Jay Hinton offers his take on getting the WAC on television

Here's Jay Hinton's take on the WAC, a television deal and the BracketBuster:

BracketBuster worth it for now
Jay Hinton
Deseret News
USU Aggies Blog
Feb. 14, 2008

When it comes to being seen on television on a national stage, the Utah State Aggies haven't received much face time.

Since Western Athletic Conference officials decided not to renew the conference's television contract with ESPN, very few teams in the league, for that matter, have played on the network.

The Aggies have played a total 10 games on television this year and only two -- New Mexico State (ESPN2) and Vanderbilt (CSTV) have been the only 'national?' games, while they have played eight others on FSN-Utah, ESPN Regional and KJZZ.

Officials in the WAC office may not admit it, but the extra money it was asking for and denied by ESPN, wasn't worth it seeing that the league lost Big Monday and any other contracted games.

I guess hindsight is 20/20.

Hopefully the WAC office has learned its lesson and will get a deal in place even if it is for less money. You can't bite the hand that feeds you even if it is offering crumbs...

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