Tyrese Hunter Entering the Transfer Portal - NIL Speculation

[HFCS]

They are paying more because live tv is worth more in the era where everyone can skip commercials. Even with that, viewership has been dropping as well as attendance.

I will say that 99% of my network and cable TV viewing is live sports. I mean without live sports I have a decade of zero network and cable TV viewership.

Maybe a tiny bit of viewing for eleciton results, like 2 hours every other year. Beyond that I can't remember the last time I watched Fox or NBC or TNT or CBS when it wasn't live sports.

 

[JP4CY]

5 of St Peters top 6 players are in the portal.

He said college sports is over. Teams like that show you its not. Even last year's ISU team showed that.

(Also, their HC is highly regarded and just got hired at his Alma Mater. Maybe they loved playing for him?)

 

[alarson]

I will say that 99% of my network and cable TV viewing is live sports. I mean without live sports I have a decade of zero network and cable TV viewership.

Maybe a tiny bit of viewing for eleciton results, like 2 hours every other year. Beyond that I can't remember the last time I watched Fox or NBC or TNT or CBS when it wasn't live sports.

Yep. You're not alone. A lot of us are in the same position.

If i stop giving a **** about college sports, I drop my cable subscription (or comparable streaming) in a second. The programming on most of the traditional networks and old cable networks is nothing but garbage most of the time. ESPN knows this, and knows that cable companies can't afford to lose them. So they keep taking the price increases (that ESPN passes on some to the conferences) and hope that people keep paying the increased bills. But will they? Cord cutting is rampant now.

 

[NWICY]

Could be epic meltdown if instead of UNC he wound up at Murray State.

That would actually be awesome. I would laugh and laugh an laugh and be happy for both of them.

 

[dirtyninety]

Thanks JorBo. Your crusading has helped ruin not just college basketball, but all college sports.
I am not going to strut in some stadium like the "Jets Jets Jets!!!!" plebs with funny hats on for some dudes getting paid to play.

 

[CyCrazy]

I will say that 99% of my network and cable TV viewing is live sports. I mean without live sports I have a decade of zero network and cable TV viewership.

Maybe a tiny bit of viewing for eleciton results, like 2 hours every other year. Beyond that I can't remember the last time I watched Fox or NBC or TNT or CBS when it wasn't live sports.

I agree, I will watch local news for 30 mins and thats all I watch on network tv unless its sports. The rest of it is garbage.

 

[TarCy]

That would actually be awesome. I would laugh and laugh an laugh and be happy for both of them.

Carolina has zero scholarships available, and a trio of PGs between Trimble, love, and Davis. UNC never made sense for Hunter.
1. No scholarships
2. Depth
3. Hubert Davis prioritizes shooters over anything. We can all agree that ain’t Hunters strength.

 

[AuH2O]

CFB is the second most watched sport in the country in terms of ratings, over the NBA and MLB by quite a bit. CBB is much farther behind

I will disagree that CFB is quite a bit higher than NBA, if at all. You can’t compare a 14-15 week season on a per game basis to such a long season as the NBA. ABC, ESPN and TNT combined to show like 170 games at almost 1.7 M on average. Then throw in about 80 playoff games at 4.3 M per. Throw in the 1000 games on Bally, Hulu and NBA league pass. Per game averages for P5 are definitely higher, but you are talking about maybe 350-380 games.

It’s a tough comparison, but one huge thing is having global streaming through league pass growing fast. So in the US I think you could say P5 CFB is more popular, but the volume makes it a tough comparison, and the NBA has major footing and momentum globally.

 

[WhoISthis]

They are paying more because live tv is worth more in the era where everyone can skip commercials. Even with that, viewership has been dropping as well as attendance.

Tying attendance drop to NIL like developments is ridiculous.

It has nothing to do with paying players, although paying players rather than building cathedrals for players could help keep it affordable. The less it’s an arms race the better.

Sports are just declining in popularity. Distributive technology and older generations being replaced by those that care about other things.

 

[Big Daddy Kang]

Look out, coaches, you are going to have to earn your keep!

 

[FriendlySpartan]

I will disagree that CFB is quite a bit higher than NBA, if at all. You can’t compare a 14-15 week season on a per game basis to such a long season as the NBA. ABC, ESPN and TNT combined to show like 170 games at almost 1.7 M on average. Then throw in about 80 playoff games at 4.3 M per. Throw in the 1000 games on Bally, Hulu and NBA league pass. Per game averages for P5 are definitely higher, but you are talking about maybe 350-380 games.

It’s a tough comparison, but one huge thing is having global streaming through league pass growing fast. So in the US I think you could say P5 CFB is more popular, but the volume makes it a tough comparison, and the NBA has major footing and momentum globally.

It does make it a bit difficult to compare. The NBA finals last year though averaged around 9mil viewers and they were the highest rated games by a bit. There were several regular season cfb games that averaged more then that and the playoffs and conference championships averaged a lot more. To your point though its comparing Basketball to Football which America seems to almost always side with football.

