Move the games to New Years Eve they said.
what sport is this
It's surprising they even got that much, considering how boring both games were
>>64593344
Why do you care? It's not like you were doing anything
>>64593372
advertisement ball
Both games were incredibly boring blowouts
Honestly a pretty big blow to espn. They're paying billions for the playoff rights. It is their biggest event of the year and a huge money maker for a network that's already in the red. 16% drop in ratings is massive.
>>64593472
Their biggest event is the NBA finals
>>64593501
>espn
>finals
>>64593472
They shouldn't be played on New Years Eve. Play them on New Years Day because no one is doing shit on New Years Day.
>>64593344
fuck, how long must we wait until this shit (espn) gets taken off air?
>>64593344
>implying this meme sport isn't dying
>>64593501
The biggest ESPN event. Finals are on ABC. Same parent company obviously, but ESPN is the sinking ship in the Disney stables.
>>64593472
Good. ESPN has not sustained viability in a market where other major broadcasters have their own dedicated sports outlets, and their original programming has been very hit-and-miss. I am happy that they're quickly dying off, that they have the balls to charge more per month than fucking HBO means their demise can't come soon enough
>>64593344
>New Years Eve
>Both boring as fuck
Surprised it got that much tbqh
The problem is that tOSU wasn't playing.
>>64593522
Espn knew this and did everything they could to keep games on new years. Committee made the move iirc
ESPN basically got told to put them on NYE because the committee/commissioners of the conferences wanted to start a tradition of playoff bowl games on NYE for whatever god awful reason.
>>64593501
Do those actually get better ratings than the college football championship? I mean those are on ABC anyway so it's different from ESPN playoff games
>>64593384
>>64593560
You play to win the game
>>64593344
How about having the game when every fucking store is closed on the 1st. Is ESPN really this dumb?
>>64593576
That's so fucking stupid.
Doing that means you're going to be competing with fucking 4 channels, including you sister station ABC.
>>64593602
Muh Rose Bowl
Muh 114 years
NYD should always be Rose + the semifinal games (if the Rose isn't one of them)
NYE should always be Peach + two non-semifinal bowls
>>64593576
They were told off by the Rose Bowl
>not extending the playoffs to 5 and giving OSU a bye every year
Smh. No wonder they lost so many viewers. I turned both games off by half time
>>64593586
If it's like a Lakers/Boston Game 7 of the Finals maybe, but other than that no prolly not. Finals get 12+ regularly if a good matchup but not usually 15+.
>>64593634
And the Sugar Bowl rode those old white coattails.
>>64593634
Yeah it's mainly the Rose Bowl, but I think I read the Sugar Bowl wants NYD too
Throughout the College Football broadcast, they kept constantly reminding you that on ABC, at the same time as the Playoff games, the Dick Clark New Years Special was on ABC.
So clearly ESPN is fucking stupid.
>>64593630
Or have 2 games starting at 11am, 2 at 2pm, and the semis at 5:30 and 9
Maybe give other networks the non-semis games
>>64593613
>they kept promoting some new year's countdown on ABC while the Bama - MSU game was on
>ESPN Literally cucking themselves out of viewers
>>64593717
>Dick Clark New Years Special
>getting the full name wrong
It's the Dick Clark New Years Special hosted by Ryan Seacrest on ABC nerd
>>64593693
>>64593710
Rose Bowl gave them the power though
They had NYD even in the BCS
>>64593634
>>64593693
>>64593710
Why couldn't they just out them all on new years day and move the irrelevant bowls to nye or the 2nd like they had done every other fucking year
>>64593757
Shit like that is why they are failing.
>>64593782
No clue
>>64593731
Rose is the only bowl with that sort of pull (IIRC they're still on ABC while the other NY6 bowls are on ESPN)
the NY6 bowls want their game running unopposed (except against a minor bowl or something); I like the 3 on NYE/3 on NYD setup but the playoff games should never be on NYE; rotate which games are on NYD
>>64593782
Because logic does not exist within the NCAA
>>64593782
I try to not waste my time thinking what goes through old white people's mind sometimes.
>>64593847
The NYE games shouldn't be played at 8pm either
>>64593847
I don't
No need for a game when most of the country is working
The Peach Bowl is getting killed playing at noon on a workday
>>64593344
They didn't really have a choice. Rose and Sugar bowls wouldn't move.
>>64593880
>where's my money
>how do I get more money
>I hope that jew I hired is making good investments
>wonder when I can go to Thailand next
>>64593863
Actually the NCAA is innocent here
It's other people at fault
>>64593472
good fuck those faggots hopefully no one watches the wild card round. they have no business covering any sort of sport let alone professional
How many years until ESPN is completely defunct?
