2008 Citrus Bowl on BTN
Is Sasha a cocker spaniel? Reminds me of my old buddy Clyde the cocker spaniel
It's fucking terrible. It's always this, UTL 1...every now and again they'll show the 2008 Wisconsin comeback or the ugly game at Northwestern.
Literally all of the content on BTN is trash nowadays...which frustrating because the SEC Network is so much better. Even the Pac-12 Network is better.
It's like everyone at BTN left in 2012 and never came back to work.
The network used to be cutting edge and awesome with their programming. I don't understand why they don't mimick ESPN with more shows, play new old games, come up with a fresh way to do the elite players/elite teams programming and expand on the Journey show.
There is literally no reason to ever watch BTN right now unless it's a live Michigan game. I'd cut it off if I wouldn't lose the rest of my sports package.
It's TV Land, but for B1G sports.
I'd rather give my $$$ to the local bar during the four-ish times per season UM plays on BTN than to fucking Comcast.
up early (or late depending on how you look at it) with my one year old this morning. They were showing Northwestern v. Nebraska 2014, a very non-descript non-overtime matchup between two very bad teams. The listing called it "Classic College Football." I did a facepalm and turned it to CNN.
It could be worse - it could be ESPN which now shows NOTHING but the talking heads that are left over from the mass exodus.
At least you can't say ESPN doesn't cover the important issues with all the full extent of their resources.
If they have a few talking heads that people watch, but people hate...so what.
Why not have a version of Highly Questionable, PTI or Around The Horn? Can you not talk about ANY national topics?
Why not mock 30 for 30? Tiebreakers and some of the other documentaries have been awesome.
Can they not do an E:60 type show? I saw Brock Mealer 100 times on ESPN and they constantly went back and updated the story for a follow up until the man got married.
Where is a live sportscenter type show? It doesn't need to run all morning or all night, but 30 minutes in the AM and 30 minutes in the PM is solid programming.
If you steal those things from ESPN and expand on The Journey, expand on the B1G Elite series or the Elite teams series. Have 1 on 1 sit down interviews with coaches and players like Real Sports on HBO. Do some actual reporting (kind of like the E:60 or Outside The Lines).
And then SHOW MORE GAMES!
If it isn't live programming I do not watch anything they have to offer.
unfortunately, that's all they're required to show and possibly all they're incentivized to show, since that alone will get them on all cable packages in NY and hey, that's all that matters right
at least until un-bundling becomes more common, then they'll try harder
Fun, but pretty much all Denard
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Maybe there are contractual issues with that content since it was shown on ABC back in the day. I don't think the B1G network is that bad. At least not bad enough to watch the SEC or Pac 12 network. Honestly in the summer months, I would rather be outside doing other things anyway. I live in Michigan, we only get 4 - 5 months of good weather.
You Tube them. My latest was 2004 Michigan at Purdue. Shazier destroyed some dude at the end and we locked up the game with the fumble recovery. Good times.
I stopped watching full games a long time ago. WHs youtube channel has everything I need.
they were fairly balanced. They love the 1997 Ohio State and game and the Rose Bowl following it. They show Braylon-fest quite a bit and the 2000 Orange Bowl is not infrequent. I never felt as though there was more Michigan losses than wins on ESPN Classic.
Today on BTN they're showing that crazy 3OT game against Illinois where our defense gave up 65 points to the Illinois.
At least we actually won.
*sigh*
I'm really exposing my dorkness level here but around 2005-ish, I wrote down every single Michigan football game I remembered seeing replayed on Classic over the previous several years and our winning percentage was about 37%.
Sure, they showed the 2000 Orange Bowl, the 1998 Rose Bowl and they were very generous to us during OSU week with plenty of wins over them, mostly from the 80's/early 90's, but the rest of the time was doom, and that was by far the majority. Name any heartbreaking loss from the 80's, 90's and very early 2000's and they showed it. And I'm being serious when I say that. It's just that some losses were played much more than others, like Kordell Stewart or the index card game in South Bend.
If someone completely unknowledgeable about the history of football watched ESPN Classic between 1998 and 2006, they would assume Michigan was the Wake Forest of college football. It's why I started my YouTube account in '07, because I was sick of the constant replays of losses so I decided to upload every win I had even if it was 40 point win over Indiana from 30 years ago.
think they ever showed the 2005 home loss to Notre Dame on Classic, nor do I recall the 2003 Iowa loss. Hah! How you like them apples?!
I don't know that it's necessarily anti-Michigan bias though. It's entirely possible that some of these "classic" games are from the perspective of the other team. When middling teams end up beating Michigan--even in a non-exciting game where Michigan just derps its way through a lackluster game--it has a "Man Bites Dog" quality--thus the term "classic" is hung on it.
Michigan beating Purdue 17-10 does not a classic make. Purdue beating Michigan 17-10 might.....from the perspective of Purdue fans or Michigan haters.
yeah but back then no one was trying to pull down your channel
to think that this 4 game rotation garbage on btn justifies that...
honestly if the games are all online minus those 4, everyone should be happy
I'm sure it's a licensing issue, but starting in June/July, I'd love to see them do a "Season In Review" schedule that showed the 60 minute version of all the games every team played the prior year. That'd be about 12-13 hours of programming (assuming bowl game), but of course once you hit Big Ten play, several of those games would kill two birds w/ one stone.
You would schedule them for garbage time--mid day, late night, etc but w/ DVR technology, most die hard fans would record that stuff & watch it later.
For prime-time this summer in June/July, you could do shows that focus on Big Ten olympic hopefuls as we ramp up for the 2016 games. Then once August hits you counter-program the Olympics with wall-to-wall coverage of fall camp & previewing the 2016 football season.