And viewership drives TV's. They have things down to a science, even in reporting the news. They have surveys and actual audience viewing to determine what people are watching and how it breaks down demographically and geographically. ESPN could care less whether it is football or tiddlywinks that people want to see. As long as there is an audience and they can get revenues from advertising or cable enrollments they will show the sport.actually IMHO, TV drives the bus. football just keeps its successful schools equiped with the buses and gas.
"Capitalism" is a catch phrase the way you are using it. The collective we are in charge. It's just very hard for the collective we to change. Talk news shows would shrivel up if no one watched them. They survive and flourish because lots of people prefer this form of news presentation. The media is only concerned about profits. Every season various networks present various programming. Some survive the season. Others don't. The success is predicated on viewership.
Which all of course, leads to one simple conclusion---WE are in charge!!! Yeah right...but TV has ads, and ads sell products, and guess who buys them...it's the vicious circle of capitalism out of control
that may not happen. IF the ACC goes to 16 and the Pac 12 does as well, the SEC apparently has already rejected WVU, which would have been a logical add. the SEC may stay put, or may poach at their leisure. if they are able to nab FSU and Va Tech from the ACC, that will mean growing for the SEC, and the ACC will probably add a few more, but the big 10 has shown no inclination to grow the league.
Just thinking of the concept of an association - like minded programs and Universities. Since sports are driving this and football above all else. the ACC is not a bad place for us to land. I really like the idea of matching up with BC again on the women's side and would cherish whipping Maryland twice a year.
The top conferences will rig the game so that only those 64 play for real money. That's life.
It always was.
Given that very few locations could support a WBB conference tourney at the same level of monetization as a CT location, the state of Connecticut would continue to be an extremely strong candidate to host the event.
I could see an NC location too, but there is no way that CT isn't going to have the event with some frequency. There was all kinds of talk about Louisville or other BE locations being options, but in the end, no one showed the necessary initiative to make the powers that be in the BEast comfortable with moving away from Hartford. Because of the proximity of VA, NC, and SC schools, plus some novelty of having UConn in the league too, I could see the tourney being successful in the Triangle or Charlotte, but there's no way an ACC with UConn in it would shy from having the tourney in CT on a pretty regular basis.
I don't know what it is that you are drinking but I want a bottle of it!
Thank you. No one ever points this out or even realizes it.
