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BCU Upset Alert????

billybud said:
ESPN isn't doing that badly...college football viewing boomed in 2019...

  • ESPN's networks averaged 1,742,000 viewers during the telecasts of the 247 regular season games it produced in 2019, or a 6% increase above the 2018 season.
  • ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU combined averaged 8.5 million viewers in prime time each week of the college football season, equivalent to having a top ten most-viewed game each week of the season.
footballfoundation.org

2019-20 Report: Amazing College Football Popularity Highlighted by Impressive Ratings and Attendance Data - National Football Foundation

IRVING, Texas (May 27, 2020) – The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame highlighted today numerous powerful facts from the 2019-20 college football
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College football on ESPN/ABC is struggling this year, especially the ACC contests. Here is a comparison of the viewers for 2020 time slots vs 2019 time slots on ESPN or ABC:

Clemson/Wake Forest = -60%
GT/FSU = -46%
Miami/Louisville = +5%
FSU/Miami = -19%
UNC/BC = -55%
Miami/Clemson = -31%
VT/UNC = -44%
Louisville/GT = -2%
Clemson/GT = +5%
UNC/FSU = -41%
ND/Pitt = -31%
NC St./UNC = -69%

The ND games on NBC are doing well, but they are not part of ESPN/ABC.

End of the day, the ACC suffers from having too many schools in NC, not enough good football teams (FSU is not a draw anymore), and few flagship state universities.
 
Alas..we are now like the Big East...awaiting basketball season....

Strange season...the Top Ten most watched college football games through October are way down from the ten most watched totals last year.

NBA Finals....down 49%

Stanley Cup Final...down 61%

US Open Final.Round...down 56%

MLB Division Series...down 40%
 
Waquoit said:
It turned out to be a massive mistake for BCU. Their FB is basically unchanged. They have the occasional decent year when they happen to bring in a good QB. But their basketball program has dropped from irrelevant to laughing stock.
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It was shortsighted for sure. The were operating under a "single pie" analysis ("whatever UConn gains we lose) when the better model is the "rising tide lift all boats" analysis ("UConn in the ACC doesn't cost us a dollar and having a regional competitor is improves gate, enthusiasm and recruiting for our program.")
 
Waquoit said:
It turned out to be a massive mistake for BCU. Their FB is basically unchanged. They have the occasional decent year when they happen to bring in a good QB. But their basketball program has dropped from irrelevant to laughing stock.
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No matter how few are interested in them. they are still getting their massive payout from ESPN/ACC no matter what. Therefore, it was not a mistake, but genius for them to start the destruction of the old Big East and UConn.
 
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HartfordHank said:
That is very funny! Best laugh I have had this week!
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Why not? Isn't Springfield being reinvented as a tourist destination for the rednecks of northern New England and western Massachusetts? Throw in a college football stadium and maybe some basketball games and UMass can maybe get somewhere. Springfield can most definitely use FBS games.

McGuirk won't work, so why not put a new stadium near or in Springfield? That would really boost UMass, IMO. Thank God I am not paying for it. UMass does have some alumni of importance, surprisingly. Ask the crown prince of Mysore of India for donations; he graduated from there.
 
buddy said:
No matter how few are interested in them. they are still getting their massive payout from ESPN/ACC no matter what. Therefore, it was not a mistake, but genius for them to start the destruction of the old Big East and UConn.
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UConn is completely destroyed. We might even get kicked out of the Hockey East for not being invited to the ACC in 2014.

/s
 
Butch said:
Why not? Isn't Springfield being reinvented as a tourist destination for the rednecks of northern New England and western Massachusetts? Throw in a college football stadium and maybe some basketball games and UMass can maybe get somewhere. Springfield can most definitely use FBS games.

McGuirk won't work, so why not put a new stadium near or in Springfield? That would really boost UMass, IMO. Thank God I am not paying for it. UMass does have some alumni of importance, surprisingly. Ask the crown prince of Mysore of India for donations; he graduated from there.
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You might have some logic in your musings but we are talking Massachusetts Politicians! They had issues building private stadiums.
 
HartfordHank said:
You might have some logic in your musings but we are talking Massachusetts Politicians! They had issues building private stadiums.
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McGuirk has to be rebuilt or replaced, regardless. So it's pretty much do or die for Massachusetts and UMass.
 
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Butch said:
McGuirk has to be rebuilt or replaced, regardless. So it's pretty much do or die for Massachusetts and UMass.
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it just underwent some renovations last year (including new turf fields).
 
huskymedic said:
it just underwent some renovations last year (including new turf fields).
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Capacity is only 17,000. It was built to keep up with everyone else in 1960 but now outdated for what is the 4th oldest FBS program. UMass really can grow, but need a stadium that suits their goals.
 
Went to McGuirk for the UConn game last yr. It is a glorified 1-AA stadium- no amenities, small.. They would need a new stadium but there isn't enough interest in UMass football for that to happen.
 
Butch said:
Why not? Isn't Springfield being reinvented as a tourist destination for the rednecks of northern New England and western Massachusetts? Throw in a college football stadium and maybe some basketball games and UMass can maybe get somewhere. Springfield can most definitely use FBS games.

McGuirk won't work, so why not put a new stadium near or in Springfield? That would really boost UMass, IMO. Thank God I am not paying for it. UMass does have some alumni of importance, surprisingly. Ask the crown prince of Mysore of India for donations; he graduated from there.
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Because building a college stadium off campus is a Connecticut thing.
 
hardcorehusky said:
Went to McGuirk for the UConn game last yr. It is a glorified 1-AA stadium- no amenities, small.. They would need a new stadium but there isn't enough interest in UMass football for that to happen.
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Build it, and they will come. Springfield is a perfect place for UMass to showcase it's God forsaken football program.
 
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Butch said:
If we built on campus, attendance over the past 5 years would probably have been worse.
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Disagree. I was on campus for an epically bad football team, and we pack the stadium, albeit a much smaller one, consistently.
 
CL82 said:
Disagree. I was on campus for an epically bad football team, and we pack the stadium, albeit a much smaller one, consistently.
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That was the Yankee Conference. We're talking about the AAC here.
 
Butch said:
That was the Yankee Conference. We're talking about the AAC here.
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So you’re saying there was a greater fanbase I-AA football than BCS football?
 
CL82 said:
Disagree. I was on campus for an epically bad football team, and we pack the stadium, albeit a much smaller one, consistently.
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No freaking way, not even close..
 
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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
If we built a stadium on campus we’d have been in the ACC the last 5 years.
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JO Christian Field was probably a bigger issue than the Rent. Worst college baseball or high school stadium I've ever seen. Even worse than Waterbury's Municipal Field.
 
CL82 said:
78 - 82.

(It really doesn’t seem like that long ago.)
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It does seem to fly by. I was leaving as you were coming in. Nadzak use to complain he didn't get support from the school. One decent year in there.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
It does seem to fly by. I was leaving as you were coming in. Nadzak use to complain he didn't get support from the school. One decent year in there.
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Our running joke when people asked what were doing that weekend was "Watching the football team lose and the soccer team win." I will say that having an on campus stadium makes a world of difference in terms of indoctrinating generations of fans. Though the Rent is a great place to see a game, we are missing the opportunity to bring generations of kids on board as football fans. IMO.
 
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