Posted on 12/06/2016 6:51:22 AM PST by raccoonradio
True, but there are enough of those games during the regular season.
It’s basically the NIT of College Football.
And from what I understand, schools actually lose money on these bowl games because their earnings from playing in the bowl don’t cover the expenses of sending the team and the band to the game.
So we’re on the same page.
My original post was to someone who (if I read it properly) that you could save the Internet charge with your own modem.
You can save the TV charge by using the internet; but you still pay the provider for internet service. Supplying your own cable modem/router saves a few bucks. The big saving is that you don’t have to pay extra for cable TV channels you can find and stream on the internet.
Sorry for any confusion.
The biggest problem is lack of competition.
I’m lucky in this regard, as our neighborhood is wired for both FIOS and Cox Cable. They’re both trying to win market share, and they both offer pretty good deals and extras to get it.
I compare that with my sister’s home, which has one provider and poor service. Her cable quality, options and software are about 10 years behind ours, and more expensive.
trying to force a distinction between the “regular season” and “post season” in college football is to utterly miss the point. there is no “post season”. the playoff proponents got suckered into essentially tripling the networks’ (and P5 copnerences) revenue for what used to be a single “national championship game” — and you’re no closer to really knowing who the best team in college football really is.
it’s more than just a little irrational.
Define who the “best team” is.
The one who got hot at the right time, or the team with the best overall body of work over the course of the season.
I could have the best team, but suffer some crucial late season injuries and lose in the Championship game. Does that mean that they still weren’t the “best team”?
That’s one of the reasons why I like following the English Premier League.
No playoffs, bottom line is the team with the best record is the Champion.
The exposure and alumni giving make up for that. Going to a “good” bowl game is a big money maker in other ways.
Virginia Tech going to Charlotte will be huge for us.
Yes..as TV critic Steve Beverly puts it, “’Grandma’ is stuck paying for a whole bunch of channels she doesn’t want to watch.”
Big corporations that own these channels—and Comcast owns NBC—make deals;if you want to carry a certain channel, you also gotta carry these channels..
Used to be a lot of baseball was on free TV.Then came the regional networks like
NESN in New England (Red Sox).NESN used
to be optional, $10 per month.Then it went to expanded basic, whether you wanted it or not.
Only Red Sox games on free tv are occasional Fox games and SOME playoffs
(World Series...) Now there’s a chance
that some games may wind up on WHDH TV 7..currently NBC but losing affiliation by Jan 1 and going independent as NBC launches its own NBCBoston channel.
I am supremely confident that, when college football was originally created, it wasn't created to be a revenue cash cow. it has been perverted into that over time by some genuinely vile individuals.
I’m talking more about the bowl games like the “Poulan Weedeater Bowl.”
I think Direct is $63 with showtime.
I get to stream it free on my At&T devices.
Cocaine is expensive.
but that's the bullsh*t bill of goods that were used to deceive us into allowing college football to become espn's painted whore.
but, one more time, it's not the backend of the process, bowls, or even the playoffs, that are destroying the sport, it's realignment. if you truly want college football back, after all the perversion that has already happened, you are going to have to literally do away with all of the conferences.
otherwise, you're just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
Is that some new legislation that's going through Congress? :)
All you need is access to the Internet. I have aDSL from Windstream and it works fine. I think they recommend 6 megabit minimum speed to stream their content. You are allowed 2 simultaneous streams.
I think I would make one tweak to the current system. Have the Power Five Conference Champions plus the best At-Large team in the playoffs, with the top two seeds getting a first-round bye.
Then the Conference Championship games would truly matter. And if a team complains about not being chosen as the At Large team, well sorry, next time win your conference.
“.. bowl games like the “Poulan Weedeater Bowl.”
Or the “America Standard (toilet) Bowl”.
meh. kick ball. third world sport. they play it in countries where women are stoned to death for getting raped, and where they cut you up for apostasy and send the pieces to your mother if your beard isn’t long enough.
Wouldn’t that be like going full circle to have gladiators killing one another? Might be a way to “cut down” (sorry, couldn’t resist) on the population over-runs?
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