Purdue plays in the Paradise Jam this weekend, and you'd think the P-Jam people would want to showcase their growing event. And maybe they do, but figuring out what games will be on TV and what channels will carry the games is an exercise in frustration.According to the Purdue athletic site, the games will be carried by Fox College Sports -- well, Sunday's semi-finals and Mondays finals games will be anyway. As for Friday's tilt against South Dakota State? Good luck with that. It's not like Purdue is the 7th-ranked team in the country or anything... oh wait, no, they are.
After Friday night's game, Purdue will have played two exhibition contests and two regular season games and exactly zero out of four will have televised.
Well-done. Well-done, indeed.
6 comments:
Incompetence.
Probably because Purdue isn't as big a brand of basketball as Notre Dame.
The ESPN360 broadcast wasn't bad. (I know alot of people still can't get it). The color guy was a little know-it-all, but I'd take that crew over Vitale & sidekick any day.
As for not being on TV. It hurts in the polls & nat'l image & maybe recruiting, but don't we kinda want this team to fly under the radar?
I put all the Purdue games & television arrangements into Outlook last week. We're going to do pretty well on ESPN appearances. The end of the Big 10 slate has 3 weekend games that each have CBS potential (Ill, MSU, @ PSU).
But yes, the Paradise Jam screwed up. How can you make any money on a tourney if you can't figure out a television contract & promotion?
Chris -- yeah, that's my point. Hurts program visibility in a few ways. And there's no flying under the radar when you're top ten in all publications and ESPN has multiple experts picking you for the Final Four. Of course, several of them are picking Butler, too, so well, there's that.
I agree that the ESPN360 feed wasn't bad at all -- best viewed on a 15 inch laptop screen or else it begins to get pixely. But I don't even think that's an option right now.
My best hope is that my dish gets Fox College Sports, which I think it must.
You can check online to see if it does.
For me, DirecTV does carry it: FCS and FCS alternate, 617 and 623.
It's just as well, because I have a local DSL company and they don't support ESPN360 ...
Wow, glad I got AT&T U-Verse to get BTN. Ugh.
Luckily, though, as your Boilermaker representative from Southern California, I actually do get FCS Pacific. So I think I'll get to see the semis and finals.
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