TV Ratings in 2013-14

[SHOCKvalue]

Don't forget a resurgent nu basketball team. It will be interesting to see the fan support at sCUm now that big red seems to be relevant in basketball.

Don't forget about UNO going D1 a couple of years ago. I would guess UNO has multiple times the alumni volume, as compared to CU, in the Omaha area. If they get something going, AND UNL continues on their current track, CU will suddenly find themselves the Omaha equivalent of Newman on steroids. It wasn't that long ago really - maybe 15 years - that CU was basically irrelevant in Omaha. A reversion to that level of support is completely possible.

[Dave Stalwart]

Don't forget about UNO going D1 a couple of years ago. I would guess UNO has multiple times the alumni volume, as compared to CU, in the Omaha area. If they get something going, AND UNL continues on their current track, CU will suddenly find themselves the Omaha equivalent of Newman on steroids. It wasn't that long ago really - maybe 15 years - that CU was basically irrelevant in Omaha. A reversion to that level of support is completely possible.

Jake White's reign of terror begins this year.

[ICTShockerFan]

Is it wrong that seeing Creighton suffer brings me joy?

[Dave Stalwart]

It's going to be even funnier when you add "surging UNO program joins the MVC" to the list of events following:
1. McD graduates and CU becomes toast
2. CU displaces Butler and Seton Hall as the worst team in the MID MAJOR EAST
3. Nebraska keeps winning and becomes popular
4. CU fans finally realize they attended either NU or UNO after all and none of them actually went to CU. (FYI - CU 7,700 students, UNO 15,000 & NU 25,000)
5. Greg McDermott accepts the head coaching position at Loyola




Down somewhere around 10 after several other unfortunate predictable events happen...
10. In 2020, CU is excreted from the MID MAJOR EAST and accepts an invite to join the Horizon League or the Summit

[Aargh]

The good news for CU is that with McDermott gone, there will be even fewer people watching next year. You read that correctly and I typed it correctly. That's the GOOD news for Creighton.

[ripemupshocks]

The only thing I ever watched on Fox Sports was college hockey. Less Big East Basketball. More College Hockey.

One other good thing about FS; whenever they did a rundown of Top 25 Basketball teams (during period breaks of college hockey), they always showed footage of WSU 's latest game, which is more than I can say for those chowder heads at ESPN.

[DwShock]

Don't forget about UNO going D1 a couple of years ago. I would guess UNO has multiple times the alumni volume, as compared to CU, in the Omaha area. If they get something going, AND UNL continues on their current track, CU will suddenly find themselves the Omaha equivalent of Newman on steroids. It wasn't that long ago really - maybe 15 years - that CU was basically irrelevant in Omaha. A reversion to that level of support is completely possible.

UNO does have more alumni in the area but when they dropped football and wrestling it alienated a bunch of alumni many with $ and now they have nothing to do with the university.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Bottom line, Creighton needs WSU one hell of a lot more than WSU needs Creighton.




Cue the Batman4President signal. :highly_amused:

Since you called...

Looks to me like Creighton needs ESPN and its networks. What does this have to do with needing WSU?

[BostonWu]

Frank n Beans to Omaha? http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2481&t=12810304

Makes sense to me...all offense no d

[1979Shocker]

Frank n Beans to Omaha? http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2481&t=12810304

Makes sense to me...all offense no d

It looks like someone there was on here reading the rumors someone posted on here.

[SHOCKvalue]

Frank n Beans to Omaha? http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2481&t=12810304

Makes sense to me...all offense no d

Looks like phog got goemaw-ed by shockernet.

[shox1989]

Everything but the NBC one was trending up because more people watch sports in March. I think the graph looks like they just took a total number from each month and then plotted it. So for March, didn't they have ncaa games? I dunno. I guess it just seems like they were trending up because people wanted to watch ncaa basketball.

That graph is skewed somewhat too because they didn't do that many games in March (compared to the other months) and among the games they did do in March was both the PAC 12 and nBE tournament. The championship game of the nBE tournament, although less than half the audience of this year's Valley championship game did draw a record 702,000 viewers and the championship game of the PAC 12 tournament drew the second highest ratings for a bb game on FS1 with 680,000. Those 2 games along with a better than regular season numbers for rest of the nBE and Pac 12 tournaments made the March numbers look a lot better for FS1.

During tournament week espn and espn2 and espnU show a lot of the smaller conference tournament championships which actually pull their March numbers down (conferences like the big sky and MEAC for example just don't draw big numbers).

While March was the best month for FS1 college basketball ratings, without the tournament numbers the rest of their games averaged 123,000 viewers in March. It makes sense more people would tune in in March as the season draws to a close and there are some bigger conference match ups, the 123,000 while being the best month for FS1 is still very pitiful.