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It may have been a lousy weekend for the ACC, but the Labor Day matchup between Miami and Florida State was a ratings winner for hte league and ESPN.
While the ACC went 4-6 in non-conference play, Miami edged the Seminoles 38-34 as 8.4 million viewers watched.
That made the contest the second-most watched regular season college football game in the 30 years of ESPN. The most watched college football game on the WWL was the 2006 match up between the same two teams that Florida State won 13-10.
Miami has played in four of the five highest rated football games show on ESPN
To put it into perspective, the Alabama win over Virginia Tech on ABC Saturday night drew about 7.1 million viewers. That is an improvement over the past couple of years, as ABC and ESPN enjoyed ratings boosts across the board from last year’s opening week.
ABC regional coverage on Saturday afternoon featured Oklahoma State’s win over Georgia, and it pulled a 3.5 rating for 5.7 million viewers. That game hammered the Notre Dame-Navy contest on NBC which only drew a little over 2 million viewers.
For the opening week, ESPN averaged a 2.3 rating and 3.6 million viewers for its college football coverage, up 28% and 34%, respectively, from a 1.8 and 2.7 million last year.
With USC at Ohio State in primetime Saturday, the WWL can expect another good week, while NBC can only watch as ABC will pull a very good number for Notre Dame’s visit to the Big House to play Michigan.
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GoHornsGo90 commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 57 minutes ago
Barnes’ three “strengths”:
Defense, rebounding, recruiting.
This team just proved the first two are non-existent (out-rebounded by 25; fucking KIDDING me?) and the last one is over-hyped as well. Every ESPN basketball recruiting analyst who actually had Bradley ahead of Wall should be taken out back and executed Inglourious Basterds style.
I hate Turgeon and I
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skymonkeyhorn commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
a Good System will usually beat a talented team that does not play together and are thinking instead of playing basketball ,over a season the system wins more then they will give away.
A team that is scared to make a mistake and thinks before they react is going to lose to a confident but -
Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 15 minutes ago
Nordberg,
Ironic indeed……teachable moment, I guess….
NY Horn,
I hope your drunk, because Izzo ain’t coming to Texas……Why don’t we just get Coach K. I mean Coach G came from Duke, they have to be dying to get out of Durham….
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
Trips,
I hear ya. I’m frustrated as well. I guess I just don’t prescribe to such a black and white characterization of the situation. I do know that no matter what happened in the huddle, JCB made a dumb play. If Rick didn’t explain or remind him of the situation, then I
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 28 minutes ago
Pat, know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 28 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 28 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 30 minutes ago
Shitty season…..Rick needs to hire some offensive help and someone needs to say it to him. Deloss?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 33 minutes ago
Trips,
Do you know that he didn’t? JCB has made bad decision all season, why would this be any different. Barnes coached a shitastic game, but on the teams I was the best FT shooter, I never game up the ball unless it was an uncontested layup…..It’s not hard and it doesn’t take a
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 33 minutes ago
mcpayne, yes, you don’t leave that shit to chance. You don’t let your guys break the huddle or dead ball not knowing precisely what’s expected from them. Barnes doesn’t get 2 mil for coaching PE where he’s hoping the right guy gets fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 35 minutes ago
mpayne, I’d agree with you if J’Covan had been playing all season and had been in situations to make that decision. Like, you know, against Baylor, when he played all of 3 fucking minutes thanks to rick.
So yes, it is rick’s fault.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 35 minutes ago
With 15 seconds left, out of a dead ball, most coaches would make it perfectly clear who they wanted to be fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 38 minutes ago
Stupid decisions by Brown are one of the reasons he sat on the bench for most of the season…lack of coaching maybe, or just a lack of basketball IQ?
Oh well, if Brown doesn’t go off in the 2nd half, we aren’t even playing in OT. Too bad he didn’t get much of a chance
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 38 minutes ago
Pat, if you were making 2 million a year, would you leave that up to chance?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 39 minutes ago
Actually, if your a PG and the best FT shooter on the team and played basketball your entire life, you’d pretty much know not to give up the ball if you had any brains…..Such a dumb play…..
