And yet Women's college Basketball had one of it's highest viewers in history

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Apr 12, 2021
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Hard reality. Interest in college sports is plummeting, too.

clocker

4/12/21 2:48am

What did Roy Williams say?

panacablue

4/12/21 4:24am

RE: What did Roy Williams say?

SamMelton

4/12/21 7:50am

A way to changing things - quit feeding us a handful of P5 teams

Cswilliam01

4/12/21 9:59pm

When watching sports no longer becomes enjoyable.

Stev_ie

4/12/21 4:57am

Its was an event, now a scrimmage or practice due to dubious “Science”

towerman

4/12/21 4:59am

People want to see sports, 1:1 competition, not politics not entitled players

Pretorian

4/12/21 5:29am

It's the worst thing to endure.

Stev_ie

4/12/21 5:38am

Ha ha. Like this?

Brigham

4/12/21 7:14am

i've never seen conan look so legitimately uncomfortable

MormonThug

4/12/21 8:18am

He bravely verbalized what most sports fans are feeling

HiLife

4/12/21 9:24am

I cannot fathom how anybody could give this a thumbs down.

Cougar Junkie

4/12/21 7:05pm

Would more SJW, leftist politics, + trans athletes raise your interest again?

Shore10

4/12/21 6:14am

Are you really downplaying what the Creighton coach said?

cougfan03

4/12/21 6:58am

The carefully taught and accepted (hyper)sensitivity is being pointed out.

Ripliancum

4/12/21 9:10am

Cmon, those players knew that the coach is a decent guy.

clocker

4/12/21 6:24pm

Atmosphere is like 50% of the reason to watch random college sports. I'm not watching a Duke game with no energy.

mokelembembe

4/12/21 7:21am

i'll never get used to seeing "used to" in text. The sentence always short

MormonThug

4/12/21 7:36am

Fractionalization of audiences happens as entertainment options increase

BlueSpartan

4/12/21 7:55am

This is the correct answer.

Everyman

4/12/21 8:28am

I wonder how much of this has to do with all the streaming services.

archie

4/12/21 8:34am

I don’t get Fox sports regionals with YTTV so I haven’t even watched one

kotacoug

4/12/21 8:38am

Yet BYU just received upgraded score boards and trim and

1CougFan

4/12/21 8:48am

Perhaps the way we measure interest is just outdated?

StalwartBraveTrue

4/12/21 8:59am

Once they went political, it lost a lot of appeal. Sports use to be fun and an

coolblue

4/12/21 9:21am

Did you feel this way during the Iraq war “support our troops” wave?

StalwartBraveTrue

4/12/21 10:37am

Politicization now has genres. Conflating support our troops with white man bad

Ripliancum

4/12/21 2:01pm

I don’t follow.

StalwartBraveTrue

4/12/21 4:17pm

Public support of the military is incredibly high, "support our troops" is not

califcougar

4/12/21 10:07pm

My memories differ significantly from yours. I remember quite a bit of anger

StalwartBraveTrue

4/12/21 10:43pm

And the NCAA just came out with this gem:

coolblue

4/13/21 2:58pm

How will this affect title IX?

Benfica1

4/13/21 4:09pm

What are trends in prior years? I get it is going down, but it is worse because it was GU vs Baylor?

Cougstreak

4/12/21 10:41am

I don’t watch any pro sports anymore and college is starting to follow.

Bullrider

4/12/21 11:04am

You seem to be interested enough to visit

pappabear246

4/12/21 12:54pm

I don't really watch sports outside BYU anymore.

EternalOptimism

4/12/21 1:18pm

The sweet sixteen and elite 8 viewership was up though right? The problem is this was one of the least interesting

YIsForBrigham

4/12/21 1:41pm

Agreed. Numbers are trending down, but it was a bad match-up.

Cougstreak

4/12/21 2:19pm

And yet Women's college Basketball had one of it's highest viewers in history

Rat

4/12/21 11:39pm

22 vs 20 people

HoustonCougar

4/13/21 7:12am

I honestly think it’s because of no or limited fan attendance

GrumpyCougar

4/13/21 8:19am

There was no in person attendance, which probably hurt interest. And there were NBA games on that Monday, which normally

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