Iowa v LSU viewership

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Female professional team sports are not economically viable. If you take away the ransom payments that the NBA and US Soccer pay to prop up their women’s leagues then those leagues would have folded years ago. And that’s OK. Women athletes should be supported and celebrated, but doesn’t mean everybody gets to be a professional athlete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares.

Espn has been forcefeeding it down our throats.

You seem to care a whole hell of a lot.

ESPN doesn't forcefeed anything (except maybe cornhole or bowling.). ESPN schedules prime time stuff that's going to get ratings.

Between basketball, softball and women's soccer selling out arenas, women's sports are surging in popularity and generating revenue.

Why does that upset you? Because you seem upset.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Softball isn't boring. It's a lot more bang-bang than baseball. One of the reasons for its popularity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Female professional team sports are not economically viable. If you take away the ransom payments that the NBA and US Soccer pay to prop up their women’s leagues then those leagues would have folded years ago. And that’s OK. Women athletes should be supported and celebrated, but doesn’t mean everybody gets to be a professional athlete.

If you take away the massive tax payer subsidies for stadiums, the MLS isn't viable either

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Female professional team sports are not economically viable. If you take away the ransom payments that the NBA and US Soccer pay to prop up their women’s leagues then those leagues would have folded years ago. And that’s OK. Women athletes should be supported and celebrated, but doesn’t mean everybody gets to be a professional athlete.

Women's soccer now routinely sells out Emirates Stadium in London (home of Arsenal). 60,000 tickets. And that's in the land of football.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a 20/21 college student we are talking about. Nothing about her behavior or actions justifies death treats.

It's not justifiable, but it is imminently foreseeable. Nothing justifies death threats for anyone, but it is just the reality. Her behavior put a bigger target for hate on her back. A valuable lesson for a young person.

I’m confused with the lesson is? Caitlin Clark yells and screams and complains and makes a big fuss and there’s no target on her back.

So what’s the lesson if you’re black you need to keep your mouth shut?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Every 10 years we go through this exercise. You tell us, “but this time it’s different!” But it always ends the same way. Zzzzz

Women’s basketball has grown 127% so no not zzzz

Women’s sports is growing. Nobody wants his men’s tennis and everybody watches women’s tennis.

Olympics is the greatest example men’s gymnastics nobody watches women’s gymnastics breaking records

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Every 10 years we go through this exercise. You tell us, “but this time it’s different!” But it always ends the same way. Zzzzz

Women’s basketball has grown 127% so no not zzzz

Women’s sports is growing. Nobody wants his men’s tennis and everybody watches women’s tennis.

Olympics is the greatest example men’s gymnastics nobody watches women’s gymnastics breaking records

Ask yourself why those two sports and then ask why nobody watches the WNBA. Combine the answers, and you won't like the obvious reason

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares.

Espn has been forcefeeding it down our throats.

The same can be said of the mens side. Mens college basketball might as well not exist outside of one weekend

Newsflash: the US pretty much only cares about football. Basketball, hockey, and baseball are niche sports. You're comparing who wins a distant 2nd place to the NFL, lol.
On a terrible weekend the NFL averages over 17M viewers per game. That's not even counting the playoffs or super bowl.

And yes, you're right, overall CBB might not as well exist at all except for march madness. People only watch excuse they love gambling.

Except women’s, World Cup had more viewers than NFL football. Sorry, not sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Angel Reese crying after acting like a bully all year. Yes, racism and some of the stuff she dealt with is wrong but she also chose to lean into this persona and that is going to come with some blowback.

Would she have brought this up if they lost?

She played the bully with the ring thing but couldn’t take it when it turned on her

She was not crying because she was sad. She was crying because she was touched by the words of her teammate.

Lol, you don’t know the difference between crying because you’re sad and crying because you’re touched by the love of your teammates.

Pathetic.

Did you say the same thing when the Kelsey brothers cried?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Angel Reese crying after acting like a bully all year. Yes, racism and some of the stuff she dealt with is wrong but she also chose to lean into this persona and that is going to come with some blowback.

