UConn’s next move.

[uconnfan68]

College football will become a ratings nightmare when guys like Saban leave the game? With all due respect, are you on crack?

Do you see the crowd sizes that show up to these Big 10 and SEC games?

They can’t get students to Alabama games.

 

[djct1999]

Yep, people will stop caring about college football once Nick Saban retires.

Somehow this makes sense in your head.

Your inability to ever read beneath the actual context never ceases to amaze me. I really appreciate the few times a year you remind me of that.

 

[Fishy]

Honest question, in 15 years will anyone even care about college sports? I feel like these media deals are a bubble waiting to burst. Live content for events few care for arent worth the money.

It’s a good question that does not have an answer.

But if you had to guess which direction interest would go, it would likely be down.

Realignment and the consolidation of power, influence and money into two conferences will be a headwind for every other program. Fan interest follows success; the current set up makes success unlikely outside of the B10 and SEC. (Even inside of those conferences, you are talking about a handful of teams capable of winning consistently.) The number of schools that will realistically have a shot at winning a championship will keep getting smaller, even as the playoffs get larger.

Contrast that with the NFL where the only impediment to winning is your front office. Every fan of every team, other than Viking fans, believes that their team can win a Super Bowl at some point. There’s nothing structural preventing them from doing so.

If you wanted to devise a system where college sports bleeds fans and attention, this is exactly how you would start.

 

[Fishy]

What is a reasonable guesstimate of what UConn can expect to make from the UConn Network that will launch in late November? $9.99/ months x 12 months x ??? Of households = what. How much of the $9.99/ month is profit after expenses?

 

[superjohn]

Your inability to ever read beneath the actual context never ceases to amaze me. I really appreciate the few times a year you remind me of that.

You got a like from Spackler.

Drool on the floor.

 

[JohnFSilver]

I wonder if Louisville would leave ACC for big 12.

 

[Fishy]

I wonder if Louisville would leave ACC for big 12.

I would put the odds at zero.

Both conferences have their issues, but the hotels in the ACC are In nicer places than the hotels in the Big 12. You just do not want to fly to Kansas twice if you can avoid it.

But one of the worst decisions in realignment was the ACC inviting Louisville. Another, ironically, is the Big 12 not inviting Louisville.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I would put the odds at zero.

Both conferences have their issues, but the hotels in the ACC are In nicer places than the hotels in the Big 12. You just do not want to fly to Kansas twice if you can avoid it.

But one of the worst decisions in realignment was the ACC inviting Louisville. Another, ironically, is the Big 12 not inviting Louisville.

Pitt, Cinci, Louisville and WVU should have all been invited to the Big 12. UConn would be in the ACC, which should have added Rutgers before the B1G did.

 

[CL82]

It’s free. Too bad, can’t make any money off free. Need to make a Husky network where UConn gets the $$$ and not ESPN or flosports

You establish it first for visibility and then add premium content.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

It’s a good question that does not have an answer.

But if you had to guess which direction interest would go, it would likely be down.

Realignment and the consolidation of power, influence and money into two conferences will be a headwind for every other program. Fan interest follows success; the current set up makes success unlikely outside of the B10 and SEC. (Even inside of those conferences, you are talking about a handful of teams capable of winning consistently.) The number of schools that will realistically have a shot at winning a championship will keep getting smaller, even as the playoffs get larger.

Contrast that with the NFL where the only impediment to winning is your front office. Every fan of every team, other than Viking fans, believes that their team can win a Super Bowl at some point. There’s nothing structural preventing them from doing so.

If you wanted to devise a system where college sports bleeds fans and attention, this is exactly how you would start.

wrong focus.
let's review.
'College Football USA - it's all aboot the benjamins.'
are you at all familiar with the overwhelmingly predominant software used today in the residential rental business, and it's cash proven bias that less is more?
not eyeballs, or attendance, tho im highly confident that those will be more than fine 15 years from now, tho i won't get into why that's so, cuz someone will get the madds, and i'll get poofed.

'College Football USA - it's all aboot the benjamins.'
seems like amazon, apple, and others have now jumped into the broadcast game. moar to come.

 

[Fishy]

Pitt, Cinci, Louisville and WVU should have all been invited to the Big 12. UConn would be in the ACC, which should have added Rutgers before the B1G did.

If there was an ounce of foresight involved, that would have happened.