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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 13:38:23 GMT -5
Or this one in Houston
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2020 11:29:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2020 15:56:51 GMT -5
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 25, 2020 9:49:27 GMT -5
I don't think it's a done deal that this season gets played.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2020 15:37:03 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2020 10:48:07 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2020 11:58:52 GMT -5
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Post by ptctitan on Oct 26, 2020 20:31:38 GMT -5
ESPN is having significant financial problems because declining ratings for sports is forcing it to make significant concessions to advertisers. There have been more layoffs there. And the network is putting more features behind its ESPN+ paywall in an attempt to generate more revenue. Using the CDC COVID protocols as an excuse became very easy for the network because it likely triggers various clauses in its contracts to operate and sponsor these MTE's knowing that they would likely all lose money. Thus, ESPN cancels these events due to the act of God called COVID and will try and escape its duties under these contracts. There is a day of reckoning fast approaching for conferences that rely upon ESPN money for significant parts of their budgets. And the NCAA may even face an attempt by the networks to renegotiate their deal for the tournament. The networks are not going to bail out college sports if there is no profit for them doing so.
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Post by upbasketballfan on Oct 26, 2020 23:06:04 GMT -5
ESPN is having significant financial problems because declining ratings for sports is forcing it to make significant concessions to advertisers. There have been more layoffs there. And the network is putting more features behind its ESPN+ paywall in an attempt to generate more revenue. Using the CDC COVID protocols as an excuse became very easy for the network because it likely triggers various clauses in its contracts to operate and sponsor these MTE's knowing that they would likely all lose money. Thus, ESPN cancels these events due to the act of God called COVID and will try and escape its duties under these contracts. There is a day of reckoning fast approaching for conferences that rely upon ESPN money for significant parts of their budgets. And the NCAA may even face an attempt by the networks to renegotiate their deal for the tournament. The networks are not going to bail out college sports if there is no profit for them doing so. I wonder if they will ever get it! People watch sports to take their minds off of their every day problems. When you are in the game nothing is more pure. You sense nothing around you but the game itself. Most of my family and friends are not interested in political statements but would be considered sports fanatics. I personally watched a NBA preseason game for about 2 minutes and haven't watched the NBA for one second since.
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Post by ptctitan on Oct 27, 2020 3:00:07 GMT -5
I wonder if they will ever get it! People watch sports to take their minds off of their every day problems. When you are in the game nothing is more pure. You sense nothing around you but the game itself. Most of my family and friends are not interested in political statements but would be considered sports fanatics. I personally watched a NBA preseason game for about 2 minutes and haven't watched the NBA for one second since. These major tournaments and conference challenges are content created by providers like ESPN in order to drive their ratings and profits. Content providers like ESPN have been in trouble now for several years. The main cause is cord-cutting from cable programming. The content provider gets paid a fee by the cable or satellite networks for each subscriber that receives their network even if subscribers never watch their networks. Fewer cable subscribers mean lower revenues to ESPN. So, now ESPN must go out and replace this lost revenue by selling its content directly to its viewers in things like ESPN+. That helps replace the revenue lost to viewers who cut the cable cord, but it does not replace the revenue from people who never watched their sports programming. ESPN just went through another round of layoffs. Also, the cable and satellite companies have negotiated lower fees and rebates from content providers like ESPN because they had no sports to televise for the first several months of the COVID outbreak. Any incremental viewership losses from the social justice marketing just adds to the losses. But the main cause is cord cutting. Even in golf, Fox Sports just bought out the USGA so it did not have to keep televising unprofitable USGA golf tournaments for the next 6-7 years. There was no major social justice messaging in that sport. The issue is cord cutting and the gravy train is coming to an end for NCAA hoops. ESPN's decision to use the COVID protocols as an excuse not to televise these tournaments is the first of many such cuts to come to college sports. They created these college tournaments to drive their ratings so they could advertising at higher rates. Those economic conditions no longer exist mainly because they can no longer collect as much revenue from non-viewers as they used to collect in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. COVID protocols became a convenient excuse likely because ESPN has escape clauses for acts of God in their contracts with groups that put these events together.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 5:39:19 GMT -5
Another team says no college basketball this season
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Post by motorcitysam on Nov 16, 2020 12:17:20 GMT -5
Per reports, the entire NCAA Tournament will be played at one location this season. Talk about your March Madness!
Also, some prominent voices, Rick Pitino among them, is advocating for the start of the season to be moved back, putting the tournament in May. "May Madness" still works.
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Post by upbasketballfan on Nov 16, 2020 14:07:21 GMT -5
Per reports, the entire NCAA Tournament will be played at one location this season. Talk about your March Madness! Also, some prominent voices, Rick Pitino among them, is advocating for the start of the season to be moved back, putting the tournament in May. "May Madness" still works. It might be just me but it seems today that no one wants to be responsible for their bad decisions. One program is diligent and has their people sacrifice to maintain and control Covid and another allows or has players who are not following protocol or the administration has not even set guide lines and now everyone else has to change to cover their ineptness. I feel if your players can not practice or coaches are unable to conduct practice that is your problem and if you can not prepare or field a team then you lose.
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Post by calihanmole on Nov 19, 2020 19:43:28 GMT -5
Guess who’s back? Back again. Mole is back. Tell a friend.
Well, the wheels are falling off and it seems like every other hour another team is on pause and cancels a few games. How many of these MTEs will even be played next week? Will any teams play next Wednesday with the news narrative telling us that every day is now “the worst day yet” and that they are setting up hospital beds in parking garages? I hope some games go on, but if I had to bet I’d guess that by early next week enough games are cancelled that the NCAA just cancels everything and says they need to come up with something new.
It’s really disappointing that the NCAA and conferences had months to get this right and they still screwed up, even after it became apparent over the summer with pro sports that bubbles work. Ideally every conference would be sending their teams to bubbles this week, hanging out for two weeks, and then entering conference play from mid December- end of January. At least then we’d have games, the kids would be relatively safe, and schools and the NCAA couldn’t be called out for spreading the virus with all this travel. What a hot mess. Sad.
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Post by nctitan on Nov 19, 2020 20:41:03 GMT -5
Ideally every conference would be sending their teams to bubbles this week, hanging out for two weeks, and then entering conference play from mid December- end of January. At least then we’d have games, the kids would be relatively safe, and schools and the NCAA couldn’t be called out for spreading the virus with all this travel. What a hot mess. Sad. That's not the worst idea I've ever heard. Pretty close, but not the worst.
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