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I have been a loyal Uconn Fan for over 40 years. I spend hundreds of dollars on Uconn Apparel yearly. I subscribe to HULU live because it covered all my bases. All of ESPN including ESPN Plus. All the Fox Sports Channels including FS1 and FS 2. I also us the Foxsportsgo.com app to watch games as well for the womans games that are on SNY. I live in Tennessee now. I also have CBS SPorts Network for the other games mainly football. I did not need an expensive plan if I was not a Uconn Fan. My point is that this Peacock Baloney is not fair to the loyal fans. How much more do I need to spend. Very disappointing. Mr Benedict, it appears you sold us out.
 
RayConn said:
I have been a loyal Uconn Fan for over 40 years. I spend hundreds of dollars on Uconn Apparel yearly. I subscribe to HULU live because it covered all my bases. All of ESPN including ESPN Plus. All the Fox Sports Channels including FS1 and FS 2. I also us the Foxsportsgo.com app to watch games as well for the womans games that are on SNY. I live in Tennessee now. I also have CBS SPorts Network for the other games mainly football. I did not need an expensive plan if I was not a Uconn Fan. My point is that this Peacock Baloney is not fair to the loyal fans. How much more do I need to spend. Very disappointing. Mr Benedict, it appears you sold us out.
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I also live in TN and have Direct TV which has SNY so I can watch the womans games. Direct is way more expensive than other options.

Then this Peacock thing really angered me. I later found out Peacock also has similar deal with other conferences for just a couple games to force hard core fans to subscribe. This is just what they do to milk the public of everything they can. It seems like collusion between these streaming services to help each other. Sadly, I believe it will only get worse
 
RayConn said:
I have been a loyal Uconn Fan for over 40 years. I spend hundreds of dollars on Uconn Apparel yearly. I subscribe to HULU live because it covered all my bases. All of ESPN including ESPN Plus. All the Fox Sports Channels including FS1 and FS 2. I also us the Foxsportsgo.com app to watch games as well for the womans games that are on SNY. I live in Tennessee now. I also have CBS SPorts Network for the other games mainly football. I did not need an expensive plan if I was not a Uconn Fan. My point is that this Peacock Baloney is not fair to the loyal fans. How much more do I need to spend. Very disappointing. Mr Benedict, it appears you sold us out.
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I’ve had the Peacock Channel for 3 years now, got it way back when to watch all of Yellowstone, it also carries tons of vintage TV series going back to the 1950’s. Also any sports covered by NBC. Not sure why but it seems that many of Butler’s home games are on Peacock.
 
Dibbie said:
Every sport continues to suck as much money from fans as possible. Personally, I refrain and followed the game via chat, but to each his own
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Me too, I pay over 350 a month as it is and have Peacock but not premium. F them “not a dime!”
 
There have been multiple 20$/year opportunities for peacock if you’ve been paying attention. This is the norm now and it’s not going away. A year’s subscription costs as much as a meal from Five Guys.
 
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huskyjawz said:
Is there a replay on Peacock? Thinking about signing up and want to watch the Butler game.
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Yes they have full game replays. I could not watch live. If you subscribe scroll to the Big East tab click on it and then scroll down. You will see the icon for the game replay there is also a highlights icon. At first I was bummed when I knew I would not be able to watch game live. But when I got home at 10pm I was able to find the replay. You can DM me if you have any questions.
 
NJHusky01 said:
I enjoyed listening to the game on the radio (on my phone) for free.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S24. If you have an android, what app do you use to listen to the game?

I googled the subject, but saw an array of options so I am not sure what is best. I saw something about needing USB buds, but hopefully, that is not necessary.
 
if you’re a golfer you can get peacock free with an annual GolfNow subscription (which is a 100% worth it and pays for itself if you get out a 4 times plus).

My biggest gripe with the peacock viewings is when they put prime time games that would have been available to everyone on a paid wall service. That’s some BS.
 
