Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Orangeburst]

Agree

not to jinx us, but we gotta be hitting 85+% FT in the NCAA..

 

[UTSuave’]

 

[DD4ME]

 

[DD4ME]

Kuhns has been dealing as a freshman.

 

[Devo182]

Did Clay also give the reason why? NBA League Pass has millions of subscribers that watch their favorite teams play. ESPN and TNT has been hurt by this scenario.

He's a clown, so expect clown reasoning.

Comparing the most watched Finals ever to the COVID year




Official viewer numbers have dropped some over time since the late 90s peak, but this is just plain old cherry picking, recency bias, and hoping no one does their own research. Viewership was actually pretty good pre-COVID and mass streaming/StreamEast pirating.

If you go to post-Jordan/3-peat you'll see 16mm viewership in 1999. Since then they've failed to go over 16mm up until COVID:

2002
2003
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2014
2019


I'd say the down years happened 23 years ago. The 2010s were solid, the 2000s not so much. Clearly there's been a reset since COVID, especially with the NBA having one of the younger fanbases. Global popularity helps boster bottom line regardless.

 

[Shades]

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Prince Akeem & Semmi will be at the baseball game tonight. . .

 

[Orangeburst]

nm

 

[UTSuave’]

 

[DD4ME]

 

[DD4ME]

This is a cool story bro moment.

 

[volsfan_17]

Prince Akeem & Semmi will be at the baseball game tonight. . .

Who these guys?

 

[DD4ME]

 

[DD4ME]

Who these guys?

 

[MoCo_Vol]

He’s full of ****. paying money lol

Even at Tenn Tech the scholarship guys were getting stipends on top of scholarship & room & board.

 

[VolsnCards5]

Andrew Luck hasn’t yet turned 36, and he hasn’t played a professional football game in 7 years. He was a top 3 NFL qb when he retired and walked away from $58M in salary. The Colts didn’t even try to recoup any of his $24M signing bonus, which they could easily have been awardedz

I still don’t think the sports world fully appreciates how wild that story is.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Who these guys?

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

Good sign Deacon has made his decision??

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

This is a cool story bro moment.

That was a Coarch Wooden belief. IN fact, Barnes game demeanor is exactly like CW. Coach Wooden would just sit and watch the game while rolling up a program. I really like that compared to the guys who ar jumping up and down and spend half their time on the court.

 

[VolsnCards5]

I want Florida in the Final Four. We have a score to settle

 

[TheRain]

 

[VolsnCards5]

How am I expected to make this decision?

 

[VolsnCards5]

Agree

I wish Milicic would when the defenses switches a big to him. He’s athletic enough to cook some of them, or at least draw a foul/collapse the defense to get a good look for Chaz and the other guards

 

[VolsnCards5]

not to jinx us, but we gotta be hitting 85+% FT in the NCAA..

I’m bookmarking this comment. I have been thinking how good we have been at FT the last 4 games, but didn’t want to jinx it by bringing it up. Now I can blame you.

 

[tnhunter 10]

Unless I forgot, OM is still playing in the Sweet 16.