Dynamo schedule 2017

5 of the first 7 home games in that stretch are against non-playoff teams from 2016. Can't come out of first 10 games with 12-13 points, need some wins.

 

I see your point for people in the valley, hill country, deep east Texas. Then don't make it exclusive or make it exclusive only as far as the UHF can beam/is on basic cable, and make deals with surrounding areas also. Kind of like the other major league teams in town might have radio outlets in Austin, Shreveport, or the like. Or get agreement they can stream the games on the website.

 

Done for what? Playoffs? (Cue Mora video) Championship? Last one isn't happening this season and first one, well, even with crap Dynamo teams that's never decided til the last weeks. But I think we need to wait and see if the mild reboot has changed the team enough, before we even worry about that. There is enough "if" on this team, if the new attackers flourish given the wheel of a team (or if we see why Monterrey sat their a$$), if the old defenders can still play and stay healthy (or do we see why they were surplus), etc., where I need to see some games just to consider whether this is much better than last season. And then we need to see how the balance of power shifts around us. Is LAG the same team minus Arena. Does Colorado stay strong, etc. Then I think you can meaningfully ponder how the schedule sets up.

 

May just be me being prejudiced, but I'm not wasting the effort on cognitive dissonance; besides, not an argument worth having.

 

On that TV deal, this caught my eye - there are more tweets in this thread but sounds like may be announced this week and not Root or Fox Sports SW. I gotta admit I get a chuckle about these claims that the Dynamo wasn't happy with Root like they were mistreated - beggars couldn't be choosers and they were probably fortunate they got a deal at all considering their ratings are at Blutarski levels (0.0).

I hear it's not going to be FS unfortunately, but I know it's going to be local and not ROOT

— Foxtrot (@DynamicFoxtrot) January 19, 2017

 

http://www.houstondynamo.com/post/2017/01/19/kube-tv-channel-57-tv-home-houston-dynamo-2017

 

Dynamo have a TV home (see below) - Canetti's comment in the press release about this being the first time everybody in the Houston market can see the games since 2012 is real rich since he's the one he signed a deal with CSN Houston to begin with (to be fair I don't blame them they threw cash on the table something that no other broadcaster has done to the Dynamo at this point)

http://www.houstondynamo.com/post/2017/01/19/kube-tv-channel-57-tv-home-houston-dynamo-2017

 

Glad I'll be able to catch their games on tv since I won't be going to the stadium as much. This was critical at this point to keep people curious.

 

Yeah, this is the deal I alluded to recently. Glad to see them on Kube rather than cable.

 

I love the fact that they are on the TUBE now solely because I can DVR the heck out of the games and don't have to pay for MLS Live anymore out of pocket.

 

As a point of correction they're actually on the Cube KUBE and not The TUBE channel 55 which I think is now some Spanish station. They were on channel 55 back in 2006 and 2007 I think.

The Tube 55 also didn't pay the Dynamo monies that they were owed under the broadcasting agreement and the Dynamo had to sue them in Harris County court.

From a non-financial perspective this is a very good deal for the Dynamo - a broader audience with people who don't have cable or a dish. My guess is they got jack squat in actual rights fees but maybe they don't have to spend as much money covering cost to broadcast the game. They also got the TV deal done early in the year so they can actually spend a little bit of time promoting the thing on 57.

 

I'd assume the conflicts would be with ACC stuff either early or late in the season.

Maybe they can work out a supplementary local deal to cover those games. If they run the remaining games on the website, that's not a great fallback for general viewing but sufficient for me.

 

At this stage of the year would a game (or two) "with RGV" really be in many ways an intrasquad scrimmage? I am sure there are some non first team camp RGV but a lot of their people are in our camp as trialists.....so is everyone in our camp playing for us or are we going to hand RGV some players to play us?

I ask in part because as presently structured I don't know if we would/could cut many people.

 

So is UTRGV successor to UTPA?

 

Right, but, cutting the other way, only 23 people are exclusively signed to the first team, so some more people have to make the team. Though it is not a sure thing, a likely source would be the 12 picks and trialists. But if RGV is not really in camp yet, those 12 are also your primary pool for potential RGV players with some observed fitness.

I get your point but also feel like there has to be some double bookkeeping to come up with a nominal RGV unit this point in the preseason. I assume it's packaged as RGV v Houston and not Houston orange v Houston black to sell tickets and promote RGV. It's true several of the 35 will be headed there and add to the core of the team. But they don't play regular season til late March and I'd be curious if we had actual "cuts" before the games where it's really us v them in some permanent sense.

In fact, having been on JV teams that beat the varsity soundly, and having made my first division one club team because our B team would repeatedly beat the A team, if the game means anything it should actually have the potential to problematize the very cuts it's supposed to reinforce. My club team listened to what the results were saying and promoted B teamers mid-season. We soon were competing for club state. My varsity left us on JV -- even as we beat the seniors -- and went out first round of the playoffs. We were varsity the next year but they blew a season being stubborn. So that's one reason I'm a little dubious on making the distinctions so sharp, Dynamo v RGV, right out of the gate. You'd think you'd play a game that "counts" in front of the public before slapping labels on people.

 

I did notice it wasn't on RGV's site when I looked at it. [I was interested if they were in camp and when their season started.] If you're not pimping the RGV brand to its fans, for either tickets or even announced exposure, then why are we going down there at all? If it's a glorified intrasquad game they can play here same as there. UTRGV could drive up for the cost of a van or two of gas and I am sure would be excited to play us just the same. I don't get calling it a RGV game and dressing people in RGV unis and going down there if it's not marketed to push RGV further along in some way.

I will be interested who plays for who, because you obviously wouldn't want the most likely Dynamo blurring onto their team in any way. So it will suggest how players are trending. But it's going to have to get at least a little weird because we don't have enough signed players for a MLS roster (without trialists and picks), and they would need subs, so it's bound to be some people essentially in the wrong uni for how it actually works out.

 

If you look at that list, the only teams with blackouts are the higher profile successful teams that very likely have local TV deals where they are getting paid an actual rights fee so the broadcaster wants all eyeballs on their TV feed.

So in short, The Kube probably isn't paying the Dynamo anything to broadcast games