Bloomberg: "Why TV Riches Aren’t Enough to Keep College Football Alive Anymore"

[1duluth1]

Why TV Riches Aren’t Enough to Keep College Football Alive Anymore
Programs and conferences have sacrificed ticket sales for media money. What happens when that dries up?
The business model of college football, long a financial boon to universities, is breaking down. A weeklong look at the pressures of rising costs, falling revenue and what, if anything, universities can do about it. ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...enough-to-keep-college-football-alive-anymore

 

[wvpaper]

People don't come out to watch bad football. You don't see ticket revenue declines in schools with good coaches

 

[AllEers6]

Why TV Riches Aren’t Enough to Keep College Football Alive Anymore
Programs and conferences have sacrificed ticket sales for media money. What happens when that dries up?
The business model of college football, long a financial boon to universities, is breaking down. A weeklong look at the pressures of rising costs, falling revenue and what, if anything, universities can do about it. ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...enough-to-keep-college-football-alive-anymore

ESPN over paid the last go around and now they are having financial problems. I really do see things changing again in college football now that we see the early stages of the current CFP model not working(TV ratings). When we started paying players the cost went way up.

 

[TexasforevEER]

People don't know good football from bad football. High school football provides the same excitement that pro football provides to the fan. Now, I ain't saying that high school players can compete with the pros but..............the excitement at game time.................same same.

 

[HugoStiglitz]

We should be playing schools in pa,va,md,oh,etc. Not tx,ok, and kansas.

 

[TexasforevEER]

Yes, we should be playing our games closer to home. But, the 'shiny shoes' can't make any money without being tied to a rich daddy. It ain't about the fans any more.

 

[Buster68]

We should be playing schools in pa,va,md,oh,etc. Not tx,ok, and kansas.

Yes, we could be playing Duquesne or Temple, Richmond or ODU, Navy or Md Eastern shore, Kent State or Miami. I'd rather be playing tx, ok, and ks teams in fb and bb. We are in the conference that offered us membership. Enjoy the day.

 

[HugoStiglitz]

Yes, we could be playing Duquesne or Temple, Richmond or ODU, Navy or Md Eastern shore, Kent State or Miami. I'd rather be playing tx, ok, and ks teams in fb and bb. We are in the conference that offered us membership. Enjoy the day.

Id like to enjoy affordable road games! The fun that goes along with working with a pitt,penn state,votech alum and talking shit.

 

[xWVU2010x]

When the TV money dries up then WV in a Texas conference doesn't make sense. Rutgers in any type of power conference doesn't make sense. The ACC and SEC having 16 teams will not make sense.

When all of these TV deals come to an end at some point in the 2020s expect another big conference shift back to what the conferences looked like in the 90s. With the cord cutting soon to be mainstream, the money making model will be:

1. Ticket sales - hence the importance of close road games
2. Premier matchups - stressing the importance of teams like Bama in a conference since the games may be paid for a la carte in the future and people outside of students/alumni really only tune into the biggest games of the season.

 

[Buckaineer]

People complaining about playing storied programs in Texas, Oklahoma and great fanbases in Kansas and Iowa probably traveled to very few away games when they were closer.

Since home attendance is down a bit they probably dont attend ANY games- so really why all the crying? The previous AD and current AD are scheduling OOC games with nearby teams every year and people arent selling those out.

 

[xWVU2010x]

KU used to have annual home games with nearby Missouri Nebraska and KSU on top of usually a game against a perennial top 5 team from the south that would draw a big crowd. Now they just get KSU every other year, and the top 10 team. So 1-2 enticing home games per season vs the previous 2-4 per season is a blow to them. Yes KU has been way down for awhile but even if they got back to respectability I still don't see people showing up to see 6-4 KU vs 7-3 WVU or TCU

 

[WVUALLEN]

People don't come out to watch bad football. You don't see ticket revenue declines in schools with good coaches

You are wrong.

Crowds declined for 6 straight years in college football.

Home attendance at all major college football games declined for the sixth consecutive year, though once again at a smaller rate compared to some past seasons.

 

[WVex-pat in GA]

Id like to enjoy affordable road games!

Everything is relative. My road games are cheaper now than when it was Syracuse, Rutgers, UConn and such. The only affordable road game was USF.

Now I can get to DFW or Austin cheaply. Ames...not so much, but I'm not sure I want to go there anyway.