(05-08-2014 03:11 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  And yet I can guarantee you that America will not care and will watch the P5 32 team playoff

America? - your small minded thinking is way to high on college sports. Believe it or not there are more that do not follow than do. And a lot that do follow the so called G5.

(05-08-2014 03:11 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  And yet I can guarantee you that America will not care

Fixed.

Of course you are operating under the mis-guided belief that AMERICA cares now.

In the last 5 years only one NCAA Tournament Championship game has pulled in more than 15% of homes, Duke-Butler, but wait that doesn't fit your deluded fantasy (hope) that no one cares about schools outside the P5. Butler-UConn was the third best rated of the last five and it wasn't nearly as competitive of a game. Kansas-Kentucky was the lowest of the five.

This is the amazing thing about sports. Over and over I see fans, especially fans of power teams who think EVERYONE watches and EVERYONE cares.

The big championship games tend to draw around 15% of the nation.

How big is college athletics to AMERICA? Championship games draw about as many viewers as Ross Perot had voters in 1992.

(05-09-2014 01:08 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 03:11 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  And yet I can guarantee you that America will not care

Fixed.

Of course you are operating under the mis-guided belief that AMERICA cares now.

In the last 5 years only one NCAA Tournament Championship game has pulled in more than 15% of homes, Duke-Butler, but wait that doesn't fit your deluded fantasy (hope) that no one cares about schools outside the P5. Butler-UConn was the third best rated of the last five and it wasn't nearly as competitive of a game. Kansas-Kentucky was the lowest of the five.

This is the amazing thing about sports. Over and over I see fans, especially fans of power teams who think EVERYONE watches and EVERYONE cares.

The big championship games tend to draw around 15% of the nation.

How big is college athletics to AMERICA? Championship games draw about as many viewers as Ross Perot had voters in 1992.

What people seem to forget is that Ross got more votes than any independent candidate in American history. The media doesn't seem to understand that the tea party is the Perot voters who are concerned about deficits and government waste. And they dismiss them.

(05-09-2014 01:13 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 01:08 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 03:11 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  And yet I can guarantee you that America will not care

Fixed.

Of course you are operating under the mis-guided belief that AMERICA cares now.

In the last 5 years only one NCAA Tournament Championship game has pulled in more than 15% of homes, Duke-Butler, but wait that doesn't fit your deluded fantasy (hope) that no one cares about schools outside the P5. Butler-UConn was the third best rated of the last five and it wasn't nearly as competitive of a game. Kansas-Kentucky was the lowest of the five.

This is the amazing thing about sports. Over and over I see fans, especially fans of power teams who think EVERYONE watches and EVERYONE cares.

The big championship games tend to draw around 15% of the nation.

How big is college athletics to AMERICA? Championship games draw about as many viewers as Ross Perot had voters in 1992.

What people seem to forget is that Ross got more votes than any independent candidate in American history. The media doesn't seem to understand that the tea party is the Perot voters who are concerned about deficits and government waste. And they dismiss them.

19% isn't significant in an election, it is when charging advertisers to reach them.

We aren't talking about politics. We are talking about the fact that the P5 is not the NFL.

(05-09-2014 01:25 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  We aren't talking about politics. We are talking about the fact that the P5 is not the NFL.

No. But its still significant.

Ross was pretty significant to the 1992 election.

(05-07-2014 02:42 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  If they should split then we, in the G5 need to make sure it is for all sports.

I agree with this 100%

(05-09-2014 02:33 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 01:25 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  We aren't talking about politics. We are talking about the fact that the P5 is not the NFL.

No. But its still significant.

Ross was pretty significant to the 1992 election.

That's debatable. IMO, Perot received a lot of throwaway votes, because people assumed Clinton would win by a comfortable margin. If the Clinton-Bush race was too close to call, nearly all of those Perot voters would have voted for either Clinton or Bush.

(05-09-2014 03:09 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 02:33 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 01:25 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  We aren't talking about politics. We are talking about the fact that the P5 is not the NFL.

No. But its still significant.

Ross was pretty significant to the 1992 election.

That's debatable. IMO, Perot received a lot of throwaway votes, because people assumed Clinton would win by a comfortable margin. If the Clinton-Bush race was too close to call, nearly all of those Perot voters would have voted for either Clinton or Bush.

Bush-Gore-Nader seems to indicate to the contrary that people were willing to take the risk to make a point.

The easiest way to accomplish a lot of this is to raise the standards for D-I and I-A.

Instead of 14 sports and 50% schollies, raise it to 16 or 18 sports at 75% schollies. Raise I-A to 20 sports, and 225 schollies given.

A lot of the chaff will separate on it own. Those that can keep up, will.

(05-09-2014 03:09 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 02:33 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 01:25 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  We aren't talking about politics. We are talking about the fact that the P5 is not the NFL.

No. But its still significant.

Ross was pretty significant to the 1992 election.

That's debatable. IMO, Perot received a lot of throwaway votes, because people assumed Clinton would win by a comfortable margin. If the Clinton-Bush race was too close to call, nearly all of those Perot voters would have voted for either Clinton or Bush.

You might recall that Perot was leading in the polls at one point in time. He dropped a lot towards the end. I think the polls didn't show his vote necessarily going one way or the other if he had "dropped out" at the last minute, but IMO his campaign significantly weakened Bush.

(05-09-2014 01:13 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2014 01:08 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 03:11 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  And yet I can guarantee you that America will not care

Fixed.

Of course you are operating under the mis-guided belief that AMERICA cares now.

In the last 5 years only one NCAA Tournament Championship game has pulled in more than 15% of homes, Duke-Butler, but wait that doesn't fit your deluded fantasy (hope) that no one cares about schools outside the P5. Butler-UConn was the third best rated of the last five and it wasn't nearly as competitive of a game. Kansas-Kentucky was the lowest of the five.

This is the amazing thing about sports. Over and over I see fans, especially fans of power teams who think EVERYONE watches and EVERYONE cares.

The big championship games tend to draw around 15% of the nation.

How big is college athletics to AMERICA? Championship games draw about as many viewers as Ross Perot had voters in 1992.

What people seem to forget is that Ross got more votes than any independent candidate in American history. The media doesn't seem to understand that the tea party is the Perot voters who are concerned about deficits and government waste. And they dismiss them.

Ross may have had more votes due to larger population but Theodore Roosevelt is a better example. Back when the Republican party was the more progressive party Teddy managed to get 27% of the popular vote beating Taft of the Republican party (23%) and Teddy beat him in the electoral college 88 to 8. Sadly for Teddy he had to face off against Wilson.

That is like a BYU or other large G5 killing a p5 school but then getting beat by an Alabama.

This thread is derailed by Ross Perot and Theodore Roosevelt. Oh well.

(05-09-2014 07:29 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  This thread is derailed by Ross Perot and Theodore Roosevelt. Oh well.

Politics are not a good way to end a thread and old politics are even worse although I did appreciate Teddy's antitrust laws and Ross Perot's chutzpah in getting his guys out of Iran. Thread Closed.