re: If you could have a 1 on 1 conversation with KRogers about future streams

I would say that you should have the option to pay a lesser price for the games of a single team. I'm not paying $30 for a weekend of baseball even if I get 40 games or whatever they boast. IDC about 40 games, I want to watch 3 games and I'd probably pay $10 for that.

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Make it free with a monthly or discounted annual subscription to D1Baseball.

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If I was Kendall, this is what I would do.

Offer a baseball season access level to d1baseball and it includes being able to stream these tournaments they put on.

Frankly, their annual subscribing cost is pretty damn high at $140 for basic and $190 (geared towards SEC/ACC fans). I mean this is more than all the paid sites I've been a part of ever.

If they could offer like a $70 season pass (5 months access Feb-June) that includes being able to stream what they put on - I'd totally sign up for that.

$140-$180 with what they provide and NO streaming access, and dont even have a forum or anything

Hard to imagine they have much in the form of annual subscribers at those rates. I've contemplated doing the monthly in the past at $16-$23...but if you pay for that over say 5 months of the season it ends up $80-$115 anyways...and again, they dont even have a forum to talk college baseball which is part of the allure of sites like on3, 247, rivals, etc in the past

I dunno what the answer is, but I watched the highlights on wheels and it made be think ever paying for that would be a waste of time. The camera guy didn't know where to go on occasion, missed important moments, and camera that looked like it was in a hurricane at some points.

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None of the bigger networks have any interest in doing it. If it wasn't D1 streaming this, it would be something like Flo Sports who would cost just as much.

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And again, this changes absolutely nothing about any of my points.

The way these tournaments are setup is just anti-consumer when they have to have someone come in to stream them and charge (proportionally) a large amount of money to people to watch them. It's just dumb and doesnt advance the sport and just is a complete pain in the arse for actual fans who can watch the other 95% of the games on ESPN family of networks which they all already pay for. On top of all that, the quality is way worse and in past years had total disasters while trying to stream it...for what anyone paying for would expect a premium product to pay $25-$30 to watch a few college baseball games....and they're not getting anywhere close to that.

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forcing everyone to buy everything is where I have the biggest issue

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No doubt.

I’d also say, give us 1 decent opponent.

LSU has been to 3 Peak/D1 tournaments and played:
Indiana
Notre Dame
UCF
K State (twice)
Nebraska
Sam Houston (twice)
Iowa

Peak has Oregon State, Oregon, Arizona, even USM and Irvine in its tournaments this year. 1 of them would have been nice.

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No doubt.

I’d also say, give us 1 decent opponent.

LSU has been to 3 Peak/D1 tournaments and played:
Indiana
Notre Dame
UCF
K State (twice)
Nebraska
Sam Houston (twice)
Iowa

Peak has Oregon State, Oregon, Arizona, even USM and Irvine in its tournaments this year. 1 of them would have been nice.

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We are going on 5 seasons in with Jay now and I think it's pretty clear he had no intentions of us playing multiple high quality OOC teams at this point. Not a criticism of him whatsoever, just the apparent truth and it doesnt matter obviously when we're winning titles no problem without playing a ranked type team OOC a few times. He sneaks in some low key quality OOC matchups here and there, like the mid-week games against DBU, Texas (i guess not low key in name there, but was a mid-weeker), Kent St, Xavier in the past; 3x against Xavier, 3x against Samford weekend series as well in the past.

The neutral site tournaments we've done typically comprise on 2-ish bubble type NCAAT teams seems like and then someone a bit worse typically.

I dont think we see him stray much from this in the future, in the end it works for what he's trying to achieve. And I know he's said in the past he's tried to get some bigger names in for a series or even a mid-week type thing and always tended to get the cold shoulder but I also doubt he's REALLY trying that hard to get say Oregon St down here to play a weekend series or a UCLA type either. While those types of weekend series or even a mid week 1-2x thing is fun for us as fans with a high quality opponent we have so many high quality opponents in SEC play its rather pointless to have to do that in OOC scheduling to put it bluntly.

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There's only four LSU baseball games that aren't televised with a streaming/cable package.

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What's the 4th one? Are you counting the ESPN+ game technically there? I guess I could see that since you need beyond just a tv package with ESPN in it (or subscribe to ESPN+ separately which is what i do), but they started ESPN unlimited late last year which gets you ESPN+ access along with it for only $29.99/mo Really a heck of a deal if you dont care about much else on tv during baseball season. I could probably cancel youtubetv right now personally after the olympics are over and survive on ESPN Unlimited through the summer.

You dont even need a cable/streaming tv package with ESPN to watch all the games anymore - minus the peak tournament games of course.

My suggestion would be sell the rights to the tournament to a better streaming service or just post it on a monetized YouTube stream that has ad breaks.

Advice......."Don't ever stream another LSU sporting event!"

Not enough islands in the stream.