Re: Universal Start Date, New Tournament Format
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:58 pm
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^^^^^^^^This. Simple, clean and effective for sure and will help to get some TV ratingsPicLax wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:00 am
.....Solution is starting season two weeks later, universally. Better chance of avoiding freezing weather and games that no one wants to attend - fans or players. Make up for it by scheduling mid-week games. Every team plays a couple of Tuesday evening games throughout the season. Great for fans to attend or watch on TV.
No, it won't. ESPN gets higher ratings for baseball and softball and will drop lacrosse faster than a bad habit to put them on. Having the Final 4 on Memorial Day fits nicely into an empty time slot between the end of the baseball/softball conference tournaments and the NCAAs. Pushing the season back is a perfect excuse for ESPN to make the all rounds before the Final pay-per-view.LibertyL wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:07 pm^^^^^^^^This. Simple, clean and effective for sure and will help to get some TV ratingsPicLax wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:00 am
.....Solution is starting season two weeks later, universally. Better chance of avoiding freezing weather and games that no one wants to attend - fans or players. Make up for it by scheduling mid-week games. Every team plays a couple of Tuesday evening games throughout the season. Great for fans to attend or watch on TV.
So WHAT. Do you know how EASY it would be do an equal, if not extremely better, production using simple devices ? But, most likely moot point. NCAA most likely requires, per contract, that espn HAS to give us lacrosse games and the three little weird muskannouncers, Q,A,CHowieT3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:18 pmNo, it won't. ESPN gets higher ratings for baseball and softball and will drop lacrosse faster than a bad habit to put them on. Having the Final 4 on Memorial Day fits nicely into an empty time slot between the end of the baseball/softball conference tournaments and the NCAAs. Pushing the season back is a perfect excuse for ESPN to make the all rounds before the Final pay-per-view.LibertyL wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:07 pm^^^^^^^^This. Simple, clean and effective for sure and will help to get some TV ratingsPicLax wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:00 am
.....Solution is starting season two weeks later, universally. Better chance of avoiding freezing weather and games that no one wants to attend - fans or players. Make up for it by scheduling mid-week games. Every team plays a couple of Tuesday evening games throughout the season. Great for fans to attend or watch on TV.
Do you know that ESPN owns the rights to the MLax and other NCAA championships until the 2023-24 academic year, which they purchased from the NCAA for $500 million? That would render how simple it would be to use those devices totally moot unless they decide to use them.ABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:05 pmSo WHAT. Do you know how EASY it would be do an equal, if not extremely better, production using simple devices ? But, most likely moot point. NCAA most likely requires, per contract, that espn HAS to give us lacrosse games and the three little weird muskannouncers, Q,A,CHowieT3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:18 pmNo, it won't. ESPN gets higher ratings for baseball and softball and will drop lacrosse faster than a bad habit to put them on. Having the Final 4 on Memorial Day fits nicely into an empty time slot between the end of the baseball/softball conference tournaments and the NCAAs. Pushing the season back is a perfect excuse for ESPN to make the all rounds before the Final pay-per-view.LibertyL wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:07 pm^^^^^^^^This. Simple, clean and effective for sure and will help to get some TV ratingsPicLax wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:00 am
.....Solution is starting season two weeks later, universally. Better chance of avoiding freezing weather and games that no one wants to attend - fans or players. Make up for it by scheduling mid-week games. Every team plays a couple of Tuesday evening games throughout the season. Great for fans to attend or watch on TV.
you are inferring that ESPN owns the rights to NOT broadcast low rated lacrosse games, at all ? Wouldn't the n$aa set up a broadcast contract, with any entity, that if they are bundling sports , that they STAY bundled ?HowieT3 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:18 pmDo you know that ESPN owns the rights to the MLax and other NCAA championships until the 2023-24 academic year, which they purchased from the NCAA for $500 million? That would render how simple it would be to use those devices totally moot unless they decide to use them.ABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:05 pmSo WHAT. Do you know how EASY it would be do an equal, if not extremely better, production using simple devices ? But, most likely moot point. NCAA most likely requires, per contract, that espn HAS to give us lacrosse games and the three little weird muskannouncers, Q,A,CHowieT3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:18 pmNo, it won't. ESPN gets higher ratings for baseball and softball and will drop lacrosse faster than a bad habit to put them on. Having the Final 4 on Memorial Day fits nicely into an empty time slot between the end of the baseball/softball conference tournaments and the NCAAs. Pushing the season back is a perfect excuse for ESPN to make the all rounds before the Final pay-per-view.LibertyL wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:07 pm^^^^^^^^This. Simple, clean and effective for sure and will help to get some TV ratingsPicLax wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:00 am
.....Solution is starting season two weeks later, universally. Better chance of avoiding freezing weather and games that no one wants to attend - fans or players. Make up for it by scheduling mid-week games. Every team plays a couple of Tuesday evening games throughout the season. Great for fans to attend or watch on TV.
ESPN is satisfied with the ratings they get with lacrosse right now. The Final 4 on Memorial Day fits in nicely between the end of the conference baseball and softball tournaments and the beginning of their NCAA tournaments. They get higher ratings for whichever round of the baseball and softball tournaments than they do for the Final 4 of lacrosse. If the start of the season was moved back as everyone is advocating, the semifinals would need to be one weekend and the final would be the next, as it was before 1986, because the Monday would no longer be a holiday. ESPN would put the final on the Mother Ship or ESPN2, but the first two rounds would have at most one game each day on ESPNU and the others on their streaming networks, with the semis probably (75% probable IMO) on ESPNU.ABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:15 pmyou are inferring that ESPN owns the rights to NOT broadcast low rated lacrosse games, at all ? Wouldn't the n$aa set up a broadcast contract, with any entity, that if they are bundling sports , that they STAY bundled ?HowieT3 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:18 pmDo you know that ESPN owns the rights to the MLax and other NCAA championships until the 2023-24 academic year, which they purchased from the NCAA for $500 million? That would render how simple it would be to use those devices totally moot unless they decide to use them.ABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:05 pmSo WHAT. Do you know how EASY it would be do an equal, if not extremely better, production using simple devices ? But, most likely moot point. NCAA most likely requires, per contract, that espn HAS to give us lacrosse games and the three little weird muskannouncers, Q,A,CHowieT3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:18 pmNo, it won't. ESPN gets higher ratings for baseball and softball and will drop lacrosse faster than a bad habit to put them on. Having the Final 4 on Memorial Day fits nicely into an empty time slot between the end of the baseball/softball conference tournaments and the NCAAs. Pushing the season back is a perfect excuse for ESPN to make the all rounds before the Final pay-per-view.LibertyL wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:07 pm^^^^^^^^This. Simple, clean and effective for sure and will help to get some TV ratingsPicLax wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:00 am
.....Solution is starting season two weeks later, universally. Better chance of avoiding freezing weather and games that no one wants to attend - fans or players. Make up for it by scheduling mid-week games. Every team plays a couple of Tuesday evening games throughout the season. Great for fans to attend or watch on TV.