good piece on the cost of various bowl and playoff games. BUT you are informing those of us well aware of everything you state. Price of tickets, required "nations" for better seating, parking, beer, other food has been outragious and getting worse for decades. What do fans get in return? unknown/lousy kickoff times, expensive lousy food…
good piece on the cost of various bowl and playoff games. BUT you are informing those of us well aware of everything you state. Price of tickets, required "nations" for better seating, parking, beer, other food has been outragious and getting worse for decades. What do fans get in return? unknown/lousy kickoff times, expensive lousy food, etc. Popular events like CFB and NFL and others is like paying big bucks for TV / cable coverage of events and movies, then still having to tolerate commercials.
Biggest problem with CFB in particular is that there is no collective interest in controlling or limiting costs. CFB really has a death wish. If the next media contract pays each program $200 million per year it will take less that five years for those programs to spend every dime of the windfall. Compare what programs receive today versus 20 years ago. The future of classic cable (ESPN, FOX etc is not real healthy. The message we ALL need to understand is the video providers and the programs have Zero interest in the common good of we dedicated CFB fans. ZERO!
good piece on the cost of various bowl and playoff games. BUT you are informing those of us well aware of everything you state. Price of tickets, required "nations" for better seating, parking, beer, other food has been outragious and getting worse for decades. What do fans get in return? unknown/lousy kickoff times, expensive lousy food, etc. Popular events like CFB and NFL and others is like paying big bucks for TV / cable coverage of events and movies, then still having to tolerate commercials.
Biggest problem with CFB in particular is that there is no collective interest in controlling or limiting costs. CFB really has a death wish. If the next media contract pays each program $200 million per year it will take less that five years for those programs to spend every dime of the windfall. Compare what programs receive today versus 20 years ago. The future of classic cable (ESPN, FOX etc is not real healthy. The message we ALL need to understand is the video providers and the programs have Zero interest in the common good of we dedicated CFB fans. ZERO!