2015 New Year’s TV day for Big East - ProJo

[stever20]

What kind of match ups are you guys interested in seeing?

Here's a possible schedule that I think could work:
Game 1: Butler vs. Marquette - Had a couple of good games both last season and the year before
Game 2: St. John's vs. Seton Hall - NY/NJ rivalry with Isaiah Whitehead going up against his hometown school.
Game 3: Providence vs. Xavier - two teams with a lot of young talent, very intriguing, especially if Kris Dunn can remain healthy
Game 4: Creighton vs. DePaul - Two Central timezone teams, so a later game is almost a necessity. Could sub Marquette in for DePaul, but that was done last season.
Game 5: Nova vs. Georgetown - two of my favorites for the league title to finish off the night

They just aren't going to waste game 5 on NYE. or game 2 or probably even 3. The game types that you are going to see is more like games 1 and 4. Best game would be more like game 3- and that's iffy.

remember last year it was
St John's/Xavier
Seton Hall/Providence
DePaul/Georgetown
Villanova/Butler
Marquette/Creighton

[Dew]

if people are out in bars watching the games, it could be good for theBE to be on. Multiple tv's with different sports might help BE . of course those staying home, may not be as interested

One thing- for the tv ratings purposes- folks watching in bars don't help.

I think doing this is a HUGE risk. We risk if the ratings are terrible looking pretty stupid and frankly small time. And also- just look- these ratings prove that football is king in 2014.

I don't think there is any risk at all. The ratings will be expected to be much much less than football playoffs. Duh. It's about counterprogramming – for those people who do not want to watch the football games, provide them with something else.

[FormulaX]

Risk? This isn't the BE tourney. It's the opening conference games. They have to be played that week anyway. It's smart to do something cool with them. Is there some thing better that Fs1 could show opposing the ncaafb?

[stever20]

Risk? This isn't the BE tourney. It's the opening conference games. They have to be played that week anyway. It's smart to do something cool with them. Is there some thing better that Fs1 could show opposing the ncaafb?

The beauty of the marathon wasn't that it was on New Years eve, but it was the season opening marathon. It's a GREAT idea. If it's on Dec 30, it's a home run- and we'd probably see games getting 200-250k viewers per game. Not struggling to get 100k.

[R to the OB]

Welp. Let's just fold up the tent right now, as there are bowl games all week. Obviously we're going get .01 ratings for all the games in our "little tip-off marathon", since any game that week will be competing with mighty football. Actually, while we're here, let's just cancel all of our basketball games, since they'll never equal the ratings of Poker on ESPN.
Seriously though, why should we allow football to control when OUR games are scheduled. Might as well just give in to the P5 everywhere else, too.

[stever20]

Welp. Let's just fold up the tent right now, as there are bowl games all week. Obviously we're going get .01 ratings for all the games in our "little tip-off marathon", since any game that week will be competing with mighty football. Actually, while we're here, let's just cancel all of our basketball games, since they'll never equal the ratings of Poker on ESPN.
Seriously though, why should we allow football to control when OUR games are scheduled. Might as well just give in to the P5 everywhere else, too.

It's called reality. Reality is that football is king in the US. You might not like it, but that is fact.

The problem now is that the football we'd be going up against in 8/12 years is the national semifinals. If it was just the Sun/Liberty,Chick-fil-a etc. bowls like last year- it's not that big of an issue.

Oh, and what about every 6 years when NYE is a Sunday. Do you really think it's smart at all to go up against the NFL?

[billyjack]

New Years Eve provides great advantages (especially compared to Dec 30th):

1. People typically either have the day out of work, or work a half-day, or have an office party with tv's and music on in the background.

2. People have the next day off from work, so they can relax, lounge, party, and worry about fixing their broken drainpipe the next day.

3. People at home will be able to tune in to our games anytime from 12 noon til 11pm EST.

4. People will be in front of their tv's due to the mighty CFB games (unlike Dec 30th when they'll either be working or at the hardware store), so we can piggyback off those eyeballs for 11 hours, during the limitless amount of CFB telecast timeouts, commercials, halftime shows, interviews with Tim Tebow, etc... most people in 2014 have remote controls, so they don't have to leave their La-Z-boys at all to switch to us, except to get more chips.

5. During the CFB games, sports news will always be scrolling along the bottom of the screen, continuously, including news on LeBron James's and Tim Tebow's lunch choices, and including our games, continuously, every 90 seconds for 6 hours... "Providence 85, Villanova 83 OT... DePaul 74, Georgetown 73... St John's 90, Creighton 88 2OTs...", continuously for 6 hours... free exposure...

6. Think of this thought process from Joe Random of Peoria, Illinois... or the ever-curious Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey... sitting with their friends on New Years Eve... mid-3rd quarter of a CFB game... Stanford 52, LSU 10... this game is over... what a dud... what else is on... Georgetown in a tight one vs Xavier... put it on... when does the Oklahoma-Nebraska CFB game start... not for another 2 hours... let's order another 4 pizzas... Villanova is on after the Hoyas... we can watch that before the next football game... what's there not to love about this...

[R to the OB]

Welp. Let's just fold up the tent right now, as there are bowl games all week. Obviously we're going get .01 ratings for all the games in our "little tip-off marathon", since any game that week will be competing with mighty football. Actually, while we're here, let's just cancel all of our basketball games, since they'll never equal the ratings of Poker on ESPN.
Seriously though, why should we allow football to control when OUR games are scheduled. Might as well just give in to the P5 everywhere else, too.

It's called reality. Reality is that football is king in the US. You might not like it, but that is fact.

The problem now is that the football we'd be going up against in 8/12 years is the national semifinals. If it was just the Sun/Liberty,Chick-fil-a etc. bowls like last year- it's not that big of an issue.

Oh, and what about every 6 years when NYE is a Sunday. Do you really think it's smart at all to go up against the NFL?

Reality? You want reality? That's a first.
Why don't you quick peruse Billyjack's last post. That's a good dose of reality.
The only point I concede is going up against the NFL. With multiple games on multiple networks, the Big East will be an afterthought. That would be the one year to move the Marathon to the Saturday before.

[MUPanther]

I would not do it in 2015 and 2016, as the semi finals for college football is on NYE. Or don't have all 10 teams play. Do a game at 11 and another at 1 Ct.

[TheHall]

I would not do it in 2015 and 2016, as the semi finals for college football is on NYE. Or don't have all 10 teams play. Do a game at 11 and another at 1 Ct.

Basketball marathons are here to stay...as well as summer announcements of them.

ESPN announces full Tip-Off Marathon schedule for college hoops season:

There's no better way to kick off the college basketball season than a TV extravaganza of games spanning 24 hours. And, well, there's no better way to get fans excited in August than to announce those games. ESPN unveiled its College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon schedule on Monday, including 12 of USA TODAY Sports' preseason top 25 teams, including the Champions Classic, which pits Michigan State vs. Duke and Kansas vs. Kentucky.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2014/08/04/espns-full-tip-off-marathon-schedule-announced-for-college-hoops-season/13587599/