 

[Statefan10]

Tying attendance drop to NIL like developments is ridiculous.

It has nothing to do with paying players, although paying players rather than building cathedrals for players could help.

Sports are just l declining in popularity. Distributive technology and older generations being replaced by those that care about other things.

Yeah I think it has more to do with there being more things to do as well as more options to watch the games on tv at such a high quality.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Yeah I think it has more to do with there being more things to do as well as more options to watch the games on tv at such a high quality.

Cost of going to the games, as well as hassle of commuting, plus the time commitment makes going to most games in person an inferior proposition to staying at home. Especially with the advancements in home theatre tech making an amazing in home set up very affordable

 

[jsb]

Cost of going to the games, as well as hassle of commuting, plus the time commitment makes going to most games in person an inferior proposition to staying at home. Especially with the advancements in home theatre tech making an amazing in home set up very affordable

This really isn't the point of this thread, but there is nothing that can match the experience of attending a game in person. Not a damn thing. People aren't much of a fan if they don't think that.

 

[alarson]

Tying attendance drop to NIL like developments is ridiculous.

It has nothing to do with paying players, although paying players rather than building cathedrals for players could help keep it affordable. The less it’s an arms race the better.

Sports are just declining in popularity. Distributive technology and older generations being replaced by those that care about other things.

It absolutely does. Anything that makes the product less enjoyable to fans will decrease attendance and viewership.

Taking away some of the core things that made college athletics great, a big part of which are the 4 year guys that fans learn to love (and love to hate in other teams) is undoubtedly a factor in that. There's just less "give a ****" when the roster has massive turnover every year due to unrestricted free agency. And even less 'give a ****' when fans have little to hope for, knowing that if they do find some rough talent and develop it, it will be bought off at the first opportunity.

I mean, 90% of the whole brand is built on alumni connections to the university. Alumni wanting to cheer for future alumni of their school. If the future is just entirely one-year mercenaries who have little connection or interest in a connection to my alma mater, I may as well just go find a pro team to cheer for instead.

 

[Statefan10]

Cost of going to the games, as well as hassle of commuting, plus the time commitment makes going to most games in person an inferior proposition to staying at home. Especially with the advancements in home theatre tech making an amazing in home set up very affordable

For sure. The ****** thing is that we don’t see it at Iowa State for a variety of reasons. It just irks me when people talk about how schools like Iowa State “don’t matter” and they add “no value” when the fans at schools like ours are 1 million times more faithful as a collective whole than the ones that ESPN and other companies prop up.

 

[HFCS]

I will disagree that CFB is quite a bit higher than NBA, if at all. You can’t compare a 14-15 week season on a per game basis to such a long season as the NBA. ABC, ESPN and TNT combined to show like 170 games at almost 1.7 M on average. Then throw in about 80 playoff games at 4.3 M per. Throw in the 1000 games on Bally, Hulu and NBA league pass. Per game averages for P5 are definitely higher, but you are talking about maybe 350-380 games.

It’s a tough comparison, but one huge thing is having global streaming through league pass growing fast. So in the US I think you could say P5 CFB is more popular, but the volume makes it a tough comparison, and the NBA has major footing and momentum globally.

Also nba is most popular non-soccer traditional sports league abroad.

College football bread and butter is often the places college football media interest is willing to disregard for short term profit.

 

[HFCS]

For sure. The ****** thing is that we don’t see it at Iowa State for a variety of reasons. It just irks me when people talk about how schools like Iowa State “don’t matter” and they add “no value” when the fans at schools like ours are 1 million times more faithful as a collective whole than the ones that ESPN and other companies prop up.

I watched our sweet 16 game at a sports bar in LA with friends here on vacation. UCLA was playing at the exact same time and we could tell the only people watching were us and a random table of Miami fans. We had the bar change the big screen and audio from UCLA to ISU and absolutely nobody cared, even when UCLA game got close and ours slipped away.

 

[Statefan10]

I watched our sweet 16 game at a sports bar in LA with friends here on vacation. UCLA was playing at the exact same time and we could tell the only people watching were us and a random table of Miami fans. We had the bar change the big screen and audio from UCLA to ISU and absolutely nobody cared, even when UCLA game got close and ours slipped away.

That’s what I’m saying. And if you’d go to any bar during the NCAA tournament while ISU and Iowa were playing it’d have been pretty full and you’d have been punched in the face for trying to change the channel.

 

[Raiders70]

I watched our sweet 16 game at a sports bar in LA with friends here on vacation. UCLA was playing at the exact same time and we could tell the only people watching were us and a random table of Miami fans. We had the bar change the big screen and audio from UCLA to ISU and absolutely nobody cared, even when UCLA game got close and ours slipped away.

Correct if me if I am wrong. I watched 2 or 3 UCLA games this past season and it looked like the arena wasn't even half full..