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The Southland expects to announce additional television games for the 2007 season in the near future.

2007 SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE FOOTBALL (COX SPORTS TELEVISION)
Sept. 15, Nicholls State at Nevada, 8 p.m.
Oct. 6, * Northwestern State at Nicholls State, 2 p.m.
Oct. 13, * Southeastern Louisiana at Northwestern State, 2:30 p.m.
Oct. 27, * Southeastern Louisiana at McNeese State, 7 p.m.
Nov. 10, * Northwestern State at McNeese State, 7 p.m.
Nov. 17, * Nicholls State at Southeastern Louisiana, 2:30 p.m.
ALL TIMES CENTRAL
* Southland Conference Game

What in the world?
The breakdown:

McNeese - 2
Nicholls - 3
Northwestern - 3
SELA - 3

And the other four have zero?
UCA, SHSU, SFA, TSU

Hopefully the "additional television games for the 2007 season" that will be announced "in the near future" will include more than just those four teams.

Not big fans of Texas or Arkansas football, are they?

If I recall, our game last year was on Fox Sports Southwest. I understand they are STILL working on their schedule with the Big 12 and other conferences.

We should hear something shortly.

I don't know this for a fact, but understand that Cox serves to communities in southwest Arkansas and that's about it.

Burly Bear

I'm pretty sure some of NWA also has Cox. I think I remember some UAF baseball games being on Cox and those up there were happy with it.

I've been told that Cox is all over Louisiana and in portions of northeast Texas. That may be part of the explanation.

Burly Bear

i think they're hq'd in new orleans

Welcome aboard, MaximumBobcat!

Cox Sports TV was primarily formed to televise New Orleans Hornets basketball across the region and has evolved into a regional "ESPN" style channel in Louisiana, parts of texas, arkansas, and florida. We've had games on Cox since 2003 and they do a pretty good job overall. Production quality is good and they find good talent to do play-by-play and color. It's a good deal for us because the channel is on just about every cable carrier in our recruiting area.

Cox also picks up the Gulf South Conference game of the week and had a chance to see UCA a couple of years ago.

I'm hearing Fox Sports SW is looking to cut back, if not cut out, all of their FCS/Southland coverage. I think they're committed to doing some games this year but I doubt they'll slot any games on Saturday night. That probably means Thursday nights for whichever SLC teams want to be on FSSW.

You are correct, but I don't recall seeing any UAF games on there this past year. I think they were on either Fox Sports or ESPN. Cox has the monopoly on the NWA metro.

Just because I don't want to appear like I'm wrong ---

Date Opponent AR Rank Opp Rank Location Time (CST) Results Media
Sat, Feb 03 Louisiana Tech 7 - at Ruston, La. 3 p.m. 2 - 9 (L) Cox Sports TV
Sat, Apr 14 Florida* (2) 9 17 Fayetteville, Ark. 6:10 p.m. 7 - 1 (W) Cox Sports TV
Sun, Apr 15 Florida* 9 17 Fayetteville, Ark. 12:05 p.m. 10 - 7 (W) Cox Sports TV
Fri, Apr 20 Georgia* 9 - at Athens, Ga. 5:37 p.m. 1 - 6 (L) Cox Sports TV
Wed, Apr 25 Wichita State 7 10 Fayetteville, Ark. 7:05 p.m. 10 - 2 (W) Cox Sports TV
Sun, May 06 LSU* 7 - Fayetteville, Ark. 12:35 p.m. 3 - 5 (L) Cox Sports TV
SEC Tournament
Wed, May 23 Alabama 15 - at Hoover, Ala. 10 a.m. 6 - 0 (W) CST
Thu, May 24 South Carolina 15 9 at Hoover, Ala. 5:06 p.m. 6 - 0 (W) CST

About this time last year, I heard that the SLC was looking at the possibility of doing the television production, marketing, etc. all in house, thus eliminating the likes of Fox and Cox.

We may be watching this slowly unfold.

Stay tuned.

Burly Bear

I'm still curious as to what happened to our (SLC) deal with The America Channel ( http://www.americachannel.us/ ) any word on when that kicks in?

glad to be here!

back on topic...FSSW really stinks.

I am sick of Thursday Night games. If they were nationall broadcast on ESPN2 or something, that would be different. But FSSW doesn't really show Texas State to anybody that doesn't already know about us, and thursday night games are ALWAYS low attendance game, which just makes both teams look bad on TV.

all around...icky.

Hopefully the SLC can soon work out a TV deal like the CAA just did: LINK