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NCAA Frozen Four

Re: NCAA Frozen Four

bronconick said:
Yeah, it's clearly a conspiracy theory instead of the fact that hockey's TV ratings are something a network scrapes off their shoe. Last year the NHL finally passed the WNBA in households per game. You could put everyone who watches the NCAA regionals into a football stadium and the Frozen Four into a city.

The idea that ESPN is "scared" of hockey becoming the key to threatening their essential monopoly is laughable. If it was, they'd over pay to keep it, like they just agreed to with the Big XII conference, paying $12 million per school for ~20 football games of which Texas-OU is the only really good one just to keep FOX and NBC away.
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The ratings may be paltry, but have you seen any effort put forth by ESPN to actually improve them? It might get an offhand mention at the end of Sportscenter the day before and probably not much more. Compare that to the numerous amounts of commercials you will see for the College World Series in the week leading up to that event.

It might not be a simple issue of some ESPN plutocrat lighting a cigar with a burning $100 bill and decreeing that the event be buried, but it's also not like you will see much of anything to help increase the interest.
 
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