Greedo said:
I already have peacock to watch the office, parks and rec, Brooklyn 99, etc so I didn’t care about the cost.

What does piss me off is I can’t watch the game on a delay while it is simultaneously being played. It’s either watch 100% live or wait until the game ends. I have two young boys, sometimes I need to pause the game for 15 minutes then come back and keep watching. The fact that I can’t do that with peacock really really annoys me.
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U sure. I watched yesterday and was able to rewind/fast forward
 
Leebo said:
It's perfectly reasonable to be upset about it. The whole thing with every entity wanting its own separate subscription is incredibly stupid and has to burst at some point.
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Is it? The paradigm has shifted. It's not going back to the way it was. And UConn has been less affected by the shift to streaming than most. Maybe all? What non-elite football team has all of their home games on cable? Other teams have had many streaming games for years. We have a handful for one year and the whiners are out in full force. I get all the streamers and I pay less now overall then when I paid for cable with the sports tier. Sure I have actually look up where the game is instead of having the cable guide find it for me, but I can handle it. This is nothing but old guys yelling at cloud stuff.
 
RayConn said:
I have been a loyal Uconn Fan for over 40 years. I spend hundreds of dollars on Uconn Apparel yearly. I subscribe to HULU live because it covered all my bases. All of ESPN including ESPN Plus. All the Fox Sports Channels including FS1 and FS 2. I also us the Foxsportsgo.com app to watch games as well for the womans games that are on SNY. I live in Tennessee now. I also have CBS SPorts Network for the other games mainly football. I did not need an expensive plan if I was not a Uconn Fan. My point is that this Peacock Baloney is not fair to the loyal fans. How much more do I need to spend. Very disappointing. Mr Benedict, it appears you sold us out.
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You sound like the UConn women’s basketball fans lamenting the loss of CPTV
 
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I wonder how much of this is memory of the OTA ad supported model being “free”. When you do the math, Peacock, with no special deal is $8 a month. So the cost of a single beer (less than one beer at a UConn game). Plus it has some other good content including quite a few movies.

My only concern is that sports bars won’t have it. I can imagine people going out and finding out they can’t watch the games.

My only streaming “outrage” that I simply won’t pay for is NESN 360 at $30 a month. No content except sports and $30. Forget that. At $10 I’d sign up right away.
 
HooperScooper said:
Do you now have all kinds of computer viruses with pop up ads for sites? :)

My son tells me he and his friends watch everything on illegal streams without getting computer viruses. He says you need to know what you're doing. I don't even bother asking. My wife has every streaming app under the sun so we have Peacock.
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Just don't click the ads
 
NJHusky said:
U sure. I watched yesterday and was able to rewind/fast forward
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Depends on what device you use to stream. I watched the first half through my LG smartTV and couldn’t pause/ffwd/rew. Did some research during halftime and read how some people had those functions through Apple TV. Tried on my fire stick and it worked!
 
Signed up yesterday to watch the game. 30 per year. Cancelled immediately after so I don’t forget next year
 
Waquoit said:
Is it? The paradigm has shifted. It's not going back to the way it was. And UConn has been less affected by the shift to streaming than most. Maybe all? What non-elite football team has all of their home games on cable? Other teams have had many streaming games for years. We have a handful for one year and the whiners are out in full force. I get all the streamers and I pay less now overall then when I paid for cable with the sports tier. Sure I have actually look up where the game is instead of having the cable guide find it for me, but I can handle it. This is nothing but old guys yelling at cloud stuff.
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What streaming services do you have to get FS1, FS2 and CBS sports network? Do they have replay options? How long do they hold past games?

Old guy here always looking for better clouds.
 
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ctchamps said:
What streaming services do you have to get FS1, FS2 and CBS sports network? Do they have replay options? How long do they hold past games?
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I'm old, too. YouTubeTV has all three, with replay and they hold things at least a month. It's easy to save what you want and it automatically extends if the game goes long. I've had one screw-up and that was a couple of weeks ago when they messed up the meta-data and they didn't get the overrun.
 
