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Message: [QUOTE="Confident Carl, post: 2714436, member: 1632"] It is extremely rare for a conference to allow one of its member schools to negotiate its own separate television contract. Athletic director Chet Gladchuk said such autonomy was a prerequisite to Navy becoming a member of the American Athletic Conference. “This was all part of the discussions we had with the AAC before we joined,” Gladchuk said. “The importance to the Naval Academy of having home football games on Saturday afternoons cannot be understated. Saturday has been the focal point for Navy football for decades and decades.” [URL="http://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/navy_sports/ac-cs-navy-tv-contract-20180509-story.html"]Navy agrees to 10-year extension with CBS Sports with support of AAC[/URL] [/QUOTE]