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Of course it doesn't speak to ABC's capacity!!! But as was alluded to previously by Husky10, it speaks to THEIR INVENTORY! This is not a hard concept to understand, really. ABC has other games that it can air in other regions of the map. NBC does not. That was the whole ideology behind bracketing national games around the Notre Dame game for NBC. And Louisville vs. USF is not a dog**** game, I don't care how you slice it. Louisville is a top10 team right now, and was certainly well ranked when ABC aired them in October. I'm sure that ABC aired some ACC games that could be classified as dog****, but this Big East game was not.
Am I arguing that NBC is going to pay us 20 million each and make us household names throughout America? No. I don't think anyone here is. But I will most certainly argue the fact that Big East football is still a good brand of football, and if we become NBC's only inventory, we will be on the main channel a hell of a lot more than we are now, no question about it...
They have signed MLS which is late in the season and into the playoffs during the football season.
Haven't you been an active participant in discussing the growth of soccer in this country?
Ville/USF is a dogshit game, that's why it was only on in local markets and the northeast.
Notre Dame is going to be on NBC 7 times a year, there are only 5 weekly openings for 1-2 games a week. They aren't going to have tripleheaders every week. There will be 14 teams in the conference. If we aren't a ranked team, we are no more likely to be over the airwaves with NBC than with ABC.