Who’s Going To Pay For Peacock vs Indiana?
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SCHawkeye2
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Indiana holding almost every play
HawkeyeHypnosis
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Penn state also exclusively on Peacock. Still 4 games TBA that could end up in the same boat. Pretty surprised no network picked this one up.
I'm not paying extra.
This is a bad move.
I cut the cord from wired television through cable/phone companies because the value of what I could get with YTTV was more than the wired version. This meant losing STL Cardinals and Blues. Former Cardinals season ticket holder who probably watched an average of 70-80% of games in a season since the late 90s when I lived in DSM and FS1 was born.
It's been 4 seasons now without Cardinals or Blues broadcasts for me. Haven't been to a game since the glorious COVID era when you got a whole row to yourself. So good.
Cardinals attendance down by 628,000 this season.
I know it's not all down to cord cutters. But they've had plenty of 3,000,000 attendance with crappy boring teams.
Waning interest not worth the money.
There's a new soccer team here. Some people are all gaga over it.
To watch games, you have to pay extra.
I know they're banking on younger fans who will pay for it. But it seems like they're leaving easy money on the table.
This is a bad move.
I cut the cord from wired television through cable/phone companies because the value of what I could get with YTTV was more than the wired version. This meant losing STL Cardinals and Blues. Former Cardinals season ticket holder who probably watched an average of 70-80% of games in a season since the late 90s when I lived in DSM and FS1 was born.
It's been 4 seasons now without Cardinals or Blues broadcasts for me. Haven't been to a game since the glorious COVID era when you got a whole row to yourself. So good.
Cardinals attendance down by 628,000 this season.
I know it's not all down to cord cutters. But they've had plenty of 3,000,000 attendance with crappy boring teams.
Waning interest not worth the money.
There's a new soccer team here. Some people are all gaga over it.
To watch games, you have to pay extra.
I know they're banking on younger fans who will pay for it. But it seems like they're leaving easy money on the table.
Fryowa
Administrator
Listening to Dolph and Pat is better than any TV broadcast, tbh and it's totally free. They stream it on YouTube live if you want to see them in the booth.
Free anywhere in the country.
The Iowa Athletic Department has nothing to do with this. It is what the Big 10 Conference signed up for.
HawkeyeHypnosis
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Big Ten made the 7 year, $7 billion deal that runs through ‘29-30.
Fryowa
Administrator
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.
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.
HawkeyeHypnosis
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It’s not the money that’s an issue with peacock, for me it’s the fact that it should be on a networks channel. Basketball will be even worse. Last couple seasons, there were multiple games only streamed but not just on peacock. You had to have Flohoops, Peacock, B1G+, ESPN+ and I feel like I’m missing one. That’s on top of cable. The one that will gouge your pockets is Flohoops. It’s like 20 bucks/month or 130/year which is crazy for a service that will carry a game or two.
Fryowa
Administrator
Flo is terrible for everything. If you're a wrestling fan fuhgettabaht it.
Last couple years of watching freestyle worlds they forced you to buy a whole year in one shot, they didn't have a monthly option. Obviously to get around the 99.9% of viewers who only wanted to pay for a month and watch a week.
HawkeyeHypnosis
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Yeah they don’t have very good reviews
HuckFinn
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I don’t disagree with anything you said here. $ does not impact me. This PeeCock thing just pisses me off.
Fryowa
Administrator
Everything pisses me off as I get older and I'm only 45. I hate to think of what it will be like at 65.
This is where I am at too.
HuckFinn
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Ha Ha ! Yup
I've not watched since Pat joined. I actually didn't like watching the stream of them in the booth. Curious, though, to see how Pat's doing. I haven't actually listened since he joined in. I'm always fascinated by people calling games. It's way harder than people would ever imagine. I think I could have eventually been able to do play-by-play. I never really tried. I did try to do "color" several times. I was EFFING TERRIBLE at it. I mean terrible. At first I thought it was just because I wasn't competent enough about the sports I did it for. Basketball. Women's softball. But I'm pretty good on baseball.....and I was murder. I had no sense of timing. Now, if my PBP guys would have done like Dolph and tapped me when they wanted me to say something I might have been better.
I worked with some really good PBP guys. I just was terrible at color. Just awful.
In the past when I was somewhere without a TV (pre subscribing to YTTV....now I can just watch on my phone)...or like the last game.....I actually just follow the game thread here and then get the details on Yahoo or ESPN sports on what "what a great catch!" means. Or when I see "Touchdown Iowa....Touchdown Iowa"....I go check and see who scored.
When I see "WTF was that??" Followed by "OMG! Why did he do that?" or "Another typical Iowa series :eyeroll:"....I don't go and look. Too much heartache.
