MAC College Football On ESPN
November 2nd 2011 07:35
So I got home to see my good old pops watching TV and being entertained by a Tuesday night football game. Thing is it was just that a Tuesday night college football game played by two colleges whom nobody really knows about due to the fact they are not part of any BCS conferences. We enjoyed the rest of the game as both teams ran up and down the field on each other with little resistance en route to a 63-60 Northern Illinois victory over Toledo.
Before taking over the MAC, Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher served in the same role for both the Ohio Valley Conference and the Mid-Continent Conference. During his time with the OVC, he was credited with helping the league secure broadcast agreements on both the local and national level. When you talk about national level for mid-sized conferences you are talking about securing deals with ESPN, the network responsible for airing weekday college games. And who cares if the games are on some odd kickoff time during the week if it guarantees the schools involved millions of dollars. This is what men like Steinbrecher have to do to try and grab a small piece of the national TV network money mostly spent up on larger schools and conferences.
In years past it used to be Thursday nights were scheduled for that one big prime time game to get college football fans (and gamblers) revved up for Saturday's games. For several years now college games are being aired on Tuesday through Saturday. I remember when the Big East was trying to increase its exposure as a conference and started playing on Friday nights. Look you can't blame these schools and conferences for trying to capitalize on what all other major football programs are doing in terms of collecting TV revenue.
Even if it is a borderline NFL prospect QB from Northern Illinois named Chandler Harnish. No disrespect to Chandler or the other kids playing but unless you an alum or fan of NIU or Toledo odds are the majority of people viewing are either obsessed college football fanatics and gamblers.
And even for the casual fan would you really sit down for 3 hours and watch a 13-10 struggle between two teams battling to go to the Liberty or Potato Bowl? Probably not so let's hike that game total up to around 68 and boom you end up with a great shootout! If you had the OVER you were a winner by the end of the 3rd quarter. If you took the home favorite at -9.5 it was a dog day afternoon as Northern Illinois is your prime time Tuesday night outright winner.
I just wish once ESPN would say the reason we are having 20 year olds play during the week is because we know people in this country will watch and wager on football no matter the teams competing. This gives us ratings which gives us money to pay out to men like Jon Steinbrecher.
Before taking over the MAC, Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher served in the same role for both the Ohio Valley Conference and the Mid-Continent Conference. During his time with the OVC, he was credited with helping the league secure broadcast agreements on both the local and national level. When you talk about national level for mid-sized conferences you are talking about securing deals with ESPN, the network responsible for airing weekday college games. And who cares if the games are on some odd kickoff time during the week if it guarantees the schools involved millions of dollars. This is what men like Steinbrecher have to do to try and grab a small piece of the national TV network money mostly spent up on larger schools and conferences.
In years past it used to be Thursday nights were scheduled for that one big prime time game to get college football fans (and gamblers) revved up for Saturday's games. For several years now college games are being aired on Tuesday through Saturday. I remember when the Big East was trying to increase its exposure as a conference and started playing on Friday nights. Look you can't blame these schools and conferences for trying to capitalize on what all other major football programs are doing in terms of collecting TV revenue.
Even if it is a borderline NFL prospect QB from Northern Illinois named Chandler Harnish. No disrespect to Chandler or the other kids playing but unless you an alum or fan of NIU or Toledo odds are the majority of people viewing are either obsessed college football fanatics and gamblers.
And even for the casual fan would you really sit down for 3 hours and watch a 13-10 struggle between two teams battling to go to the Liberty or Potato Bowl? Probably not so let's hike that game total up to around 68 and boom you end up with a great shootout! If you had the OVER you were a winner by the end of the 3rd quarter. If you took the home favorite at -9.5 it was a dog day afternoon as Northern Illinois is your prime time Tuesday night outright winner.
I just wish once ESPN would say the reason we are having 20 year olds play during the week is because we know people in this country will watch and wager on football no matter the teams competing. This gives us ratings which gives us money to pay out to men like Jon Steinbrecher.
| 16 |
| Vote |
subscribe to this blog
