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re: First TV ratings for the College World Series are out
Posted on 6/16/15 at 10:15 am to GFunk
Posted on 6/16/15 at 10:15 am to GFunk
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NCAA Tournament is most heavily bet on (legally) sporting event on the Earth. Literally. They use the terms BILLIONS. As far as unofficial office pools, estimates are that it's far, far greater than we can peg an official dollar amount on.
To compare that to the NCAA Baseball Tournament, which has only recently gotten the type of exposure and coverage from ESPN that other sports have, is really kinda silly.
The guys in Vegas talk about betting odds as they relate to public interest and mention that the first really big NCAA Hoops action they took was in 1979 for Michigan State/Indiana State with Magic/Bird.
That was 36 years ago. So with that much time and focus dedicated to the sport versus what's been given to collegiate baseball...are you really expecting something different?
This is nothing more than statistics which present an opportunity for your confirmation bias. But I can assure you where this sport has been given a priority-LSU, MSU, South Carolina and the SEC as a whole-its been proven that interest-and profit-will flow into and out of it, respectively.
Yes, but it will never come close to basketball. If you grow up in a large city, or even the suburbs, you'll see the fanaticism around youth/AAU/high school basketball. Culturally, there are just a lot more people interested in basketball in this country.
I mean I enjoyed college baseball coverage this year, and I usually give zero fricks about college baseball, but it's growth will be measured. Nothing earth shattering.
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Posted on 6/16/15 at 10:29 am to TeLeFaWx
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TeLeFaWx
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Yes, but it will never come close to basketball. If you grow up in a large city, or even the suburbs, you'll see the fanaticism around youth/AAU/high school basketball. Culturally, there are just a lot more people interested in basketball in this country. I mean I enjoyed college baseball coverage this year, and I usually give zero fricks about college baseball, but it's growth will be measured. Nothing earth shattering.
I'm not sure anyone is here advocating that there will be Earth shattering growth. But for many regions of the country that don't have major league teams, collegiate baseball-provided ESPN provides sustained increases in coverage and visibility on its platforms as it is now-will continue to fuel a growth in the sport.
As far as a comparison to AAU and Youth Leagues, man...You haven't kept up much with the rise of travel ball baseball teams have you? It costs more $ to play and doesn't get the coverage but I assure you that travel ball teams and parents with pockets that are far, far deeper than AAU Teams are spending discretionary income to get their kids noticed.
Again, nobody's saying it'll be Earth Shattering. But growth is coming and that's not in question at all. My point is that comparing the sport's exposure NOW in terms of TV ratings to NCAA Men's Tournament games isn't logical and is only an opportunity for confirmation bias of a singularly held opinion of an individual.
It isn't merited in logic and doesn't hold up to scrutiny when discussed with facts and context.
Posted on 6/16/15 at 2:59 pm to TeLeFaWx
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If you grow up in a large city, or even the suburbs, you'll see the fanaticism around youth/AAU/high school basketball. Culturally, there are just a lot more people interested in basketball in this country
Much of this can be attributed to the Catholics in big cities 2 and 3 generations ago. Inner city schools may not have had a baseball or football team but in my youth they all had a basketball team and a boxing team.Seems like in the 70's and 80's they were phasing out boxing but all kept their basketball teams.
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