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(09-10-2019 08:38 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote: (09-09-2019 08:05 PM)stever20 Wrote: Regular season folks want to watch college basketball, they're defaulting to ESPN and CBS. You can say a game on Fox should be better than a game on ESPN- but that's just not realistic.
So now folks are defaulting to ESPN and CBS??? What happened to "There is little to no difference in a game being on Fox/CBS and being on ESPN."
If any thing I was being kind to fox. Frankly there are 2 college basketball channels that casual fans will watch. ESPN and CBS. That's the battle that the Big East has. It's why I think the best thing about the schedule this year is that there are 4 Big East games on CBS this year.
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RE: schedule release?
(09-09-2019 10:47 PM)Bogg Wrote: (09-09-2019 10:33 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: Having said that, I'm not sure where Bogg got the idea Stever20 is "pretending to be a Big East fan." I've been reading the board since about 2013-14 and have never gotten that impression (though I could be wrong).
He's previously identified as a Georgetown fan.
Ah, I did not know that. Thanks.
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RE: schedule release?
(09-10-2019 08:33 AM)stever20 Wrote: (09-09-2019 10:33 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: I'm with the Big East posters overall. There is a perception that "national network" is a bit more prestigious than "cable" or "streaming." That's just the way it is for most folks, Stever20. I agree with those who disagree with you.
Having said that, I'm not sure where Bogg got the idea Stever20 is "pretending to be a Big East fan." I've been reading the board since about 2013-14 and have never gotten that impression (though I could be wrong). Stever20 can alternate between being both anti-Big East and "respectful of the Big East." I suspect he enjoys engaging Big East fans in (for the most part) a reasonable manner but, no doubt, I do feel he sometimes can be a bit antagonistic and I have told him this in a previous post. To his credit, he reacted in a fair manner. He clearly knows his stuff and I respect that.
Not everybody who posts on a "conference-specific" board such as this is going to "play nice" all the time. Stever20 is not a Big East fan. Neither am I (for that matter, I am not a fan of any particular conference), but I do follow with a certain personal connection two Big East programs and wish the league well and think very highly of it.
I just don't think there's that perception though with college basketball. When the unquestioned best games of the season are on cable, it's tough to say that the network games have a better perception than cable games. It's kind of similar quite frankly to the NBA, where most of the top games are on cable. So strange that basketball is like that, but football is the complete opposite.
Many might share your view. Many don't. It's rather subjective.
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RE: schedule release?
More thoughts on future scheduling, and another reason UConn joining back up with the Big East is going to be important.
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as I've said repeatedly, until the selection committee starts sending teams with mediocre records to the tourney, the impact of the 20 game conference season seems very underwhelming for me in terms of the NCAA tourney. There's been in the last 25 years 1 team with a record of worse than 4 games under .500. That was Georgia in 2000 at 16-14.
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(09-14-2019 12:10 PM)stever20 Wrote: as I've said repeatedly, until the selection committee starts sending teams with mediocre records to the tourney, the impact of the 20 game conference season seems very underwhelming for me in terms of the NCAA tourney. There's been in the last 25 years 1 team with a record of worse than 4 games under .500. That was Georgia in 2000 at 16-14.
You seem pretty alone in your opinion that the 20-game schedules are going to wind up a boon for the San Fransiscos and Illinois States of the world.
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(09-14-2019 12:16 PM)Bogg Wrote: (09-14-2019 12:10 PM)stever20 Wrote: as I've said repeatedly, until the selection committee starts sending teams with mediocre records to the tourney, the impact of the 20 game conference season seems very underwhelming for me in terms of the NCAA tourney. There's been in the last 25 years 1 team with a record of worse than 4 games under .500. That was Georgia in 2000 at 16-14.
You seem pretty alone in your opinion that the 20-game schedules are going to wind up a boon for the San Fransiscos and Illinois States of the world.
I sure don't think it's going to a boon to the power conferences. Is the committee really going to start to send 18-15 or worse teams to the tourney? I don't think so.
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