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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 2289550, member: 3723"] [URL="http://www.reflector.com/ECU/2017/08/04/Compher-Nothing-more-important-than-TV-deal.html"]Compher: Nothing more important than TV deal - Daily Reflector[/URL] [I]East Carolina’s athletics chief will be an integral part of brokering the biggest deal in the young life of the American Athletic Conference, and he sees it as just that. Named recently to the league’s committee that will oversee the negotiations for a new football television contract, Jeff Compher knows the deal set to be hammered out in 2019 will define the league’s future and its hope to someday be included in the current Power Five framework. As the American is once again touting its Power Six or P6 campaign this season, ECU’s AD is ready for the challenge of delivering a new deal for the league, which currently has a contract with ESPN/ABC and CBS Sports Network for broadcasting games. “I can’t tell you how essential this is to our ability to remain at that Power Six level,” Compher said in an interview earlier this week. “There’s nothing more important than that. If you were to ask every AD in our conference they would say the same thing. If you were to ask every administrative officer in the league they would say the same thing. We are of one focus, and that is it.”[/I] [/QUOTE]