Boise State's Unique TV Contractual setup has the MWC expected to receive over $1 million from ESPN: Bronco Blitz

Mountain West Conference to get $1.1M from ESPN, due to Unique TV Contractual setup by Boise State

Broncos of Boise State Trying to Blitz the Whole State of Idaho

BOISE, Idaho — Boise State University entering second year of deal with ESPN that will give the school athletic conference, MWC, at least $1.1 million and up to $2.6 million more in bonuses for broadcasting most of its football games on the sports network.

The Idaho Business Review (http://bit.ly/1lvc1rr) reports ESPN will show all but one of the Broncos' home games this fall, with a non-conference game against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette shown on the +CBS Sports Network cable channel.

CBS Sports Network is the primary rights holder for most games in the Mountain West Conference, to which Boise State belongs. But ESPN is the primary rights holder for Boise State home games.

The Broncos get $300,000 for any home or Mountain West Conference game on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. The Mountain West also gets $200,000 for any game played on Saturday.

Under the schedule released April 17, the Broncos will get $500,000 for the team's home opener, a Saturday game against Colorado State University on Sept. 6 that will be broadcast on ESPN2. The Broncos also get $300,000 each for Friday night home games against Fresno State and Brigham Young University in October that will be on ESPN or ESPN2.

If any of the Broncos' final three games are picked up by one of ESPN's main networks, the university will get a bonus.

The Mountain West Conference doesn't disclose how much the CBS Sports Network football contract pays each team.

VIDEO: Boise State football set to blitz Idaho high schools

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College Football Talk of NBC Sports

Give Bryan Harsin and his Boise State coaching staff credit: they are the dictionary definition of going the extra mile — literally — to make sure they’re known in every nook and cranny of the their home state.

Over the weekend, the football program announced an initiative that’s been dubbed the “Bronco Blitz.” Over the course of the next four days, Harsin’s nine assistants — because of NCAA bylaws, Harsin isn’t allowed to visit recruits during the spring evaluation period – will visit every single football-playing Idaho high school, 130 in all.

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According to the Idaho Press-Tribune, the coaches will travel a collective 4,000-plus miles on their journey, passing through or visiting “an estimated 137 of the 201 cities or towns in Idaho.” The Idaho Statesman writes that “[t]he coaches will use social media to update fans, sharing photos, videos and an updated Bronco Blitz map.”

Just eight Idaho football players in the Class of 2014 signed with FBS football programs, and of that number just two stayed in-state and signed with the Broncos. Harsin said his goal is to reverse that trend.

“The goal is simple: Make sure the best and brightest talent in this state, football or otherwise, wear blue and orange and don’t have to look outside of the state for their college future,” the first-year BSU head coach said in a video, which just happens to appear below.

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