(01-08-2016 02:11 PM)ButlerGSU Wrote: [ -> ]Apparently the ratings were so low for the college football playoffs on New Year's Eve that ESPN may owe advertisers refunds:
http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-owes...ngs-2016-1
Serves them right. Now move the GoDaddy to a different date as well, jerks.
ESPN should pass on that bill to the NCAA to make them think twice about stupidly putting the CFP games on New Year's Eve.
(01-08-2016 05:56 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: [ -> ]ESPN should pass on that bill to the NCAA to make them think twice about stupidly putting the CFP games on New Year's Eve.
NCAA doesn't regulate the playoff
(01-08-2016 05:56 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: [ -> ]ESPN should pass on that bill to the NCAA to make them think twice about stupidly putting the CFP games on New Year's Eve.
ESPN own fault. Rose Bowl has to be a 4 to 5 PM est on News Day due to there history and there Rose Bowl Parade on New Years Day. ESPN agreed and could have played both games on Saturday Jan 2. Last year the semi were the Rose at 4/5 est and the Sugar Bowl that evening after the Rose Bowl on New Years Day.
(01-08-2016 10:58 PM)ValleyBoy Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2016 05:56 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: [ -> ]ESPN should pass on that bill to the NCAA to make them think twice about stupidly putting the CFP games on New Year's Eve.
ESPN own fault. Rose Bowl has to be a 4 to 5 PM est on News Day due to there history and there Rose Bowl Parade on New Years Day. ESPN agreed and could have played both games on Saturday Jan 2. Last year the semi were the Rose at 4/5 est and the Sugar Bowl that evening after the Rose Bowl on New Years Day.
I've heard the opposite Valley, that ESPN wasn't given a choice of schedule in the games that they don't own and they urged against the ad campaign too. I'm not an expert in how it works though...
(01-08-2016 11:10 PM)bullitt_60 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2016 10:58 PM)ValleyBoy Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2016 05:56 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: [ -> ]ESPN should pass on that bill to the NCAA to make them think twice about stupidly putting the CFP games on New Year's Eve.
ESPN own fault. Rose Bowl has to be a 4 to 5 PM est on News Day due to there history and there Rose Bowl Parade on New Years Day. ESPN agreed and could have played both games on Saturday Jan 2. Last year the semi were the Rose at 4/5 est and the Sugar Bowl that evening after the Rose Bowl on New Years Day.
I've heard the opposite Valley, that ESPN wasn't given a choice of schedule in the games that they don't own and they urged against the ad campaign too. I'm not an expert in how it works though...
You are correct, but from reading the article ESPN knew what the game schedule was going to be, How the teams for the games were going to be decided on. No one held a gun to there head when they bid to pay what they did for the games. No one else set the cost for the ads. No one else set the rating guarantee. So ESPN will lose some money due to decisions they as a company made, happen in business every day so it happen to ESPN big deal.
The Bowls should just be scrapped. The tradition is dead anyway.
I guess maybe not everyone in the world (or even the U.S.) is a college football fan. Remember reading some flack back this summer about NCAA arrogance for scheduling games at 4 and 7 p.m. on NYE -- that's EST, by the way.
May not happen tonight or in a decade, but the sport has experienced an economic bubble. It too shall pop.