Quote from: Pat Coleman on July 16, 2025, 08:51:18 PMQuote from: Gregory Sager on July 16, 2025, 04:38:32 PMand it's the nine presidents and their cabinets who call the big-picture-policy shots in the CCIW, not the league office in Naperville.
True of most conferences for something at this level, and that point belies the thought that CCIW SIDs would magically know everything. The Flo MO is to tell conferences to keep this away from their SIDs, ever since the NACC SIDs got the proposal killed in their conference.
There's no "magic" to it. It's simply good administrative policy to consult with the employees who have the most firsthand knowledge of an aspect of corporate function before making a radical change to that corporate function, if for no other reason than feasibility. F'rinstance, Ryan's been laying out the financial specs for FloSports vis-a-vis how many subscribers it's going to require per school. Well, the people who have the hard data on how many eyeballs are watching a school's sports webcasts are the SIDs / directors of athletics communications.
With regard to the SID revolt in the NACC, the CCIW's braintrust in Naperville was interested in PPV as well -- I'm assuming FloSports, but I don't know for sure that that was the vendor in question -- but the CCIW's SIDs raised a hue and cry about it. I don't know if the commish's interest in PPV was nixed or simply tabled by the league's presidents, but I do know that there's been a plan in the works for about a year now to go with an umbrella site for the nine schools' individual networks to continue their free streaming, like what the WIAC has.