Mustangs fans have a new way to watch all of their favorite teams. The Lone Star Conference announced on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024 that the conference would be entering a five-year streaming service contract with FloSports.
FloSports is a global independent sports media streaming company that streams live events, award-winning original content, social experiences and on-demand content.
FloSports brings fans content for more than 25 different sports. This includes as hockey (FloHockey), wrestling (FloWrestling), motorsports (FloRacing) and many more.
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, FloSports launched its college line FloCollege, which serves a new home for more than 12,000 live games across Division I, Division II, Division III and several conferences.
The LSC was one of the conferences included in this new line, making MSU one of the colleges featured.
MSU previously had a contract through a company called Hudl, which ended last spring. It was at a director’s conference where FloSports pitched itself to the LSC and its directors.
“So they were pitching the Lone Star Conference at the time and that had some conversation with the conference commissioner and his folks, and he was telling us all about it and finally we got to meet them and be a part of the discussions. So at that time most of us did a little bit of research,” athletic director Kyle Williams said.
The way FloSports works is different from Hudl. With Hudl, a fan would have to either buy a season pass for MSU or pay game-by-game. The downside was that away games were not included in the season pass and had to be purchased from the opposing school’s website.
Assistant athletic director Trey Reed explained how FloSports works and what is included in the subscription when purchased.
“While before we had our set of games, but when we went on the road, our people would have to buy either a day pass or whatever it may be,” Reed said. “So then it formed into the Lone Star conference network to where if you bought a season pass for football, let’s use that for example, then you got all those games no matter where the games were played as long as it was a Lone Star Conference game.”
MSU sold its streaming rights to FloSports when signing the contract.
“FloSports is purchasing content for their network. That means everything’s paid up front,” Reed said. “Now we all agree that we are going to stream all the sports that way, whenever you buy a season pass, you get it all.”
Through the contract, MSU is obligated to stream certain sports, including football, volleyball, soccer, softball and basketball.
“This is an outstanding product for any fan because now you’re looking at being able to get everything in one place so not only do you get access to our games when you buy a subscription not only do you get access to that sports you know or our conference for that matter , when you buy into FloSports you’re getting all of their networks and flo college is what they’re calling it,” Reed said.
Students can use their msutexas.edu email to get a discount on the price.
There are two different options when getting a subscription. There is an annual plan that costs $72 dollars for students and $100 dollars for non-students. The second option is a monthly plan that costs $10 dollars for a student and $20 dollars for other users.
However, the discounted prices are only available when going through the LSC landing page.
MSU and the LSC are excited for the prospect and opportunities that FloSports is providing for them.
“We are excited that we are with them and it’s gonna continue to push us with Trey and I talk about it everyday. I’ve seen it every week with getting better and what do we need and that sort of thing,” Williams said.
