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Originally Posted by blake5676
Outside of tournament time to begin the season, CBB teams play twice a week. CFB teams play once a week. I understand the difference in number of games, but don't pretend that the numbers don't support CFB being a better draw by casting off scheduling as an exuse. The numbers for weekend basketball games, even prime ones against ranked opponents still PALE in comparison to the TV sets watching football. And weather? Seriously? You're reaching, little doe.
You must have missed the part where 80% of CBB games register under 600k viewers or less, a 0.0-0.4 rating. Don't expand that number to 2.0, because a 2.0 rating is a pretty decent rating. It's a number that college basketball surpassed only 9 times in the entire season this year.
So again, show me some numbers that support that people care about CBB before the 3rd weekend in March.
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I'm not going to argue that people care about it more in March. It's the playoffs. Just like the NFL has playoffs. Of course the numbers are going to explode.
Corporations in America know that the affluent CBB viewer might be slightly lower in numbers but the people who watch are much more important than those that watch CFB. This is reflected in the dollars spent.
The NFL and CBB playoffs work so well by gathering extreme numbers and value around a concentrated time that peaks America's excitement.
The same concentration doesn't exist for CFB. If it did perhaps the numbers would be similar to the NFL and CBB.
