Matt Brown: Big East may not renew with Fox

[ctkaiser]

If the Big East ends up getting a deal with ESPN, does that mean we bring SNY back into the fold? There is zero chance ESPN would air a game vs the likes of Delaware St or LIU on their family of networks. Hopefully UConn could negotiate an SNY deal for those games instead of ESPN sending them to ESPN+

That would require SNY to give up 12 hours of infomercials and not show 30 minutes of sportsnite for 4 hours.

 

[Storrs South]

You can never tell if ESPN is really interested in covering the game or using it to promo something else.

It's always the latter. They production value is poor and analysts are not put in positions to succeed. It's degraded to such a sad state since the old Big East dissolved.

 

[uconnfan68]

It's always the latter. They production value is poor and analysts are not put in positions to succeed. It's degraded to such a sad state since the old Big East dissolved.

Oh the irony! They caused the dissolution.

 

[Stinger92860]

Why pay the Big East when you can move schools to the ACC.

 

[JohnFSilver]

That would require SNY to give up 12 hours of infomercials and not show 30 minutes of sportsnite for 4 hours.

They view college basketball outside of Duke, Kentucky, north carolina as a commodity. They plug in a game because x game gets x ratings regardless if teams.

They cut costs by not actually previewing, half timing for like 3 minutes and not postgame.

It sucks as a fan.

And, I worked on a team that serviced content for teams with huge followings. Absolutely drives coverage decisions.

News happens at Iowa State hoops, meh. Same thing happens at Kentucky. Ding!

No editorial balance

The funny thing is that there are a ton of UConn fans and alumni working there behind Scenes.

Maybe TV corp wise the hate UConn. But the rank and file are into the Huskies.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Also. College basketball is too hard to cover. Football is easy. Game day. Big money. How many productions in one week. For hoops, you got 100s of games.

the problem with college basketball is not one team rates. But, take the entire audience who watches college basketball over the course of a week and it is huge.

They sell that volume and diversity. Editorially, it requires too much effort. So they cover top 15 most popular and that’s it.