Don't confuse more popular with more profitable.
Everyone is hating on Sankey and Pettiti (and rightfully so), but remember it's ESPN/Fox/et al that are writing the checks and driving the action. Sankey and Pettiti are just collaborating minions.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Everyone is hating on Sankey and Pettiti (and rightfully so), but remember it's ESPN/Fox/et al that are writing the checks and driving the action. Sankey and Pettiti are just collaborating minions.
It's a good thing my emotional investment in Iowa football and college football in general has been descending for the past several years. Very likely KF fatigue. I still enjoy college football and usually want Iowa to win, but it's hardly going to dictate my mood, make my day, ruin my day, etc., which is how it used to be.
Another way to think about it is, how many coaches in the world could take over the Purdue program tomorrow and get them to the title game? It’s obviously unknowable but as far as I’m aware nobody else in history has ever done it besides Painter so I’m not sure it’s a super long list. They could replace him with the hopes of someone else getting them to 2 title games but it would be a risky move.
Anyway, I’m just glad they don’t have message boards where people judge my work performance so harshly. But I guess if I got paid millions I wouldn’t complain too much
That’s fine, this isn’t the NFL. College football is a regional sport. You follow players and coaches because they are from your neighborhood. I have spoken to several fans of ISU football, none of them have watched a minute of football outside the Big 12 footprint.
They didn't watch Oregon v. tOSU? Or any of the Bama v. Vandy game? Or UT v. OU?
That seems weird. Great matchups are great matchups, great games are great games, whether they're in your conference or not. Sounds like those guys are missing out on some good football.
That’s good for them but a handful of those games are getting 5-10 million plus every weekend. So not sure it’s doing anything
I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing It, Bob.
5 games with 5-10M viewers is worth more than 40 games with 1M or less. And they can get those 5 games out of the P2 EVERY WEEK. The ACC, Big12, G5... yeah they need inventory, but you don't pay big bucks for it.
That's the problem.
This is where I'm at. There's entirely too much great football out there to be watched across the country and I'm not going to limit my own enjoyment of the sport to try and send some sort of message that has 0% chance of coming across anyway. Not that I contribute to viewership numbers, but still.
Just look at the amazing games 2 weeks ago. I couldn't imagine not watching Minny beat USC, Bama go down to Vandy , UT losing to Arky, or Cal blowing it against Miami. Not to mention the weekly Ashton Jeanty experience.
Interesting comment. Do you watch due to 'good' football, or more succinctly to root 'against' someone? I'm not sure many on this board know what 'good' football is. Sure, we can see missed assignments, bad snaps, penalties as 'bad' football. But, do we see gap technique, coverages, footwork, handword, etc? I'll watch an ISU game a few times to see things like that. But, the original viewing is never about 'good' football. IMO, that's a mindset pounded into us by the media.
For my part, I didn't watch a second of tOSU/OR game, 20 seconds of the UT/OU game (too lopsided), and admittedly 15-20 minutes of the Vandy game. BUT, that was only cause I was praying hard as heck to see Alabama lose.
What I meant by "good football" was mostly "good games." I don't really care who it is, if I flip to a game and it's 23-21 in the 4th and the trailing team has the ball, I'm keeping it there and watching. I'll also watch "good football" when it's a game that maybe isn't as close but has great players who I'm aware of and just want to see how they play.
This is where I am at for the most part. Now if the situation is changed where the B1G and SEC lock out ISU and the rest I'd pretty much never watch B1G and SEC.
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Agreed. You can bet that any venture by the power 2 will have the backing of the big broadcasters, and be based on thorough market research on expected viewership. I guarantee they'll have models where they factor in multiple different potential viewership outcomes, including ones where casual fans stop watching. Of course there's always a chance that it will fail, but I guarantee that any move is significantly hedged.
I only watch ISU and other Big 12 games and that's pretty much it. I'm in no way trying to "send a message" of any kind. It's just that I love ISU first and foremost and I love the Big 12. Outside of that, I really don't have any interest in other conferences, big or small. It's just my own personal preference I guess.
I didnt watch those games either. I typically only watch ISU or another Big 12 game. If I see another game from another league it’s because it’s on at a bar or restaurant Im at. That goes for football and basketball, and it’s even more pronounced in basketball since the Big 12 is the best basketball league.
Bowl games and NCAA tourney games are a different story. Ill watch any and all of those
My suspicion is that TV knows locking out the Big 12/ACC/G5 will hurt Big 10/SEC ratings. Those fanbases will absolutely watch less of those games if they have no relevance to their teams. They’ll still do good enough to make money of course, but it will absolutely be less because right now they’re getting those eyeballs and don’t have to share a dime with those schools.
However, the threat of getting locked out will be enough to get acquiescence to the Big 10/SEC demands. So the needle they’re likely trying to thread is maximizing their advantages without blowing it all up.
However, the threat of getting locked out will be enough to get acquiescence to the Big 10/SEC demands. So the needle they’re likely trying to thread is maximizing their advantages without blowing it all up.
I’m with others here. I didn’t watch any of the three games you listed and still watched great games. Besides, what was great about the red river shootout and the Alabama game? Texas scorched OU and Alabama played so bad, they lost. I’ll give you the Oregon tOSU game, but I had another game to watch that night, which was pretty good.
I also understand the larger point, that enough people watched that it doesn’t matter.
He really is the definition of a loser. His obsession over this subject when he’s clearly wrong and nothing’s changing no matter what he posts to the crème de la crème that is him still using a pic from like 20 years ago as his profile pic. That is the definition of a loser.
Major upsets in sports are amazing and vandy over Bama is about as big of an upset as you can get. Agree on red river though
I didn't tune into the Red River Shootout because it went about as everyone expected it to.
But, I want to respond here to @BooneCy: Vandy didn't win because Bama played poorly. Sure, this Tide team looks uncharacteristically soft (especially on defense), but Vanderbilt looked genuinely good and played great. You missed a gritty amazing performance, especially from Diego Pavia who is fantastic. And Ryan Williams is must-see TV by himself, even though he was on the losing side.
