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State of men’s basketball
IAA Fan:
I think the apathy is nationwide. Both the NBA and the college game is seeing steep declines in viewership. only 2.8% the Harris people rate college basketball as the #1 sport (8th place, even fell below NBA, car racing and the NHL; where college football is #3 behind the NFL and the MLB (11.8%). The NFL has never been out of 1st-place (averaging around 30%+), while the MLB passed up college football for the #2-spot. There is just over a 1% gap between college football and the MLB. While the gap between College basketball and college football is 11.8% to 2.8%. Clearly we need to sink ever penny we have into football, as I bet those numbers are even more widespread in NE Ohio. So nationwide, when you add up football, over half of the people consider the NFL or NCAA football the top sport.
I watch every Penguin MBB game I can, or at least listen (thank you YSU and iHeart radio). However, outside of that, I have little interest in college basketball. I have not watched an entire NBA game since the glory days of the Lakers ...I think I was pre-teen. It is to the point where I barely consider most NBA players athletes. I might add that it makes me even more disgusted when I see the salaries for the pros and the attitudes for both the collegiate and the NBA players ...but especially the collegiate players. So if you had to pick an area where coach Slocum might be at an age disadvantage ...it is here more than anywhere else. Everyone thinks they can be a star ...when the the odds of this happen are slim-to-none. Not one them seems to want to be a star in college.
ysufan0505:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on April 07, 2015, 01:28:48 PM ---I think the apathy is nationwide. Both the NBA and the college game is seeing steep declines in viewership. only 2.8% the Harris people rate college basketball as the #1 sport (8th place, even fell below NBA, car racing and the NHL; where college football is #3 behind the NFL and the MLB (11.8%). The NFL has never been out of 1st-place (averaging around 30%+), while the MLB passed up college football for the #2-spot. There is just over a 1% gap between college football and the MLB. While the gap between College basketball and college football is 11.8% to 2.8%. Clearly we need to sink ever penny we have into football, as I bet those numbers are even more widespread in NE Ohio. So nationwide, when you add up football, over half of the people consider the NFL or NCAA football the top sport.
I watch every Penguin MBB game I can, or at least listen (thank you YSU and iHeart radio). However, outside of that, I have little interest in college basketball. I have not watched an entire NBA game since the glory days of the Lakers ...I think I was pre-teen. It is to the point where I barely consider most NBA players athletes. I might add that it makes me even more disgusted when I see the salaries for the pros and the attitudes for both the collegiate and the NBA players ...but especially the collegiate players. So if you had to pick an area where coach Slocum might be at an age disadvantage ...it is here more than anywhere else. Everyone thinks they can be a star ...when the the odds of this happen are slim-to-none. Not one them seems to want to be a star in college.
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LOL, what????
guinpen:
--- Quote from: penguinpower on April 07, 2015, 01:08:35 PM ---Basket is irrelevant to me and many others. Even with good teams attendance was bad in basketball
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It has been a while but I have been at games that were packed, I know that some slam the D3 games but I had to sit in the last row of the bleachers for a game against then NAIA D2 Westminister. Point being that people will come out for a good program. But you have to spend money to make money, every empty seat is lost money.
Penguin Nation:
The first round of the NCAA MBB tournament averages a 6.6 TV rating, whereas the FCS title game received a 0.7 rating (1.1 M viewers).
I'm not saying YSU MBB should be prioritzed over FB, although a strong argument can be made that it should. But the acceptance of failure of MBB makes no sense. Also, the attendance figures are falsely inflated. I went to the Kennesaw State game, and we had our own section to ourselves. The attendance was listed at 1,229. The capacity is listed as 6,300. No way 1/5 seats were filled. I'd say actual fan attendance was ~300.
IAA Fan:
--- Quote from: ysufan0505 on April 07, 2015, 08:33:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on April 07, 2015, 01:28:48 PM ---I think the apathy is nationwide. Both the NBA and the college game is seeing steep declines in viewership. only 2.8% the Harris people rate college basketball as the #1 sport (8th place, even fell below NBA, car racing and the NHL; where college football is #3 behind the NFL and the MLB (11.8%). The NFL has never been out of 1st-place (averaging around 30%+), while the MLB passed up college football for the #2-spot. There is just over a 1% gap between college football and the MLB. While the gap between College basketball and college football is 11.8% to 2.8%. Clearly we need to sink ever penny we have into football, as I bet those numbers are even more widespread in NE Ohio. So nationwide, when you add up football, over half of the people consider the NFL or NCAA football the top sport.
I watch every Penguin MBB game I can, or at least listen (thank you YSU and iHeart radio). However, outside of that, I have little interest in college basketball. I have not watched an entire NBA game since the glory days of the Lakers ...I think I was pre-teen. It is to the point where I barely consider most NBA players athletes. I might add that it makes me even more disgusted when I see the salaries for the pros and the attitudes for both the collegiate and the NBA players ...but especially the collegiate players. So if you had to pick an area where coach Slocum might be at an age disadvantage ...it is here more than anywhere else. Everyone thinks they can be a star ...when the the odds of this happen are slim-to-none. Not one them seems to want to be a star in college.
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LOL, what????
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yep. In my mind, the game never kept up with the changing players. I never missed a home Pride game for 2 seasons. I was on campus waiting for my father in a night class. The level of athleticism there was above any NBA player ...well above.
Think about it ...
In today's NBA there is no defense, players basically travel with every possession of the ball, there is not even enough talent for a lay-up, they refuse to push the net up to 14.5' (which is about where it should be using the average height of players today vs when the game first established the 11'). I just do not see it. I mean guys under 6' tall used to get such elevation going to the basket. Today most players do not need to fully extend their arm ...let alone body. Certainly there is a skill in shooting, but the average ghetto kid does not go to school ...he just shoots all day, then no matter how undereducated he is ...he knows he has his college at least partially paid for once he gets to 80% ...problem is ..he need someone else to calculate the percentage. Yet they won't refine the game to attract a better class of athlete. They just continually make the game more and more like street ball. They want every game to have 100+ to 100+ scores. Could not be anymore boring as they lower the athleticism of the game to meet the players, because 7' people cannot jump.
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