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[QUOTE="brasssbonanzaa, post: 3085082, member: 794"]
You could not be more right and more wrong at the same time.

The future of sports, and TV in general, is through streaming and customer-curated packages.  For cable companies to survive, they will have to start offering the ability to selectively choose which stations you want and pay accordingly based on what you select - along with the option to stream those channels through your various devices.

That's where ESPN will thrive - NOT ESPN+.  ESPN will be the service that the customer selects and streams, accompanied by ESPN2.  ESPN+ is and will continue to be an add-on streaming platform that the vast majority of regular sports consumers will not consider a necessity.  They will be able to pay for and stream their main ESPN content to their devices in-home and mobile.

There's virtually no one who is going to or already has cancelled their ESPN [I]in favor[/I] of ESPN+.  ESPN+ is at best a tertiary option for the consumer.  And that's where this deal falls woefully short - the average sports consumer will not add it to their streaming services and AAC teams will not get the same level of exposure as those on ESPN/ESPN2.
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