Would she have brought this up if they lost?

Everything after the “but” is irrelevant BS. The girl was treated horribly. Racist slurs. Death threats. Nothing -NOTHING- about any of her actions warrants that.

It's not irrelevant at all. Nobody is justifying racist slurs, but she brought a lot of hate on herself with her behavior and actions, which were her choice. Both can be true.

Just remember Caitlin is unstoppable (or whatever her ad's catch line is). Granted she's never won, but the black stars on the winning teams aren't marketable.

They were actually both very marketable. Angel Reese has millions of dollars worth of deals as does Caitlin Clark.

Don’t make this another Brittany versus Christina Aguilera saga .

They’re both amazing, and they’re both millionaires

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Every 10 years we go through this exercise. You tell us, “but this time it’s different!” But it always ends the same way. Zzzzz

Women’s basketball has grown 127% so no not zzzz

Women’s sports is growing. Nobody wants his men’s tennis and everybody watches women’s tennis.

Olympics is the greatest example men’s gymnastics nobody watches women’s gymnastics breaking records

Ask yourself why those two sports and then ask why nobody watches the WNBA. Combine the answers, and you won't like the obvious reason

Actually, you’re not gonna like the obvious answer.

When you grow sport, you’ve gotta start with marketing. That’s what the NCAA found out when they did a study on girls softball.

They found that if they marketed it, people would watch and then girls softball actually jump ahead of almost all men’s sports.

The WNBA is now being marketed viewership has practically doubled in only two years.

[Anonymous]

Another sport to watch is women’s volleyball.

Viewership is up and they’re selling out stadiums.

https://deadline.com/2023/12/texas-nebraska-ncaa-volleyball-ratings-record-espn-1235677884/amp/

It’s honestly really exciting to watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6DO8yOVYXr0

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com.au/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39862514/iowa-lsu-rematch-shatters-tv-ratings-record-123m-viewers

Iowa's 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN

Iowa-LSU outdrew all but one of the five games in last year's NBA Finals, along with the clinching game of last year's World Series (11.48 million).

It’s a novelty. Every few years there will be a great story like the Iowa player and casual fans will tune in. But it’s not sustainable. It never has been.

Nope. The sport is growing. The NCAA did a study with Women’s softball to see if viewership would increase if they increased marketing.

Now women’s softball earns more money than almost all men’s sports except for football and basketball.

And softball and baseball are boring.

Every 10 years we go through this exercise. You tell us, “but this time it’s different!” But it always ends the same way. Zzzzz

Women’s basketball has grown 127% so no not zzzz

Women’s sports is growing. Nobody wants his men’s tennis and everybody watches women’s tennis.

Olympics is the greatest example men’s gymnastics nobody watches women’s gymnastics breaking records

Ask yourself why those two sports and then ask why nobody watches the WNBA. Combine the answers, and you won't like the obvious reason

What is the obvious reason? You're going to have to point it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Angel Reese crying after acting like a bully all year. Yes, racism and some of the stuff she dealt with is wrong but she also chose to lean into this persona and that is going to come with some blowback.

Would she have brought this up if they lost?

Everything after the “but” is irrelevant BS. The girl was treated horribly. Racist slurs. Death threats. Nothing -NOTHING- about any of her actions warrants that.

It's not irrelevant at all. Nobody is justifying racist slurs, but she brought a lot of hate on herself with her behavior and actions, which were her choice. Both can be true.

Just remember Caitlin is unstoppable (or whatever her ad's catch line is). Granted she's never won, but the black stars on the winning teams aren't marketable.

They were actually both very marketable. Angel Reese has millions of dollars worth of deals as does Caitlin Clark.

Don’t make this another Brittany versus Christina Aguilera saga .

They’re both amazing, and they’re both millionaires

How many ads does Kamilla Cardoso have? SC is on a pace to win two national championships in 3 years and gets a fraction of the press that Iowa gets