Boise State and Mountain West Conference playing chicken over deal

[Fido]

https://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/c ... 13553.html

In a statement issued on Friday evening, Boise State admitted it had “some hesitation” about ending its longstanding relationship with ESPN as part of the Mountain West’s new TV rights deal and refuted the conference’s claim that this would be the last time the Broncos’ home games would be negotiated separately.

During a conference call on Jan. 9, Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said conference members met in December and decided they wanted more equity in future deals. But Boise State said its decision to rejoin the conference in 2012 was predicated, in part, on the right to negotiate its home games separately and that cannot be changed by a conference vote.

“Boise State’s decision to join the conference was predicated on a number of negotiated provisions, including the right to separately negotiate material terms of media rights relating to our home games,” a university spokesperson said in Friday’s statement. “This is stated in our conference agreement and cannot be changed by any vote of the membership or conflicting agreement. We will not support any change to this provision and are in the process of weighing our options to move forward.”

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Who didn't see this coming. Further instability among conferences and teams should be good for BYU long term provided some conference realignment ends up being part of the solution.

[frdbtr]

Say what?! I thought BYU was the only difficult school to work with.

[Jarhead]

Say what?! I thought BYU was the only difficult school to work with.

So much this! The junk the MWC teams talk about BYU is ridiculous. If they had simply allowed BYU to have rebroadcast rights on BYUtv from the beginning, BYU may have never left.

[EM_Puma]

Say what?! I thought BYU was the only difficult school to work with.

So much this! The junk the MWC teams talk about BYU is ridiculous. If they had simply allowed BYU to have rebroadcast rights on BYUtv from the beginning, BYU may have never left.

Exactly, and it sounds like Hair Thompson didn't learn the first time. Makes you really wonder why he has maintained his job so long.

[Jarhead]

Do you think anyone out there is still whining that we should have gone back to the MWC?

[blue42]

Do you think anyone out there is still whining that we should have gone back to the MWC?

Or Boise's decision not to jump ship in 2012 since they didn't get an invite to the Big12 last week?

[scott715]

Tom Homoe knows better than the average fan.