Rich Eisen on Caitlin Clark's WNBA Home Debut and the Promising Future of Women's Basketball
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- Caitlin Clark, LSU, South Carolina and UConn have helped to bring attention to women’s basketball and it’s becoming a major professional sport here in North America. Rich is excited about this development and tells us how he is going to help this movement.
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I am a fan of CC and not a WNBA fan. I only watch Indiana Fever games.
CC effect has brought on the charter flights with the increase in ticket sales.
Do you want them to fire the coach?
@@katza831 how did you get that idea?
Are you gay / lesbian?
Yes, the Safety issues caused by the Clark Fandom now requires the WNBA to now Charter Flights. Whether or not they can afford that is unknown. Neither the WNBA nor NBA owners have to Open Up their Financial books.
@@natureredux1957 agreed.
They will get the money from all the increased ticket sales, tv deals from streaming, and merchandise sales. Most likely from Fever and CC jersey and other items. I know CC's jersey has been sold out.
Ticket sales has sky rocketed in terms of prices on secondary market and demand. Most teams actually moved to a bigger stadium. Last Fever pre-season (which was a home game) sold 15k tickets which usually only sell 5k.
This is a pre-season game which doesn't count. Can you imagine what happens during the season and possibly playoffs?
i hadnt realized wnba league pass was so cheap, bought it after brockman mentioned it
It's actually $35, not $25. Still an easy buy.
I think the reason the women's college games were more interesting than the men's is that most players are there for a full college career, so a lot of the games are rematches, there's a rivalry between the actual players, not just the name of the school. It's that way with football but with basketball having so many 1-and-done players, it just feels like a short stop on the way and if they don't really care enough to stay there, why should I? It wasn't just the one player, even though Caitlin was obviously a draw.
Now that players can get compensation, maybe that will get many of them to stay longer and the men's game could get more exciting, especially if your school isn't in it and you're just a neutral fan
WNCAA athletes are smarter than NCAA athletes on average. Education matters. Actually going to classes yourself matters.
@@bobbymoss6160 Well the Women might stay longer since the top ones will likely make more while in College while the Reverse will be true for most of the Men. The Women's game is hardly more interesting than the Men just because some folks might LIKE a given player.
Education via College doesn't always matter since most folks are never employed in their Major after College. However those massive College Debts really do matter. No so much for many of the Sports Players since many have great offers because of just being part of the Sports Athletics World. Which is way different then for Regular Folks.
They need to promote this rookie class period. People were fans of the programs and the girls from South Carolina, LSU, UCON, and Standford! People love those programs and the girls from the program.
Very true. That’s why this is happening.
It's kind of a perfect storm. Looking at the top draft picks, you have 2 from the Midwest, two from the South, one from the Mid-Atlantic Coast, one from the West Coast, one from the Northeast, and all from well-known, popular programs, huge fan bases. One player from Brazil and two from Europe to add the international intrigue.
The rookie class is excellent but there's zero news of non Clark games being sellouts let alone the season already being sold out. Plenty of fever road games already moved to bigger arenas.
WNBA has MLB style stupid blackout rules......im 8 hours from Chicago where i live and my area blacks out both the Fever and Chicago sky. Hey wnba, you have a very small window to foster this momentum and get fans to be invested in you. Easy for me to move on. ( ill still root for Grace, Caitlin, Nylissa and the fever, but not with cash)
The League pass has all the regular season games and the playoffs. $35.00.
Agreed. Shouldn’t be blacking anything out if they want to build a brand
All the wnba has to do is get out of it's own way. Stop letting these "fans" of other players bully y'all into thinking every player is supposed to get the same amount of shine. NO. The stars get the most airtime, and the biggest star gets more shine than anybody else.
CC change everything for WNBA, ticket sales, popularity of the game, I didn't watch it but I watch Clark since 2022 and when I watched he play I know that she will be big. All these jealius haters can deny it but people know it's because if her. Other players are amazing but shes different, like others legends said, there is Jordan and then the rest. She has this star factor that drawns people that others dont have.🤷♀️
Exactly! WNBA players should realize that a high tide raises all boats. Yet they resent a player who can potentially increase their salary via revenues.
Personalities and novelty. That creates brands.
If you told me I was going to pick up the WNBA league pass a few years ago I'd laughed in your face. Super cheap too, nabbed it this year and cast the games to the TV from my phone $$.
Hahaha I have that same ODB shirt that I bought 15 years ago.
I just signed up for WMBA Pass after how cheap you said it is.
Addy, Maddy and Cannon Allen-Gadson VS Monique Williams
Where is the WNBA finding $25 Million for chartered flights?
They will extort it from the NBA
They anticipate getting that with the increased ticket sales.
I know it will probably be cross subsidy from Fever ticket sales.
New TV contracts, exploding ticket sales, merchandising, etc. It's a new world for the W.
@@kurtjohnson3917 I didn't know you have access to the details of the WNBA contracts.
