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(03-31-2022 01:08 PM)bopol Wrote:  

(03-31-2022 10:50 AM)burden Wrote:  Everybody is in the portal. How the powers to be don’t see this as a threat to college sports is beyond me. Even ESPN should be getting worried. Their ratings must be down November through February.

ESPN gets most of their money from cable companies who they charge for each cable subscriber, even if they don't ever watch it. As people cut the cable, that revenue will go down and that will mean smaller contracts to sports and that's when it will affect college sports. Now, whether or not the NCAA does anything to fix it, I doubt it. To me, it's more likely that they will make rules to increasingly favor the Top 50 (P6) programs that drive viewership over mid-tier D1 programs like Kent, which will do nothing for our interest.

Honestly, this whole thing is so out of control that I have found my enjoyment of college sports drop considerably in the last ten years and I am finding new interests. Right now, I am watching the UEFA Cup quarterfinals with Arsenal and Wolfsburg for free on YouTube.

Arsenal and Wolfsburg??? I hope it doesn’t get that bad for me. You know no worse than the Blue Jackets and Red Wings. I understand people in Canada better than those Englishmen.