Iowa Hawkeyes (Official Thread of The Under)

[Bestbuck36]

Yeah, well there is that. I used to tape all the Notre Dame games and only play and keep the games they lost.

That's the kind of dedication this young generation does not possess sir. I've tried to coach em up but they just aren't fringe material!

 

[Jaxbuck]

I hear you, but I wasn’t thinking banning them. I was thinking of how many people, other than Buckeye fans, would bother to watch The Game if Michigan spent 5 years as a team that won an average of two games per season, i.e. Indiana pre-Cignetti.

Who cares how many people watch it other than OSU fans? It would still be a highly watched game.

The Ohio State brand doesn’t need tsun to be good to draw eyeballs. We would draw them when we played some other good team or in the playoffs.

It’s been 20 some odd years of proving that things have changed and OSU doesn’t need tsun, or the B1G for that matter, to be particularly good in order for OSU to be at the top. We control our own fate on that.

 

[Bestbuck36]

Who cares how many people watch it other than OSU fans? It would still be a highly watched game.

The Ohio State brand doesn’t need tsun to be good to draw eyeballs. We would draw them when we played some other good team or in the playoffs.

It’s been 20 some odd years of proving that things have changed and OSU doesn’t need tsun, or the B1G for that matter, to be particularly good in order for OSU to be at the top. We control our own fate on that.

GPA

 

[Zurp]

I think we at BP grossly underestimate scUM’s TV/media drawing power. Hit the cheaters with a penalty equal to the crime and you lose a ton of eyeballs for four or five years. Think about the ratings for the IU v the buckeyes prior to Cignetti v the ratings with Cignetti.

The message that the NCAA sent was that if you cheat and you're a "cool" team, you can just open your checkbook and everything is cool.
Iowa contacted some guy who I can't even remember his name, and had to vacate some wins.
The cheaters did... well, you know... and they lose the revenue of probably less than one home game.
If you were told that Ohio State could double their chances of winning a championship in the next 5 years if they can raise 30 million, how long would it take for Ohio State fans to raise that 30M in a Go Fund Me? A weekend? Maybe less?

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I hear you, but I wasn’t thinking banning them. I was thinking of how many people, other than Buckeye fans, would bother to watch The Game if Michigan spent 5 years as a team that won an average of two games per season, i.e. Indiana pre-Cignetti.

Nonsense. The world didn't stop spinning while they had Hoke and Rich Rod. This myth that CFB needs Michigan is tired.