The target demo for televised college football is absolutely not current college

Jun 19, 2024
2:40:50pm

russkiejedi Truly Addicted User

students.

There is still enough excitement around Gameday showing up on a college campus without Pat to create the atmosphere necessary to satisfy people watching on TV. And Gameday is first and far and away foremost a television program.

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Pat was the best thing college gameday could ever ask for. he was their future.

FieroCoug All-American

Jun 19, 2:21pm

I stopped watching because of him. I switched to fox’s show

Viva Campeche

Jun 19, 2:25pm

Fox's show was better than ESPN's the past few years IMO. Better analysis and

P-Widdy

Jun 19, 2:36pm

Plus it was shorter. . .There is only so much good content each host can prepare

Zoobieman

Jun 19, 2:39pm

When he was more interested in soaking than football...

WJCougar

Jun 19, 2:28pm

His schtick gets real old, real fast. Not to mention he's generally pretty crass

TheRowdy

Jun 19, 2:28pm

sounds like college students. at least the ones that like to party and like sports. which is the target demo.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 2:33pm

the target demo is actually adults who have left college. the kind who would pay

cwilke1

Jun 19, 2:36pm

the biggest demo is older people. but their most important is college students.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 2:56pm

That sounds like the Kathleen Kennedy approach to college sports.

bluesloth

Jun 19, 3:40pm

it’s not about pat specifically it’s the principle. you need somebody to bring the energy and keep the young people

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 3:45pm

They're not in danger of losing the students because they lost Pat McAfee.

russkiejedi

Jun 19, 4:17pm

no but he made the atmosphere a million times better. gameday will be ok without him, but when you have something

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 4:51pm

No, the students are not the product, unless you're talking about the ones

russkiejedi

Jun 19, 4:55pm

the best gameday episodes are the ones with the most engaged crowd. pat was the reason for several of those.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 5:19pm

"Best" by what metric? Did they get the most viewership? Week to week, the thing

russkiejedi

Jun 19, 5:26pm

Who cares about viewership. Without the Game Day “energy” all of college

bluesloth

Jun 19, 5:36pm

its true, but that energy can continue to exist even without the show. its very

cwilke1

Jun 19, 6:03pm

i’m just saying that gameday risks being completely irrelevant before long if they don’t have someone like pat. corso

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 6:07pm

its fascinating that you have that perception, because I don't have that

cwilke1

Jun 19, 6:27pm

the ones that are remembered the most. the ones that are talked about years later. the ones that are shown over and over

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 5:57pm

college gamedays entire brand is corsos head gear and the fans in the crowd. that’s it.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 5:58pm

If you walk in circles where people talk about old episodes of a pre-game

russkiejedi

Jun 19, 6:06pm

So he energized the students at the visited campus, but turned off viewers at

bluesloth

Jun 19, 2:38pm

The target demo for televised college football is absolutely not current college

russkiejedi

Jun 19, 2:40pm

I find him to be annoying.

Ozymandias

Jun 19, 2:29pm

RE: Pat was the best thing college gameday could ever ask for. he was their

StarMan

Jun 19, 2:31pm

Disagree

DJROSS

Jun 19, 2:35pm

he acts like a 18 yo at a frat party to me

Don Carlton

Jun 19, 2:36pm

and those 18 year old frat boys are largely who grow up to be the biggest demographic later on.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 3:00pm

Businesses rarely think that long term anymore. Long term is 5 yr ROI not 20

Pepe

Jun 19, 3:03pm

yeah but sports don’t work like that. and the ones that do become almost non existent shortly after. and as a consumer

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 3:10pm

it seems like you are pretty out of touch with entertainment in the modern era.

cwilke1

Jun 19, 3:34pm

i’m not that upset about pat as much as i am about the principle. yes he could be less crass, but nobody brings the

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 3:43pm

if i’m college gameday, i want the people who are taking the time to come to my show (almost all students) to be

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 4:12pm

Is there any evidence to show that students weren’t showing up to Game Day

bluesloth

Jun 19, 4:20pm

no but again it’s the principle. the entire reason college football is important at all is because of the students.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 4:45pm

He was loud, domineering and obnoxious.

WallaX2

Jun 19, 3:21pm

sounds like college students. loud obnoxious partying college students are the most important demo for college football.

FieroCoug

Jun 19, 3:28pm

He should have been fired after the whole Soaking fiasco!!!

Bigfancoug

Jun 19, 3:30pm

...but cancel culture sucks!

SoCalCoug

Jun 19, 3:39pm

That’s not what cancel culture is.

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