Thursday, August 17, 2006

TV Deal, BYU, Utah, PAC-10

 

 

From: Sales [mailto:records@aros.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:13 AM
To: Limburg, Garth
Subject: Re: TV Deal

 

Your analysis is right on about the mtw west/craig thompson deal...what a shame. As to BYU getting into the PAC 10...well it will never happen until BYU or the PAC 10 change their posture on Sunday play. I am not talking about Sunday play for football because very few Sunday games are played by any college football teams. I am talking about Sunday play in all the other PAC 10 Sports, where Sunday paly is mandatory, and I don't see BYU ever changing their mind about not playing on Sunday (nor do I think they should change) but I can't see all 10 Presidents in agreement (has to be 100% agreement to make a change) to add BYU to it's fold and agree to change it's policy to not playing on Sunday. It won't happen. I am not saying this as a Utah VS BYU fan. Utah has a much better chance of Joining the PAC 10 than any other teams with the exception of Texas and Colorado, but why would Texas want to join the PAC 10? They have proven they can win a national championship by being in the weaker Big 12, and they are making boatloads of money where they are right now. Colorade is a few years away from getting any invite to the PAC 10 with it's recent scandals. I just don't see the need for the PAC 10 to want to expand. When I talk to serious PAC 10 fans that live here, they laugh at me when I ask the question about Utah and BYU being considered to join the PAC 10. I heard a top level employee from comcast on the radio this morning on 1320 kfan state that comcast is in 44% of the metro area that represents 95% of the population base of the state, and he stated that direct tv,  and dish network are working out plans to have those platforms sign deals for the mtn and cstv. He said that Comcast, direct tv and dish network were all trying to get the cstv/mtn deal, but that comcast had the more powerful upper hand, and so the deal was struck with them first. He was very, very very confident that deals will be made in the next 2 weeks. He also spoke about comcasts production quality for the games. He said that they have contracted with ESPN companies to produce the broadcasts, and that the quality will be superb. Hopefully this will all work out. I am excited for the 13 of us that will be at the UCLA _ Utah game on the 2nd. I thing both games BYU - Arizona and UTAH - UCLA are pretty much make or break seanon games for both teams. I will make this statement. If Utah and BYU win their openers, they will have outstanding seasons. If they don't win their opener, they will have better than average seasons, which is about what they had last year.

Gotta go...

Brother Matt

----- Original Me

To: Sales

Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:26 AM

Subject: FW: TV Deal

 

Here is a good analysis by Kevin Curtis.  I think you and he are on the same page and I agree 100%.

 

From: Limburg, Garth
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:23 AM
To: 'tijis311.uysports@blogger.com'
Cc: 'Tijs Limburg'; 'Eric Limburg'
Subject: TV Deal

 

 

 

From: Kevin Curtis [mailto:klcbrazil@cascadeaccess.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:05 PM
To: Limburg, Garth
Cc: bruceg@chpdc.com; Sandra Gale; Israelita Goya; Merland Halisky; DNACurtis@yahoo.com; Mike Curtis; Nevin Limburg
Subject: Re: TV Deal

 

Hey Garth,

 

I'm still highly skeptical that our commissioner's effort to create a "bonanza" will work.  In fact, when the Utes went undefeated..................they at least were seen nationwide for a couple ESPN games.  Now, I'm afraid, the only people to ever again see a MWC game will be the select few in Utah and Colorado willing to pay.  It's discouraging..........I actually enjoyed Thursday and Friday games.  Our commissioner says it's time to bring the games back to sat. afternoon.  Problem is............the Big Ten and other leagues play then also...............at least we gained some national exposure with the odd nights.

 

Nevada, quite frankly, could care less.  I called the manager of the cable company here.......two days ago.........and he had never even heard of "mtn" or CSTV.  Typical.........I'm afraid.  He is the manager yet he knows nothing..............is our commissioner really, truly out selling this?  Or is he taking the money and running?

 

I debated whether or not to get season tickets this year again......awfully long drive for a game, plus I'll be driving all over Utah to watch my boys play JV and Varsity football for Parowan.  In the end, I knew I had to if I wanted to see the games...................I haven't missed a BYU game in 26 years.  I'm sad I'll miss virtually all the Ute games...................I love scouting them!!!!

