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Basketball a 2nd tier sport...............

SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
.......... or maybe not that high. The NCAA regional finals doesn't even rate viewing on a national network. Even after CBS paid, what a billion dollars or something for the rights to it they aren't showing it on the CBS national network channels.

It's cable or nothing. I know it's all about the money. CBS did not even show the Louisville game in the Louisville market.

I've said for years the new rules and what not are ruining basketball. I think the proof is here looking at us. I know when they put class basketball in play in Indiana the attendance at high school games across the state fell way down, even in the state tourney. Seriously, it is sad to attend games and see so many empty seats.

I love college basketball but with the strait commercialization of the sport I have watched less and less these past several years. It looks like I am not alone as the past few years even many major games in the NCAA tourney no longer make a national market viewing.

The Kentucky game will not be shown on a network channel in the Louisville market tonight. One of the biggest fan bases in the nation doesn't even rate according to CBS.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is a bottom tier sport IMO. Seems like the March madness thing had its hay day a decade ago and like NASCAR has been sliding since.
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's a commodity like anything else. People have only so much sports watching in them. There's professional football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. There are some women versions of these sports. Add in college sports and now even some high school sports are being shown on the TV. They're saturating the market. They've lengthened seasons and there are now 1,000 cable channels. People are simply choosing other things.

    Sweet Lord, there are now five ESPN channel. Five.
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, it is fun sometimes to see future millionaires and inmates play jungle ball.[8D]
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The state of Ky is helping the rating for sure. Those people are crazy bout basketball as I worked there many years.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't watch canadian volleyball anymore. Less than Zero interest in it.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Basketball,to me,Is about as entertaining as watching someone getting a boil lanced..[xx(]
    Absolutely ZERO interest in it...YMMV..
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have never been a big BB fan, but lately it has gotten worse. I was having a beer with my brother, who is a big fan, and after a few minutes, I realized no one had passed the ball. They run down the court, one fool tries a shot, and then they run to the other end, where another fool in a different uniform takes a shot.

    No strategy. No offensive planning. Ratball. Played by idiots.
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by austin20
    I just read that last nights Kentucky/Notre Dame tv ratings were up 53% compared to the same comparable game in last years elite eight.


    That may be as practically every Catholic I know was interested in that game, but it did not air on a local network channel. The bottom line is more people in the Kentucky market would rather watch drama TV than basketball.

    I've watched the games I could this year and all the TV time outs really makes it less and less fun every year. I swear, I will not buy a coke all year after watching all those commercials.
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