(12-30-2014 08:37 AM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  There's 3 sports where I can sit and watch 2 teams play no matter who they are-

MLB (if you put a gun to my head and said I could only watch 1 sport the rest of my life, this would be the one)

college bball

NFL (mainly b/c of fantasy football)

I realize I am in the minority, but I don't care. Will keep watching and rooting for the Tigers until the day comes when the power leagues break away. At that point when Memphis athletics becomes pretty much irrelevant in the college landscape, I'll just stick mainly to MLB and NFL.

Interesting. I couldn't care less about any professional sports especially the NBA and MLB. I followed them extensively in my youth even sneaking in a radio to listen to the world series when in grade school and the weekday games were not in primetime. I could not even tell you who played in this years world series.

It's the grossly insane salaries paid to average players that is passed on to the fans in the form of too high ticket and concession prices.

(12-30-2014 10:23 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 08:37 AM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  There's 3 sports where I can sit and watch 2 teams play no matter who they are-

MLB (if you put a gun to my head and said I could only watch 1 sport the rest of my life, this would be the one)

college bball

NFL (mainly b/c of fantasy football)

I realize I am in the minority, but I don't care. Will keep watching and rooting for the Tigers until the day comes when the power leagues break away. At that point when Memphis athletics becomes pretty much irrelevant in the college landscape, I'll just stick mainly to MLB and NFL.

Interesting. I couldn't care less about any professional sports especially the NBA and MLB. I followed them extensively in my youth even sneaking in a radio to listen to the world series when in grade school and the weekday games were not in primetime. I could not even tell you who played in this years world series.

It's the grossly insane salaries paid to average players that is passed on to the fans in the form of too high ticket and concession prices.

I quit watching beisbol when they went on strike. NFL is for the gamblers.

(12-29-2014 07:10 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I just found it amazing that a bunch of exhibition football games littered the networks and ESPN with the UK-UL supertilt (which was pumped on Sportscenter all week) thrown on ESPN2. Didn't mean for this to go down the route of trolling.

Well, they aren't "exhibition" games, for one. They count. Teams still move up and down in the rankings after the bowls and outcomes likely still affect recruiting.

If your point is that only the national title games matter, then every game Memphis played this year after the Ole Miss loss was an exhibition because there was no way they would have been able to make the final four after that game.

(12-30-2014 10:30 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(12-29-2014 07:10 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I just found it amazing that a bunch of exhibition football games littered the networks and ESPN with the UK-UL supertilt (which was pumped on Sportscenter all week) thrown on ESPN2. Didn't mean for this to go down the route of trolling.

Well, they aren't "exhibition" games, for one. They count. Teams still move up and down in the rankings after the bowls and outcomes likely still affect recruiting.

If your point is that only the national title games matter, then every game Memphis played this year after the Ole Miss loss was an exhibition because there was no way they would have been able to make the final four after that game.

Play intramurals brotha!!!

(12-29-2014 03:55 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  

(12-29-2014 03:20 PM)Phillip26r Wrote:  

(12-28-2014 12:15 PM)mempho_to_diego Wrote:  Basketball is second fiddle ... football is where it is at.

No doubt about this. Basketball and baseball better figure out the gaming and fantasy side of things pretty soon.

Interesting perspective. I think NCAAB does well with gaming. I've been in Vegas for plenty of sporting events, and the weekends of the NCAA tournament are some of the wildest and busiest.

Where NCAAB is falling short is their diluting of the tournament. It's made the regular season close to meaningless.

To me, baseball is a distant third. I don't see any way that it can improve, either.

NCAAB does get a fair amount of exposure on the gambling side. I was referring more to the NFL's exposure with video gaming. Madden and fantasy football have given the NFL a second wind in the last decade that has separated them quite widely from all other sports in America from a popularity perspective.

It doesn't hurt either that America's Team, The Dallas Cowboys, is in the playoffs again.

The original poster's point is interesting. A #1 Kentucky vs. #4 Louisville matchup should be a big deal. The game ended up on ESPN 2, with a minor bowl game on the flagship station. I'd be that the bowl game had more viewers.

I didn't watch the game, but I did watch Sportscenter later that evening to get the score. I don't remember what the lead story was, but it wasn't the UK/UL game. The recap of that game was somewhere around the 4th or 5th story on sportscenter that evening.

Maybe it's because the scope was 58-50. Heck, there have been a couple of football games this year with that many points scored. How many college teams have scored in the 30's or 40's in games this year? Who wants to watch that?

I'll agree that the one-and-done rule is killing college hoops, but what are colleges supposed to do? That's an NBA rule, not an NCAA rule.

I think it's just a byproduct of the fact that a regular season game in CBB just isn't that important. That game has no direct bearing on whether UL or UK plays in the tourney or for the title.

I, however, was glued to the tv at 1:00 that day and enjoyed watching two solid teams battle it out.

(12-30-2014 10:30 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(12-29-2014 07:10 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I just found it amazing that a bunch of exhibition football games littered the networks and ESPN with the UK-UL supertilt (which was pumped on Sportscenter all week) thrown on ESPN2. Didn't mean for this to go down the route of trolling.

Well, they aren't "exhibition" games, for one. They count. Teams still move up and down in the rankings after the bowls and outcomes likely still affect recruiting.

If your point is that only the national title games matter, then every game Memphis played this year after the Ole Miss loss was an exhibition because there was no way they would have been able to make the final four after that game.

too much time off between the games. it might as well be its own season.

(12-30-2014 06:12 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 10:30 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(12-29-2014 07:10 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I just found it amazing that a bunch of exhibition football games littered the networks and ESPN with the UK-UL supertilt (which was pumped on Sportscenter all week) thrown on ESPN2. Didn't mean for this to go down the route of trolling.

Well, they aren't "exhibition" games, for one. They count. Teams still move up and down in the rankings after the bowls and outcomes likely still affect recruiting.

If your point is that only the national title games matter, then every game Memphis played this year after the Ole Miss loss was an exhibition because there was no way they would have been able to make the final four after that game.

too much time off between the games. it might as well be its own season.

Agree, and that's another entirely different animal. Could you imagine the NCAA having the S16/E8 weekend and then waiting a month to play the final four? Or hold the Superbowl the first weekend in March?