GO QUIN-eh-pee-ack!

[UConnNick]

Let's make Connecticut 2-for-2 today!

 

[Mdoggie]

Why do I dislike the Hamecocks so much?

 

[UConnNick]

Looking really ugly for the Bobcats so far.

 

[GoUconn7961]

I can't believe they have't scored yet this quarter...wow.

 

[Vowelguy]

Q completely can't handle SC s athleticism and quickness.
Could be a bloodbath developing.

 

[cordarone]

Past seven minutes into the game and Bobcat fans still can't sit down

 

[HoopsFan21]

Looks like this is the end of the road for the Bobcats.

 

[Vowelguy]

This is what happens when 12 seeds get to the sweet 16.

 

[Blueballer]

Looking really ugly for the Bobcats so far.

It's an entirely different level now.

Hey where's SCspur? Cause I just want to say.....

So are these refs pro SC or what??

 

[Blueballer]

This is what happens when 12 seeds get to the sweet 16.

Yeah everyone gets caught up in the Cinderella stuff but outside of the Villanova men against Georgetown many years ago it doesn't usually end very well.

 

[BugsyCT]

They scored! All they need is some more.

 

[UConnNick]

Hey, they're finally competing a little.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Well, while (U)SC has been known for it's dry stretches, they also loosen up with a good lead and widen it. So, me thinks the wheels have fallen off Cinderalla's carriage. But, damn, they did themselves proud.

 

[SCspur]

It's an entirely different level now.

Hey where's SCspur? Cause I just want to say.....

So are these refs pro SC or what??

They seem to be letting both teams play lol

 

[UConnNick]

Well, while (U)SC has been known for it's dry stretches, they also loosen up with a good lead and widen it. So, me thinks the wheels have fallen off Cinderalla's carriage. But, damn, they did themselves proud.

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings!

 

[Blueballer]

Wilson 10 FT's before halftime = BS

 

[SCspur]

Wilson 10 FT's before halftime = BS

She's made all 10 as well

 

[BugsyCT]

Horrid 1st qtr, held their own in the 2nd.

 

[BigBird]

ESPN's fun with the pronunciation of Quinnipiac was amusing...for the first ten times. But geez, maybe they could let it go now. We get it. No, I mean, we really, really get it.

 

[Blueballer]

ESPN's fun with the pronunciation of Quinnipiac was amusing...for the first ten times. But geez, maybe they could let it go now. We get it. No, I mean, we really, really get it.

They won't be talking about them much longer

 

[RockyMTblue2]

The attendance is very, very disappointing. Always the same it seems in these send um somewhere away from the fans venues. Reflects horribly on a game trying to grow. I guess the whole Los Vegas suggestion would work if they handed out tickets to the grey hairs on the street and got the games over by 4 PM.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

ESPN's fun with the pronunciation of Quinnipiac was amusing...for the first ten times. But geez, maybe they could let it go now. We get it. No, I mean, we really, really get it.

48 hours of lame chuckling. Way, way over it. Just like the banal inanities Doris Burke(normally a fav of mine) spewed out in the UConn game while a game appeared to be going on on the court. I wonder if they ever bother to do consumer focus groups with a game tape. Might want to try it.

 

[BigBird]

48 hours of lame chuckling. Way, way over it. Just like the banal inanities Doris Burke(normally a fav of mine) spewed out in the UConn game while a game appeared to be going on on the court. I wonder if they ever bother to do consumer focus groups with a game tape. Might want to try it.

The networks mostly use the overall audience ratings to justify staffing their airtime. A very few use something called a "Q" score, which is close to the focus group approach, but is less subject to skewing and inaccuracy. "Q's" are more routinely used to select actors who appear in commercials. Other credibility measures are used for the commercial itself.

However, small-budget productions and local broadcasters do none of the above, as a general rule.

Here's an "oh by the way" to consider. Some of Burke's worst performances are those where she is paired with Dave O'Brien. She is much better, in my view, on the NBA games, paired with someone else, where she focuses much more keenly on the strategy and tactics of the game. She knows her hoops.

Three mikes at court side was a bad idea that none of the announcers were responsible for. That doesn't make it any less a bad idea.

I like Doris on the mike and have frequently said so. But I won't defend rubbish that she and O'Brien (and Kara) gave us today. Just a bad job. Period.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Here's an "oh by the way" to consider. Some of Burke's worst performances are those where she is paired with Dave O'Brien. She is much better, in my view, on the NBA games, paired with someone else, where she focuses much more keenly on the strategy and tactics of the game. She knows her hoops.

I agree. And I do enjoy her analysis; so what about the pairing would turn her into a babbling whatever. If Rebecca can salvage situations with Gramps in the chair to the left, surely she can give up the fill the dead air sheet and talk the game! %#@$%&*!

 

[BigBird]

I agree. And I do enjoy her analysis; so what about the pairing would turn her into a babbling whatever. If Rebecca can salvage situations with Gramps in the chair to the left, surely she can give up the fill the dead air sheet and talk the game! %#@$%&*!

I have a pet theorem that I've not suggested previously. I think Doris has been stung by critics who said she was a UConn sycophant or puppet. In order to distance herself and appear more neutral, she is talking less about the Huskies, even when she should talk them up. The ultimate extension of this is to ignore the game and tell stories instead.
Bad idea.

ESPN is trying hard to convince viewers that the championship isn't a done deal, which of course it isn't. But my subjective view is that ESPN is walking back the UConn talk to encourage audience size. They have been fanning the "Who can beat UConn" chatter since mid-December.

In short, they are all over-compensating for questions about their partiality.