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Midnight tip off?

Dove said:
I'm battling some kind of respiratory issue that is almost, but not quite taking hold. Making me sleepy early, tho. May be tough to stay up late tonight but hoping...
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Sleep early and get your butt up for midnight. Old farts like you don't need much sleep.:)
 
Who Ha said:
Another whiny attempt at winning the argument. In the end it is just the Connecticut taxpayer funded network disrespecting us
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Correct. I checked the PK 80 website near the end of the UCONN game, and the winners’ bracket showed the game in 9:30 slot. So it was a last minute change when ESPN didn’t get the Oregon/ Michigan State match it expected.
I’ll stay up anyway, but I agree, it’s ESPN disrespecting UCONN as usual..
 
Robertelamin said:
So an Oregon vs. Depaul game is better for the ratings than the UConn vs. Michigan St. game? Sure bud!
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That timeslot is on ESPNU, late game is regular ESPN. So they bumped us up to a better channel at worse time while helping their own attendance (Oregon fans come at primetime and hopefully stay through UConn).
 
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nhHusky said:
Correct. I checked the PK 80 website near the end of the UCONN game, and the winners’ bracket showed the game in 9:30 slot. So it was a last minute change when ESPN didn’t get the Oregon/ Michigan State match it expected.
I’ll stay up anyway, but I agree, it’s ESPN disrespecting UCONN as usual..
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That'exactly what I thought. I have apps that I can show on my TV. ESPN and Direct TV. Clearly said 9:30. Again, I am sure that is PST. I am in agreement somewhat that if you are not the darlings of ESPN you getting kicked to the curb.
 
What worries me that games rarely start at the time announced. I am thinking maybe a 12:30 start.
 
Hankster said:
Bad move really. Think about it. 3 hour difference from East to West. That means Central US and all points east will have 11 and 12 viewing time. That is a large market that might not catch the game for sponsors. My wife says record it. Why would I want to do that when I will know the score early tomorrow morning. At the end of last nights game thay said UConn will play the 9:30 game. Thought...no big deal. Oh well PST.
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It’s not a “large market”, it’s virtually the whole market. Over 75% of Americans live in the eastern or central time zone. Both these schools are in those time zones, both east actually, so they killed the ratings here. Nobody anywhere in those time zones cares about Oregaon - DePaul, except 1000 people in Chicago.
 
This isn’t ideal but it shouldn’t be a problem. The real test is Tuesday at 9:30 on a mothereffing Tuesday. Not so much the game — but Wednesday is going to blow.
 
CAHUSKY said:
Just another reason it's great to live out west. Go out, have a nice dinner and a couple of drinks and come home and watch the game at 9. 7pm tip offs during the week are even better. It's only 4pm out here so I leave work early to watch.
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I used to complain when I was into pro football about the old Monday night games which used to get over at 12:30 on weekday nights. A friend from the West Coast said "how would you like to watch The NFL Today at 9:00 AM on Sunday'?
 
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Tonight's schedule (rolling solo) for posterity:

Large take out pepperoni and sausage pizza $17
Bottle of A t0 Z Pinot Noir $16
Watching Bourne 1 and 2 (pre game) Free (I own them)
Chilled bottle of Grey Goose $28

Watching UConn play Mich State Priceless


Thank you lord.
 
nhHusky said:
Correct. I checked the PK 80 website near the end of the UCONN game, and the winners’ bracket showed the game in 9:30 slot. So it was a last minute change when ESPN didn’t get the Oregon/ Michigan State match it expected.
I’ll stay up anyway, but I agree, it’s ESPN disrespecting UCONN as usual..
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Sad thing is you and others are probably dumb enough to think ESPN was like hey let’s change the time so we can screw over UConn! My god I wonder how some of you make it through the day
 
Hankster said:
That'exactly what I thought. I have apps that I can show on my TV. ESPN and Direct TV. Clearly said 9:30. Again, I am sure that is PST. I am in agreement somewhat that if you are not the darlings of ESPN you getting kicked to the curb.
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Playing at 930 puts us on ESPNU, which we were 0n last night, and the usual cry babies had a whole thread dedicated to complaining about that. Now we get moved to ESPN but at a later time and you cry.
 
