I suggest reading post #17 again... ESPN and ESPN2 will do a minimum of 20, but then ESPNU will have a minimum of 13 games, and ESPN's "Regional Television" will have another 13 games minimum. That last one sounds very similar to the JP Sports broadcasts, right down to the 11:30am kickoff times.
I would think you guys (and gals) would be jumping for joy over this. Nobody puts out that kind of money to produce limited success. ESPN is protecting... and expanding... their turf, in large part as a designed plan to make sure the SEC doesn't follow suit to the Big Ten's BTN channel(s). A lot of folks in Big Ten land should be nervous over ESPN's decision and praying the BTN works. That said, at least the Big Ten HAS a network. The Big 12, Little East, ACC and PAC-10 have to be wondering who is gonna show their games, other than when USC, Oklahoma, Texas, FSU, etc. have a big game for ABC to show... (hello, GamePlan). This is all gonna get real interesting over the next few years. Right now I'd say the SEC is in the driver's seat, as I agree with Jim Croce: You don't tug on superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger And you don't mess with ESPN
ahhh, ok. well, then you certainly dont get any sympathy. but you could always treat the game as a party then watch the tivoed game in under 2 hours.
Funny we ended up on a lot of them. ESPN is going to put its strongest matchups into its saturday lineup somewhere. I just hope we don't start having to do a bunch of Thursday games. I'm sick of that Friday Arkansas game, too.
