Yes, I know that. I've given up hope of the Big East. It is what it is.
I'm just not sure that we have no TV value.
ESPN has been kind to us in the past. MASN, which has broadcasted the Big East Game of the Week, per Wikipedia, (I've never seen it) contracted to carry us regionally. WITN, (NBC) has a contract to pick up any remaining games not picked up by others. These games are shown regionally regardless of any other national games being played simultaneously. I honestly can't remember the last time we've had a game not televised.
I know it's our DMA.
Over the last four years (that's all I checked), the only CUSA teams to appear on Thursday Night Football were ECU and USM. ECU hosted Virginia Tech while USM played on the road at South Carolina. Imagine that....Hattiesburg and Greenville markets chosen above Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Tulsa, Memphis, Birmingham, El Paso, etc.
What other CUSA team has hosted 3 ESPN Thursday Night Football games?
(10-19-2011 03:00 PM)ecuacc4ever Wrote: Yeah, but you have to ask, if it was "ECU vs Middle Tennessee State" instead of "ECU vs. Virginia Tech", would it have been on ESPN Thursday night...?
But you also have to ask yourself if it was VT vs Middle Tennessee State, or insert 95% of other non-AQ's would it have been on ESPN Thursday night?
(10-19-2011 03:00 PM)ecuacc4ever Wrote: Yeah, but you have to ask, if it was "ECU vs Middle Tennessee State" instead of "ECU vs. Virginia Tech", would it have been on ESPN Thursday night...?
Probably not as there is a pecking order as that is why the ACC has so many Thursday nights game. The SEC basically pushed them off of ESPN on Saturdays b/c the bigger appeal is SEC games.
It is sad to see tv dictate new levels in college football:
Level One - SEC, Big 10, PAC 12
Level Two - ACC, Big 12
Level Three - Big East
Level Four - CUSA, MWC
Level Five - WAC, MAC, Sunbelt
Sad that there are so many levels within one division of football but true. NCAA really needs to make some go down to FCS, which will help make that division more solid to boot.
(10-19-2011 03:00 PM)ecuacc4ever Wrote: Yeah, but you have to ask, if it was "ECU vs Middle Tennessee State" instead of "ECU vs. Virginia Tech", would it have been on ESPN Thursday night...?
But you also have to ask yourself if it was VT vs Middle Tennessee State, or insert 95% of other non-AQ's would it have been on ESPN Thursday night?
Good reply, b0ndsj0ns. One of our Thursday night games was a CUSA game.
Tidbit In this era of conference expansion, it’s probably relevant to note one thing that E.C.U. football does extremely well: sell out its home stadium. The program has set new attendance records in each of the last two years, drawing 300,069 fans – 50,012 per game – to its six home games last fall. That average attendance figure led all non-B.C.S. conference programs by a healthy margin; the distance between E.C.U. and second-place San Diego State, which drew an average of 41,044 fans – thanks in part to a N.F.L. stadium – is larger than the distance between the Aztecs and fifth-place Air Force. And before you think that E.C.U., like S.D.S.U., is simply the beneficiary of an oversized venue, consider the fact that the stadium was filled to 100 percent capacity in 2011. E.C.U. has a very, very underrated fan base.
Tidbit In this era of conference expansion, it’s probably relevant to note one thing that E.C.U. football does extremely well: sell out its home stadium. The program has set new attendance records in each of the last two years, drawing 300,069 fans – 50,012 per game – to its six home games last fall. That average attendance figure led all non-B.C.S. conference programs by a healthy margin; the distance between E.C.U. and second-place San Diego State, which drew an average of 41,044 fans – thanks in part to a N.F.L. stadium – is larger than the distance between the Aztecs and fifth-place Air Force. And before you think that E.C.U., like S.D.S.U., is simply the beneficiary of an oversized venue, consider the fact that the stadium was filled to 100 percent capacity in 2011. E.C.U. has a very, very underrated fan base.
