2013 ESPN games

[HuskyHawk]

This is bad. Very bad. Lumped in with Temple and Memphis.

Brett McMurphy‏@McMurphyESPN
2013 Big East games in @espn: UL 4; Cincy, RU, UCF, USF 3 each; UH, SMU 2 each; UConn, UM, TU 1 each

 

[Adios]

Thanks GDL. And PP.

If we had a competent offense last season, we'd probably have 3 games.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Salt in the wound.

Kevin McNamara‏@KevinMcNamara33
Interesting to note that Big East football schedule just announced has Zero ESPN/ESPN2/ABC games played on a Saturday.

 

[jrazz12]

Salt in the wound.

Kevin McNamara‏@KevinMcNamara33
Interesting to note that Big East football schedule just announced has Zero ESPN/ESPN2/ABC games played on a Saturday.

And thus, why we're only scheduled for 1 ESPN game right now. Friday night against Ville. Aside from that and the Thursday night opener against Towson, every other game is on Saturday.

So, do we want to complain about not acting like a big time program and playing almost all our games on Saturday, or about not being on tv because we're going up against the big boys?

By the way, win the games and we'll be picked up for the later in the season games. Perform like last year, and well, at least you'll have Saturday tailgates.

 

[Dann]

lol @ this thread....

 

[UConn07]

Salt in the wound.

Kevin McNamara‏@KevinMcNamara33
Interesting to note that Big East football schedule just announced has Zero ESPN/ESPN2/ABC games played on a Saturday.

You really believe the Michigan/UConn game won't be the 330 or 8PM game on ABC that Saturday?

 

[UConnJim]

Looks like they just announced the BE games, not OOC games on ESPN. I would think UConn/Michigan and UConn/Maryland would be candidates for ESPN. I would assume Kentucky/Louisville would be an ESPN candidate as would USF/Miami, USF/Michigan St.,...

 

[Dann]

lots of uconn on here..

 

[businesslawyer]

lots of uconn on here..

shoo shoou orange flu.

It worked a few years ago, it's worth a try. Goodness sakes -- anything is worth a try at this point.

 

[Rumrunner]

There are power teams and midmajors.

Money, exposure, conference.

The money will be gone, tv won't care, and we mother play in a conference with no name, along side memphis, temple, tulane, tulsa, ecu and two directional florida schools.

But we are thrilled with our position and excited about the novel opportunities in the Big Unnamed Confetence.

 

[Brochacho]

This is bad. Very bad. Lumped in with Temple and Memphis.

Brett McMurphy‏@McMurphyESPN
2013 Big East games in @espn: UL 4; Cincy, RU, UCF, USF 3 each; UH, SMU 2 each; UConn, UM, TU 1 each

Could be worse - I assumed TU was Tulane. At least its Temple.

 

[Carl Spackler]

This little thread right here, and the comments on it are symptomatic of this entire website and the dominance of basketball thinking that drives it, and by extension, the perception that exists in the greater world that UCONN is not a football school.

The concerns and comments about this 2013 big east football schedule (which is a great one for UCONN) are what happen when basketball people start trying to form opinions about football, based on basketball.

Ironically, Mike Aresco himself, is responsible for most of the thinking here, by what he did with college football broadcasting in the 1980s for ESPN, and leading the movement to put college football on tv on weeknights. Weeknights are college basketball primetime, and always will be.

Weeknights are simply NOT college football primetime, as much as ESPN would like to have you believe it is. It's not.

Saturday afternoons are college football primetime. THere is a reason, why Michigan v. Notre Dame, is the only game on that sports media watch link - that is actually labeled "primetime". There are very few, national college football primetime slots, and programs that fit it.

THis is entirely a guess, because I still havent' seen anything regarding the actual terms of the television contract that the league has, but it's a logical guess, in that the reason that there are ZERO saturday games for the Big East on ESPN right now for the entire course of the season already scheduled, is that because Aresco was smart enough to use NBC's contract offer, and knowing that ESPN had the prima nocta rights.......used NBC to leverage ESPN into making sure that Big East football games on Saturdays, are either broadcast nationally on an ESPN channel, or will be sold by ESPN, to a local broadcasting rights holder, for the games to be broadcast locally in college football primetime, which for us - is SNY.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This little thread right here, and the comments on it are symptomatic of this entire website and the dominance of basketball thinking that drives it, and by extension, the perception that exists in the greater world that UCONN is not a football school.

The concerns and comments about this 2013 big east football schedule (which is a great one for UCONN) are what happen when basketball people start trying to form opinions about football, based on basketball.

