Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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Checker_the_Shire said:
I’m sorry, but F that. Make a decision. At this point you’re not just dragging the fanbase along, which from a personally selfish perspective sucks, but it’s the guy on the team who he’s doing more harm to than good. I get it it’s not an easy decision, but you gotta think about what you’re doing to your players by keeping them in limbo
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Be willing to bet that his players COMPLETELY understand what he's going through.
 
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RandomUTfan said:
I don't think sports fans really appreciate the situation ESPN finds itself in. For years they were outbidding competitors for media rights because they could simply turn around to the cable networks, write down a number and say "Pay us this." Cable subscribers paid more to have ESPN than any other channel, and not all of them were subscribing for ESPN. Nearly every price increase was thanks to ESPN putting pressure on the cable companies.

But the landscape is completely different now thinks to streaming and cord cutting. The playing field between what ESPN is able to bid for media rights and what its competitors are able to spend has been leveled to a huge degree and in some cases favors other networks. Everyone knows that ESPN is getting the biggest bargain in Television rights with the SEC right now and CBS was getting an even stupider deal before that. It makes you wonder who is negotiating these rights.

That advantage ESPN had where it could out-bid other networks is largely history. There's far more competition for those rights today and big dollars readily-available to scoop them up. Disney just got through selling 10% of ESPN to the NFL! ESPN acquiring NFL Network, RedZone from NFL

What's hilarious to me is that it is their own hubris that will bring them down. They drove the price of cable so high, people left in droves. Peak ESPN subscriber base was 100 million. In 2023 it was down to 70 million. By 2027 fewer than 50 million homes will have cable. https://archive.is/20230911195148/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/business/media/espn-disney.html
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Yes, cable is down for all, so why use that as your basis? Meanwhile streaming has gone up 25 million subs. Their revenue/paying subscribers has been very steady.

Their issue, along with everyone else's, is the cost of paying out to sports leagues, at a wildly increasing rate (meanwhile these bum *** fired HCs rake in $30-$50mm for sitting on their butts due to the Jimmy Sextons of the world and the FOMO childlike behavior by those in charge).

Coaches' salaries are skyrocketing, as are players'. And the fans pay for it all, at the end of the day. You'd imagine some balancing will happen eventually, but only with market pressures, and even then...these newfangled PE entities tying franchises with casinos and entertainment complexes...this is only the beginning of a new era of sports entertainment...perfectly inline with the 🐂💩 era of immensely increasing wealth disparity.

A world made for the very top.
 
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Devo182 said:
Yes, cable is down for all, so why use that as your basis? Meanwhile streaming has gone up 25 million subs. Their revenue/paying subscribers has been very steady.

Their issue, along with everyone else's, is the cost of paying out to sports leagues, at a wildly increasing rate (meanwhile these bum *** fired HCs rake in $30-$50mm for sitting ont their butts due to Jimmy Sexton).

Coaches' salaries are skyrocketing, as are players'. And the fans pay for it all, at the end of the day. You'd imagine some balancing will happen eventually, but only with market pressures, and even then...these newfangled PE entities tying franchises with casinos and entertainment complexes...this is only the beginning of a new era of sports entertainment...perfectly inline with the 🐂💩 era of immensely increasing wealth disparity.

A world made and controlled by the very top.
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If you study the business as I have you understand that the price increases forced on cable by companies like Disney to drive their ESPN habit forced even non sports people to cut the cord because of the cost increases.

At end of day the biggest drivers of the cable increases and hence cord cutters is the cost to carry sports channels and the drag the sports companies force the cable companies to carry their other channels that only 12 people watch daily.
 
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UTSuave’ said:
So what if i told you Chris has less receptions, better total yards,yards average and Td’s than Brandon Staley only difference is Stanley has the longest catch at 73 yards with Chris right behind him at 72!?..👀
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I’d say hell yes!

Bc I never said Staley was better than CB. I said he’s a baller and that it was dumb to want him benched for making a couple Fr mistakes.

He’s been extremely important to the offense.
 
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Weezer said:
We need Oklahoma to beat Ole miss this weekend, and Vanderbilt to beat Missouri. That way, when we beat Oklahoma and Vanderbilt, we should be solid to make the playoffs. I think. Not convinced 10-2 alone makes the playoffs.
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You're drunk.

10-2 isn't just in the playoffs, it's likely top-8 with a home game.

Even with the dumb*** rules in place last year, we were 9th. Should've been higher and at home, with legitimate rules.

Last year we only had 1 ranked win going in. 10-2 this season would very likely mean 2 ranked wins.

It wouldn't even be close.
 
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MarcoVol said:
Brother you can’t be serious. He’s not good bc he redshirted last year?

He’s already surpassed CB in every statistical category from last season when CB played in 12 games.

I don’t get why you don’t like the kid. He’s a player.
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Braylon Staley is a stud. Dude may be the best WR in the country next season.
 
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