Everyone knows that if BYU doesn't get into a P5 conference it will be religion and politics that keep BYU out, not BYU's win/loss record. If BYU really does end up on the outside, you use everything that makes BYU great as your selling tool and you negotiate your way into the AAC (BYU will not go back to the cesspool that is the MWC) to get BYU access to all games not picked up by the AAC's network TV deals.

Mind you, the AAC's deal with ESPN is up at the end of the 19-20 season. If the AAC is smart (and, yes, Aresco is a smart guy), the AAC will reach an agreement whereby the conference and/or its member institutions will retain rights to broadcast any game not picked up by the media partners a la the Big12. If BYU happens to be on the inside (or on the mind of) the AAC, having access to BYUtv for all BYU athletic events not picked up by ESPN/CBSSN would keep BYU in the same spot it is now with ESPN in terms of fan access.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in looking at BYU athletic revenue is that none of us knows how much BYUtv is making off of BYU athletics that isn't passed along to the AD. That is really AD money.