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College football viewership down 11 percent year over year

WestTexasHusker

WestTexasHusker

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Too early to draw any conclusions, but...


Oddly, the NFL is flat, while CFB is down 11 points. Reasons?

1. Purely coincidence
2. Late start times to some key games
3. Fans no savvy some realignment
4. Playoff makes early games less compelling
5. Fans no savvy the professionalization of college football

A combination of all five? None of the above?
 
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Really?? Some people are saying it's a bigger draw than ever! All these 18-20 year-olds making more money in a year than most fans will make in their lifetimes... and they're putting out an inferior product. Who wants to watch Indiana play Rutgers?

Yeah I know, even the "marquee" games are down in viewership. But who are really the quality teams this year?

I think it will pick up in the next few weeks, as the contenders come out of the woodwork.

Or maybe everyone is just waiting for Nebraska to be great again. You know, everybody says college FB is better when the Huskers are winning!
 
the problem is people talk more about the off the field stuff then the product on the field. Lawsuits, coaches being arrogant, pro players returning to college, obscene amounts of money being given to such young kids, off the field player issues. people hardly hear anything about on the field product....... all these things are issues that turn off the middle class people who dont do any of these things.
 
I've just lost interest. Multitude of reasons but the college game used to be fun, yes it has been a business but now it just seems different. Not saying people shouldn't be paid necessarily, but the free for all that is going on now just doesn't float my boat.

I will say not 17/18 yr old is worth millions of dollars but that is just my opinion.
 
joncarl said:
I've just lost interest. Multitude of reasons but the college game used to be fun, yes it has been a business but now it just seems different. Not saying people shouldn't be paid necessarily, but the free for all that is going on now just doesn't float my boat.

I will say not 17/18 yr old is worth millions of dollars but that is just my opinion.
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It should 100% have a cap. Top players should get no more than say... 200k (for convo sake), that numbers goes down as you fall down the depth chart. I also believe if you agree to come to a certain school you are not allowed to transfer before year 3, and you also agree to abide by those rules. Remember this is a college, this isn't a professional outfit. if you don't like those rules, try your luck in the draft. yes, open it up so high school kids can see if they can make it at that level. That will change a lot of kids minds, once they fail.
 
WestTexasHusker said:
yes, too early to push any panic buttons. But it's still -11 percent year over year. That's a chunk.
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You are misrepresenting what the article said. Viewership is down 11% from this same point in the season last year (week 4.) To say year over year implies it's been happening for at least a few years. It hasn't.
 
Bigger Ed said:
You are misrepresenting what the article said. Viewership is down 11% from this same point in the season last year (week 4.) To say year over year implies it's been happening for at least a few years. It hasn't.
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Didn't intend to "mispresent" anything. My goodness. When I wrote "year over year," I meant this year versus last year.
 
WestTexasHusker said:
Didn't intend to "mispresent" anything. My goodness. When I wrote "year over year," I meant this year versus last year.
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But yet Gameday's viewership is up from last year. I didn't realize that many idiots in this country can put up with McAfee's schtick. That show has become unwatchable the past few years. Clear SEC bias, NIck Saban complaining about players getting paid, Herbstreit being Herbstreit, etc. I tried watching one Saturday last year because they were doing the feature on Ernest Hausmann and it was horrible. Why would people tune in for that but then not watch the actual game?
 
I was reading an article on The Athletic and they were saying some of that loss could be contributed to the fact that there were only 2 out of conference matchups between ranked teams.

"It’s no coincidence that average viewership through four weeks was down 11 percent year-over-year, according to Front Office Sports. Mass numbers still tune in for a big non-conference game like Ohio State-Texas, which drew the largest Week 2 audience on record with 14 million viewers. There just haven’t been nearly enough of them.

Only that game and LSU-Ole Miss (a conference game) have topped 10 million viewers. Last season, there were four such games in Week 1 alone (Texas-Ohio State, Notre Dame-Miami, Alabama-Florida State and LSU-Clemson).

Some of the drop-off can be attributed to bad luck. LSU and Clemson played again in Week 1, but this year Clemson was unranked, and the game was a 51-10 blowout. Alabama-Florida State met again in Week 3 and drew a respectable 7 million viewers on ABC before getting bumped to ESPN2 due to a weather delay.

For the most part, college football has only itself to blame for a ho-hum September slate that turned off fans.

Ever since the move from a four-team to a 12-team Playoff, schools have been canceling marquee home-and-home series and replacing them with guarantee games that most fans don’t care about. Several prominent Big Ten programs — defending national champion Indiana, USC, Penn State, Nebraska and Washington — played no Power 4 nonconference opponents this season, though the Huskies did keep rival Washington State."

 
What could possibly go wrong with creating 17, 18, 19 year old millionaires? Imagine all the years many of these kids have struggled playing learning to play football. All that pain and suffering only to become millionaires? Yea what could possibly go wrong with how the current college football system works?
 
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