>>64593959
I don't think you have to worry about that; ESPN always gets the worst possible playoff game (I'm going to guess they get whatever game Houston is in)
>>64594007
Never. They got the power of Disney/Star Wars keeping them alive.
>>64593942
The ncaa created this mess, I feel no sorrow for them
>>64593344
They said they were looking to keep at least 70% of the ratings of the New Year's Day bowls.
Orange is 62.5% and Cotton was 64.7% of last year in the same timeslot. ESPN will look at this as a failure, but not a disaster.
>>64594036
>They got the power of Disney/Star Wars keeping them alive
>>64594047
The CFP isn't related to the NCAA
>>64594104
The NCAA gave them the power how blind are you
this seems horrible
We're last years on broadcast tv?
>>64594193
ESPN, but on New Year's Day. Tons of people work on NYE and go to parties in the evenings.
>>64594036
disney made espn cut a lot of employees
>tfw no comfy playoff games on new year's day after recovering from a hangover
How's the ESPN longhorn network doing?
>>64594328
Really well for Texas. Still worth 15M a year. ESPN is fucked though.
>>64594151
Everyone in the FBS forfeited NCAA control for the championship for bowls
>>64593520
>abc
its on the disney family. pretty much the same thing
>>64594328
see for yourself
http://www.burntorangenation.com/2015/5/12/8590913/has-the-longhorn-network-been-a-complete-disaster-for-texas-and-espn
>>64594301
well i guess i meant that espn will be kept alive barely by the fact that Disney has so much money they'll pump in.
>>64594405
There's a big difference where the money goes
>Barry Jackson @flasportsbuzz 1h1 hour ago
College Football Playoff head Bill Hancock said they would "change the paradigm" of how America celebrates New Year's Eve.
>>64594391
Yeah that's what I am saying... it didn't need to be this way, but they had to make it more complicated
>espn losing ratings on nye bowl games is the end of them
lol no. These niggas already got your money from cable subscription fees.
>>64594812
Yeah that's why they're firing people by the hundreds and shareholders are in a panic over billions in lost subscription money
>>64594498
The NCAA has never had control of this
>>64594812
They are pretty close to 2005 levels of subscribers. They'll soon be holding 2018 contracts with 2000 subscriber numbers.
I watched both games last year but didn't watch either one last night. It's NYE for fuck sake. Who thought this was a good idea?
>>64594812
More and more people are cutting cable/satellite. ESPN shut down grantland and are firing people every month, they're spiraling downwards
>>64593344
yeah it seemed like a bad idea
>>64594900
Of course they did. They have total control over the sanctioning of their sports. They made the choice to create the cfp system instead of doing it on their own
>>64593586
They around 12 to 20n
>>64594077
That movie was really good though. Didn't make a lot of money because people are morons.
how the fuck can anyone justify subscribing to cable/sat at this point anyways
even if you don't care about the money you'd still be better off paying your hooker to do something a little extra nasty rather than subscribing
>>64594999
No one would willing given up power
The bowl system has been around since for nearly a hundred years
The NCAA couldn't overcome it
>>64595142
For me, the price of standalone internet versus the cable+Internet package are about the same so it is not a big deal.
>>64595295
Ding ding. Plus it's not worth the hassle of figuring the shit out
>>64593472
15.5 to 9.7 is a lot more than 16% down desu senpai.
>>64594812
>what is cordcutting
people are getting rid of cable. they only get paid for every subscriber to their channel. cable companies cant pay espn for subcribers that dont exist.
>>64594812
Nigga, this is the era of streaming. Cable and Satellite subscriptions are diving and both are struggling to compete. Why do you think so many cable channels are creating stream services now?
This is more because last year was the first ever college football playoffs. The move to New Years Eve didn't help but the drop in ratings would have happened regardless
This is what the chairman of the playoff said
>“Sure, we're aware of that, but we just decided that people will watch these games,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said. “This playoff would be successful if it was played on the Fourth of July. People watch the NCAA Tournament on Thursday and Friday. This is an iconic national sporting event and people will watch it.”
About ESPN's proposal to move the games to Saturday
>“At first blush, it made a lot of sense,” Hancock said. “But we had announced that we're going to start a new paradigm of back-to-back tripleheaders on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. It just didn't feel right for us to delay the start of the new tradition by one year.”
But for the Rose Bowl
>“The 100-year tradition of the Rose Bowl is something that's important to college football,” Hancock said. “People sitting in their homes in Kansas City in the snow watching sun-drenched California on New Year's Day is a great national tradition, and if we didn't have to mess with it, we didn't want to mess with it.”
And
>Hancock said, "but we're not slaves to ratings.”
I don't know why NCAA insisted on forcing some sort of tradition with the playoffs being on NYE..
