What's the financial incentive to playing Duke and UK in the preseason?

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Dec 20, 2024
11:20:45am

Mostlyaccurate All-American

What's the financial incentive to playing Duke and UK in the preseason?

Seems like ESPN would be pushing for those games to be regular season games to make more money.

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Mostlyaccurate

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Time

Back channel rumors:

Archaea

11:16am

Kentucky would be the biggest non-conference game for BYU... ever?

spidercoug

11:18am

Hard to say, Duke and Kentucky are probably on the same level.

Archaea

11:18am

I think Pope makes Kentucky bigger than Duke.

spidercoug

11:20am

For us at least. But i definitely want to play kentucky more than duke.

Spursnation

11:55am

What's the financial incentive to playing Duke and UK in the preseason?

11:20am

To make games people will watch in pre-season. So many of the pre-season games

Archaea

11:21am

maybe OP meant non-conference, which usually precedes conference play?

COUGND

11:22am

that's what I mean. Pre-conference season.

Archaea

11:24am

Ah, that makes sense.

11:52am

Not exhibition. Just pre-conference play.

cougfanblue

11:22am

What I meant. Thanks for the correction.

Archaea

11:25am

Reminder that these aren't actually "preseason" games

ItsALoveHate

11:22am

I don't know about that. OP says they're pre-season games. I wonder if we need

2:00pm

Regardless of financial incentive, that's great prep for Conference and Post Season play.

BackPacker

12:44pm

It would be the only thing of interest in mid-October. TV $$$

1:58pm

If true, would love to see at least one of these big games in Provo. Unlikely.

JJCoug

11:21am

My guess is both would be neutral courts. But I have no idea.

Allstate

11:27am

Definitely neutral. Larger arenas = more $$$$

ShinobiCoug

1:18pm

Marriott and Rupp are not big enough?

Bluforever

1:32pm

By "pre-season" do you mean non-conference schedule? Or one of these exhibition

MaximusMeridius

11:38am

We have pre-season exhibitions, not those. Everything else I tend to call pre-

Archaea

11:41am

If we've learned anything about you the past few weeks it's that your nomenclature about things isn't great.

TN_Coug

1:34pm

Not sure if you care but that's completely incorrect terminology

MaximusMeridius

2:41pm

Would have to be in late-October, no?

1:56pm

That’s a lot of road and neutral court games

BYU Fan

12:03pm

Is BYU committed to an early, pre-B12 season tournament next yr?

Forzaitalia

12:15pm

Not at this point

ItsALoveHate

12:53pm

Timing couldn't be better

J. Walter Weatherman

12:50pm

Investment in AJ will payoff huge for BYU. The ROI is already coming together!

Atmospheric_Cougar

1:35pm

How hard is it to get permission to play games before the season? Like October?

1:57pm

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