But we must all remember that those 50012 fans per game all live in Greenville, North Carolina and there is nothing else to do for entertainment around here except go to football games and shuck corn. :ecu:
Tidbit In this era of conference expansion, it’s probably relevant to note one thing that E.C.U. football does extremely well: sell out its home stadium. The program has set new attendance records in each of the last two years, drawing 300,069 fans – 50,012 per game – to its six home games last fall. That average attendance figure led all non-B.C.S. conference programs by a healthy margin; the distance between E.C.U. and second-place San Diego State, which drew an average of 41,044 fans – thanks in part to a N.F.L. stadium – is larger than the distance between the Aztecs and fifth-place Air Force. And before you think that E.C.U., like S.D.S.U., is simply the beneficiary of an oversized venue, consider the fact that the stadium was filled to 100 percent capacity in 2011. E.C.U. has a very, very underrated fan base.
But we must all remember that those 50012 fans per game all live in Greenville, North Carolina and there is nothing else to do for entertainment around here except go to football games and shuck corn. :ecu:
Very much so!!! It is a detriment to pack a stadium when you're in a small media market. In order to generate the maximum revenue from your paltry media market, you must have very few people actually at the game. They must all be at home watching on TV.
With that said, ECU must have one hell of a marketing department. We're able to get every living soul in Greenville into Dowdy Ficklen Stadium on game days.
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2012 02:50 PM by piratefan1975.)
Tidbit In this era of conference expansion, it’s probably relevant to note one thing that E.C.U. football does extremely well: sell out its home stadium. The program has set new attendance records in each of the last two years, drawing 300,069 fans – 50,012 per game – to its six home games last fall. That average attendance figure led all non-B.C.S. conference programs by a healthy margin; the distance between E.C.U. and second-place San Diego State, which drew an average of 41,044 fans – thanks in part to a N.F.L. stadium – is larger than the distance between the Aztecs and fifth-place Air Force. And before you think that E.C.U., like S.D.S.U., is simply the beneficiary of an oversized venue, consider the fact that the stadium was filled to 100 percent capacity in 2011. E.C.U. has a very, very underrated fan base.
But we must all remember that those 50012 fans per game all live in Greenville, North Carolina and there is nothing else to do for entertainment around here except go to football games and shuck corn. :ecu:
Very much so!!! It is a detriment to pack a stadium when you're in a small media market. In order to generate the maximum revenue from your paltry media market, you must have very few people actually at the game. They must all be at home watching on TV.
With that said, ECU must have one hell of a marketing department. We're able to get every living soul in Greenville into Dowdy Ficklen Stadium on game days.
Tidbit In this era of conference expansion, it’s probably relevant to note one thing that E.C.U. football does extremely well: sell out its home stadium. The program has set new attendance records in each of the last two years, drawing 300,069 fans – 50,012 per game – to its six home games last fall. That average attendance figure led all non-B.C.S. conference programs by a healthy margin; the distance between E.C.U. and second-place San Diego State, which drew an average of 41,044 fans – thanks in part to a N.F.L. stadium – is larger than the distance between the Aztecs and fifth-place Air Force. And before you think that E.C.U., like S.D.S.U., is simply the beneficiary of an oversized venue, consider the fact that the stadium was filled to 100 percent capacity in 2011. E.C.U. has a very, very underrated fan base.
But we must all remember that those 50012 fans per game all live in Greenville, North Carolina and there is nothing else to do for entertainment around here except go to football games and shuck corn. :ecu:
Very much so!!! It is a detriment to pack a stadium when you're in a small media market. In order to generate the maximum revenue from your paltry media market, you must have very few people actually at the game. They must all be at home watching on TV.
With that said, ECU must have one hell of a marketing department. We're able to get every living soul in Greenville into Dowdy Ficklen Stadium on game days.
LOL.
Greenville is a nice town. Besides, if you get bored you can always go to Li'l Washington!
BTW, 50k is only ~2/3 the population of Greenville. Plenty of people left to raid your house while you are at the game.
(06-25-2012 05:19 PM)blunderbuss Wrote: No shite!!! Son of a B I'm ready watch some heads roll this fall. I'm talking scorched earth baby!!!!!!!
Most of the ACC and Pac12 don't have anything on that.
BC, Dook just suck arse, hell UNC though bigger and averaging more fans per game don't have that kind of energy or get that loud, and that's just the pre-game entrance. We have big time football in Greenville. We just aren't in a big time confrence and yes that pisses me off!!!!!!!!
Hell this was from 2008, before the expansion with 44,000 people in a 43,000 seat stadium, mir hours after we were suposed to have a cat. 2 hurricane rolling through.
