CFB Content - What Do You Pay For?

- The Athletic - $1 a month special for 6 months

- ESPN+  - free as part of the Disney+ Hulu ESPN bundle

- 24/7 Sports

Not willing to pay for sports content personally... especially when even the "premium" content one pays to see still comes with commercial advertisements.

I have a 247 sports subscription because I like the "insider" bits on practices and recruiting. But I very rarely let it fall into a full price subscription. Usually what I do is cancel it after a promotional period, and then sign back up when they're offering a new one. I don't think it's worth $15/month. 

I get ESPN+ through my verizon plan, rarely ever use it. ESPN offers almost exclusively nonsense articles with no substance. 

And that's about it for me. I personally hate subscription models, being nickel and dimed by every single source out there. Freep is trying to do it, DetNews is trying to do it (even if you just want to read their sports articles). If you're in it exclusively to see UM sports related news, I think 247 is the best bet. A lot of the other sources are going to contain generic fluff pieces. 

I usually buy HTTV but being so late this year I'm probably not. The season will have started before I have really had time to go through it all. 
 

I can barely bring myself to pay for streaming.

The only one I subscribe to is the Athletic but I don't plan on renewing next month. Most of the writers that I like left that platform and their customer service is shit. I had a subscription to Scout back in in the mid 2000s.

And now we'll have to add Peacock.

Eh I get a TV package to watch the games, and I buy Phil Steele's and maybe one other preview mag. That's all.

I buy HTTV and thats it. 

I am still trying to decide what my best option is for watching games this season. What are peoples plans after the cut the cord? 

 i used to do 247, but feel like their content has been starting to get more and more sparse, so didnt do it this year

mgoblog 

i pay by sometimes reading really bad takes or OPs 

Sent some cash Magnus's way to help keep Touch the Banner going. Love his recruiting profiles (amongst other stuff) seems like he's more realistic than most.

I don't pay for any print materials. For viewing I have Hulu, prime, and we split Disney plus and Netflix passwords with my sister quid pro quo (Netflix is honestly near the chopping block for us). If I need to watch an out of market NFL game on a Sunday, which is often, I go to the bar for the afternoon.

I cut cable a year ago after hanging onto it for years just for baseball and football. I haven't missed much with the tigers this year but if things require yet another streaming service like peacock I may go back to cable if the packages are right or seek out another person to share a peacock password with, perhaps in exchange for access to my Hulu.

None of these. I find it weird anyone does.

I refuse to believe anything on these pay sites is any more informative than what's free. Recruiting is 90% BS until the day they sign, and anything important gets rewritten ad infinitum on free sources within days, if not hours.

I've never paid for it . . . oh . . . you mean sports information sites. 

Never mind.

A good VPN

mgolog.com.

I send them cash for a decent set of beverages every quarter to thank them for their "good stuff" (and because my ad blocker saves my sanity, which still seems to be slipping away 😁). 

24/7 - I got the Black Friday deal. I'll cancel before it re-ups.

On3 - Same.

I also donate $ to this site

That's it. I also only get live TV for CFB. I generally cancel in January, unless UMBB is looking like a contender.

The Athletic

ESPN+ (signed up for NHL access but am enjoying lots of other content there)

HTTV

I usually buy at least two of the CFB preview magazines, too, sometimes three (Athlon, Lindy's, Phil Steele).

Not CFB, but I happily signed up for umhoops when Dylan started to offer a subscription model. His stuff is fantastic and Michigan basketball has been an absolute joy to read about for the past decade+. 

For CFB I just pay for the mgoblog season preview and donate/click ads occasionally. 

I pay for cell service so I can log onto mgoblo.com at anytime. Worth every penny. Also secret bonus I can call people as well.

I pay for my sins.

It's one of those, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it," things.

None of it. Can't justify paying for things like this. Like others have said, pretty much everything is reposted on free sites anyway, and if/when things become unavailable, so be it, I'm so busy I don't really miss it anyway.