Good of guess as any. Mine is along the same lines. Force Nascar to give away who they want in their racing series. Ironic that sports leagues have control of whom they let into their leagues.
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I agree with SOI and Charlie 100%, I think Judge Bell has tried his best to show both sides that there isn't going to be a winner regardless of the verdict from a trial. Both sides will lose things that they have now. They really need to settle before December 1st, that way both sides can save face.
Pull the other leg, it's greased. SRX wasn't viable with a CBS contract and star power. The next most recent attempt I recall was SMI trying to start TRAC back in the late '90s or early '00s; it never got past prototype testing.
SRX lost half of their viewers when they switched to ESPN
They certainly lost me; I never knew they'd switched.
Was that their choice or did CBS drop them, possibly because they were already not pulling in enough viewers to merit being carried?
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So what do you do when you're in year 5 of a 7 year contract and now you have a legitimate contender?
I bet 5 years ago the world of outlaws anticipated having a legitimate contender, yet here we are.
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No one has posed the notion of a competing stock car series since SMI themselves did it. If you want to look for a reason why NASCAR would want SMI to agree to those terms, there you go.
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SRX was paying for time: the least viable and sustainable solution for a NASCAR competitor. Not to mention I'd argue they weren't ever competing with NASCAR to begin with and I think they'd have said the same.
That contract is with the networks, not the tracks. There's plenty of track time for another series without displacing NASCAR. Tell me the circumstances under which you see.anyone attempting to start a stock car series before 2030.
I know next to nothing abour dirt / sprint car series so I don't know the significance of your comment.
Many things. Viewership drop to ESPN, financial sponsorship was weak, Evernham left. The tracks did well, many sellouts but not enough money was being made.
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I personally wish another stock car organization that could compete wish NASCAR would start up. Completion is a good thing, as it forces one side to make changes to improve stuff that's turning fans away.
Once again to use WWE as am example. Back in the early 90s, WWF was doing horrible, fans weren't watching. WCW the other top company at the top come 1996, has a huge storyline and starts completely kicking WWE's ass in the ratings. What does WWE do? It adapts, it changes how it does story telling, and the Monday Night Wars becomes a thing of legend....eventually WCW folds because of mergers (as well as some questionable booking by people who took over with no idea how to book a show) and when WWE was the only real show in town again, it slowly declined. Had a little bit of fight from an upstart in 2002 called TNA, but that eventually started to do poorly. By the mid to late 2010s, WWE was horrible, but if you wanted to watch professional wrestling, it's all you had to watch....until Tony Khan came along with The Elite and started AEW. It got onto TBS, much like WCW was back in the day, and it being a legitimate competition, forced WWE to change up the stuff fans was complaining about, because now fans actually had other viable options. Wrestlers are making more money now because you have someone who can compete with the money WWE has. WWE wants AEW gone, because it's bad for them in their eyes to have competition.
NASCAR doesn't want that competition, because then they know they have to listen to the fans, teams, drivers, etc more often. So they have these tracks agree to not host anything else with stock cars, so nothing can rise up and give them a challenge.
Now this isn't me saying the tracks should be forced to host any other hypothetical stock car racing series. Its me saying NASCAR should not be allowed to prevent it. If another series comes along, then if it scares NASCAR, make changes, improve the stuff fans want to see improved. That's the way you make sure you stay on top, and do it in a fair legal way.
Once again to use WWE as am example. Back in the early 90s, WWF was doing horrible, fans weren't watching. WCW the other top company at the top come 1996, has a huge storyline and starts completely kicking WWE's ass in the ratings. What does WWE do? It adapts, it changes how it does story telling, and the Monday Night Wars becomes a thing of legend....eventually WCW folds because of mergers (as well as some questionable booking by people who took over with no idea how to book a show) and when WWE was the only real show in town again, it slowly declined. Had a little bit of fight from an upstart in 2002 called TNA, but that eventually started to do poorly. By the mid to late 2010s, WWE was horrible, but if you wanted to watch professional wrestling, it's all you had to watch....until Tony Khan came along with The Elite and started AEW. It got onto TBS, much like WCW was back in the day, and it being a legitimate competition, forced WWE to change up the stuff fans was complaining about, because now fans actually had other viable options. Wrestlers are making more money now because you have someone who can compete with the money WWE has. WWE wants AEW gone, because it's bad for them in their eyes to have competition.
NASCAR doesn't want that competition, because then they know they have to listen to the fans, teams, drivers, etc more often. So they have these tracks agree to not host anything else with stock cars, so nothing can rise up and give them a challenge.
Now this isn't me saying the tracks should be forced to host any other hypothetical stock car racing series. Its me saying NASCAR should not be allowed to prevent it. If another series comes along, then if it scares NASCAR, make changes, improve the stuff fans want to see improved. That's the way you make sure you stay on top, and do it in a fair legal way.
WWE or W whatever. All you need are a few roided up actors and a ring a room full of monkeys and you are in business. Hardly the investment required for auto racing.