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Posted on 1/2/16 at 8:29 am to jefffan
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Weren't all three games close last year?
No.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 8:40 am to gobuxgo5
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Ohio state is the main ingredient they bring the ratings
Agreed.. A OSU/Bama rematch would have been a lot higher...Plus Oklahomavs. Stanford would have gotten better ratings IF they would have put them in the primetime slot... The game would have started at 5 western time and ben done long before anyone would have wanted to go out... SO...Is it just about ratings??? Clemson just doesn't bring in viewers like a Stanford would, Now they should have had those games Saturday if they wanted better ratings.. But I think they were banking on kids being out of school and a lot of people take vacation the week before new years day........
Posted on 1/2/16 at 8:44 am to dukke v
Was there any good reason not to play those two games today?
Posted on 1/2/16 at 8:57 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Was there any good reason not to play those two games today?
I sure don't see what they would be... Maybe that they depended on vacation people??? Or Thinking that NEW YEARS day is the so called FINAL big day of the Bowls and wanted to keep that tradition.
But I can assure you the ratings would have been better......... ALOT better.......
Posted on 1/2/16 at 9:42 am to TigerintheNO
ESPN will go to commercial, have them change the scores to closer games, might even wack a quarter.
wa la
wa la
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:09 am to stlslick
Glad this got posted.
I was talking about it NYE. NYE kills it. Unless your school is in it or your kid is playing you ain't watching. Or it is merely background noise. Big miscalculation by the powers that be.
Their key demo is the people who post in this board? I worked a day shift and drove home at 7pm. I pass 2 sports bars on my way home. They were 50% or less. And that was pre BAMA playing. Normally sports bars would be full for this day. 21-34 and 35-50 age bracket folks. Except for NYE. what are you guys trying to do on NYE. Get drunk and get New Years poon. Married folks like me are at friends house with the family and the wives trying to get drunk and get New Years poon.
Football IS all powerful but it does not over take New Year's Eve. It would have KILLED on New Year's Day. Especially this year. A Friday that everyone is off. Everybody has had dinner with family and are ready to drink again. I don't care who is playing. CFB will never take over liquor and arse. Which is what New Years is all about.
I was talking about it NYE. NYE kills it. Unless your school is in it or your kid is playing you ain't watching. Or it is merely background noise. Big miscalculation by the powers that be.
Their key demo is the people who post in this board? I worked a day shift and drove home at 7pm. I pass 2 sports bars on my way home. They were 50% or less. And that was pre BAMA playing. Normally sports bars would be full for this day. 21-34 and 35-50 age bracket folks. Except for NYE. what are you guys trying to do on NYE. Get drunk and get New Years poon. Married folks like me are at friends house with the family and the wives trying to get drunk and get New Years poon.
Football IS all powerful but it does not over take New Year's Eve. It would have KILLED on New Year's Day. Especially this year. A Friday that everyone is off. Everybody has had dinner with family and are ready to drink again. I don't care who is playing. CFB will never take over liquor and arse. Which is what New Years is all about.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:21 am to LSU alum wannabe
Great article about why didn't work.
LINK
LINK
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And -- and I don't think I'm unique here -- at a certain point I didn't want to have my memory of New Year's Eve being "watching the end of a miserable blowout football game." So I shut it off. And I didn't even go out! If you went out, the games were something you saw over someone's shoulder, or maybe during occasional glimpses at your phone in the bathroom. This is no way for an event of this magnitude to be experienced. This is the fundamental problem at the core of having the CFP games on New Year's Eve, which is, for now anyway, scheduled to happen for three of the next four years.
Sports exist to fill in the gaps in our schedule, to distract us from things we have to do, not to replace things in our schedule. Whether you like New Year's Eve or not, it is an established American tradition to at least acknowledge New Year's Eve. To put two football games smack in the middle of it, and pound your chest and claim "these are our days now," is arrogance of the highest order. It's arrogance exposed most dramatically when the games are as uncompelling as Thursday's were.
