@Mdot21 and
@847badgerfan :
You both said upthread that you were planning to subscribe (at least temporarily) to Peacock so that you could see games that your teams play on that platform.
Correct me if I'm wrong but our teams each only have one game on Peacock, right?
- Wisconsin, Rutgers
- Michigan, ECU
- Ohio State, Maryland
Maybe I'm just not as big a fan as I used to be but I'm not doing it.
I can listen on the radio and I can usually find the games almost immediately after they are played on YouTube and I'm just not going to pay to get a game where my team will probably be favored by 3TD+ in real-time rather than a few hours later.
I guess the reason I'm raising this question is this:
true. if they can get 1 million B1G football fans to force subscribe to Peacock that's $72 million a year in new added revenue for their bs streaming platform. And it's $5.99/mo, so my guess is 99% of the new subscribers who sign up just forget or say meh it's $6 a month- less than a McDonald's meal now- and never cancel that ish.
If it works, they'll keep doing it. If it doesn't, they'll stop.
We (posters on this board) are not a good representative sample of the populous. We are CFB fanatics (maybe former fanatics in a few cases
@betarhoalphadelta ,
@ELA ) but we aren't "average".
I'm not sure that Peacock's idea is going to work. I think that Mdot21's analysis above is EXACTLY their thinking. I'm just not sure there are enough UW/M/tOSU fans who care THAT much about games that aren't "big".
Part of it for me is that with the advent of the CFP, Ohio State's mid-season game against Maryland simply doesn't have the impact that it used to. If Ohio State beats Penn State and Michigan they'll almost certainly go to the B1GCG with a shot at the CFP and if they lose one or both of those then they probably won't and the Maryland game doesn't change that except in a few relatively unlikely scenarios.
I've never had BTN and it has been years since I've had any cable at all. In football it rarely bothers me. The tOSU games on BTN are generally games that I'm willing to miss/watch later on YouTube because the Buckeyes were favored by 3TD+ and the only games on ESPN lately have been CFP/Bowl games that are "events" where I'm usually going to a party anyway.
I will say that BB is different, in BB season I would like to have BTN/ESPN.