Williams Blog: NIU opener deserves TV attention

[Cyclonestate78]

That would be worth seeing

Go Towson!

I agree....

[CPRsavedMYlife]

While we all love to think nobody cares about Indiana, Minnesota, or even MTSU, the reality is there are probably more viewers interested in those teams than ISU vs NIU. Its all about advertising dollars and all of those schools have much larger population bases, while they may not all be fans, it means advertisers will be getting their commercials run in cities like Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Memphis. Sorry to rain on anybody's parade but its likely there are more people living in those cities than there are ISU fans total. Des Moines is not a market that can compete with any of those on any level.

I think NIU could help pull in the Chicago market. There is still a good chance this game ends up on ESPN 2.

[istater7]

While we all love to think nobody cares about Indiana, Minnesota, or even MTSU, the reality is there are probably more viewers interested in those teams than ISU vs NIU. Its all about advertising dollars and all of those schools have much larger population bases, while they may not all be fans, it means advertisers will be getting their commercials run in cities like Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Memphis. Sorry to rain on anybody's parade but its likely there are more people living in those cities than there are ISU fans total. Des Moines is not a market that can compete with any of those on any level.

can you really say that people in memphis would tune in to watch mid tennessee state?

[getcloned]

FCS might pick this up later in the summer. Surprised that ESPN's agreement with the MAC is not giving this some legs.

Wow. Sad when a Big XII team has to hope that the MAC's TV agreement gets us on TV.

[cyatheart]

can you really say that people in memphis would tune in to watch mid tennessee state?

I would. I will watch any college game that is on. Doesn't matter who it is. If there are two or three games on I will flip between them.

[theshadow]

Wow. Sad when a Big XII team has to hope that the MAC's TV agreement gets us on TV.

It won't, because it can't.

[Cyclonefarmer]

Does anyone know if ESPN GamePlan schedules any games in advance. Usually it seems like their schedule is made the same week as the games are played. They do show ISU a decent amount of times though.

[ksclone]

I don't like Indy, but railing about their "matchup"" with Towson being on the Big 10 Network is absolutely asinine and foolish.

In what reality, on what planet, would a network owned by the Big 10 conference show a Big 12 vs MAC game? When ESPN grabbed the Minny game, the Big 10 Network, it made it possible for the B10 confernce to make sure all three games played that night would get television coverage in some form.

Rail on the Minny/MTSU game all you want, but the B10 was smart when they started their own network. Might be time for the B12 to follow suit.

[CycloneNC2015]

can you really say that people in memphis would tune in to watch mid tennessee state?

Thats where you are not understanding the argument. Memphis is a much larger population base therefore more tv sets which means advertisers have a greater opportunity to get there product pumped. It doesnt matter what is a better game to watch, what matters is the opportunity to have more people watch. If you are an advertiser do you want your product pumped in the Des Moines market or Minneapolis? Unfortunately Minneapolis and Memphis combined probably have more tv sets than we do fans.

[theboro]

Thats where you are not understanding the argument. Memphis is a much larger population base therefore more tv sets which means advertisers have a greater opportunity to get there product pumped. It doesnt matter what is a better game to watch, what matters is the opportunity to have more people watch. If you are an advertiser do you want your product pumped in the Des Moines market or Minneapolis? Unfortunately Minneapolis and Memphis combined probably have more tv sets than we do fans.

Middle Tennessee is in Murfreesboro, just outside of Nashville. It's in the Nashville metroplex (nearly 2,000,000 people).

We'll carry a good portion of those sets. The only time people in Memphis watch us is when we're destroying the University of Memphis football team.

This game is being carried by ESPNU through the Sun Belt's TV agreement, and is being carried more for MT than Minnesota. We'll be one of the top non-AQ teams in the country this year and have one of the best players in the country (Dwight Dasher).