What do you think of Caitlin Clark?
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The old “THESE ATHLETES ARE FROM THE SAME STATE AS YOU. YOU MUST LIKE THEM AND WANT TO CONSUME CONTENT FROM THEM AND ABOUT THEM CONSTANTLY OR YOU ARE A HATER” deal.
There’s also the offshoot schtick: “John Rogers spent two years at Clive Elementary in the early 2000’s before moving to California and now he’s a Super Bowl Champion/Olympic Medalist/MLB World Series winner! How cool is that! He’s an Iowan! He’s one of us watch our stories on him, like our tweets, sign up for the Register for our exclusive 10 part series on this amazing Iowan!”
If anyone has questions, the media is a ******* joke right now.
And if you call them out you’re 100% going to get “well why wouldn’t we make a big deal out of this? What else are we going to talk about?”
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE THAT LIKE THIS ****? SOMEONE PLEASE DESCRIBE THAT PERSON TO ME.
Exactly! Having to find an "Iowa" connection to everything and thinking "oh since there's an Iowa connection all Iowans should like them" is annoying.
Also the “Pat themselves on the back move”, which is what the Caitlin Clark thing is.
Blow up person through a concerted campaign based on trends that have been analyzed by d & m and financial forecasters (Women’s Sports sphere looks relatively untapped with room for growth!), find best option to push, push to the point of absurdity, manufacture outrage and drama to milk the last few cents out of it, profit, start digging in on the next growth play.
Women’s sports was great before the media made their play on it. It was raw, it was real. Women’s soccer and women’s golf especially are great watches for a variety of reasons. Now it feels fake and manufactured.
Emery Songer got into it with a Hawk fan on almost this exact issue yesterday on The Drive.
I barely give two F's if someone from my hometown of around 6K has success, especially if it takes more than two degrees of separation for them to be connected to me, our own CW excluded of course.
LOL You mean like this article from the DSM Register last year?
"5 Things to Know about IOWA NATIVE Joe Burrow"
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...ack-joe-burrow-hometown-ames-iowa/6724984001/
It has to be Clark. I know the NFL is a much bigger sport, but no one moved the needle more for their sport than Clark this past year.
Nobody outside of Iowa started watching WBB games because of Clark, despite every effort to make her sound like world changing.
Moving the NFL an inch is a bigger deal than moving college WBB to the Moon and back.
1% of a lot can be much more than 50% of next to nothing.
Not trying to trash WBB -- I love our Cyclone women -- but that's the reality of it.
It's the "Breakthrough" part that is kind of ridiculous to me.
Clark went from 1st team All-American in 2022 to 1st team All-American in 2023.
Purdy was the last pick in the draft (traditionally not lasting on NFL rosters) and had his team in the NFC title game as a rookie.
They broke TV rating records like three games in a row. Iowa/Louisville was the highest rated non-final four women's bball game. Iowa/USC was the highest rated non-championship final women's bball game. And Iowa/LSU was by far the highest rated women's bball game of all time. That was the Clark effect.
If the award is about being a nobody in your sport and then becoming somebody...
Like, oh, the final pick in the NFL draft, a distinction so obscure you're called Mr. Irrelevant because of it, to being one of the "final four" starting QBs in the NFL alongside some guys like...
Joe Burrow
Jalen Hurts
Patrick Mahomes
You know. Three of the best young QBs in the NFL and maybe three future HoFers.
...then Purdy is the stone cold lock of the century.
Unfortunately, the award seems to be more of a popularity contest.
Sure 10 million people watched it. The average NFL game gets 16 million. Even if Clark pushed it to new heights, more are going to be familiar with Brock's story, especially considering it was about 2 weeks of Clark really being a story versus almost 3 months of Brock.
NFC title game. 47+ million (i.e. the Purdy effect)...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-jan-29-2023-1235313155/
Almost 50 million watched the NFC title game at some pint.
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