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# | OT: Duke was allowed to make a unique deal with Amazon for men's basketball I listened to a pod about this recently. It was either Ross Delenger on Yahoo, Phantom Island with Ben Portnoy from the SBJ, or Matt Brown on SZD. Maybe all of them mentioned it. It all blends together.
Anyways - The top tier CFB/MBB matchups are valuable enough to be sold/packaged individually - High 7-figures for a single marque regular season game, 8-figures for individual post season games. You can make more money by packaging these separately and selling to the highest bidder.
In general, selling to a wider variety of broadcasters creates more scarcity (this is how the NFL has made so much money, and why the B1G contract is so lucrative). Once you sell some of your games at $X/game, there is now less inventory available, and the remaining buyers don't want to leave empty handed, so they pay more per game to ensure that they don't have zero games.
why schools don't figure out a way to monetize having a simulcast of games on linear cable with the school radio broadcasts as audio is beyond me.
They do this for CFP games already. I don't think they are popular enough to do on linear cable; you can only get it on the ESPN app. It's similar to the ManningCast or the Pat McAfee broadcast.
Friday night and Thursday night games helped the Hokies build their brand in the heyday. It gives you a time slot that you dont have to compete with the SEC for prime time TV slots. HS football these days is played Thursday, Friday and Saturday so not really a night to themselves. Thursday nights in Lane used to be electric. Sorry if that screws with your work schedule but not that sorry.
Thats too bad about Miami. Means no Friday Night game where we would be a showcase rather than just part of the mix on Saturday. Seems short sighted for media and our ACC viewership ranking. Guess I shouldn't be surprised if it was an ACC/ESPN decision that they did something to lessen the viewership. Par for course.
Every bracketogly site has Tech firmly in. If tech gets to 15 acc wins. They are in
I saw that as well... WHY is Friday night college football even a thing? WHY can we 1) not let the HS kids get an evening to themselves, and 2) not force an extra day off from work to travel for a game?
Two schedule updates were announced today:
-SMU is now on Friday, November 6th, it was previously either the 6th or 7th.
-Miami has been moved to Saturday, November 21st instead of being on Friday, November 20th.
It is good background noise for work. I watched part of the Franklin one yesterday.
He is great in these media environments. Let us hope he can back up the talk.
I still have my doubts and I'm fully prepared to see VT get left off the NCAAT unless they win the ACCT
Committing to UGA then committing any traffic violation has big "speeding in Emporia"-energy.
Thank you. This is the best Gif I have seen in a long, long time.
One of the funniest things I've seen on the internet recently...
Not even 24 hours from when this was tweeted and a Georgia player has been arrested in part for driving 95 MPH while weaving through traffic. https://t.co/pEVNsabGFf— CFB Kings (@CFBKings) May 14, 2026
You mean Dave "Hero of the 2000 Pitt game" Meyer? Yeah, that guy.
Well if the team wins today or tomorrow. We'll very likely see some extra postseason baseball
BIG DOG CROOTIN
Less games means the Hokies fewer chances to break out the Hammer. The same hammer which i included in your current profile pic for that Liberty series several years ago.
Being that we were up against UGA for this one, this seems like an appropriate place to post this insane stat:
Updated countArrests: 32Draft picks: 39insane https://t.co/WK6lH8xFJ8— CFBTalkDaily (@CFBTalkDaily) May 14, 2026
Ok
We had Deep Ball Dave Meyer backing up Michael Vick.
Text from the article:
With a 37-17 record, LSU snagged the final Regional hosting spot thanks to its challenging nonconference and SEC schedule, as well as upsets over Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Arizona during the season. These Tigers can get feisty, especially with workhorse Jayden Heavener in the circle, and they are very much a chaos-by-committee offense led by Tori and Kylee Edwards (unrelated). However, they'll face a tough task against Virginia Tech, which many argue was snubbed from the No. 16 seed. The Hokies feature a complete lineup filled with athletes who can also rack up runs via the rally, but the two stars are Emma Mazzarone (168 Ks) and Bree Carrico (1.63 ERA) in the circle. They'll be coming in hot with a vengeance.
Predicted winners: Alabama and Virginia Tech
Super Regional prediction: Alabama over Virginia Tech
It is not
Damn Straight.
I'm low key impressed he knew this thread even existed so he could Lazarus it.
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# | OT: Duke was allowed to make a unique deal with Amazon for men's basketball Ive always wondered things like this too. I think ESPN has been throwing around the mouse's money too long that they don't care about innovating, they just use it to keep inferior products. They keep giving me content I don't want, when they content I want is right there on the field. ESPN+ should have had every game streamed from anywhere. It should have had multiple options for every game, home town play by play, field noise, Spanish, etc. ESPN should have had an app that gives you highlights moments after they happen. Why wait for sportscenter. I dont go to their website anymore and i had a subscription for over a decade. Everything about them sucks now and I hate it, they should be better but don't need to be because they have FU money.
I think the NFL playing on Thursdays has driven the move to more NCAA Friday night games.