Watching College Football is Going to Get a Whole Lot More Difficult in the future

[DGUtley]

Watching College Football is Going to Get a Whole Lot More Difficult in the Coming Years


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Once upon a time, long, long ago, you could turn on your TV on a crisp fall Saturday and know the Buckeyes would be there to watch. In those halcyon days, known as "about half of the years in the late 90's and early 2000's", if you had a cable subscription, you were golden: ABC and the various iterations of ESPN (and whatever other channel had the out of conference opponent) had you covered with every single Ohio State game, from September through the Bowls.

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This hadn't been the norm in Ohio State football broadcasting history, and prior to the 1990's it was common for most games to be shown only after a lengthy tape delay, or sequestered entirely to radio. This was deliberate; the NCAA wanted to limit the number of college football games on television as a way to drive up attendance numbers (as a side note, the NFL kept its version of the blackout rule until the year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen).

If this sounds dumb and counterproductive, it's because it was. Luckily in 1984 the Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that this violated the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts, and as a result more college football began appearing on TV screens and money somehow appeared out of nowhere, stuffing great gobs of itself into the pockets of universities and governing bodies of the sport. Obviously a lot of this was regional: If you were an Ohio State fan in Hawai'i, sorry, you're probably going to get the Rainbow Warriors instead of the Buckeyes.

That has all changed..... Yeah, laugh at Michigan having their season opener on a streaming service if you want, but what you're looking at is Ohio State's very near future.

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https://www.elevenwarriors.com/colle...e-coming-years

[stephenpe]

SEC has me covered along with the SEC network. Even worse that NBC Peac0ck looks a little "pride"ful.........lmao

[donttread]

Watching College Football is Going to Get a Whole Lot More Difficult in the Coming Years


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Once upon a time, long, long ago, you could turn on your TV on a crisp fall Saturday and know the Buckeyes would be there to watch. In those halcyon days, known as "about half of the years in the late 90's and early 2000's", if you had a cable subscription, you were golden: ABC and the various iterations of ESPN (and whatever other channel had the out of conference opponent) had you covered with every single Ohio State game, from September through the Bowls.

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This hadn't been the norm in Ohio State football broadcasting history, and prior to the 1990's it was common for most games to be shown only after a lengthy tape delay, or sequestered entirely to radio. This was deliberate; the NCAA wanted to limit the number of college football games on television as a way to drive up attendance numbers (as a side note, the NFL kept its version of the blackout rule until the year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen).

If this sounds dumb and counterproductive, it's because it was. Luckily in 1984 the Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that this violated the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts, and as a result more college football began appearing on TV screens and money somehow appeared out of nowhere, stuffing great gobs of itself into the pockets of universities and governing bodies of the sport. Obviously a lot of this was regional: If you were an Ohio State fan in Hawai'i, sorry, you're probably going to get the Rainbow Warriors instead of the Buckeyes.

That has all changed..... Yeah, laugh at Michigan having their season opener on a streaming service if you want, but what you're looking at is Ohio State's very near future.

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https://www.elevenwarriors.com/colle...e-coming-years

I have long lamented the slow take over of sports by pay TV. It just takes a little more space on the golden goose's neck each year. Take the NFL for example. Fans don't deserve a collapse but a lot of players, coaches, talking heads and broadcasters do and Roger Godell damn sure does.

[Tahuyaman]

…Once upon a time, long, long ago, you could turn on your TV on a crisp fall Saturday and know the Buckeyes would there to watch…

On a crisp fall morning the choice is watching Ohio State or raking leaves, I’ll rake leaves.

[Bigdog]

College football would like to think it is as large as the NFL but it is not, not even close!

Want to make sure your product is viewed by as few of people as possible, paywall and lock it on several different streaming services! College football would not be hard at least for me to completely ignore, NFL not so much though lol....