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Mar 22, 2023
10:06:44pm

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BamaCoug

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Last login: Apr 27, 2024
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Anyone want to help Dick Harmon with his math? Don't downplay BYU's media value!

BamaCoug

3/22/23 7:13pm

It pretty simple math and also makes sense objectively when broken down

ABCoug

3/22/23 7:20pm

Dick should have had some fact checkers on that article.

3/22/23 7:22pm

We were told many times, even on CB, over the past 12+ years that “if BYU were

rainorsnow

3/22/23 7:24pm

IIRC, BYU gave ESPN a discount for the right to rebroadcast the games on KBYU right after the ESPN broadcast.

ManicBlue

3/22/23 7:24pm

I think the "discount" was mostly inventory. Fewer guaranteed BYU games (home)

TheRowdy

3/22/23 7:28pm

Indy contracts are mutually beneficial, but don't pay schools great.

BamaCoug

3/22/23 7:51pm

Wasn't the $10M/year the speculated amount from the first indy contract? I've

thewaterboy

3/22/23 8:02pm

I recall $6-8M/yr in first contract and $8-12M for second... but can't source it

BamaCoug

3/22/23 8:05pm

Why no leverage? What was stopping us from going to Fox, NBC, etc.?

Y05

3/22/23 8:29pm

Maybe they shopped it. I don't know. But BYU was in dire need of a media partner

BamaCoug

3/22/23 9:43pm

Absolutely did not want to crawl back to the MWC or go to the now gutted WAC.

ManicBlue

3/22/23 9:48pm

Exposure was key imo and BYU did what most schools could not

Pro Logic

3/22/23 8:37pm

Looks like they read CougarBoard and saw your post.Article has been updated:

Narfin'Coug

3/22/23 9:04pm

Of course he reads CB.

Soupie

3/22/23 9:07pm

Ha! Nice.

BamaCoug

3/22/23 10:06pm

Dick Harmon is a good dude but he comes from a school of thought

travelcoug

3/22/23 9:21pm

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