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Urban F. Meyer (Former OSU, CFB and NFL coach)

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One of those inside tidbits, but ESPN was kicking tires too......ESPN was reluctant because of the issues swirling around Meyer and his handling of Zach, while Fox Sports has much less to lose.

But Meyer holds a "semi-grudge" against ESPN for treatment of Big 10 in the playoff. He wants to grow Fox while he's there in spite of ESPN. I hope it's for a long time into the future, but we'll see......
 
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billmac91 said:
One of those inside tidbits, but ESPN was kicking tires too......ESPN was reluctant because of the issues swirling around Meyer and his handling of Zach, while Fox Sports has much less to lose.

But Meyer holds a "semi-grudge" against ESPN for treatment of Big 10 in the playoff. He wants to grow Fox while he's there in spite of ESPN. I hope it's for a long time into the future, but we'll see......
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What’s most interesting to me (posted the numbers and links in the upcoming Wisconsin game thread) is that GameDays viewer numbers are up 4% YoY but still in just the 2M-flat range. FOXs Big Noon Kickoff for the Red River Rivalry (first two hour roadshow counter programming to GameDay) peaked at 1.6M in the final 11:00-12:00 hour.

So FOX is already drawing 80% of ESPNs numbers just seven weeks into this version of the show, and they’re not even leeching ESPNs base yet. This is an all new viewer base that gave up on ESPNs antagonism years ago. Wait until they start siphoning off 20-25% of the non-SEC/ACC footprint that only watches GameDay because of muscle memory.

And FOX is not a premium sports channel unavailable to cord cutters. They’ve got so much more runway once people pick up on how good the product is with Urban and (yes) Reggie Bush on the show.

It’s Urban pushing the producers to do an on-site two hour Saturday roadshow. We already knew he was ‘choke you over checkers’ ultra-competitive. He’s doing this TV gig to win.
 
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What’s most interesting to me (posted the numbers and links in the upcoming Wisconsin game thread) is that GameDays viewer numbers are up 4% YoY but still in just the 2M-flat range. FOXs Big Noon Kickoff for the Red River Rivalry (first two hour roadshow counter programming to GameDay) peaked at 1.6M in the final 11:00-12:00 hour.

So FOX is already drawing 80% of ESPNs numbers just seven weeks into this version of the show, and they’re not even leeching ESPNs base yet. This is an all new viewer base that gave up on ESPNs antagonism years ago. Wait until they start siphoning off 20-25% of the non-SEC/ACC footprint that only watches GameDay because of muscle memory.

And FOX is not a premium sports channel unavailable to cord cutters. They’ve got so much more runway once people pick up on how good the product is with Urban and (yes) Reggie Bush on the show.

It’s Urban pushing the producers to do an on-site two hour Saturday roadshow. We already knew he was ‘choke you over checkers’ ultra-competitive. He’s doing this TV gig to win.
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That’s pretty incredible, and insightful.

I think there is a huge segment of the sports world that has flat out given up on ESPN outside of their live game broadcasts. This is proof.
 
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billmac91 said:
One of those inside tidbits, but ESPN was kicking tires too......ESPN was reluctant because of the issues swirling around Meyer and his handling of Zach, while Fox Sports has much less to lose.

But Meyer holds a "semi-grudge" against ESPN for treatment of Big 10 in the playoff. He wants to grow Fox while he's there in spite of ESPN. I hope it's for a long time into the future, but we'll see......
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There's no way that Urban would have gone back to ESPN after they sided with Courtney Smith and Brett McMurphy. They virtually tried to destroy Meyer and everybody knows it.

He's a pleasure to watch every Saturday. Hope he's there for a long time. :urban2: :oh:

For those of you who watch BTN, he's almost always on "The B1G Show", doing a feature called "Urban Analysis".

Reminds me of some the ex-coaches/players who were really good at this..........Bud Wilkinson, Ara Pharsegian and Lou Holtz, to name a few.
 
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Urban would like y'all to know he's only called short yardage plays "6000 times" and doing it from the shotgun is fine. :lol:

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