2025-2026 Little East

[FloridaHomey]

LEC announcing a 5 year deal with Flosports for streaming all games

Little East Conference on Instagram: "The LEC has secured a five-year media rights agreement with @flosports, and will begin broadcasting over 1,000 games on their @flocollege platform beginning in 2025-26. The internationally available FloCollege pl

381 likes, 13 comments - littleeastconf on April 3, 2025: "The LEC has secured a five-year media rights agreement with @flosports, and will begin broadcasting over 1,000 games on their @flocollege platform beginning in 2025-26. The internationally available FloCollege platform features a growing...

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No better way to promote D3 hockey and college sports than by…. paywalling broke college students and blocking out casual fans

I agree wholeheartedly on this point! Athletic departments are shortsighted in asking their fans to pay to watch their teams play (all sports). They’ve lost sight of the benefits of having their sports being watched outside of their backyards.

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

I want to be sure people realize that FloSports is just the vehicle the product is being delivered on. There is no "difference" per se to what each athletic department is already doing. Instead of using Hudl/BlueFrame, the product is going out over the Flo server. The people manning the camera, doing the commentary etc. are still the same people the school would have if it wasn't with FloSports.

As someone who has had the FloSports annual subscription for the last five years, going behind this paywall doesn't bother me since I already have access to it because I enjoy other pieces of content that Flo has like their racing channel. To be honest, the $150 a year subscription is the biggest steal in streaming if you enjoy watching racing, AHL or Division I hockey and then other niche sports like wrestling etc.

However, for someone who doesn't already have the subscription and is used to it being free, I certainly understand the frustration.

I just want to be clear that people crapping on Flo for the product need to realize it's not like Flo is bringing in their own people and producing the event, they aren't. Flo is just putting out the stream they are receiving from the school. You could have a 4-camera professional esque broadcast on Flo and you could also have a single-high camera on a tripod being manned by a student-worker. I believe in the contract, especially for certain "bigger" sports, Flo requires or strongly encourages at least two camera shoots to hopefully "improve" the broadcast quality. But two cameras doesn't mean much if you don't have good camera people or a producer who knows what they are doing.

 

[MilkUniversity]

Starting to get a glimpse into the LEC schedules for this season with Babson and Norwich's released.

Seems that the first day of LEC conference hockey is November 7th with Babson vs Keene and Plymouth vs Norwich already lined up.

I might be biased, but already circling February 21st on the calendar for Babson vs Plymouth on the final day of the regular season. Both teams are likely top 3 (along with Norwich) so could see some major playoff and NCAA tourney implications.

 

[MilkUniversity]

With schedules almost all released and students arriving on campus, the first season of LEC hockey is almost here. While a few teams have not yet announced their schedules, this year's recruiting classes have started to come out.

Any notable transfers or highlights to look for? That and any predictions for this year?