Apparently ESPN tried talking them out of it.
Also, the games weren't blowouts til the 2nd half. Bama was up 10 and Clemson was down 1 going into the half. The Clemson Oklahoma game was a 2 possession game going into the 4th quarter, too.
>>64593880
>I hate niggers
>>64595608
I love when rich old, white dudes get it all wrong because they think the world is still the same as it was 20 years ago.
>>64595608
do these southern hicks who run the NCAA not realize that people work (an unknown concept to southern white trash and niggers) and drink and get laid on NYE? also college ball is not popular enough up in the northeast for people to stop their normal nye celebrations. would you rather get laid by some qt3.14 on nye or watch some groids chase each other for a pigskin?
>>64595678
desu not all are white. the media owners are all jew.
>>64594925
Are people just doing this in the North? I live in a pretty populated part of the south and everyone still uses cable down here.
>>64595682
the latter, cause I can get puss any time any day I want you fucking faggot.
>>64595708
Jews are white
>>64595142
Need my sunday ticket fix apart from football season it's pretty much pointless
>>64595656
It's not the NCAA
It's a private group of bowls who put this on
>>64595682
>Picking sex over sports
Just disappointing
And it's not the NCAA
And I don't believe they actually believe it. Just the Rose has too much power
>>64595142
Depending on where you live, a package is cheaper than paying for a standalone service. I have Comcast internet, phone, and television. Standalone internet would only save me $20 and I get a bigger variety of programming than I would with netflix or Hulu
>>64595732
bad b8 m8. Jews are entirely different race genetically and culturally
>>64594918
the cf playoffs had a big ego and now paying for it
>>64595732
>>64595682
>working on NYE
what a cuck.
>>64595846
>>64595778
>>64595718
4chan everyone.
OP you get this news from here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/3z1bwb/overnights_99_for_cotton_and_97_for_orange_last/
>>64595879
Looks like he got it from twitter as seen in the OP image...
>>64593550
good. maybe abc will get monday night football back and all the espn will fire every high paid faggot who obviously doesn't make money for them
>>64595879
I mean, twitter isn't exactly private so who cares where OP got it from?
>>64595879
Not necessarily
It's been retweeted a bunch of times
>put obviously undeserving teams in playoff for the sole purpose of ratings
>nobody watches because they'll be obvious blowouts
lel
>>64595907
ABC doesn't want MNF back
>>64595938
I'm pretty sure not many people thought Clemson had a chance against Oklahoma
>>64595949
MNF is hurting ESPN as much as cordcutting. They overbid by hundreds of millions per year.
>>64595949
why wouldn't they?
where would it go
>>64595994
The same reason they got rid of it in the first place
Not sure
>>64595732
are you serious? they actively try to destroy the white race.
>>64593761
There's also a "rockin' eve" in there somewhere, so obviously kill yourself
>>64595994
No one likes primetime games
>>64595778
/r9k/ please go
>>64595781
>phone
>tv
mate are you 60? i can understand tv a bit since its only now dying but phone? dont you have a smartphone? fuck man its like you live in the 1990s still.
also
>comcrap
enjoy your data caps
>>64595862
>he had to work on NYE
Just shameful. Get a real job.
>>64596202
NYE is when people work welfare baby. NYD is when its a national holiday.
>>64596136
People like primetime games, but ESPN MNF gets the barebones of picks every week for their games (Broncos/Bengals is like the only good matchup they've had all year). NBC always gets first pick for Sunday night, they always throw a division game on Thursday, and then Fox always gets a marquee matchup at 4:25p (CBS usually does too). That leaves very few "homerun" matchups that ESPN can latch to every week. A lot of this is hurt because teams like Dallas and the Giants (big markets) were down this year.
>>64596165
You can get pussy anytime of the year
You can only get football some of the year
>>64596251
This. Unless you want to burn your time off most people work on NYE.
>>64596259
>implying people who work have time to go to parties all year
NYE is like the main pussy day for guys who have had their dick drier than the dessert.
>>64596202
I actually was scheduled to work this morning. but I gave my notice and called out
>>64596296
Moat of the country was working during the Orange Bowl
>>64596259
>You can get pussy anytime of the year
lmao sure u can mate
>>64596331
especially west coast. also people are more excited about the party they are going to and plans made for it. no one really has time to watch shit on watch espn. most normies also dont even know who Clemson even is.
>>64596198
Only poorfags do cellphone only. A landline is always useful, especially in case of emergencies like a blackout.
who here likes cigar but hates the aftertaste?
>>64596401
whew lad. im 24 and dont know a single person my age who still has a landline. its the most pointless and worthless shit to have.
