Spring Game won't be live on BTN (again)
Michigan Lax game at 10:30am will be live, though. So they're just gonna screw over us on the Football side.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/032817aab.html
Jackie's capitalizing on your wretched disfigurement.
This string of posts is scratching me right where I itch.
really can't have a live BTN Spring Game until we beat Ohio State.
(In all honesty though, what exactly do you do in this situation if you are the BTN? The two most prominent members of the conference decided to have their spring game on the exact same day at the exact same time? They have to pick one).
I understand they have a dilemma but doesn't BTN have multiple channels? What's showing on the other ones?
Big Ten Elite - 2002 Ohio State football.
more people are going to watch OSU's spring game than Michigan's spring game /realtalk
You are the BTN. You are the source of significant revenue for each program. You sit down with them and get them to work out a schedule that does not have their games at exactly the same time on exactly the same day.
I'm ok with this. I plan on going live and then I can watch the tape delay after as well. Winning!
This probably has to do with ratings over bias. Ohio State nearly fills their stadium for the Spring Game, which to me represents a little more excitment amongst their fan base for Spring ball. The most I have ever seen for a Spring Game here was like 60,000
Putting up a goose egg and losing by 31 makes you the king of the conference? Penn State is on top for now.
They are excited for sure...nothing else to do in the worst state ever.
Except Cedar Point, but that doesn't open until May.
Clearly you've never been to West Virginia
March 29th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
than Michigan and Columbus is giant compared to Ann Arbor. No other Power 5 school in the state is also a nice benefit that results in 100k for a spring game.
Is this obvious bias? I'm pretty sure OSU announced their spring game first. Wouldn't it be a lot more biased to agree to air OSU's game and then bounce it when UM decides to do it at the same time? Also, what makes them idiots? I think you might be calling Harbaugh the idiot for choosing this time slot, but 1. I don't care that it's delayed and 2. I doubt Harbaugh cares either. This feels like manufactured anger about nothing.
I'd love to hear about these annual bad calls designed to screw Michigan in multiple sports.
Does the Big Ten budget for it? Or have a designated schedule that says which UM sports are getting screwed which years? How do they plan it? On odd years following a leap year and presidential election do they decide to boost the number of exclusions in the women's water polo games? Or is that only on even years that are divisible by 4?
I'm confused by this elaborate planning and execution, and eagerly await your well reasoned, well evidenced, and not at all conspiracy-theory-filled response.
You know they don't do kickoffs in the spring game, right WD?
*Virtual Toe meets leather at 1pm.
In the recent election, I often heard a phrase repeated that seems appropriate here: You cannot reason people out of something they were not reasoned into.
optimizing the start time for the people who are actually there, or optimizing the start time for TV purposes?
Being this is a spring game, I'd argue this is one case where you should optimize for the "fans in the stands." And 1 PM seems a little bit better vs. 3 PM in that regard. (1) You get more of your day on the back end. (2) More of the game is being played when the sun is highest, which can be important in April when it can still be chilly in the shade.
Regardless, the game will always be available to the die-hards for viewing at any time on BTN2Go.
Michigan has a huge fan-base, of course.
But the number of fans who:
(1) are interested in the spring game (this is generally the die-hard fans and the ones who use it as a social occasion),
(2) aren't actually going (now we're just down to a sub-set of die-hards)
(3) are going to be upset because they have to watch it on a 2-hour-delay vs. live .......
that doesn't sound like an enormous group.
don't know if I am oddity in this regard but I live and die Michigan football, go to games annually or pretty close and record every game and save the really good wins for years. All of this, and the Spring Game does nothing for me. I have really never watched it and often forget it is on.
Oh well then piss off why don't ya
it done.
Relax. If you are in Ann Arbor, you see it live. If you cannot attend in person, that two hour delay will not be the end of times.
before you edited it.......
It doesn't bother me that much. I will say that last year's game was fantastic - I love the format, the competition, and how it felt more like an actual game than the things from a few years ago. I still remember that team White won and I barely remember anything about spring games.
done and done.
It's the Michigan-hating liberal media and their bias, I tells ya. Back in my day, women wore dresses, "the gays" stayed closeted, and Michigan's Spring Game was on the radio (or available via telegraph)!!!
Well, I will be there live for all the wild speculation that normally arises from the Spring Game as well as to enjoy the only glimmer of collegiate football I will get until August. Do I care if it is televised live? No, not really.
Was there a reason I am supposed to intensely dislike this other than the fact that ours probably is not the ratings king of spring games? Actually, come to think of it, I don't care about that either.
Why the rage, WD?