Post by beavheart on Aug 6, 2023 12:37:22 GMT -8
Does anyone really know. Right now, it doesn't seem like anyone is looking anywhere past their noses in this whole sheet show.
End game - 2 Ultra Mega conferences of the top 32 teams in the country. They basically fill 3/4 or more of the post season in most sports, more or less regardless of how they actually perform on the field/court. Therefore rewarding the population centers, basically without any regard to fairness, tradition, or even logic, all so the TV networks can exclusively sell their BS to the most population with the least amount of expense.
The question in my mind is this. Do the power brokers in this (TV Networks) honestly believe they can arbitrarily blow up the entire thing as it exists, cut out all the "fat", and that everything just remains the same? Everybody just keep lining up with eyeballs on this disgusting display of hubris and greed?
I know I'm not. Up until this year my usual fall Saturday routine has been to roll out of bed, make coffee, and set up on the couch for a day of football that starts with all the ACC/BIG games that are on at 9am our time. I'm positive I am not the only one doing this on the west coast. I stopped watching the BIG this year simply out of principle when they swindled the LA schools out of the PAC. Now they have literally destroyed our conference, and yet they seem to presume that they will simply continue to pull in all the CFB fans across the country. Any interest I had in their product beyond OSU is now gone from me entirely. I have better things to do with my time than watch a popularity contest between the chosen few. Frankly, I think a lot of the allure to college sports is the possibility of the upstart, underdog beating the prohibitive favorite. Now that they have eliminated that dynamic, what do we really have?
Are they right? Are CFB fans going to keep watching across the nation when they have thrown the balance of power so far out of whack that most teams have no shot? I have my doubts.
End game - 2 Ultra Mega conferences of the top 32 teams in the country. They basically fill 3/4 or more of the post season in most sports, more or less regardless of how they actually perform on the field/court. Therefore rewarding the population centers, basically without any regard to fairness, tradition, or even logic, all so the TV networks can exclusively sell their BS to the most population with the least amount of expense.
The question in my mind is this. Do the power brokers in this (TV Networks) honestly believe they can arbitrarily blow up the entire thing as it exists, cut out all the "fat", and that everything just remains the same? Everybody just keep lining up with eyeballs on this disgusting display of hubris and greed?
I know I'm not. Up until this year my usual fall Saturday routine has been to roll out of bed, make coffee, and set up on the couch for a day of football that starts with all the ACC/BIG games that are on at 9am our time. I'm positive I am not the only one doing this on the west coast. I stopped watching the BIG this year simply out of principle when they swindled the LA schools out of the PAC. Now they have literally destroyed our conference, and yet they seem to presume that they will simply continue to pull in all the CFB fans across the country. Any interest I had in their product beyond OSU is now gone from me entirely. I have better things to do with my time than watch a popularity contest between the chosen few. Frankly, I think a lot of the allure to college sports is the possibility of the upstart, underdog beating the prohibitive favorite. Now that they have eliminated that dynamic, what do we really have?
Are they right? Are CFB fans going to keep watching across the nation when they have thrown the balance of power so far out of whack that most teams have no shot? I have my doubts.
