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Originally posted by Hornetfan View PostSource
Based on the published subsription rates that's like $200,000 generated by PPV. Granted if the streaming company takes half of it and the conference office takes a quarter that leaves an average of around $3,500 each for the 14 schools.The way it's set up viewers are able to designate which school gets the income when the viewer pays the fees so some schools get a lot more and I'm sure some get a lot less. Why would you give up that source of revenue? What is the tangible advantage to the school? Because the GLVC for example lets you watch their game for free do you support that conference or any of those schools? Do you think their fans support their teams more than MIAA fans support theirs?
Schools don't let fans in the stadium for free to watch, why should they let people watch online for free?
Now if the numbers start going down significantly then I could understand going to a free broadcast to try and bring out fans. It's why most of the sports other than football and basketball are free to view.
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Originally posted by Predatory Primates View Post
You are overlooking the forest for the trees. Charging for a product is fine. Charging for one that you know to be faulty is fraud.
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Originally posted by TSU_Mike59 View Post
Exactly. The reason I don't complain when I tune into GLVC games is because they are free. There are some GLVC schools that do really good work, but there are others that are really, really bad. IF the MIAA schools were taking all their profit money and putting it into the streaming (hiring announcers, another camera), then that's a different issue. But, they're not. They're barely making a drop in the bucket if the numbers quoted are right, and of the three times I've paid to watch an MIAA game in the past two seasons, two times I'd say they were just as bad as the worst free GLVC broadcasts while the other I will say was very good.
...but if I did, I would've been disappointed. It's on par with the GLVC's free product, especially since it depends on the school.
My guess is that the GLVC looks at the investment as a marketing expense. Only die hards will pay for a small college football subscription. You might get a casual football fan to tune into a broadcast of the local college football team if it's free and easy.Cool Story Bro
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Originally posted by GrifFan View Post
Well to be fair, Northwest administrators are probably used to fans griping and
complaining - might as well get paid for it.Help out D2football.com - click on an ad
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