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[QUOTE="auror, post: 4779406, member: 1329"]
Yes, we may disagree. To me it's less about the 11 FS1 games being equivalent to the ESPN games (we agree, they're not), and more about 8 regular broadcast TV games which are in the "primetime" of the college basketball week being so much better than being on ESPN. Like a lot of people are going to watch some B1G game on CBS in the early afternoon, then Kentucky Alabama on CBS and then UConn Nova primetime on Fox. Or UConn-Marquette before Michigan St/Michigan, both on Fox. Meanwhile Duke is lost in the shuffle playing on ESPN2 both days.

The talking heads and podcasts feature those Sat/Sun afternoon network games as the games they pick against the spread, the games they preview on the Friday episodes/articles, etc., because a lot of those hype guys work for those networks (CBS-Parrish/Norlander and Fox-Fanta) and the performance of those weekend afternoon games is important to the networks. ESPN isn't the biggest in the game in college basketball media anymore. Who is the biggest college basketball personality for ESPN? Bilas? He's on the way down. Greenberg? Love that he's a Hurley guy but who cares.
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