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Oh, and a stupid decision by Brown in giving up the ball to Johnson.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Be nice if we’d coached our 90 percent foul shooter not to give the ball up.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
Ransom,
1 for 2, that was not shitty defense……
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Mister Mike commented on the blog post State of the Union – NU Basketball, Part 1 (or Why We Are Where We Are) 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
Well if you had read it all the way, you would’ve noticed this little tidbit:
In the second part I’ll do my best to give an outline of what exactly is wrong with the program, what we can do to fix it, and then what will probably happen TO fix it.
So to answer your question:
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
The line kills us, as it should have.
Fuck Rick Barnes, as this was the worst coaching I have seen in all my years of watching UT sports.
This saved us from Kentucky, but I feel bad for Damo, he was a hell of a Longhorn.
Hook ‘em!
And FUCK RICK BARNES!
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
Feel bad for Damion…..Dexter and Mason, not so much….
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
So the season ends with missed free throws and shitty defense by Bradley. Pretty fitting.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Yup……We knew that FTs would get us….
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 43 minutes ago
F’n Gary’s been awful tonight….
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 43 minutes ago
GJ at the line…big heart needed!
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
Why does Brown give it up there?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
Bilas explaining why we’re not a smart team…Oh good, I want Gary at the line…
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
The good news is that now I know to fill out the census, so i’m not going to jail…not for that anyway.
Phenomenal Smith said:
September 11th, 2009 at 8:21 am
How does that compare to what ESPN gets for NFL Monday Night Football? I assume it’s not even close, but what do I know?
srr50 said:
September 11th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Monday Night Football is the highest rated weekly “series” on cable tv. Last year ESPN averaged just under 12 million viewers a week for MNF.
kafka said:
September 11th, 2009 at 9:48 am
It was a great game. Miami’s QB had a funny throwing motion but he made a bunch of very accurate throws.
CloseToJumping said:
September 11th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Miami’s secondary employs a deep group of females that understand slap fighting better than tackling. A tough team with a good QB will eat them alive. I like them, but that is a huge weakness. Loved the game and thanks for the article on it.
Scipio Tex said:
September 11th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Thanks srr50 – good stuff.
I was thinking along the lines of Phenomenal as well. The NFL’s grip on our national sports mind is just incredible.
Gene Claude said:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
The incredible part is that the average NFL game is less gripping than Life Goes On reruns. Oh, Corky.
uthookem said:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I agree Gene, last night’s game was like watching paint dry except for the last two minutes of the first half, the last five minutes of the second half, and OT.
On the WWL, the GT v. Clemson game started off with a rocket, and then a building crescendo as Clemson clawed their way back in only to lose in the end. More exciting, for sure, but the NFL gets a much bigger share due to better athletes, better coaches, and fantasy football.
Scipio Tex said:
September 11th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
College football is all about variety, competing philosophies, deep seated rivarly.
The NFL is an antiseptic game of retreads and frightened middle managers. I still watch and enjoy it, but it will never compare.
srr50 said:
September 11th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
There is a movie opening today, called “Big Fan.” Made by the guy who wrote “The Wrestler.” He says is is a “tale of unrequited love,” which looks at the life of a 36-year old obsessed fan of the N.Y. Giants.
Sound like it will pretty well explain the popularity of the NFL.
The Bobs said:
September 11th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
“The NFL is an antiseptic game of retreads and frightened middle managers.”
this nails it…
I haven’t really watched pro football much for the last few years. Started mainly as just a schedule thing, but I found I just plain didn’t miss it. Year before last, I did not watch a single NFL game from start to finish, which only a very few years earlier would have been absolutely unthinkable.
Got roped into a fantasy football league last year for the first time ever, and I ended up watching more, just to see my players. Probably will do more of that this year, since I’m in a couple of leagues. I watched most of the game last night, and pretty much in horror. It was far, far, far less compelling than just about every college game from last weekend, including the blowouts, and these were not scrub teams. I can’t begin to imagine what it must be like to sit through a Bengals-Browns matchup.
Makes you wonder just how much of the NFL’s popularity stems from fantasy football, as uthookem mentioned, and from gambling.
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