I've posted them a few times: drop the modern model of sports broadcasting (2:00 commercial break during every stoppage in play) and switch to live reads and chyrons, with :30 ads running in pregame, between quarters, halftime and after the final whistle. Treat the live experience as the primary experience, and focus on making gamedays as enjoyable as possible for folks who buy tickets to C-USA events. Hell, I'll even make the presentation to Cabell-Huntington Hospital that explains why having 500 ads in a three hour broadcast doesn't move the needle anymore than 3.
C-USA broadcasts are bare bones as is - feeds drop out, commentary is butt-awful, down-and-distance doesn't always update, plays get missed during replays, etc. - so its not like we have far to fall in the presentation department if we lose these "national broadcast partners."
So you want us to cut advertising in favor of the game atmosphere itself because advertising during said game slows it down?
By 'dropping the modern model of sports broadcasting' ?
So you want us to essentially NOT do what everyone else in America does to make revenue during football games?
Given the dead space during timeouts that one would need to fill, what do you suggest?
Remember, you're already dealing with a fanbase composed of;
Everyone born before 1970 hates rap music.
Everyone complains about the band.
Everyone complains the team sucks 6 plays into the season and swear up and down they'll never attend another game again unless we hire Bob Pruett as AD, Pennington as HC, Byron Leftwich leaves the NFL to be the QB/OC and Randy Moss is our WR coach.
If there is even the slightest HINT of any raise in ticket prices, people complain the games are too expensive and are ready to throw in the towel.
Everyone who doesn't go to the games is illiterate and borderline brain dead because they don't seem to know how a REMOTE or GOOGLE works when it comes to finding MU games.
Here's a question...
Do you want MU to continue to live in the identity of "The Little Engine That Could" or do you want it to be the goddamn Bullet train that wrecks everything in its path and tells the rest of the trains "Get out of my way" because its just easier to ram through things than stop since said train is so damn powerful?
Frankly, MU does have what it takes to be the dominant train and now you are being critical of that.
The whole "Gameday Experience/Atmosphere" element in college football, is dead...its all dead and has been dead for years.
Texas has that Godzillatron and it annoyed fans with the advertising being shown between plays...well that keeps their already insane ticket prices, down.
They chanted, "We won't buy that!"
Thats also a fanbase far more rabid than MU or any fanbase in WV could ever hope or dream to be.
This is the kind of stuff that MU needs to have happening to become that...money. Its all about money and the sooner you accept that, the easier and more rational your reality will be.
But ok...lets cut the revenue generating opportunity when plays are reviewed or between plays in general, lets allow the prices for everything to increase because we aren't generating enough money...we'll be a nice model for marketing firms across the world to see and learn...what NOT to do.