Ironically, Mike Aresco himself, is responsible for most of the thinking here, by what he did with college football broadcasting in the 1980s for ESPN, and leading the movement to put college football on tv on weeknights. Weeknights are college basketball primetime, and always will be.

Weeknights are simply NOT college football primetime, as much as ESPN would like to have you believe it is. It's not.

Saturday afternoons are college football primetime. THere is a reason, why Michigan v. Notre Dame, is the only game on that sports media watch link - that is actually labeled "primetime". There are very few, national college football primetime slots, and programs that fit it.

THis is entirely a guess, because I still havent' seen anything regarding the actual terms of the television contract that the league has, but it's a logical guess, in that the reason that there are ZERO saturday games for the Big East on ESPN right now for the entire course of the season already scheduled, is that because Aresco was smart enough to use NBC's contract offer, and knowing that ESPN had the prima nocta rights.......used NBC to leverage ESPN into making sure that Big East football games on Saturdays, are either broadcast nationally on an ESPN channel, or will be sold by ESPN, to a local broadcasting rights holder, for the games to be broadcast locally in college football primetime, which for us - is SNY.

Being on ESPN or ESPN2 any time of the week is better than being on SNY on Saturday. Hell we don't even get SNY in Massachusetts. We need the world to believe that we are a football school. Assume the Michigan game will be widely seen, and maybe Maryland. My complaint was that we were are slated to be on ESPN channels less than most of our not so illustrious conference mates.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Being on ESPN or ESPN2 any time of the week is better than being on SNY on Saturday. Hell we don't even get SNY in Massachusetts. We need the world to believe that we are a football school. Assume the Michigan game will be widely seen, and maybe Maryland. My complaint was that we were are slated to be on ESPN channels less than most of our not so illustrious conference mates.

You are very much wrong. If what you say is correct, the Big 10, SEC, and Pac 12 would all be scheduling weeknight games for ESPN. You are a basketball person, applying basketball thought to football. Stop it. College football, is a game day experience, that is meant for saturday afternoons. It is watched by fans, on saturday afternoons. It is planned for, on saturday afternoons. UCONN football, on SNY, or ESPN, on saturday afternoons is better than being on weeknights.

Mike Aresco, created the mess of weeknight college football, that has led UCONN and the Big EAst to where it is right now, and he's doing what he can to fix it. The ACC can have it, and they will, and for the next few years, we are also tied to the creation of weeknight football.

Virginia Tech, in the old big east, was the first program to get hooked into weeknight college football, in 1994. They made a legitimate point, in this new renewal of television broadcasting for the ACC, that they would not play thursday night football. Clemson is pissed off about thursday night football. The ACC can have it. We willb e stuck with a few weeknight games for a few years, but it's a short TV contract.

It's up to us, to go out and win on the field to be able to cash in, but we will be playing on Saturdays, and that will help the game day experience continue to grow. We need to win. I'd have it no other way.

That's all. Stop thinking about football from a basketball perspective. Have a nice day.

 

[HuskyHawk]

You are very much wrong. If what you say is correct, the Big 10, SEC, and Pac 12 would all be scheduling weeknight games for ESPN. You are a basketball person, applying basketball thought to football. Stop it. College football, is a game day experience, that is meant for saturday afternoons. It is watched by fans, on saturday afternoons. It is planned for, on saturday afternoons. UCONN football, on SNY, or ESPN, on saturday afternoons is better than being on weeknights.

Mike Aresco, created the mess of weeknight college football, that has led UCONN and the Big EAst to where it is right now, and he's doing what he can to fix it. The ACC can have it, and they will, and for the next few years, we are also tied to the creation of weeknight football.

Virginia Tech, in the old big east, was the first program to get hooked into weeknight college football, in 1994. They made a legitimate point, in this new renewal of television broadcasting for the ACC, that they would not play thursday night football. Clemson is pissed off about thursday night football. The ACC can have it. We willb e stuck with a few weeknight games for a few years, but it's a short TV contract.

It's up to us, to go out and win on the field to be able to cash in, but we will be playing on Saturdays, and that will help the game day experience continue to grow. We need to win. I'd have it no other way.

That's all. Stop thinking about football from a basketball perspective. Have a nice day.

Carl, in general I agree. I like Saturday afternoon football. By far the best experience for the fans. I am looking at this only from a short term, narrow perspective that UConn football needs to be as visible as possible right now to help get us out of this conference. Winning will be even more critical with no major exposure.

 

[Dann]

You are very much wrong. If what you say is correct, the Big 10, SEC, and Pac 12 would all be scheduling weeknight games for ESPN. You are a basketball person, applying basketball thought to football. Stop it. College football, is a game day experience, that is meant for saturday afternoons. It is watched by fans, on saturday afternoons. It is planned for, on saturday afternoons. UCONN football, on SNY, or ESPN, on saturday afternoons is better than being on weeknights.

