Why do you think the SEC and Big10 are acquiring the most watched programs? It won’t about the casual fan, it will be about the fans of the most watched programs. Are you trying to tell me that BC will draw enough subscriptions to make production worth while? And yes, there will be some sort of crossover between the Big10 and SEC. The university presidents will have to have some way to get exposure.
ProbablyApparently Nebraska's getting dumped that's what I heard.
I'd add that with streaming, it's no longer a straight up football audience. Just look at when the women's team was going to be mainly on ESPN+. How many people in this state were going to pony up for the service so they could watch the women play? How many of you spent time helping your older family members or friends set up ESPN+!! I think that when it comes to streaming and demand, UConn will provide a boost. Football may not be what drives it for us but there is a large demand to watch our bball programs from our alumni and others. We will pay to watch our Huskies play.
Football can and will be a plus, in as long as the school treats it like it matters and gives it the proper resources.
You can argue that UConn listing the fact that the fans didn't want to go to a streaming provider as a concern is actually one of the marks against UConn in a future state where Streaming is key (now in fairness that was some time ago). A proven UConn that brought XXX,000 views or XX,000 subs to a streaming service to support a tertiary rights product would arguably be more valuable to a streaming future, rather than making a speculative case that they would. Don't get me wrong, UConn made the right move to leave the AAC, but some of the statements justifying the move don't age well in a future where streaming is a bigger part of the value proposition.
Explain to me what strategy these conferences were supposed to take with ND?
to be fair, ND is really 5/8's or so a conference member because it must play ACC schools. That is not "independent." worse still, the ACC let ND join the football conference for 1 season, 2020. The ACC is dancing with the devil.
Streaming issue was the fact that Espn+ isn’t ripe. The Espn+ platform is atrocious user experience.
The way to force their hand is don't provide them a home for their olympic sports. The idea that someone has to or they will pick someone else for football is self defeating. They got that arrangement from the Big East and dropped the BE for the ACC in a NY minute. At 47, I'm old enough to remember ND with Digger Phelps and Depaul with Joey Meyer as BB independents. They were in rough shape. If the ACC eventually implodes it will be interesting who will be next to grab their ankles for them.
No idea why Notre Dame gets to walk over it’s league mates. Unless you love the part-then relationship, what’s the point?
Thus proving my point. The ACC is not going to force ND to choose. If they do, they know ND will bail on them. Does that help the ACC? Hell no.
ESPN+ is a good experience IF you have the right cable system. I have Xfinity and Spectrum and ESPN+ is great on Xfinity and terrible on Spectrum.
It comes down to money. Always does.
ND doesn’t make that much from NBC. They are independent bc the alumni demand it.
The ACC can't now, but they learned nothing about ND's relationship with the Big East. ND could have single handedly saved the Big East and chose not to. They can do the same for the ACC now, and will choose not to, BUT they have cojones to push for Cal and Stanford to be accepted. If the ACC collapses loke the PAC it will be interesting to see if the Big12 is its next host.
