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Oregon State Beavers (official thread)

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CincyInterloper said:
When you only have bad options, you pick the best bad option you have. This might be that option.
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Wasn’t there a BYU TV or some shit for a while? They joined the Big 12-16, but if your options are all bad, it’s not the worst idea…unless you can’t schedule any money-making games, that is. If their home slate is 3 dates with New Mexico State and 3 with Liberty, they might be in trouble.
 
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Bucklion said:
Wasn’t there a BYU TV or some shit for a while? They joined the Big 12-16, but if your options are all bad, it’s not the worst idea…unless you can’t schedule any money-making games, that is. If their home slate is 3 dates with New Mexico State and 3 with Liberty, they might be in trouble.
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BYU also had a deal with ESPN when they became a independent to air their home games (most on ESPNU) that really helped keep them afloat.

BYU is a special case though i'm not sure Oregon State could pull the same thing off. BYU TV also worked because

The network is currently available to approximately 65 million cable and DTH (direct-to-home) satellite subscribers in the United States
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I doubt "Beaver TV" would have nearly that reach.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
BYU also had a deal with ESPN when they became a independent to air their home games (most on ESPNU) that really helped keep them afloat.

BYU is a special case though i'm not sure Oregon State could pull the same thing off. BYU TV also worked because



I doubt "Beaver TV" would have nearly that reach.
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It might, depending on what they show between football games.
 
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Bucklion said:
Wasn’t there a BYU TV or some shit for a while? They joined the Big 12-16, but if your options are all bad, it’s not the worst idea…unless you can’t schedule any money-making games, that is. If their home slate is 3 dates with New Mexico State and 3 with Liberty, they might be in trouble.
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There was. At one point is was about the only source I could get for watching college lacrosse. The production quality sucked, but it was way better than no lacrosse.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
and once in late November for the SEC.
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Bucklion said:
Wasn’t there a BYU TV or some shit for a while? They joined the Big 12-16, but if your options are all bad, it’s not the worst idea…unless you can’t schedule any money-making games, that is. If their home slate is 3 dates with New Mexico State and 3 with Liberty, they might be in trouble.
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BYU is a weird animal.
They're the ND of Mormons... much smaller demo than Catholics, but still has a certain national following. And that translates into a floor on viewership that far exceeds alum base, with a decent ceiling when they're competitive.
And always some big donors in the wings who shell out for the religion.
 
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The Oregon State AD is getting desperate and "grabbing at straws":

Oregon St. AD: Promotion/relegation model 'worthy of study'​

As Oregon State and Washington State prepare for their top-25 matchup Saturday amid the strong possibility of being stripped of their Power 5 status next season, OSU athletic director Scott Barnes indicated he is curious about the possibility of promotion/relegation in college football.

A promotion/relegation model, which is used in most professional soccer leagues around the world, allows teams to move up and down through different divisions or leagues based on their on-field performance each season. A proposal to adopt a similar structure within college football was recently drafted by Boise State associate athletic director Michael Walsh, according to Front Office Sports.

"As you think about the future of even media rights, I think a sort of relegation model, either in unequal distribution, a contraction of teams and/or peer relegation will take place. I think that's coming," Barnes said in a joint news conference with presidents and athletic directors from OSU and WSU on Thursday. "In terms of the model itself, I think there's some merit to look at some form of hybrid model that does support that. We see it working in a similar fashion in Europe, and certainly it's worthy of our study."
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However, there are several significant hurdles that make the possibility of promotion/relegation across college football very unlikely, most of which are tied in some way to media rights contracts.

"I don't know how you practically move to these particular models that you could even get a lot of people to sit around and agree to," WSU president Kirk Schulz said. "There's going to have to be some other disruptors that are going to force it, and I'm just not sure we're going to see a lot of movement in this space in the next four to five years just because people are locked down into particular media contracts."
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