TheFiatLux said:
okaydo said:
TheFiatLux said:
okaydo said:
TheFiatLux said:
okaydo said:
Was Rich Lyons responsible for Gameday coming to Cal? Nope.
Was Bear Insider responsible for Gameday coming to Cal? Nope.
Is Rich Lyons' use of social media unusual for a university leader? Nope.
I'm used to your awful takes, but this one is particularly bad. Well done!
How was Rich Lyons responsible for Gameday coming to Cal?
How was Bear Insider responsible for Gameday coming to Cal?
How is Rich Lyons' use of social media unusual?
Lyons has tweeted 3 times since September 16:
Here is a small sample of University of Michigan president Santa Ono's tweets since September 16:
So your argument is that one University President has tweeted twice more than Lyons since Sept 16th, a totally random point in time. and all but one of those tweets barely registered a blip. I don't think you're
making the point you think you are (to be fair, you never are).
I don't give a *****about the University of Michigan or Michigan football. But Santa Ono is such a prolific tweeter that I know who the hell he is. I don't even know the names of the people who run Stanford or UCLA.
Why are Rich Lyons' tweets so special?
Also:
How was Rich Lyons responsible for Gameday coming to Cal?
How was Bear Insider responsible for Gameday coming to Cal?
You don't give a f'ck about him, but he's your proof point. Got it. He's so prolific a tweeter that 80% of the tweets YOU post of his, had 30 likes or so... he's really prolific and setting the social media on fire.
Rich was working behind the scenes with ESPN. You wouldn't have access to that information to know it.
No one said Bear Insider was alone responsible for GameDay coming to Berkeley but one of our BearInsider notables has been responsible for our NIL, which has created buzz, and billboards throughout ACC country and more. And others have created buzz for us (they are insiders which you don't pay for, so I can see where you would not be fully informed.)
Again, I don't think you're making the point you think you are.
If there was no "Calgorithm," would Gameday still be coming to Cal?
I doubt it.
I bet you disagree.
But you have to truly do something truly unique to be a college football program that lands College Gameday while being unranked while coming off a loss.
And that something truly unique is the Calgorithm.
And that was my point.
We aren't the only school that has a leader working behind the scenes who is passionate about their football team.
We aren't the only school with alumni who are spending a lot of money on NIL and on buying billboards to create buzz.
But we are the only school with a subset of fans who've created a "Calgorithm" that has generated headlines and social media posts for weeks and weeks.
And that Calgorithm exists outside of Rich Lyons and outside of Bear Insider, though of course there is some overlap with the latter. (That's also my point.)
(Your thread title "This is what I was hoping for when we hired Rich Lyons!!!" also implies that Lyons was solely responsible for all this excitement. And you link to a tweet of a top BART employee who, as far as I can tell, decided to
use her own clout on a Sunday morning to push BART to accommodate College Gameday.)
It's hard to capture the college football world's attention when there are so many college football teams, each with their own marketing departments.
Of course, Bear Insider played some role. Of course, the chancellor played a role. He is the chancellor, after all.
But the Calgorithm has captured the attention of a sports world that is not only consumed with college football, but the NFL, the WNBA playoffs, the NBA, the NHL and Major League Baseball.
Even Rece Davis is hashtagging #Calgorithm.
