Ya’ll are talking about football. What would happen to the basketball schools under such a scenario? How many top rated teams are in the Big 12 and ACC that would be left out?
Obviously you do or you wouldn’t be posting and commenting.
Your involvement and engagement indicates your interest.
If you truly don’t care…then PROVE said indifference by not responding/commenting.
The test is on!
You need to have the last word and to show you are right. Go ahead.
Number of businessmen that said they want to SHRINK their profit pie of potential customers by completely alienating them INSTEAD of finding ways to profit off of them
ZERO!
Really great point by 3rd Ward.
1 weeks ratings don’t matter. You have to look at the full year data preferably over several years. Week over week ratings are not important.
You already failed the test.
Good one.
Obviously you are interested in continuing the debate, as is he, so as long as both of you (and others) are, I will continue to post that which interests you and others.
of course they matter…they are the target audience of customers the networks are hoping to retain.
Remember when ESPN rolled out the LHN and then NOBODY watched it because they soon realized FANS OF OTHER TEXAS schools had no interest in watching a network dedicated to school that WAS NO THEIR OWN?
Made no difference that UT was a ratings king
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Colorado is generating some of the best ratings in CFB because of Prime.
Lots of those viewers probably bled into other conferences including the P2
Does Colorado belong in the P2?
Concur.
Your chart which shows the overall level of viewership is far more persuasive than his ANECDOTAL…ONE WEEK example.
The only thing, as I said, that prevents such a breakaway is the sheer number of networks looking for programming.
ABSOLUTELY!
They are a large Championship winning Flagship University in a big state
NOT hard to find 14 fringe Big 12 and ACC schools to include that will keep the BIGGER PIE of fans happy.
If we don’t make the final 48…we KNOW why.
If Colorado…or Utah…or Florida State…or Miami…or Arizona…or North Carolina…or Clemson…or Virginia…or Kansas…or Duke…or those type dont make it they will scream BLOODY MURDER!
Seems we went over all this before. If it goes to an nfl style with that type pay it will fail bc then it competes with the true nfl and I see players then being classified as employees with unions pushing the pay up to nfl type pay then no school can afford it. Fans won’t pay the ticket prices etc.
So I don’t see all this happening. The sec and big10 just want more playoff spots because they added too many good teams which would be left out. It will cause many former powers like Arkansas or Nebraska to become after thoughts bc too many great teams in one conf kills off former good teams.
Well
Big 12 had a chance at both UConn and Gonzaga for which they rejected
It would’ve kept Big 12 at the big boy seat considering how much March Madness is in the general sports zeitgeist
Without basketball, Big 12 is likely screwed in the long run
College Football cannot compete with the NFL because it lacks the very element that makes the NFL work.
The Draft.
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Agree…
The NFL ratings dwarf the College Football ratings.
The least watched game in the NFL towers over the most watched college football games. Not even close!
There are whole parts of the country (i.e. North East) that does not have a lot of interest in watching College football and the region that has the most interest (Southeast) is a relatively poor lesser populated area.
I’m just saying, if you form a super league of LESS than 48 you WILL lose fans and that difference between the College Football Ratings and the NFL ratings will grow even bigger.
Would a 72 team league change March Maddness?
True and like others have said if it was down to 36 teams or 48 you’d have lower ratings bc of massive fan dropouts. A Louisville fan wouldn’t cross over and watch Fla st suddenly if Louisville was irrelevant and or out of the 36 to 48 model. Colorado fans would drop out etc. The tv ratings would go down then it dies.
Right now and even p2 people realize we need most / a good share/ diversity of teams to have the crossover fans and generally good tv ratings to feed all at the top etc.
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Many people, especially lawyer types, lack the creativity and business acumen to understand that figures/ratings don’t always exist in a vacuum and when you add the emotions over college football, it adds another layer to consider.
If you tell 3/4 of college football, they are now the minor leagues…watch what happens.
I still, to this day, have never watched the UT/USC 2005 National Championship game.
Why would I watch it? I’m a UH fan…not a UT fan.
No thanks.
Now with a 48, or 50, member league you’ve allowed enough in to keep the pie intact and for those on the outside looking in…average more than 40k fans!
College football needs to find ways to GROW their fan base…not reduce it!
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Are you a fan of CFB?
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Globalization?
Play some games overseas? I know there is already one game that is played overseas already. Maybe do what the NFL does?