This post was edited on 1/2/16 at 10:27 am
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:28 am to FairhopeTider
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And -- and I don't think I'm unique here -- at a certain point I didn't want to have my memory of New Year's Eve being "watching the end of a miserable blowout football game." So I shut it off. And I didn't even go out! If you went out, the games were something you saw over someone's shoulder, or maybe during occasional glimpses at your phone in the bathroom. This is no way for an event of this magnitude to be experienced. This is the fundamental problem at the core of having the CFP games on New Year's Eve, which is, for now anyway, scheduled to happen for three of the next four years. Sports exist to fill in the gaps in our schedule, to distract us from things we have to do, not to replace things in our schedule. Whether you like New Year's Eve or not, it is an established American tradition to at least acknowledge New Year's Eve. To put two football games smack in the middle of it, and pound your chest and claim "these are our days now," is arrogance of the highest order. It's arrogance exposed most dramatically when the games are as uncompelling as Thursday's were.
That's what I just said. But written by a journalist/wordsmith.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:38 am to StraightCashHomey21
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both games not even sold out
Due to the semifinal not being as important and ridiculous face value prices. These games are just not going to sell out unless it is very close to traditional power's backyard
This post was edited on 1/2/16 at 10:39 am
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:47 am to UltimaParadox
Due to the semifinal not being as important and ridiculous face value prices. These games are just not going to sell out unless it is very close to traditional power's backyard
What were the prices?
You are correct though. NYE is expensive enough. Bar or club cover charge? Cab and Uber costs. Hotel. The cost of throwing a party if you are staying home? Now add to it a handful of $100's. If you went to one of these games earlier.
What were the prices?
You are correct though. NYE is expensive enough. Bar or club cover charge? Cab and Uber costs. Hotel. The cost of throwing a party if you are staying home? Now add to it a handful of $100's. If you went to one of these games earlier.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:57 am to TigerintheNO
Both games should have been today.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 11:48 am to UltimaParadox
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Due to the semifinal not being as important and ridiculous face value prices. These games are just not going to sell out unless it is very close to traditional power's backyard
This is why its idiotic to go to 8 and why I hated the idea of a playoff in the first place. Takes out the fans
Posted on 1/2/16 at 11:59 am to Adam Banks
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This is why its idiotic to go to 8 and why I hated the idea of a playoff in the first place. Takes out the fans
LOL at you thinking the fans ever had a place. All about tv and $$$. They don't care if nobody shows up as long as they get the tv money.
If it expands to 8, which I support, the first round needs to be on campus for the higher seed.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:01 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Packages (just hotel and tix) through UA Alumni Assoc. were upwards of 1300 per person, iirc
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:02 pm to Chillini
I think it was Cowherd who said this, but ESPN doesn't care if the game is being played at the Dallas Cowboys indoor practice facility as long as people watch on tv
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:05 pm to PAGator
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I think it was Cowherd who said this, but ESPN doesn't care if the game is being played at the Dallas Cowboys indoor practice facility as long as people watch on tv
FCS does it right. On campus until the championship. Who wouldn't have loved seeing a team like Ohio State best Bama in Bama last year. Think Mich State would be gotten thumped just as bad neutral site or not.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:07 pm to Chillini
Especially if we move to 8 teams, which ESPN is already trying to push, the first round for sure HAS to be on campus or no one's going to show up.
Only about 12 teams have enough fans to fill 3 bowl games and they have to be matched up with each other, or none are going to be sold out.
Only about 12 teams have enough fans to fill 3 bowl games and they have to be matched up with each other, or none are going to be sold out.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:20 pm to PAGator
I thought I read somewhere that the SEC will never allow home games, mainly due to them saying no fricking way are they traveling to Columbus in January. I get that this is a TV event, but neutral site quarterfinals would be abysmal. I only know one MSU diehard who went to that game out of about ten who normally go to every event like it. Everybody else basically said they were not going to spend a ton on a NYE game that they might lose, and opted to commit to the championship game if State got there.
This post was edited on 1/2/16 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:39 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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CFB will never take over liquor and arse. Which is what New Years is all about.
With these ratings it was a disaster for ESPN AND its advertisers..I swear.. I would LOVE to have some of the wasted money on advertising that the networks get paid for... How much will it be for the NC game for a commercial??? $1 million I would bet... AND How many people that drink Miller Lite are gonna switch to BUDS just because of a commercial during a football game??? Or how many people are gonna switch from State Farm to Geico because of a frocking commercial???
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