they're good, but lsu's play calling and offensive execution was AWFUL.
We were street-balling in that game. lol
Had to be a close game for that to happen. LSU completely blew it.
I think so... so maybe we'll see if any voters outside of oklahoma give any votes for Okie State.
But don't you hate defensem td?
Not that basketball is necessarily as popular, but from a TV perspective, pitting the two biggest events against each other, the basketball championship game is usually equal to or just behind the bcs championship game, with the NCAA tournament providing a greater overall total of valuable programming than the bowl season as a whole.
ESPN at this point is essentially broadcast, the difference in homes reached is virtually negligible. There's a reason they put this on ESPN and not rush it to ABC, they're not concerned about people who want to see the game or casual sports watchers not being able to see it because it's on ESPN and not ABC.
I actually did some research on this subject for something else. It is sort of hard to get real firm numbers on how many households have cable/satelite/U-verse-FIOS tv, but estimates range from a low of about 76% to a high of 90%. Providers can tell you how many connections they have but they don't or won't differenciate between say a busness connection (a bar or club for examble) and a home. this is esepecially true for the satelite providers...cable providers have better data. In any case, most analysts seem to put the number in the 85-88% range.
I don't think them moving it to ESPN is a sign that ratings are dropping and ABC has no interest in hosting it in a primetime spot, but more that they can move it to ESPN and not really miss out on any viewers.
I agree with you to an extent, though I can see how many casual sports fans would turn the game off because they got bored. That said, the quality of the game isn't the relevant point here, it's how the game was arrived at. UConn-Butler was decided by the outcomes of an exciting tournament, and of course we hadn't previously played Butler is a regular season game. There's really no valid arguments for how we arrived at this game. LSU-Alabama was arrived at by a series of computer formulas that no one knows or checks, and backroom voting practices by people who knew that their vote would directly lead to this rematch game that would not only produce a controversial matchup unappealing to the mass TV audience and likely a boring game, but more importantly, create more disdain for the BCS system and further prove it's stupidity, especially if the outcome of the game was 9-6 Alabama and the AP voters all stuck with LSU at #1.
I posted this in the my original post on this subject. the scheduling of this game is terrible. It belongs on New Years Day or the following night. To me it ought ot be the 8 o'clock game on New Years Day in a perfect world, though that's probably not all that practical. In a related foolish thing, this game has managed to turn virtually every other bowl game into the Poulin Weed Eater Bowl. Among the major bowls, really only the Rose has managed to retain anything like its original level of influence. Which would seem to be an illogical action on its face, though given the way the bowls work, ticket guarentees and so forth, it might not matter that much to them. But now we have 2nd and 3rd tier bowls ecoming more important (BVA Compass, really?) interspersed with higher level interspersed with BCS bowls which basically sends the message that none of them count for anything...your Orange Bowl is no more important than your Cap One is no more important than your Idaho Potato Bowl. The original concept of bowls being more important as you get closer to New Years Day has been totally lost. It has become such a mess that it is no wonder viewership is falling.
The problem with the comparison of the whogivesashit.com bowl and the first round ncaa tournament game is the bowl game means absolutely NOTHING, whereas the tournament game means something. Also, those bowls are played in 1/3 full stadiums, with some 7-5 Sun Belt team and a 6-6 MAC team. From a profitability standpoint, that all makes absolutely no sense. Chop off 8-10 bowls and making a bowl will suddenly once again mean you had a decent season.
