No, ESPN and Fox wouldn't agree to this as it's laid out. Of course, Sankey and Petitti are their puppets.
Cool. That’s in the current model not a super league where everyone but the Pac2 still has a seat at the table and reason to watch.
Marketing, marketing, marketing. Started with manipulated pre-season rankings, early scheduling, media hyping, and early in the season. This is all a chess game being played out many moves in advance.
Yep you’re right those teams clearly had their rankings manipulated, they didn’t look like top teams at all to me and that game certainly didn’t deliver on the hype, I mean come on how boring was that game.
They will pay $X for 10 games with 10M viewers each.
The same people on here that repeatedly say they boycott P2 games and won’t watch in the future are also the same ones who keep throwing out what a 20-24 team league would look like.
I mean the same people who are claiming that the Big12 will never get more than one bid are the same ones saying getting two auto bids for the conference isn’t fair. Consistency has never been a strong suit.
You don’t think it was because it was a game between the 2 best programs over the past 10-15 years with rich tradition and huge brands? Or 20-30 future NFL players on the field? Or 2 of the best coaches in the game?
How many people are going to watch Iowa State games in the SL model compared to now? Michigan State? Louisville? Nobody watches these teams.
That’s a real big piviot from 13 million watched Georgia/Bama to how many people are going to watch Louisville games if a super league was created. I don’t even understand how they are connected.
People watch the teams that can contend for titles (20 teams above) when they play each other.
Oh, it lived up to the hype. My point was that the media's risk earlier in the season is far less than later in the season. They could spend the big bucks to get it viewed with nothing but optimism. My bet is if this were later in the season, the risk of either team being less significant would be greater. And, therefore, more costly to market. We all know interest wanes with each loss.
Nah because the other people watching those teams care about college football because their own team is in the same realm. With a super league why would any ISU fan watch that game? Also how many ISU fans would there even be playing in a “lower” league then the super league.
Why do Iowa State fans watch Georgia-Alabama or Michigan-USC? Generally, our team isn't in the same realm as them. Yeah, we could beat them, but over the course of a season they'll prove they're championship material and we'll prove that we're top half of the Big 12 material.
I could be out on a limb here. But my friends have dramatically increased their viewership of other teams due to fantasy football type gambling. I'm not a gambler, but to listen to these guys makes me think I'm missing out on the excitement of other games. Other than that, I couldn't agree with you more.
You 100% will have fewer fans if you’re in a second tier that has zero chance at a playoff. That’s just reality. It’s why people that go to second tier colleges that like sports tend to default and have a second team that actually competes in the top leagues.
So, for instance, if a SL was created - with 20 teams I noted previously - then Michigan State fans and Iowa State fans would develop a default team in the top league and watch those games. And then those games would maintain and likely improve their ratings.
