MAC Bowl Games = Annoying

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:36 am

cowboyjoe wrote: Any one who knows anything about bowl ratings on TV knows that BG is a bigger TV draw at 29 points a game over Northern Ill. who scores 14 points a game.

"Any one who knows anything about bowl" games knows it's all about revenue$ and tickets sold for the game.

cowboyjoe · Post by **cowboyjoe** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:52 pm

....and TV ratings. 14 points per game---Yawn!!

CapitalFalcon · Post by **CapitalFalcon** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:13 pm

Considering the piss poor showing of the MAC, can we please to vow to stop whining next year when "the media" does not shower us (or the conference) with adoring praise?

cw08 · Post by **cw08** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:56 pm

CapitalFalcon wrote:Considering the piss poor showing of the MAC, can we please to vow to stop whining next year when "the media" does not shower us (or the conference) with adoring praise?

Then we wouldn't be doing our "job" as fans.

I agree. The MAC really sucks right now. Let's accept it until it changes rather than be delusional about it.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:13 pm

Ugh...0-3 last year and 0-4 this year with Ball State still to play tomorrow. Ugh.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:27 pm

cowboyjoe wrote:....and TV ratings. 14 points per game---Yawn!!

I think tv ratings have little to do with it. If they did Buffalo, a much better story (could you watch ESPN the last two months without catching the '58 Buffalo piece??), would have been the Motor City Bowl (first MAC pick, traditionally takes the league champ) selection. Instead Buffalo went to Toronto....because they would no doubt be able to sell more tickets, and they did setting a new IB record.

If you think bowl organizers, the actual people that discuss/invite teams and work with local CVBs, and local sponsors put more emphasis, or shoot ANY emphasis on perceived tv ratings of bowl teams then I would argue you are flat out wrong.

ESPN makes money from tv sponsors so they obviously care about ratings to report to their sponsors, but ultimately bowl organizers are there to make money. And the bowl ogranizers make most of their money (at least on our MAC-level bowls) locally through local in-stadium, gameday sponsors and most importantly ticket sales. That is why the MCB and GMAC bowl have done "well" financially, not because Central Michigan and Middle Tenn. drew a tv audience.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:08 pm

Dayons_Den wrote:
cowboyjoe wrote:....and TV ratings. 14 points per game---Yawn!!
I think tv ratings have little to do with it. If they did Buffalo, a much better story (could you watch ESPN the last two months without catching the '58 Buffalo piece??), would have been the Motor City Bowl (first MAC pick, traditionally takes the league champ) selection. Instead Buffalo went to Toronto....because they would no doubt be able to sell more tickets, and they did setting a new IB record.

If you think bowl organizers, the actual people that discuss/invite teams and work with local CVBs, and local sponsors put more emphasis, or shoot ANY emphasis on perceived tv ratings of bowl teams then I would argue you are flat out wrong.

ESPN makes money from tv sponsors so they obviously care about ratings to report to their sponsors, but ultimately bowl organizers are there to make money. And the bowl ogranizers make most of their money (at least on our MAC-level bowls) locally through local in-stadium, gameday sponsors and most importantly ticket sales. That is why the MCB and GMAC bowl have done "well" financially, not because Central Michigan and Middle Tenn. drew a tv audience.

TV ratings projections have less to do with who gets a bowl bid than you can possibly imagine. ESPN has contracts for all these bowls. They pay the same to the bowl people no matter what the ratings are. The people who run the bowls stand nothing to gain based on TV ratings, and they're the ones who put out the invites.