[Students] Texas A&M University-Commerce to Open 2007 Football Season on Nat ional Television

[Daniel Kambel]

Texas A&M University-Commerce and Pittsburg State University announced today
that the 2007 football season opener will be broadcast live nationwide on
CSTV.

The game, which will be played on Saturday, August 25, was originally
scheduled for 7 p.m.,and now has been tentatively set to kick off at 1:30
p.m. (CDT) at Brandenburg Field/Carnie Smith Stadium.  In addition, the game
will be available for free online through CSTV.com.
  
³I am excited that our university will be showcased on national television.
I have high expectations that our fans will tune in and attend the game,²
said new athletic director Carlton Cooper.

Texas A&M University-Commerce president Keith McFarland is excited about the
opportunity. ³This is a great opportunity for Texas A&M University-Commerce
and for our football team because this will give us national exposure, which
can only be beneficial to the university. As a marketing resource, we
couldn¹t ask for a better means to get our name out there, where we are
located, and what we are about.²

Scotty Conley, head football coach at A&M-Commerce, agreed with the
president. ³We are excited for our student-athletes to have this opportunity
to compete in front of a national television audience and appreciate the
decision the NCAA and CSTV have made to have this game as the kickoff to our
2007 season. It should be a great weekend for our student-athletes, the
universities and Division II football. Pittsburg State is a talented and
well-coached program that has a great tradition and we will be playing in
front of their fans. Our players and coaching staff look forward to this
challenge.² 

³This is a tremendous opportunity for Texas A&M-Commerce to gain national
exposure in what is sure to be an awesome showcase of NCAA Division II
football. For the Lions to step up and challenge an annual contender on a
national stage will make for an exciting first weekend of Lone Star
Conference football this fall. I hope the nation will tune in and see the
great product that Coach Conley is putting together at A&M-Commerce,² said
Lone Star Conference Commissioner Stan Wagnon.

³We¹re tremendously excited for the opportunity to showcase what we feel is
one of the premier venues in college football on a national stage,² said
Pittsburg State University athletic director and head football coach Chuck
Broyles. ³Our matchup with A&M Commerce already was significant ­ meeting a
regional foe and an historic rival. Certainly the presence of a national
television audience further strengthens this as a marquee season opener.²

The two teams were familiar foes during the 1990¹s, meeting six times during
that decade. Despite a 5-1 series advantage held by Pitt State, the Lions
lone win against the Gorillas came on Sept. 14, 1991, halting Pitt State¹s
56-game regular season winning streak in that game. Later that season, the
two teams met up again as the Gorillas went on to defeat the Lions, 38-28,
in the national quarterfinals en route to capturing the 1991 NCAA Division
II National Championship.

³The NCAA¹s partnership with CSTV has created a very important platform to
help broaden the public awareness and interest in Division II
intercollegiate athletics,² said Mike Racy, NCAA Vice President for Division
II.  ³This particular broadcast agreement allows Division II and CSTV to
showcase key regular season match-ups in football and men¹s and women¹s
basketball and we are thrilled that the Pittsburg State and Texas
A&M-Commerce football game has been selected to kickoff the 2007 broadcast
season.²
 
CSTV Networks, Inc., part of the CBS Corporation, is the leading digital and
cable programming company dedicated to college sports. Connecting more fans
to more college sports than any other company, its many platforms for
programming distribution include CSTV, national cable television network,
televising regular-season and championship events for 35 men's and women's
college sports; CSTV.com and its network of more than 215 official athletic
sites; CSTV All Access, broadband services providing live audio and video of
more than 10,000 events annually; as well as satellite television and radio,
in-flight entertainment, wireless networks and more.  Further information is
available at www.CSTV.com.

CSTV is widely available on cable systems across the country, including
Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, Insight, Bright House
Networks, Mediacom, Insight, RCN, Advanced Cable and Bresnan. It is also
available on DIRECTV¹s Total Choice Premier Package Channel 610 and DISH
Network¹s America¹s Top 120 Package Channel 152.

===Side note: Faculty can buy season tickets for football for a reduced
price in 2007-08. Contact the Texas A&M University-Commerce ticket office at
(903) 886-5558 for more information.====