Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
NBA in Cincinnati
Bring the NBA back to Cincinnati!
Maybe not today or tomorrow but someday.
I know some people don't want to think about having to build a new arena (which we would have to do for this to ever work) but we need a new arena on the riverfront. We currently have the very outdated and undersized US Bank Arena. US Bank Arena is old and it shows.
Most NBA arenas are hold between 18,000 and 20,000 for a basketball game. US Bank Arena only holds about 17,000. The average NBA attendance is around 16,000 per game. So that tells me we don't need a super extravagant arena. Just an Arena that does what it needs to do. Look nice along the riverfront next to GABP and PBS and hold 20,000 people.
If you look at most NBA cities we compare pretty well. We would be larger than 7 markets and equal to 5 others. Cincinnati is the average for an NBA market size.
Another argument is that the NBA won't work in Cincinnati because we already have MLB and NFL. Milwaukee, Denver and Cleveland have similar or smaller markets and they have all three.
This is not something I see happening in the near future but I am hoping in my lifetime( I am only 22).
An expansion team could work. We would get a top 5 pick in the draft which in recent years has produced some stars(Lebron, DWade, CP3, Deron Williams, Chris Bosh, Kevin Durant, Dwight Howard). It is said that Cincinnati will only support a winner. Cincinnati could have a winning NBA team within three season of existence. Three years of being in the NBA lottery and an expansion draft would be plenty to make the playoffs in the East.
You can't tell me people wouldn't come out and see the #8 seed Cincinnati team with say a Evan Turner type player against #1 seed Cleveland Cavs with a Lebron James.
I know I would. Let me know your thoughts concerns with having the NBA in Cincinnati.
Maybe not today or tomorrow but someday.
I know some people don't want to think about having to build a new arena (which we would have to do for this to ever work) but we need a new arena on the riverfront. We currently have the very outdated and undersized US Bank Arena. US Bank Arena is old and it shows.
Most NBA arenas are hold between 18,000 and 20,000 for a basketball game. US Bank Arena only holds about 17,000. The average NBA attendance is around 16,000 per game. So that tells me we don't need a super extravagant arena. Just an Arena that does what it needs to do. Look nice along the riverfront next to GABP and PBS and hold 20,000 people.
If you look at most NBA cities we compare pretty well. We would be larger than 7 markets and equal to 5 others. Cincinnati is the average for an NBA market size.
Another argument is that the NBA won't work in Cincinnati because we already have MLB and NFL. Milwaukee, Denver and Cleveland have similar or smaller markets and they have all three.
This is not something I see happening in the near future but I am hoping in my lifetime( I am only 22).
An expansion team could work. We would get a top 5 pick in the draft which in recent years has produced some stars(Lebron, DWade, CP3, Deron Williams, Chris Bosh, Kevin Durant, Dwight Howard). It is said that Cincinnati will only support a winner. Cincinnati could have a winning NBA team within three season of existence. Three years of being in the NBA lottery and an expansion draft would be plenty to make the playoffs in the East.
You can't tell me people wouldn't come out and see the #8 seed Cincinnati team with say a Evan Turner type player against #1 seed Cleveland Cavs with a Lebron James.
I know I would. Let me know your thoughts concerns with having the NBA in Cincinnati.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Social Media
At Game Day Communications, we have been helping clients with social media – how to use and engage their fan base. We thought Twitter Madness would be a good research project to share with our clients.
We decided to launch the sportswriter/blogger competition after we researched the men’s coaches who were using Twitter. We created a bracket for them and it was clear Coach Calipari was running away with his Social Media usage. Coach Calipari has over one million fans on Twitter and about 200,000 Facebook fans.
We also decided to take a look at the writers. I researched to find the “big guys” (ESPN, FOX, CBS, SI) then I decided to find bloggers. I found about 100 different writers that use Twitter and about 40-50 of them are specifically college basketball. I decided to edit the field to the top 32 writers/bloggers that use Twitter.
The most prominent statistic that you can't see from just looking at their account is how interactive they are. You have your ESPN tweeters and the "big guys" but then you have your Greg Doyel (CBS), Andy Glockner (SI), Peter Robert Casey and Jeff Goodman (FOX). These are four great writers you should follow who are for the most part agenda free and interactive. They do this because they love to write about basketball. You can tell the writers that care about what they do, they are the ones who tweet 900 times over two days about a couple of tournament games (Glockner).
Social Media is important. It is the future of news and sports coverage. It needs to be embraced by the writers. The ones who are embracing it now are the trend setters and as a fan I would like to thank them.
Quick list of writers worth following:
@greggdoyelcbs
@Peter_R_Casey
@aglock
@goodmanonfox
@chrisdenker
@JamesonFleming
Here is our complete Twitter Madness bracket: http://bit.ly/c5PMWZ
We decided to launch the sportswriter/blogger competition after we researched the men’s coaches who were using Twitter. We created a bracket for them and it was clear Coach Calipari was running away with his Social Media usage. Coach Calipari has over one million fans on Twitter and about 200,000 Facebook fans.
We also decided to take a look at the writers. I researched to find the “big guys” (ESPN, FOX, CBS, SI) then I decided to find bloggers. I found about 100 different writers that use Twitter and about 40-50 of them are specifically college basketball. I decided to edit the field to the top 32 writers/bloggers that use Twitter.
The most prominent statistic that you can't see from just looking at their account is how interactive they are. You have your ESPN tweeters and the "big guys" but then you have your Greg Doyel (CBS), Andy Glockner (SI), Peter Robert Casey and Jeff Goodman (FOX). These are four great writers you should follow who are for the most part agenda free and interactive. They do this because they love to write about basketball. You can tell the writers that care about what they do, they are the ones who tweet 900 times over two days about a couple of tournament games (Glockner).
Social Media is important. It is the future of news and sports coverage. It needs to be embraced by the writers. The ones who are embracing it now are the trend setters and as a fan I would like to thank them.
Quick list of writers worth following:
@greggdoyelcbs
@Peter_R_Casey
@aglock
@goodmanonfox
@chrisdenker
@JamesonFleming
Here is our complete Twitter Madness bracket: http://bit.ly/c5PMWZ
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