From: SCHMIDT@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Jon Schmidt)
Subject: Re: A Reply to constant ND Bashing (CB)
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:57:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.173644.16783@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
pfleming@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick E Fleming) writes:
>
>Jason "Raise Cane" Fawcett writes:
>
>>Wrong.
>Damn!
>
>> All I-A teams except the Big-10 and Pac-10 and Notre Dame are in
>>the CFA.
>
>This is not true.  MAC teams, for example, are not members of the CFA.  The CFA
>has only 64 member schools.
>
>> ND was CFA but quit.
>
>This si not true.  Notre Dame is still a member of the CFA.
>
>> Because the CFA limits the National TV games for one school.
>
>Not only is this a sentence fragment, it is not true.  This is the whole point
>of the CFA which was ofunded following a Supreme Court ruling strctly
>forbidding the limiting of the number of games on television which you say the
>CFA does.
>
>Incidentally, the television rights for Notre Dame's road games are still
>covered by the CFA deal.  There is, however, a conflict when Notre Dame (or any
>CFA member insitution) plays a Big Ten or Pac Ten team since the Big and Pac
>Tens have their own contracts.  This damn near lead to the non-coverae of the
>Notre Dame/USC game in the inagural year of the CFA television contract.
>
>     - Pat
 
Since the CFA is headquartered here in Boulder, I decided to ask them
directly.  I spoke with the Marketing Director, Mike Bohn.  Although he
wouldn't provide copies of the CFA's television agreements with ABC and
ESPN, he was very helpful and encourages phone calls whenever questions
about the CFA arise.  The CFA's phone numbers are:
    (303) 530-5566 (voice)
    (303) 530-5371 (fax)
 
Here are some CFA facts:
 
- The CFA was established in 1977 when major college football schools
  became frustrated by their inability to determine their own destiny
  through the NCAA voting process.  Particularly exasperating was the
  fact that non-football playing colleges voted on football-related
  legislation.  Since 1984, the first year affected by the Supreme Court
  ruling that deregulated college football on television, the CFA has
  negotiated contracts to televise its members' football games.
 
- The CFA currently has 67 members, including:
  All Division I-A football members of the following conferences -
    Atlantic Coast Conference
    Big East Conference
    Big Eight Conference
    Southeastern Conference
    Southwest Conference
    Western Athletic Conference
  Independents -
    Army
    Cincinnati
    East Carolina
    Louisville
    Memphis St
    Navy
    Notre Dame
    Penn St
    Southern Mississippi
    Southwestern Louisiana (associate member)
    Tulane
    Tulsa
 
- Of the 67 CFA members, only 63 participate in the ABC/ESPN television
  agreements.  The four members that do not participate are:
    Cincinnati
    Fresno St
    Notre Dame
    Southwestern Louisiana
 
- The first year of the CFA's current television broadcast agreements
  with ABC and ESPN was 1991.  The agreements are effective through the
  1995 season and will ultimately pay the participating CFA members $300
  million.  This dollar value reflects the downward adjustment required
  upon discovering that Notre Dame would not participate in the
  agreements.
 
- The CFA contracts with ABC/ESPN specify that no member will appear in
  more than 6 CFA broadcasts in a season, distributed as follows:
    3 appearances on ABC
    2 appearances on ESPN
    1 additional "wildcard" appearance on either ABC or ESPN
 
- The terms of the CFA contracts are applicable only when one of the 63
  participating members is the home team.  For example, ABC's broadcast
  of Miami's game at Iowa this season was not counted toward Miami's
  limit of 6 ABC/ESPN appearances because the game was broadcast under
  provisions of ABC's contract with the Big10/Pac10.
 
- I asked Mike about rumors that the SEC is seeking to negotiate a TV
  deal separate from the CFA, like the Big10/Pac10 has.  He told me that
  the SEC is locked into the CFA's TV agreements through the 1995 season.
 
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