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Conference Expansion: Stanford, California and SMU Join the ACC

Are there actual bidding wars for these rights deals? It just seems like very few networks could handle the production logistics of ESPN.
 
NBC is talking like it wants the NBA. Amazon too:

The link

This is business; if Amazon and/or NBA and/or the Saudi Investment Fund offer a lot more than ESPN; the NBA isn't staying on ESPN. That said, ESPN spends/wastes a ridiculous amount of time on the NBA on its other shows with the vast majority of that time focused on LeBron and a few other stars, that it would be tough for ESPN to lose the NBA.
 
Non-NBA fans hate on the NBA. Sure Ohio St-Michigan gets more viewers than most playoff games but the long NBA season is good consistent content.

College football lasts from August to mid January with some slight interest on signing day. NBA season starts in October and the playoffs end in June with the draft, free agency, and Summer League taking the stage through mid-July. The functional offseason is only really 2 months. The NBA takes up a lot of what round otherwise be an empty summer schedule.

Add in Wemby and Scoot, the in-season tournament, Lebron and or vs Bronny, end of Steph and the Warriors dynasty, etc. ESPN will spend for the NBA and that could hurt the next college football deals.
 
PhDeac said:
Non-NBA fans hate on the NBA. Sure Ohio St-Michigan gets more viewers than most playoff games but the long NBA season is good consistent content.

College football lasts from August to mid January with some slight interest on signing day. NBA season starts in October and the playoffs end in June with the draft, free agency, and Summer League taking the stage through mid-July. The functional offseason is only really 2 months. The NBA takes up a lot of what round otherwise be an empty summer schedule.

Add in Wemby and Scoot, the in-season tournament, Lebron and or vs Bronny, end of Steph and the Warriors dynasty, etc. ESPN will spend for the NBA and that could hurt the next college football deals.
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85% of regular season NBA games are absolute trash. I'm not saying that CFB and NFL don't have a lot of garbage too, but the NBA season is too long and the quality of play is embarrassing some nights. 85% of baseball is also boring as hell.

But debating the quality of the product is pretty pointless. It's whether or not people are watching and there ain't jack shit on TV on Tuesday at 8PM in December, so people watch NBA.
 
morrison2951 said:
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from that article:

Florida State, Miami and Clemson would be widely considered the ACC's three strongest schools in terms of revenue generation from the football side of things
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not sure why this is accepted as fact.

Last year Miami played UNC, FSU, and Clemson. Those were Miami's only 3 ACC games with reported TV viewership. Total eyeballs: 3.89 million

Last year WFU played UNC, FSU, and Clemson. Those were WFU's only 3 ACC games with reported TV viewership. Total eyeballs: 6.27 million

Miami did also play aTm, and 3.4 million people watched that boring game. WF needs to schedule better OOC.
 
thatguy2016 said:
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not sure why this is accepted as fact.

Last year Miami played UNC, FSU, and Clemson. Those were Miami's only 3 ACC games with reported TV viewership. Total eyeballs: 3.89 million

Last year WFU played UNC, FSU, and Clemson. Those were WFU's only 3 ACC games with reported TV viewership. Total eyeballs: 6.27 million

Miami did also play aTm, and 3.4 million people watched that boring game. WF needs to schedule better OOC.
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It's just lazy journalism. Because those three schools have the richest football history, it's easy to say "they're most coveted by the SEC." When in fact lots of more in-depth reporting has shown various other angles to this, such as 1) FSU may actually be more desirable to the B1G than the SEC, UNC may be more valuable than any of these three other schools, etc.
 
why would anyone watch McAffee's show? who wants to see some donk in a tank top standing and yelling for a few hours?
 
BarcaDeac said:
why would anyone watch McAffee's show? who wants to see some donk in a tank top standing and yelling for a few hours?
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Yeah, how can you possibly watch that instead of Colin Cowherd ?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
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