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Why wouldn't the sports media embrace parity?
Posted on 1/3/14 at 8:17 am
Posted on 1/3/14 at 8:17 am
They always seem to push for a couple of teams to just bulldoze everyone and they always coddle their pet teams. USC once upon a time. UF once upon a time. "bama is the best team in the country".
Meanwhile they have to polarize every story as being the best or worst thing to ever happen.
It just doesn't make sense to me. How is it the most profitable approach?
Meanwhile they have to polarize every story as being the best or worst thing to ever happen.
It just doesn't make sense to me. How is it the most profitable approach?
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Posted on 1/3/14 at 8:21 am to GregMaddux
Don't know, but as others have posted, it's cheapened CFB for me. Media whores are the reason we had to win a conference championship for the opportunity to play a team we'd already beaten two years ago.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 8:23 am to GregMaddux
This is actually a good question, parity drives profits in the NFL...guess you'd have to ask an ESPN exec why they think it's a good idea to put all their weight behind a Bama team year after year...same thing with USC but I get it for a California TV market...
Posted on 1/3/14 at 12:41 pm to LSUCanFAN
Parity is so natural and consistent in the NFL though. Every year there is a good amount of turnover in which teams make the playoffs.
I think there is more parity right now than say 5 years ago in college football. And it's probably good for the sport. I'm fairly young. Has it always been this way (in regards to cfb) with the media or is this new?
The homerism at espn through all sports has pretty much stopped me from watching espn at all except for games. I choose a slightly less biased Avenue for sports news.
I think there is more parity right now than say 5 years ago in college football. And it's probably good for the sport. I'm fairly young. Has it always been this way (in regards to cfb) with the media or is this new?
The homerism at espn through all sports has pretty much stopped me from watching espn at all except for games. I choose a slightly less biased Avenue for sports news.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 12:47 pm to GregMaddux
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Why wouldn't the sports media embrace parity
b/c in college athletics, especially football, it pays to embrace the 'bluebloods'.
It's all about bringing in the casual fan... dynasty teams (and the top 5/10 matchups that come along with it) like bama do that.
Look at this year's SECCG... a top 5 matchup between AU/Mizzou... still didn't have the ratings of the previous top 5 SECCG matchups like Bama/UGA and Bama/UF from 08 and 09.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 12:55 pm to lowspark12
It is because ESPN is in bed with the SEC. Other conferences like the Big Ten and Pac 12 have their own network, but ESPN directly profits from SEC success. Thus they push the SEC agenda at every turn, from recruits to pro prospects etc. At the UA All American game they tried to stage an all SEC game with an all SEC commitment show but Rudolph and Tabor ruined it for them.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 12:59 pm to bamaclownbaby
And there is no sports media, it is only ESPN. They showed like what, 33 of the 35 bowl games?
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