At least those who watch will be on the network when they do another late Friday/early Saturday layoff at ESPN
That network has turned into the CNN of sports
They have alienated so many viewers
It's a sports network - when will they get back to that format?
I think it may be too late

No matter what time it is - Go Huskies
 
Jerry1714 said:
Playing at 930 puts us on ESPNU, which we were 0n last night, and the usual cry babies had a whole thread dedicated to complaining about that. Now we get moved to ESPN but at a later time and you cry.
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At 9pm, ESPN2 is playing the consolation game from the other bracket between Stanford-Ohio St. Why wouldn't Uconn-Michigan St. have displaced that game?
 
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UconnBoston said:
At 9pm, ESPN2 is playing the consolation game from the other bracket between Stanford-Ohio St. Why wouldn't Uconn-Michigan St. have displaced that game?
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You mean swap the venues so that two Victory bracket games can happen at the same time? They're close to each other and all, but that seems like too much.
 
UconnBoston said:
At 9pm, ESPN2 is playing the consolation game from the other bracket between Stanford-Ohio St. Why wouldn't Uconn-Michigan St. have displaced that game?
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Because that is not how it was set up, the plan from the beginning was always the 930 game on ESPNU and the 12 game on ESPN.
 
Jerry1714 said:
Because that is not how it was set up, the plan from the beginning was always the 930 game on ESPNU and the 12 game on ESPN.
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The plan was always to play the consolation game during prime time on Espn2 and the semi-final game at midnight on ESPN, but you can’t understand why people are second guessing the scheduling?
 
Who Ha said:
Have been critical of the base over the years. However, in this case they have a point. Last night they were saying 9:30. They changed their minds because they were expecting Oregon/MSU. UConn doesn’t rate prime time at our taxpayer funded network.
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Game was never going to be on ESPN at that time due to football. Not sure about espn2.
 
Leebo said:
You mean swap the venues so that two Victory bracket games can happen at the same time? They're close to each other and all, but that seems like too much.
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No need to swap venues, just play the winners bracket game at 9:30 and put it on ESPN2 and put the losers bracket game from the other division on ESPNU.
 
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Who Ha said:
Another whiny attempt at winning the argument. In the end it is just the Connecticut taxpayer funded network disrespecting us
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You're actually an idiot. Take a look at the ESPN broadcast schedule. It would have been on ESPN2 if it were ever going to be shown in that time slot. Not it's on ESPN.
 
UconnBoston said:
The plan was always to play the consolation game during prime time on Espn2 and the semi-final game at midnight on ESPN, but you can’t understand why people are second guessing the scheduling?
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I have no idea what you are trying to say, but both semi games are later than the consolidation games for that side of the bracket.

So I guess ESPN hates Florida and Gonzaga too
 
EROCK CONN said:
This isn’t ideal but it shouldn’t be a problem. The real test is Tuesday at 9:30 on a mothereffing Tuesday. Not so much the game — but Wednesday is going to blow.
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Jesus are you kidding me? You'll be in bed by midnight pansy.
 
gtcam said:
At least those who watch will be on the network when they do another late Friday/early Saturday layoff at ESPN
That network has turned into the CNN of sports
They have alienated so many viewers
It's a sports network - when will they get back to that format?
I think it may be too late

No matter what time it is - Go Huskies
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What a whiny snowflake
 
Jerry1714 said:
Sad thing is you and others are probably dumb enough to think ESPN was like hey let’s change the time so we can screw over UConn! My god I wonder how some of you make it through the day
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Don’t wonder too hard dumb dumb. Your head might explode.
Showing a lack of respect is not the same as intentionally trying to screw someone.
 
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