 

BYU plays Boston College on ESPN2, thankfully, and I'll be flying with my kids to Tucson.  Add 6 home games...........leaving 4 I'll have to find a satellite or something.........including vs. Utah in SLC in November.

 

All in all..............if you live in SLC or Provo where there is a demand.........the cable and satellite companies respond to that demand.  I wonder about San Diego and Albuquerque, etc.  UNLV only sells out when they play us, otherwise, that huge city doesn't care much about football and is losing hoop interest too since Tarkanian left.

 

I will miss turning on KJZZ to watch, for example, Wyoming vs. Air Force or CSU.  We might be able to catch some of the UCLA-Utah game from our Tucson hotel room prior to our own game but I'll miss, for example, the Utah-Boise State game............in years past, almost all the games were on the tube.  Thankfully, in Mesquite, our cable company gets both the SLC and Vegas network stations and KJZZ.  In years past, this has been awesome.  Channel 4 (ABC out of SLC) and Channel 13 (ABC out of Vegas) have shown two regional games simultaneously.  SLC likes to show a lot of Big 12 whereas Vegas shows the PAC 10 almost exclusively.  It was nice to flip back and forth between a Texas-Texas Tech game and, say, Arizona State-USC. 

 

I'm afraid the MWC could become the Big Sky on a national perception level.  How many Big Sky games have you seen?  The Montana teams actually play good football........but nobody ever sees or cares, nationally speaking.  With our league buried on some "mtn" network............I'm just worried about national respect..........especially when it's deserved like Utah 2 years ago.

 

One final thought..............in this modern age of college sports being driven by money...............I'm still surprised the PAC 10 does not seem to even want to consider Utah or BYU or both as new members.  I know BYU's conservatism is a bad fit............but consider this..........................did the league officials not notice how many Ute fans flooded Tempe 2 years ago?  And when I called the Univ. of Arizona ticket office for tickets to the Sept. 2nd game (BYU's allottment was already gone from Provo),  the guy sold me 5 then laughed when I asked him where the BYU fans were sitting.  He said, "It's almost unprecedented............BYU fans have bought out virtually the entire upper deck........we'll probably sell more seats for the BYU game than our huge PAC 10 games (like USC and ASU)."

 

A few years ago the PAC 10 courted Texas and Colorado to join the league.  Texas...........I can understand.......they have a huge following.....but CU?  Would CU fans buy out the entire upper deck in Tucson?  BYU may not enjoy a lot of liberal scholarly friends along the left coast......but surely should not be ignored for an uncanny ability to put thousands of fans in seats........home and away.  If we had a few whacko liberal professors like CU does...........perhaps we could get more recognition!!

 

Anyway..........I'll be relying on you guys for some descriptions of the games..............including the UCLA game.  I know Monson today strongly suggested Whittingham should pick Ratliff.  I have a feeling Coach Whit wants some athleticism at the QB position in the Rose Bowl.  Johnson wins the race........................prediction from Mesquite.  The last game played in the Rose Bowl had a wonderfully athletic QB from Texas who took the game over......and won the National Championship.

 

I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy........................

 

Paul "the stats mean more than the game" James

 

 

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:35 AM

Subject: TV Deal

 

Please explain what is going on with CSTV and MTN channels in Mesquite.  I am interested.  –Bill Marcroft-

 

From: Kevin Curtis [mailto:klcbrazil@cascadeaccess.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:14 AM
To: Limburg, Garth; Nevin Limburg; Sales; Tijs Limburg; dmx311@gmail.com; bruceg@chpdc.com; kmcmullin@commercecrg.com
Subject: Re: Utah Football

 

I may need to camp out at Bruce's or Garth's house.............Mesquite is really locked out.  I miss ESPN and KJZZ already!!!!!!!!!!!

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:43 PM

Subject: Utah Football

 

Here is the latest tally of where people believe Utah Football is in terms of the conference and country.  By the way, it appears that after about eight years with DirecTV that I am going to have to migrate over to Comcast cable both for the ability to get CSTV and MTN channels and for the price of the package.  This will also allow me to get rid of my landline telephone which DirecTV requires and which I don’t need anymore because everyone in the house has a cell phone.  Anyone disagree?  -Garth-

 

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