Who’s Going To Pay For Peacock vs Indiana?

[pjgzell]

To play a little devils advocate, $22 guarantees you’ll see every Hawkeye game from here on out.

That’s $0.52 per day, and if you go a month at a time with your subscription and the MSU game isn’t on Peacock, you’ve only paid $11.00.

There’s also a free option of listening to Dolph and Pat anywhere on the planet except whatever countries block YouTube.

Have any of you completely stopped eating beef the past 5 years? Because if not, that’s caused you WAAAAAAY more financial hardship than Peacock. If they said Peacoock memberships are now $80 a game I get it and I would stop watching too, because that would be above my importance threshold for Hawkeye sports. Everyone has a threshold and I do know people who would pay $80 if that were the only way to see the game. But I'm guessing $11 isn't going to mean anyone's kids on this board are going to go without shoes for a month. I get more than $11 of enjoyment watching the Hawkeyes on TV but I do not get more than $80 of enjoyment.

If you’ve bought 3 lbs of ground beef or eaten a steak in a restaurant in the past 5 years you’ve already spent more in inflationary cost than a month of Peacock. If you haven’t done either of those things because of cost and are mad about getting gouged for TV viewing, answer me this…

What’s one thing that you’ve been doing for enjoyment since, let’s say, 1995 that hasn’t gotten exponentially more expensive? Golfing, boating, pottery, fishing, woodworking, board games, bar-hopping, gaming, reading, concerts, cycling, remodeling, traveling, live sporting events, baking, model trains, home brewing, clay shooting, running (quality running shoes didn’t cost $150 in 1995), youth sports, camping, cooking, hunting, going to the movies, photography, archery, scrapbooking…

Has the cost of any of those things not gone up as much as cable/streaming prices? If you’ve decided that Peacock is the last straw for your Hawkeye enjoyment that’s your personal decision which is totally fine. But let’s not pretend that literally every other hobby in the world hasn’t also forced more money out of you to increase profits and gain more of your money.

Your points are well taken. But it ain't the money. For years, it's been possible to find virtually every Iowa football game on ESPN, Fox, or one of the old networks. Peacock isn't filling a hitherto unfilled need. It's adding one more pay layer to the system, and the greed-mongering Big Ten is enabling it. Where college football is concerned, Peacock is like a pharmacy benefit manager, filling an un-need and picking pockets. It pisses me off.

 

[Fryowa]

Peacock isn't filling a hitherto unfilled need. It's adding one more pay layer to the system

Literally everything in life. Name one single thing that hasn't gone down the same road.

I get it if you're not willing to pay for it. That's a personal choice.

But college football TV programming is not unique in any way. If they raised your cable/streaming/internet bill $11 a month would you stop watching TV altogether?

A sporting event ticket used to be X amount of dollars, but now it's x amount of dollars plus a "service fee" of $8.99 or whatever. Did you quit going to games when they started doing that 20 years ago? That's not an unfilled need either, they just want to charge you more money for something.