An economist has calculated that CC alone will generate an additional $100 million in revenue from increased ticket sales, concessions, merchandise, etc. Try buying a "Standard" (still offered by the venue and not in the resale market) ticket for the July 14th game in Minneapolis vs the Lynx! There's only extreme nosebleed tickets, maybe 600-700 available! They'd have been smart to play that game at US Bank!
WNBA League pass doesn't show all the games to see the fevers first game you need espn2
Yeah but for $35 annual fee there’s enough games to satisfy me…but sure I’d pay more to watch all her games but I can’t afford to subscribe to all the various streaming channels
Uncle Sammie VS Play by Ear
This entire draft class is the reason why people are interested in the WNBA. Angel Reese is the reason I know who any of these players are. My favorite players out of this draft are Nika Muhl and Jacy Sheldon so I’ll definitely be watching their games. Clark is the main attraction but this entire draft class is filled with people with a social media presence and a supportive fan base from college. That’s why the Sparks vs. Storm game sold out with over 16,000 people in the stands. That’s why the WNBA televised the Sky vs. Liberty game after the public outcry when they didn’t air the first game. The Aces scrimmage in South Carolina today also sold out with over 12,000 people in the stands. This draft class was able to effectively leverage NIL deals and social media which I believe is the reason why so many people want to watch them in the WNBA.
Nah, Rich, the NBA is paying for those flights. Their league can't cover 25mil.
Exfuckingactly
By the time her new coach is done fixing her, she will score 4 pints a game! Her coach is a disaster! Listen to her! She must be stopped! Wow! Lynn Dunn knows better than this!
How came they afford $25M a year travel?
Caitlin making them money
Caitlin sold ticket for Draft for WNBA , her ticket sales and jersey sales already generated around 40M dollars for the league
CC’s coach and the referees ruined the game. I’ve watched my last WNBA game… over and out!
FIRE SIDES!!! She will hold Caitlin Clark from blossoming! That's poor Coaching in my opinion. Let CC Be CC!!! SIDES made it clear to CC to tone down, not much shooting, stop hanging around the back dancing around. 😡😡😡
Indiana Coach Styles wants to throttle back the CC filly by hitching her to a lumbering covered wagon.
Whispers getting louder CC can’t stand coach Christy Sides. Sides publicly criticized CC for “dancing around” and not having stamina.
Sides keeps that up and she won't last the season. Why do none of these women or the league seem to realize that CC is their saviour?
@@PTRMANVS Simon Fagans Mickey Mouse 🐭
Let’s be real. People will only watch CC and the Indiana Fever. Nobody cares about any other WNBA team.
Pete Maravich LSU 1967-1970 averaged 44 points per game,
Clark 28. He averaged 1,222 points per year, Clark 988 per year.
Total college games played Maravich 83, Clark 139.
Pete Maravich could only play 3 college years.
Freshmen could not play. AND no 3-point line.
Now put the FGA as well for this stats under a season and FGA/game
For once, the WNBA will make a profit this year. Thank you CC22!
Even with CC, the WNBA will still be subsidized by the NBA. All the WNBA teams need to sell out not just the Fever.
@@ShimaUta86 sadly you missed the point. The W will never amount to anything as long as they're supplemented with a welfare check. CC22 attracts fans with expendable cash! We work for a living and have the means too! It is our money that we invest in CC22 by way of merch and ticket sales that will provide profits to the W. The W will realize 100s of millions of $$ that they've never realized before CC22. Dallas pocketed a cool extra 19 million from a freakin' preseason game! Teams will be selling thousands of seats more when CC22 graces their courts. Fact check this trolls!
Crazy..here I am an ex WNBA fan and NOW these sports channels want to talk about the league. 🙄
Well yeah, there’s actually some exciting players now. Same thing happened with the nba, were there good players in the nba before magic/bird? Sure. But the thing that change the league was an extremely highly viewed college finals between magic and bird that transitioned into the nba.
@@limitedbom2206VS Uncle James Washington
Clark is the draw , zero word about non fever games being sold out and the majority of welfare league teams play in small gyms (mystics 4200 seat capacity)...
Nobody cares
🤡
Ms. Kathryn VS Ms. Territory
@@Link77793VS Uncle James Washington
NBA fans and fans of basketball won't convert into WNBA fans because the basketball play is so bad. So hopefully all of these new fans that don't know any better will make this league profitable. But my bet is that in three to four weeks, these trends will return back to their historically low money losing numbers....
How much?
They have sellouts in June and July already.
More then likely the same thing will happen in the WNBA that happened in women’s collegiate basketball, players are going to be forced to get better. Rewind back to the 2022 NCAA season and many teams couldn’t handle what Caitlin was bringing, she literally changed how many teams were playing for the 2023 season.
@@kenj280 Well exactly. I can't remember who the Fever's first season game is against but they are expecting 16,000 audience. I bet they didn't get those figures last year.
@@BenjWarrantVS Uncle James Washington
Meh.