Hawkeye11en1
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Sorry to bring this here, but I have been banned from CN and REALLY wanted to respond to one post from over there....so whoever can post over there...help me out.
Originally Posted by mikem
"Michigan didn't deserve a BCS bid, and in all reality, it probably would have helped their conference bowl record had they not gotten one.
Kstate would have brought a lot of people to New Orleans, no question. They travelled well for other bowls of BS era...So the fan $$$ would have been there.
What wasn't going to be there was the TV ratings. Casual fans don't watch Kansas State. It is the same principle as ratings for us, and (gasp) iowa. You really have to have a connection to the school, or state, to tune in for those games.
Look at the orange bowl a couple years ago, TERRIBLE ratings. Ga Tech is no household name, but the mighty hawks, repping the awsome big 10, drew NOBODY outside of the state, and pockets of iowans living around the country.
An average person in Tampa isn't going to watch an Iowa State, or an iowa, or a Kansas State game, unless they have some connection to those schools. They would, however, watch UT or OU, or Mich or O$U or child rape u play or Alabama or LSU, because they have been on TV forever and people are used to them...
Advertising dollars are a big deal, and you have to have ratings to get the $$$"
I wanted to talk about his assertion that the Orange Bowl had TERRIBLE ratings. Well, they really weren't all that bad. They were lower than the other BCS bowls of that year, but were higher than any other bowl other than the PSU/LSU game. Not too bad. Now look down the 2009-10 ratings and see if you can see what the ISU/Minny game rated - .83. 2nd lowest and down there with the likes of Southern Miss and Middle Tennessee. No other game was really all that close.
Now look at 2010-11 ratings. The OU/UCONN game was (gasp) lower rated than the Hawkeye game the year before. No way. Now blame that on UCONN all you want, but GA Tech is no national name, either. If OU is so coveted, why wasn't that game more highly rated?
Bowl games pick B10 teams because they travel well and get good ratings. The Rose Bowl is consistently the highest rated of the BCS games (not including the NC).
Originally Posted by mikem
"Michigan didn't deserve a BCS bid, and in all reality, it probably would have helped their conference bowl record had they not gotten one.
Kstate would have brought a lot of people to New Orleans, no question. They travelled well for other bowls of BS era...So the fan $$$ would have been there.
What wasn't going to be there was the TV ratings. Casual fans don't watch Kansas State. It is the same principle as ratings for us, and (gasp) iowa. You really have to have a connection to the school, or state, to tune in for those games.
Look at the orange bowl a couple years ago, TERRIBLE ratings. Ga Tech is no household name, but the mighty hawks, repping the awsome big 10, drew NOBODY outside of the state, and pockets of iowans living around the country.
An average person in Tampa isn't going to watch an Iowa State, or an iowa, or a Kansas State game, unless they have some connection to those schools. They would, however, watch UT or OU, or Mich or O$U or child rape u play or Alabama or LSU, because they have been on TV forever and people are used to them...
Advertising dollars are a big deal, and you have to have ratings to get the $$$"
I wanted to talk about his assertion that the Orange Bowl had TERRIBLE ratings. Well, they really weren't all that bad. They were lower than the other BCS bowls of that year, but were higher than any other bowl other than the PSU/LSU game. Not too bad. Now look down the 2009-10 ratings and see if you can see what the ISU/Minny game rated - .83. 2nd lowest and down there with the likes of Southern Miss and Middle Tennessee. No other game was really all that close.
Now look at 2010-11 ratings. The OU/UCONN game was (gasp) lower rated than the Hawkeye game the year before. No way. Now blame that on UCONN all you want, but GA Tech is no national name, either. If OU is so coveted, why wasn't that game more highly rated?
Bowl games pick B10 teams because they travel well and get good ratings. The Rose Bowl is consistently the highest rated of the BCS games (not including the NC).
