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GT4e is right about single game plus minus being super noisy. It evens out more over the course of a season and until Gapare can consistently convert more of those missed baskets then the missed opportunities are going to hold the team back. “Playing well except for finishing” could very well...

Sure, but we’re talking about if the network (and rest of the package) is worth it for ESPN post-FSU, not if it’s worth it for the schools. I’m just saying that the ACC being cheaper than the SEC doesn’t mean it’s more profitable for the networks, or that ESPN would see a big hit in fees or...

Spectrum has it in a "Sports" addon, at least in SoCal. Even on plans that have RSNs. (I checked yesterday since there was discussion in the cable thread of if streaming TV + internet was cheaper than cable bundles.) I didn't say it was standalone - very few channels are - I said it can already...

But where is the tipping point where ditching a low-end channel and losing, say, 12% of the carriage fee is worth it compared to paying yesterday’s rates for the content on that channel? ACCN, for instance, is already a paid extra for some cable companies, so I doubt it’s bringing in the big bucks.

I don’t think it’s out of the question that ESPN might rather have basically dead air with no revenue for some spots than low rated stuff they’re paying millions of dollars for the privilege to air. If FSU and a bunch of other teams left ESPN would quite possibly be looking for any way out of...

Duke @ GT in 2004 was pretty intense. Tailgated overnight for it in the cold too.

I just checked my local cable co and the cheapest internet (300 down) and cheapest TV that had RSNs was over $150 “for 12 months” with no clear disclosure of what it would be after that intro rate. Oh and add another $7 for the sports plan with the ACC network. My internet + YouTube TV is a...

No cable, sometimes youtubetv. Cable is more convenient for a couple of reasons (delay and time to change channels) but YouTubeTV is doing more and more with multi-view which helps with the latter. Nobody is really doing anything about the delay which sucks but I know firsthand would be a very...

Oregon’s been more consistently good for the last couple of decades, in Big 10 territory I could certainly see it; probably not in ACC or SEC territory.

I wouldn’t, they wouldn’t put the team in tournament position and so in a transition year I’d rather see a high ceiling to let me have optimism for the future.

I’m glad at some point in the second half someone told the commentators it wasn’t pronounced “Sturdy verd”

Who do we need to pay off to get an all-Carolina team draw in the ACCT?

It almost got out of hand early AND they won anyway?!?! :o Hope Ndongo is ok

"Just look at the actions [and interpret them the way I tell you to]" is not circumstantial at all? It's like your argument about the different treatment of GT and UGA - any priors I'm weighing about "there's a conspiracy against the ACC" are FAR outweighed by "the team that wins 17 out of 20...

Yeah, the ACC tried to up their football game - but for it to have been successful, FSU/VT/Miami needed to not all fall off at the same time. Arguably the ACC held up their end of the bargain to FSU by expanding in a football-centric-way. FSU and Miami haven't held up theirs for the past 2...

Could be that they were debating it throughout and changing their minds a few time? Orrrrrrrr they were just messing with people to make the pre-ordained outcome seem less suspicious! It's absolutely hilarious how sure people are about this. It's all circumstantial evidence. It's not that I...

Talking heads talking about Alabama having a potential case pre injury: evidence of conspiracy and lies Talking heads decrying FSU being left out after the fact: not relevant? So the talking heads are only in on the grand conspiracy when we don’t like what they say?

Which is more significant, the set of schools that spends money but fails or the set of schools that don't spend money but succeeds at the top-10 level?

For me - and I don't have advanced stats to back this up or anything - the team since the calendar turned to 2024, while they've lost a lot of games I wish they'd pulled out, hasn't had any games where they looked as bad as calendar-year-2023 last season against Duke or even FIT. And even when...

TV is a big amplifying/separating factor though - there are a lot more fanbases big enough to sell out a stadium - especially when the team is good - than there are fanbases big enough to compete with Ohio State in TV viewership. Similar with online retail for merchandise sales and the money...