This is my industry (TV/Film) and I was raised by a Rugby coach (coached at BYU and started the Provo Steelers). I'd love to see their whole season and do believe it would pick up interest. Even from a church standpoint, I know a story of a Volleyball fan that DVR'd anything Volleyball, it recorded BYUtv for some games, but also some talks... a little while later she's baptized.

But it's money and time. Im pretty sure the Sports department covers the cost for sanctioned sports on TV and collects on ad money. So maybe club sports can find money to cover costs through sponsors and fund raisers.

But you start putting in costs for maintenance on equipment for wear and tear, monster triax cables running to control boards for switching (that can drop you thousands to fix if they're wrapped wrong), power to boards, talk systems for operators, a radio wave system for a roaming camera, a digital recording system to switch into for replays, audio dishes, and audio board. Then you add event insurance, workers insurance, then an engineer to calibrate everything, a director, technical director (switches cameras on the board), audio board guy, and camera operators that need to be compensated for their time. And that time, at the least, would be 3 hours before until about 2 to 3 hours after. That's just off the top of my head for an absolute minimum crew to produce a broadcast that wouldn't be an embarrassment of a production on BYUtv. We can say what we want about some of their programming, but from a technical standpoint, it's always at a high standard.

I know they have classes that are full of students who could probably do it. But I don't know how insurance works for things that are not official school sports, my guess is the club department (or whatever it is Rugby sits in) would have to pay that coverage. And that's only if the school approved students taking all this equipment out on their own. Considering it's mostly professional free-lancers on crew for the big stuff, I really don't know how that would go.

A YouTube crew doing their own thing with their own equipment and no worries of insurance or quality control can get away with a lot. But a University sponsored international TV channel with contracts and distributors is a different game.

I think a good way to make it happen, starts with the YouTube broadcast. If it shows some level of interest that sponsors feel they could advertise on, you'd start getting it somewhere. Nobody will say no to money. But without a true sponsorship by the sports department to work its deals within the University, I don't ever see it happening again (did happen in the beginning of BYUtv and they were broadcasting anything).

Right now it'd take a gamble from somebody on all the costs to make it happen, while hoping a sport that's barely a blip for the rest of America, can eventually get that money back to them at the least. Then of course whoever puts on that money has to split profits with the teams, and league the team plays in.

Anyway, that's my quick perspective on this. I'm sure there's more to it, but from a Producer and Director standpoint, that's the first major issue I see when thinking about it. And was one of the points this top dawg for BYUtv gave me.