Cool. Finebaum is a bigger man than 95% of the sportscasters
Good on Paul. His whole job is to captivate audiences with SEC lore and cream himself on live tv with endless SEC personalities, fake personas and endless southern propaganda.
I saw something on X that he spent weeks upon weeks sh!tt!ing on every conference except the SEC and then spends sixty seconds saying he was wrong.
This made me think. We’re probably going to see him doing the same exact thing next season - sh!tt!ng on everyone except for the SEC. Why do I think this? This is the third season we’ve seen it, so why not another?
Like I said. It’s what Paul is paid to do ON the SEC Network.
You would think with ears that big he could hear what’s coming next year!
I’ll hold my praise for him until AFTER he puts his $ where his preseason mouth is this fall.
30.1 million viewers for the championship game (most since 2014), WITHOUT the mighty SEC!!!
ESPN controls not only TV but also pimps the SEC. The more exposure your team gets the more the media must believe you are superior. And the more viewers you get the more exposure your team and conference gets. So it is a self fulfilling circle.
Everyone on here likes to also *hit on ESPN, but they are a for profit company that spent a lot to televise the games. They make money by selling commercials, so it’s in their best interest to hype up the most popular teams that have the most viewerships. They aren’t doing this to kill any programs, and they aren’t a charity either.
Its reminds me of how people get mad that Academy doesn’t have UH gear, or how the local TV news don’t cover the athletic department. They would if it could sell more ads!
I don’t disagree.
I will say…
Winning, usually, brings more viewership, and therefore… revenue.
Whereas, more revenue, often, but not always, brings more wins.
Ideally, it’s a symbiotic relationship.
The hypothesis above from Norbert has already proven to be false by the success of the UH men’s basketball team and the type of ad revenue they can generate now… AFTER WINNING FOR A DECADE STRAIGHT.
I think you’re missing norbert’s premise.
Case in point…
I’ll bet Indiana’s “viewership” goes up next year.
The two of you are “kinda” saying the same thing, IMO…
He made that point…
Then he made a tangential point that UH can’t create this kind of ad space for driving revenue through advertising…
I’m saying UH basketball has already disproven this statement.
This sounds like you’re using a word to define itself…?
Winning, IMO, is what creates demand, which makes sales, marketing, “advertising”, and REVENUE increase.
Business 101.
“Everyone loves a Winner”
I don’t believe either one of you disagree with this…
The good news is…
The football team is WINNING !
I think the difference is what we might call “fan elasticity.” In econ, price elasticity is how sensitive demand is to changes in price. Gas is price elastic because people have to buy it no matter what, but an F-150 is price inelastic because people will choose a Prius when gas gets expensive, so Ford can’t raise the price very much.
Some college football teams are fan elastic, they will be supported no matter what. Some are fan inelastic, they have to be extremely high level and still a low price or fans will make other choices.
One of the Four P’s of marketing is price, and price elasticity is a big factor in making that part of the decision. We describe fan elasticity all the time, but we don’t formally study it in our analysis and recommendations. What works for a big 10 or sec school doesn’t necessarily work for us.
Decades of winning makes thing “less elastic”, IMO…
100%.
Some of our very own posters could learn a lesson here.
He said if the SEC did not win the title he would leave the country.
That was a bold play Cotton…