Anyone that has Xfinity (Comcast) should open their Account dashboard and check out what is inside Xfinity Rewards.

I got Peacock for free last year as a listed reward.
That said I have a "Diamond" account for customer longevity but it's worth a check anyway no matter how long or not you've been with them.
 
Greedo said:
I already have peacock to watch the office, parks and rec, Brooklyn 99, etc so I didn’t care about the cost.

What does piss me off is I can’t watch the game on a delay while it is simultaneously being played. It’s either watch 100% live or wait until the game ends. I have two young boys, sometimes I need to pause the game for 15 minutes then come back and keep watching. The fact that I can’t do that with peacock really really annoys me.
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Maybe, this will work for you to partially see what happened during the game while the game is still on.

When the game is on, go to Espn.com, select More Sports, then select NCAAM , and Select Scores for the in progress game, and It will give you the option for Gamecast, Box Score. You can scroll down to view the game progress but obviously this is a narrative, not a live replay.

You don't have to wait until the game ends. You can go back and forth with the Chat for some commentary.

This is what I do since I don't have Peacock. Obviously, it is a delay of sorts but it tells you who fouled who, and who got the rebound, and Box Score gives you the stats.

If I can figure out this phone radio thing, I will add to the repertoire.
 
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Greedo said:
I already have peacock to watch the office, parks and rec, Brooklyn 99, etc so I didn’t care about the cost.

What does piss me off is I can’t watch the game on a delay while it is simultaneously being played. It’s either watch 100% live or wait until the game ends. I have two young boys, sometimes I need to pause the game for 15 minutes then come back and keep watching. The fact that I can’t do that with peacock really really annoys me.
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I was able to do this yesterday, I had to rewind from the point the game joined(about a minute left in the first half) and I had to see the score when I joined in but I was able to rewind to the beginning.
 
SoFla Steve said:
This has little (or nothing?) to do with Dave Benedict, it's the conference. The Big East, like every other conference, was chasing more money and signed an additional rights deal with NBC to show BE games. The deal includes other NBC properties such as Peacock. The deal really kicks in next year so be prepared for more games on The 'Cock for the 2025-26 season.

EDIT: Be aware that the first five games of the 10-game Big East Tourney will be on Peacock. And lots of other BE and B1G games are aired, also.
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Last night I decided to listen to the game on radio knowing I could get the highlights
that night or the next day on Youtube. One radio guy was really exciting and enjoyable.
Really enjoyed that and might consider listening to radio and watching tv with voice down if the commentary sucks. I often did that with MLB back years ago.

I probably will sign up at tournament time but we have to deal with this so much now with MLB that ( Apple, Prime etc.) I just don't watch those games. I don't like ESPN either for MLB. Used to get everything on YES and I liked the announcers. Can't let it bother me; there are other choices in life.
 
huskyjawz said:
Is there a replay on Peacock? Thinking about signing up and want to watch the Butler game.
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Don't bother for now. You can get a good bit of the highlights on Youtube.
 
The main thing I find annoying about these threads is that everybody immediately assumes it's about the money. I don't care that someone found a 3 month free deal or $20 for the whole year deal. For me, it's the principle of the thing. Content owners are fleecing everybody with this crap of wanting their own streaming platforms. They are also gatekeeping their content and are the reason that every streaming service has to raise their prices every year. They demand ridiculous amounts of more and more money for their content every year. You know why platforms like Netflix have only a handful of great movies and a bunch of crap? It's because they could never afford what the content owners are trying to charge. It was different established rules with DVD rentals which is why Netflix had such an enormous selection of quality movies when it was DVD by mail only.

There is absolutely no reason for these games to not be on regular TV networks.

But it is what it is. Everyone on here is allowed to do what they what, but the more your give in to this stuff, the more it will happen. I will never subscribe to peacock, free or otherwise. VPN + ublock origin + script safe + sketchy website works for me. This method is not for everybody, so I don't necessarily begrudge anyone that gives in.
 
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