2020-21 College Basketball thread

I was curious so I emailed the athletic department. The head coach, Landon Bussie, answered:

Flying to Wichita State
Driving to Tulsa
Driving to Baylor
Driving to Oklahoma

It's 8 hours by bus to Tulsa and Norman. I can't find their schedule anywhere. Do they play those 2 games in a 3-day span or something? Logic says they stay at a hotel between games.

The drive to Baylor is 7 hours.

 

Look at the corps who own the major players, though. They are buying up or already own networks and movie studios, which they mine for content on their streams. Profits are vertically integrated. It will require quite a deal to get them to turn that loose unless some of them start to lose viewers/money due to the market being flooded.

 

I guess that it's possible for March Madness, due to a limited number of sites and a limited time frame. I'm not sure that even Amazon with all the money in the world is ready to build out the required infrastructure and personnel to take on NCAA or NFL football, even if it is split with another network. Bezos has made some bold plays, though, I could certainly be misjudging his willingness to try it.

Having the ability and the skilled people to do it all at once, live, is very different from hiring production companies to do what they already do and deliver it months to years later. If there is an overrun, you can delay the premiere of a movie or series. That isn't true in live sports.

 

I just wonder if Apple isn’t sitting and waiting to put it all together. Their Apple TV+ strategy has been baffling, but they’re just sitting there with what will amount to trillions of dollars unspent. They are going to use that once the streaming wars shake out, I believe. They have already shown an appetite for centralizing services with their TV app. Disney will want out of ESPN (they already seem to be tiring of wrestling that octopus), while a lot of the bit players like Paramount will fail. I think we’re left with Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Disney when this all shakes out. And a couple will team up to bundle services to drive one of the others out, which to me is a road to another merger eventually.

The Big Three Networks. Just like 1960.

 

I was paying $149 a month for Direct TV. That was OK by me but due to spousal pressures I signed up for Fubo (my wife is a native Spanish speaker and she liked the wide selection of Spanish channels Fubo offered. I am not the decision maker in my household.). Fubo does not carry the Turner networks so I signed up for Sling Basic for $35 a month so I could get the NBA playoffs. So in total I pay $100 a month and save $600 a year with my current package and have a wider selection of sports channels than Direct TV.

I need to check but I think I will not get Sunday Ticket, though I will get NFL Red Zone. NFL Sunday ticket costs about $400. I had been subscribing so I could watch the Broncos every week. But a few Bronco games will be shown in my market anyway. Let's say three. Between the extra $600 I would pay for Direct TV and the $400 for Sunday ticket I would spend about $1,000 to watch about 13 games. That seemed to me to be to much to pay to watch Teddy Bridgewater or Drew Lock play quarterback.

 

Can you please e-mail Duke and find out their travel plans from the head coach? Asking for a friend.

 

They haven't set the schedule (assuming the conference half hasn't been nailed down yet), but the non-conference dates were on the link I posted earlier. Those four games are over an eight-day period from Dec. 14-22. They play Wichita on the 14th, Tulsa on the 16th, Baylor on the 20th and Oklahoma on the 22nd.
The SWAC normally plays its conference games on Saturday and Monday, so other than the extra couple of days between the two halves of the road trip a three- or four-day bus trip is not unusual. It's not like they're flying to Montgomery or Pine Bluff once the conference schedule begins.

 

Yeah I don't really have anything extra, I have a sports package added to my cables, like six bucks a month. So I get tons of options. I don't know if I can match that on streaming. And once you subtract the price of our internet which is bundled with our cable, and it's high speed really good internet, I'm probably only spending about $100 a month on cable.

 

We have Amazon because we have Prime. We pay for Netflix. The Disney + bundle for $14 gives us Disney, Hulu, and full ESPN. Hulu includes Fox, FS1 and FS2, CBS Sports Network, NBC Sports Network, the Olympic Channel, and more in its base package. We pay well under $100, too lazy to go add it all up. Our internet is through AT&T. Entirely too many choices. Amazon and Hulu + both have a broad spectrum of other network sources including sports.

 

We have Prime, Netflix, Paramount+, Disney ... Still changing out cable for a fubo or YouTube TV would only save us maybe 40 bucks. Cable is easy. This is likely our last contract with cable, we have about a year left. And then we'll see where the chips fall.

 

Yeah, I think when I cord cut with Youtube TV, I was saving about $25 a month. Which wasn’t worth the buffering.

I call Direct Tv once a year and threaten to leave and get them under $100 a month.

 

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