something.

I am not saying this is good....it isn't...but it's not surprising either.

 

[huskypantz]

Wednesday nights are evil. You can't play the Sat before or after.

The Saturday after is actually 2 Saturdays after the Wednesday game, and you can definitely play that day.

 

[SubbaBub]

Wednesday Night AACtion {vomit}

 

[noeynox]

It sucks, but im used to espn shirting on UCONN/UCONN's league so whatever.

 

[Fishy]

This is great news.

I thought we'd be on Tuesdays.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

This is great news.

I thought we'd be on Tuesdays.

Or better yet.....Tuesday afternoon...

 

[Fishy]

Or better yet.....Tuesday afternoon...

I originally heard that AAC football was going to be a mid-season replacement for 'Good Luck Charlie' on the Disney Channel.

 

[sportsart]

No competition and recruits are home to watch. The only ones that think this is a bad deal are the diehards on here, which are the minority.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

ZLS again the bearer of good news!

 

[zls44]

Ill bear good news as soon as we get some. Been a while.

 

[Stinger92860]

Wednesday nights are evil. You can't play the Sat before or after.

We'd night would impact my ability to attend games and renew my season tix.

 

[sportsart]

We'd night would impact my ability to attend games and renew my season tix.

At least you could still watch it.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I originally heard that AAC football was going to be a mid-season replacement for 'Good Luck Charlie' on the Disney Channel.

Just as long as they don't run the games while Good Luck Charlie is on the tube.

Don't duck with my Bridgit Mendler time. So easy on the eyes.

 

[noeynox]

We'd night would impact my ability to attend games and renew my season tix.

Well at some point, someone will say you don't support the program.

Just when you think the worst is behind us in conf realignment boom, another frigging kick in the sack. While I don't expect Wed night games to be a regular occurence for any one school in particular, yeah multiple wed night games will affect season ticket sales and who could blame anyone for not renewing if there was more than one home game a year on wed nights.

 

[huskymedic]

DanWolken 3:18pm via Twitter for iPhone
Interesting that ESPN putting some of the less glamorous American hoops games on ESPNNews rather than Internet only.

 

[Hoophound]

I originally heard that AAC football was going to be a mid-season replacement for 'Good Luck Charlie' on the Disney Channel.

I'd rather watch Good Luck Charlie than Tulane vs Temple, so I knew that rumor wasn't true. Besides, ratings for Good Luck Charlie will be much higher.

 

[metsfan2323]

DanWolken 3:18pm via Twitter for iPhone
Interesting that ESPN putting some of the less glamorous American hoops games on ESPNNews rather than Internet only.

Well this should put an end to the debate as to whether ESPN 3 counts as "TV" in the new contract. I'll take this to mean that it does not, so we got that going for us.

 

[John Greene]

No competition and recruits are home to watch. The only ones that think this is a bad deal are the diehards on here, which are the minority.

The only people who don't see the potential disaster here are willfully blind. If we were to get lets say a Wed & Fri game in the same year the practice schedule would be a nightmare. If they were both home games we could kiss 30% of our season ticket holders goodbye.