Mike Aresco, created the mess of weeknight college football, that has led UCONN and the Big EAst to where it is right now, and he's doing what he can to fix it. The ACC can have it, and they will, and for the next few years, we are also tied to the creation of weeknight football.

Virginia Tech, in the old big east, was the first program to get hooked into weeknight college football, in 1994. They made a legitimate point, in this new renewal of television broadcasting for the ACC, that they would not play thursday night football. Clemson is pissed off about thursday night football. The ACC can have it. We willb e stuck with a few weeknight games for a few years, but it's a short TV contract.

It's up to us, to go out and win on the field to be able to cash in, but we will be playing on Saturdays, and that will help the game day experience continue to grow. We need to win. I'd have it no other way.

That's all. Stop thinking about football from a basketball perspective. Have a nice day.

u must be thrilled like i am about byu on a thursday night then...

 

[Carl Spackler]

Folks. Football is different than basketball. SHocking. There are 12 games a year to plan for. That's it. They are very precious things. Go talk to a player, what they think about being able to get a game back. You get 7, maybe 8 games a year to go and watch at home at the stadium. When those games are played, and how they are broadcast, is EXTREMELY important.

Basketball, you get several games a month, for several months.

THe most important part of what I wrote today, I think everybody is skipping over, because they probably don't understand it. The current braodcasting contract was never about money, and if I am right with my guess, pretty much every single Big East program is going to be quite visible to the target audiences that they need to be visible for, and not buried and used as fodder by ESPN to drive their new online, broadcasting platforms. I, for one, am very tired, of having UCONN athletics used as the driver for ESPN to use to create and promote different broadcasting platforms. I'd rather just be on TV, in primetime, for the majority of people that actually want to watch UCONN football, and would have potential to be interested as new viewers. Which for football - is saturday afternoons, locally, in CT/NY/NJ and New England, and in the regions of the teams we are playing.

It trully is, up to us now, to go out and win.

Think about it, try to take off the basketball shoes for a while, and look at the world through a football mask.

 

[buggsy]

Salt in the wound.

Kevin McNamara‏@KevinMcNamara33
Interesting to note that Big East football schedule just announced has Zero ESPN/ESPN2/ABC games played on a Saturday.

Kevin is wrong. The Sat. Dec. 7 RU-USF game is listed as one of the three Rutgers ESPN games...to be played on one of ESPN/ESPN2/ABC

I'm sure that's not the only one he missed.

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2013/03/rutgers-louisville_game_set_fo.html

 

[sdhusky]

lots of uconn on here..

Wow. And its all because of branding.

 

[sdhusky]

THe most important part of what I wrote today, I think everybody is skipping over, because they probably don't understand it. The current braodcasting contract was never about money,

Didn't understand it? Maybe.

or, when you wrote that its not about money, we all realized you were talking out of your about things you don't realize you don't understand.

It's always about money.

 

[BoatShow]

I was pretty much assuming the Michigan game would be 330 on ABC. Not that it really matters to me seeing as I'll be there. Are we really playing Michigan getting the BTN feed on SNY or something?

 

[uconnfan68]

This is bad. Very bad. Lumped in with Temple and Memphis.

Brett McMurphy‏@McMurphyESPN
2013 Big East games in @espn: UL 4; Cincy, RU, UCF, USF 3 each; UH, SMU 2 each; UConn, UM, TU 1 each

I'm thrilled. Couldn't care less if we ever play any sport on their channels ever again.

 

[auggie22]

Being on ESPN or ESPN2 any time of the week is better than being on SNY on Saturday. Hell we don't even get SNY in Massachusetts. We need the world to believe that we are a football school. Assume the Michigan game will be widely seen, and maybe Maryland. My complaint was that we were are slated to be on ESPN channels less than most of our not so illustrious conference mates.

I get SNY in Boston. Comcast.

 

[jackl]

I get SNY in Boston. Comcast.

DISH in Connecticut doesn't even carry SNY. They use to but 2 years ago dropped it in a dispute over charges. Probably the METS owners holding them hostage. Thanks a lot to the Wilpons and Madoff. Money grubbers and criminals. Of course DISH's rates these days should include enough to pay for the rights.

 

[uconnric]

There are power teams and midmajors.

Money, exposure, conference.

The money will be gone, tv won't care, and we mother play in a conference with no name, along side memphis, temple, tulane, tulsa, ecu and two directional florida schools.

But we are thrilled with our position and excited about the novel opportunities in the Big Unnamed Confetence.

And your point is? Just keep trashing the program, big boy.