Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

[Skeeterman]

ESPN's coverage has got to be the laziest ever. The main deal is sports center, with some breaks to watch hockey. They couldn't have done any coverage of the teams? Any stories of the games leading up to this one? Maybe a summary of each team's season?

They didn't even cover all the regionals live. Can Fox Sports please take the NCAAs back again?

When will all these rhetorical questions end?

[RaceBoarder]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

ESPN's coverage has got to be the laziest ever. The main deal is sports center, with some breaks to watch hockey. They couldn't have done any coverage of the teams? Any stories of the games leading up to this one? Maybe a summary of each team's season?

They didn't even cover all the regionals live. Can Fox Sports please take the NCAAs back again?

When will all these rhetorical questions end?

When you take a Business 101 and/or Economics 101 class...

College hockey doesn't make ESPN money...

[huskyfan]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

I would like to see more Tiger Woods coverage during the hockey.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

The NCAA sells hockey along with a lot of other sports ESPN wants in the same package. Thus we're stuck with them, the network that doesn't care for the most important games of the year.

[bronconick]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

Ooh, right. Fox Sports. That's a great plan.

The NCAA Frozen Four: Live in Minnesota and Massachusetts...when a Boston team is there. Ignored in 48 other states.

Hockey is behind women's basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball and lacrosse alone in the package the NCAA makes ESPN buy if they wanted to show the women's bouncyball stuff. It gets literally no ratings. Dogs sitting on remotes across the country to show static get higher numbers.

You think the fact that the NHL gives away network rights and couldn't find anyone outside of a bull-riding/tour de france network at the time (it's since upgraded to MWC football and UFC, apparently) to pay anything to show games would be a hint. Here's another. The US is not like Minnesota. Most of the rest of us will be going into work at jobs Monday where if we brought up the BC-Wisconsin game, no one will know what we're talking about. If we're unusually lucky, one other person in 100 might.

[Puck Swami]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

ESPN's coverage has got to be the laziest ever.

This year, they had a record 15 cameras in Detroit. They didn't just mail it in.

[GreenCat]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

Ooh, right. Fox Sports. That's a great plan.

The NCAA Frozen Four: Live in Minnesota and Massachusetts...when a Boston team is there. Ignored in 48 other states.

Hockey is behind women's basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball and lacrosse alone in the package the NCAA makes ESPN buy if they wanted to show the women's bouncyball stuff. It gets literally no ratings. Dogs sitting on remotes across the country to show static get higher numbers.

You think the fact that the NHL gives away network rights and couldn't find anyone outside of a bull-riding/tour de france network at the time (it's since upgraded to MWC football and UFC, apparently) to pay anything to show games would be a hint. Here's another. The US is not like Minnesota. Most of the rest of us will be going into work at jobs Monday where if we brought up the BC-Wisconsin game, no one will know what we're talking about. If we're unusually lucky, one other person in 100 might.

Much of the problem with the NHL is they wait 'til summer to start the playoffs when everyone is playing Golf and other summer sports when some of the best hockey is played. The NCAA waits two weeks into late spring waiting for the bouncy ball finals before the hockey finals. Both think they are making money doing this when reality is rhat if they played a winter sport in the fall and winter they might actually get some viewership. Poor management from both and the NHL shows no interest in college hockey unlike the NBA that highlights the college game. Start hockey earlier and get the frozen four done before basketball.

[WildKitty]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

Could be worse. The game was interrupted for an EAS out here... I mean, who times that??? Do you think that would happen during squeaky ball finals??? *sigh*

[SteveP]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

The NCAA sells hockey along with a lot of other sports ESPN wants in the same package. Thus we're stuck with them, the network that doesn't care for the most important games of the year.

Three games, three blowouts is likely not going to impress the suits in Bristol.

[ericredaxe]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

A few more minutes of post game would have been nice... seemed like they could not navigate away from Ford Field quickly enough.

[LtPowers]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

The NCAA waits two weeks into late spring waiting for the bouncy ball finals before the hockey finals.

In what strange corner of the world is early April "late spring"?


Powers &8^]

[Priceless]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

ESPN's coverage has got to be the laziest ever. The main deal is sports center, with some breaks to watch hockey. They couldn't have done any coverage of the teams? Any stories of the games leading up to this one? Maybe a summary of each team's season?

They didn't even cover all the regionals live. Can Fox Sports please take the NCAAs back again?

When will all these rhetorical questions end?

Average number of viewers for the regionals: 57,500
Viewers for the Michigan/BSU game: 5,750

Viewers for a typical night of the World Series of Poker: 1 million.
For the final table: 2.1 million

College hockey is very close to being completely irrelevant.

[GreenCat]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

In what strange corner of the world is early April "late spring"?


Powers &8^]

Global Warming We have had record 70 degree weather in March this year. Feels like summer....Probably due for a foot of snow soon to remind us it is New England.

[SteveP]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

A few more minutes of post game would have been nice... seemed like they could not navigate away from Ford Field quickly enough.

My thoughts exactly as soon as Thorne said "for more, go to ESPN News"

Ridiculous.

[IrishHockeyFan]

Re: Sports Center--interrupted by a hockey game.

A few more minutes of post game would have been nice... seemed like they could not navigate away from Ford Field quickly enough.

They didn't even wait for the top of the hour. SportsCenter kicked off at 9:56. To not even bother waiting for 10:00 (when the next program was scheduled to begin anyway) shows you just how much college hockey bleeds viewers away from ESPN.

My gripe with the coverage is the haste with which ESPN leads viewers away from college hockey even in the intermissions. I mean no one but NCAA hockey fans are tuned in anyway, so how about something more about our sport? Of course that would require production costs, and SportsCenter highlites don't, so there's your answer to that.