[USAsoccer]

According to USAtoday Rudy Martke.

He claims that the network has signed the Atlantic 10.

I was unaware that the A-10 had a football league.

In any case, assuming this network does start, and that it's primary focus is College Football in the Fall, what will it do in the Spring and Summer....

I mean, with a name like "The Football Network"...it does not take a rocket scientist to figure where that might go....

For my book, MLS shoud stay with ESPN/ABC until and unless the money is worth a move.

[kenntomasch]

You're not serious, are you?

[eric515]

Originally posted by USAsoccer
According to USAtoday Rudy Martke.

He claims that the network has signed the Atlantic 10.

I was unaware that the A-10 had a football league.

In any case, assuming this network does start, and that it's primary focus is College Football in the Fall, what will it do in the Spring and Summer....

I mean, with a name like "The Football Network"...it does not take a rocket scientist to figure where that might go....

For my book, MLS shoud stay with ESPN/ABC until and unless the money is worth a move.

The A-10 is a I-AA football league, and it looks nothing like the hoops incarnation of the conference. Will and Mary, James Madison, Maine, Deleware, etc. are some of the teams who play in football there.

As for it taking on footy in the spring...we will see. Maybe they will try and find any and all indoor football instead.

I had heard of the new National College Sports Network, brought to you by the initial creators of Classic Sports (which was bought by ESPN) and it will feature entirely collegiate sporting events, which should help the exposure of college soccer.

[SoFla Metro]

Originally posted by kenntomasch
You're not serious, are you?

I'm afraid he might be.

[monster]

http://www.footballnetwork.com/cfscripts/home.cfm

http://www.ncta.com/industry_overvie...d=250&detail=1

[kenntomasch]

From the first site:

"Currently, ABC, ESPN, Fox and CBS hold the rights to air NFL games and TFN has not been developed to compete with the major networks, but to compliment their programming."

"Hey, nice programming you got there."

You can tell immediately they're serious. As the NFL owners said of the AAFC in 1946, "Let them get a ball first."

Let them get on anyone's cable system first.

[USAsoccer]

Kenn: "Surely you must be kidding"

USA: "I am not kidding, and don't call me Surely!"

[SoFla Metro]

Originally posted by kenntomasch
From the first site:



"Hey, nice programming you got there."

You can tell immediately they're serious. As the NFL owners said of the AAFC in 1946, "Let them get a ball first."

Let them get on anyone's cable system first.

Real life LOL

[slip2break]

I think that this would be promising 10 years down the road, when cable picks it up....... football is football.

-r

[SoFla Metro]

Originally posted by slip2break
I think that this would be promising 10 years down the road, when cable picks it up....... football is football.

-r

If it takes them ten years to get picked up on cable systems, that'll be nine years after they're dead and buried.