>>64596405
>not vaping
enjoy your cancer nd teeth discoloration
>>64596401
Are you serious? Mom's phone doesn't count. I'm 30 and don't know anyone under 40 with a landline.
>>64596450
I only have a cigar like 3 times a year. It isnt exactly worth it for me
>>64595142
because Comcast is a monopoly and it costs like $5 more for a cable package with HBO compared to just internet
>>64595949
>TFW you got last Monday's broadcast OTA because you're in Buncosland, and for a brief moment in time it was like the 90s again
>>64596401
>wasting money on something that doesn't happen in our society anymore
Even during the ice storm a few years ago when power was out in my area for like 3 days my cellphone still worked no fucking problem. Stop justifying your buyer's remorse from Comcast cucking you in buying their shit packages.
>TFW you only have internet
>TFW you're about to cuck Comcast by buying your own equipment
>>64595778
>picking COLLEGE sports over sex
fucking PATHETIC
>>64596657
>not having fiber optic
move to an area with a local municipal fiber, google fiber of verizon fios.
copper wire is archaic as fuck and inefficient as fuck. they need a power booster every fucking block while fiber is passive because its light not electrons.
>>64596657
>brought own equipment as on their website
>they warn you it's hard to set up and if stuff screw up they'll bitch about you having purchased your own stuff
>save $20 bucks a month anyway
Fuck comcast.
>>64596465
straight fire
>>64596465
>>64596746
>>64596684
>Picking some meaningless slut over anything
Oh anon
>>64596804
its ok anon, its 2016, fags are accepted in the west. better hope the liberals dont allow muslims here though.
>>64596730
To be fair, the vast majority of people are too retarded to set up their home network on their own. I put a new card reader in my desktop yesterday and for whatever reason the BIOS thought it was the new boot disk. I shudder to think of what it would be like solving that issue if I didn't have experience dealing with that sort of thing.
>>64596857
>card reader
>2016
whew lad. you dont have the bandwidth for all digital?
>>64596929
It's for the memory cards for my cameras, plus a bunch of USB 3 in front. The old reader was only 2 and intolerably slow downloading images.
>>64596857
Yeah i know, some people just don't care, others really can't do technological self things.
But hey, if your comfortable with just plugging stuff in, might as well save the 20 bucks a month.
Best part is the modem and router you can easily buy used and feel safe it'll last a while because of no moving parts.
>>64595394
>>what is cordcutting
A label poorfags have put on piracy.
>>64597746
Its the matchups, the committee fucked up bigtime this year by not putting OSU in it.
Last year was amazing,
memiota vs winston (#1 pick vs #2 pick)
osu vs bama (2 biggest powerhouse programs in the country)
This year was
undeserving msu vs bama (obviously msu would get btfo and no one gives a fuck about their shitty aids infested school)
and clemson vs oklahoma (acc schools should be baned from the playoffs)
>>64596258
I think in terms of how the league prioritizes, it goes
1. Sunday night
2. Sunday evening
3. Monday Night
4. Sunday afternoon
5. Thursday Night
Espn got screwed over by crappy games. They create these crappy schedules a few months before the season starts and they refuse to budge even a little if a team sucks balls in the current season.
>>64598099
>acc schools should be baned from the playoff
Do you know who even won?
WAIT A MINUTE
You're going to tell me in a sport played almost exclusively by blacks there's a competition called the COTTON BOWL??
>>64597746
not my fault you are stupid enough to pay for 400 channels which only 10 you watch. enjoy being a slave to linear tv while i watch the stuff i want on my time.
>>64598158
there is a chik fil a bowl too (its a fried chicken restaurant)
>>64598158
It depends on the team, but yes, those proud, hard working, academic students who just want to play ball will be suffering from the evils of racism when they hit the field.
>>64598301
Louis CK advocates the black players play in the nude to protest against cotton clothing. He wants to see their huge black cocks swing in the wind hopefully getting the attention of white women.
>>64596430
not the guy you responded to but I live in the middle of nowhere and I don't get cell phone reception at my house. When the power goes out the landline is the only way I can call someone.
>>64595142
Because we're not poor faggots who have to cut out an easily affordable service that is very convenient.
>DUDE WATCH NFL GAMES ON YOUR LAPTOP XD
>>64598495
>He doesn't have a media PC hooked up to his TV
>Not that pussy ass Apple TV or Chromecast either
lol pleb
>>64593472
>16%
More like 36%
>>64598213
Yes I will continue to earn more than you and enjoy a higher quality of life.
>>64598534
>don't have TV
>have to watch games on shit quality online streams
>>64598820
yes because cable tv is the epitome of wealth and fancy living.
>>64593344
The concussion movie is waking people up to this barbaric semen slurping sport.
>>64598158
yup
