Gonzaga 5 and UConn 38 in TV Power Rankings

[Hunt for 7]

Was surprised to see we were that low in this metric if it is only basketball. Thinking of all the women’s championships, fans usually gravitate to winning programs. Just can’t make up the numbers and get increased fan base with success in college sports. Big universities big fan bases. Gonzaga it appears is more like able than us on a national level. Not sure what their annual enrollment number is, but it is certainly much less than UConn’s.

TV power numbers….never heard of them before.

Makes our dominance on a national level even more impressive…..since the networks certainly aren’t rooting for us!

 

[HuskyHawk]

Was surprised to see we were that low in this metric if it is only basketball. Thinking of all the women’s championships, fans usually gravitate to winning programs. Just can’t make up the numbers and get increased fan base with success in college sports. Big universities big fan bases. Gonzaga it appears is more like able than us on a national level. Not sure what their annual enrollment number is, but it is certainly much less than UConn’s.

TV power numbers….never heard of them before.

Makes our dominance on a national level even more impressive…..since the networks certainly aren’t rooting for us!

Sounds like BS to me. Gonzaga is massively overrated in terms of following.

 

[Storrs South]

The numbers are BS. They probably just looked at raw tv ratings without considering opponent, timing, or network. One Marquette fan who does some pretty in-depth stuff with TV deals calls it bogus.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Please change the title to be accurate:

“Gonzaga is competing with UConn for a seat at the table and Gonzaga paid consultant says Gonzaga has higher made up metric.”

 

[willie99]

We've had a few disastrous years, the stars are aligned once again

Hence the Big 12 is even looking at us

 

[phillionaire]

Are Gonzaga's conference games even broadcast over cable? I thought they were mainly an ESPN + or streaming only product

 

[imno1]

How about this rating? 5 > 0

 

[mike012]

Someone better tell Gonzaga to stay in there lane on this one.

 

[Storrs South]

Are Gonzaga's conference games even broadcast over cable? I thought they were mainly an ESPN + or streaming only product

Mostly no. What they probably did is look at the few games against Michigan State or UNC that air on ESPN or FOX or CBS and say look 1 million viewers and then have no rating for Gonzaga v. San Francisco on ESPN+ and say the average is 1 million, #5 power ranking and call it a day. So it's a completely useless metric since any other serious program plays the bulk of their games on FS1, ESPN2, ACCN, SECN, etc.

 

[businesslawyer]

Mostly no. What they probably did is look at the few games against Michigan State or UNC that air on ESPN or FOX or CBS and say look 1 million viewers and then have no rating for Gonzaga v. San Francisco on ESPN+ and say the average is 1 million, #5 power ranking and call it a day. So it's a completely useless metric since any other serious program plays the bulk of their games on FS1, ESPN2, ACCN, SECN, etc.

This. Their analysis of statistics was almost certainly correct (because if it wasn't the conference would figure that out with their consultants). But the fact that a statistic is accurate doesn't mean you didn't cherry pick the statistic to make your point when more balanced statistics would have made a different one.

 

[uconnbill]

We've had a few disastrous years, the stars are aligned once again

Hence the Big 12 is even looking at us

Yes, and the sources are very good that is happening at the very least. Stop being a whiny man

 

[nomar]

This. Their analysis of statistics was almost certainly correct (because if it wasn't the conference would figure that out with their consultants). But the fact that a statistic is accurate doesn't mean you didn't cherry pick the statistic to make your point when more balanced statistics would have made a different one.

I believe Samuel Clemens had a saying about statistics...

 

[Sick Puppy]

BS meter way past 10.

 

[UConn Dan]

Just remember… it’s not a lie… if you believe it

 

[willie99]

Yes, and the sources are very good that is happening at the very least. Stop being a whiny man

Who's whiny? Sniff a clue someday

 

[EZPass]

 

[Sick Puppy]

"It's all about the bucks kid. The rest is conversation."- Gordon Geko

A s-ton of money is at stake in conference realignments. There are paid posters, pollsters and scammers everywhere.

Are you telling me that UConn, a storied successful program going back almost a century, in an East Coast NYC market, with a grads all over the planet and FIVE MEN's NC's and God knows how many WOMEN's Nattys in the last quarter century, is that far behind a Johnny-Come-Lately entrant from Spokane? No. I don't think so.

 

[kobe]

agreed guys.

38 seems way too high for a team in a regional conference that no one watches.

top 50 maybe, but 38 is a joke imo.

 

[phillionaire]

Mostly no. What they probably did is look at the few games against Michigan State or UNC that air on ESPN or FOX or CBS and say look 1 million viewers and then have no rating for Gonzaga v. San Francisco on ESPN+ and say the average is 1 million, #5 power ranking and call it a day. So it's a completely useless metric since any other serious program plays the bulk of their games on FS1, ESPN2, ACCN, SECN, etc.

ah ok that makes more sense. lies, damned lies, and statistics.

 

[Hunt for 7]

Kind of had a feeling this information, even if it is BS, would get us aggravated. When I first read it I went back and read it again just to make I did not miss any qualifiers. It looks like I did. The person who developed the rankings has been hired to help sell Gonzaga to the Big 12. Unfortunately my reading comprehension skills are not what they once were, as my take was that Navigate was hired by the Big 12. So it is clearly just a sales pitch. TV Power Ranking my a…..s

 

[gtcam]

Who cares?
God I can't wait for the fall to arrive