Root Sports Schedule Announced

[SDHornet]

I got this response from our AD:

SDHornet (yes this is my real name),

We just received the schedule as well and have not had a chance to visit with the league about it. The biggest change is we are moving from having to pay for the broadcasts. Root Sports is now paying the BSC for the right fees to the games. Since the Montana schools had previous been the only ones with a TV package they will receive the majority of the dollars, but each school is saving $10,000 immediately by not having to pay for the broadcasts like we did in the past. Sacramento State continues to look for opportunities to get our football team on the air, but it is a tough sell right now. We will broadcast the Causeway Classic for sure. Thanks for your continued interest.

Dr. Wanless

I think this was a prepared response (or someone else had questions and he copied and pasted a previous response) as I received a reply in less than 5 minutes.

Initially I was OK with the TV deal even with the Montanan centric schedule (seriously who honestly didn’t expect that to happen) but what worries me is wtf does “they will receive the majority of the dollars” equate to?

 

[clawman1]

Conference officials mentioned they were not aware of the schedule until announced by Root. If that is true, they are terrible negotiators and not really interested in the best interest of ALL schools in the conference, or THEY LIE!!!
How in the hell do you not know that?? Or if not the exact schedule, at least the intentions of the network.

 

[kalm]

One nice part about this is because of recent success and the fact that both schools tend to travel well, attendance for the Montana's away games should be decent. Honestly, UC Davis at UNC wouldn't exactly be the best representation of BSC football.

 

[EWURanger]

Conference officials mentioned they were not aware of the schedule until announced by Root. If that is true, they are terrible negotiators and not really interested in the best interest of ALL schools in the conference, or THEY LIE!!!
How in the hell do you not know that?? Or if not the exact schedule, at least the intentions of the network.

Smoke and mirrors. They absolutely knew, there's no way they couldn't have known.