smallest audience for men's Final on record.
The 1st take away is that TV #s and wins, even National Championships, do not correlate. TV pays for viewers, not for teams with winning records. Same for hoops as for football.
That means that unequal revenue sharing in a league based on winning is stupid. For unequal revenue to work to get the rightly needed ends, it must be based on TV #s. Those with the most viewers get the most money.
UConn basketball, even when winning another NC, cannot deliver viewers. If Syracuse, which hs easily the largest hoops draw of teams in the northeast, had been playing SDSU for the Championship, the TV numbers would have been higher. If it had been UNC or Dook vs. SDSU, the #s would have been higher still.
The 1st take away is that TV #s and wins, even National Championships, do not correlate. TV pays for viewers, not for teams with winning records. Same for hoops as for football.
That means that unequal revenue sharing in a league based on winning is stupid. For unequal revenue to work to get the rightly needed ends, it must be based on TV #s. Those with the most viewers get the most money.
UConn basketball, even when winning another NC, cannot deliver viewers. If Syracuse, which hs easily the largest hoops draw of teams in the northeast, had been playing SDSU for the Championship, the TV numbers would have been higher. If it had been UNC or Dook vs. SDSU, the #s would have been higher still.
