Bc doesn’t fair poorly.
Yup, after USCw, UCLA, UDub and Oregon departed the old PAC 12, Calford opting not to associate with Boise State CC and other prospective newby PAC n schools, and avoiding any association with BYU and lesser academic respected Big XII schools, Calford sucked it up shipping their athletes across country for the least bad of available alternatives.
Same same with BCU faring better more due to the Fighting Chickens ‘ opponent fan bases than BCU itself. For example, BCU’s games televised last season primarily due to pre-season overrated Free Shoes (week 0 or 1), rebounding Louisville, surprising mid-teens ranked smu, and Nebraska particularly due to the Cornhuskers’ crazed fan base.
That's an ironic result. I suspect the engine driving it may be that the only Boston College games that get broadcast are games against the high drawing teams in the ACC. So their "ratings per game broadcast" are respectable numbers but their total broadcast games are only four.
But their total viewers (6.9M) is still 8th.
How in the world does a 2-10 program average over 2 million per...?
I believe this is an argument why networks would agree to pay more for FSU in the P2 rather than in the ACC. The games are much better.
That's part of what defines a power program, right? FSU should land in the P2 somehow.
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Sure, but are those viewers more accurately attributed to Boston College or their opponents? My guess is that unless there is a very compelling opponent, Boston College games aren't being broadcast. I'll bet you could find similar results for Butler in the big east. Relatively few games broadcast nationally, but good numbers when they are there. Of course, those broadcast games would probably be versus Connecticut, Creighton, Marquette, and say Villanova. Under those circumstances, do you feel that they accurately reflect butlers draw in the market?
Yes, did you read my response?
Agreed.
Here is the explanation for BC's TV ratings. Remember, TV ratings are driven by the school itself, the opponent, the time slot, time slot competition, and the broadcast network.
Nice analysis. I wonder how the unequal revenue distribution adjusts for ratings inflation due to opponent? If it doesn't, I would expect that teams with bad drawing power will be scheduled in the worst times slots to avoid the kind of pump up that we saw with the FSU game above.
Correct, but if you put those games in less desirable slots, then you minimize the ratings boost the lower end teams get from playing those games, which in turn lowers their share of discretionary conference distributions, which in turn keeps them at the bottom of the league. They are in a death spiral now, well, if not death, let's call it a coma spiral, where they are still alive, but just not relevant anymore.
Every school below NC State is a massive gap down.
Cal and Stanford didn’t want to go to the big12 they preferred the ACC because it was a better fit for academics and Olympic sports (minus the travel). I believe Cal/Stanford have produced more gold medalists than any other universities. Cal/Stanford administration and alumni might have more in common with the sec schools than the big12, which is to say not much.
That was The message conveyed by the administration to the alumni association after not getting an invite to the BIG
So, no proof.
you’re asking me to prove a negative… As an alum I didn’t want them joining the big12 either. The travel sucks but it would suck in the BIG too. at least the ACC supports Olympic sports. The big12 doesn’t even have soccer…
Since soccer is a non rev sport, I would think UConn could find a near buy conference to park the soccer teams and any other non-rev sport not offered by the B12. Hockey would stay put in Hockey East.
