What if someone aired a Michigan game and no one watched it on TV. Amazingly, that happened last Saturday. How insane were the cable companies and Big Ten to agree to that? Is this good business or total insanity? Now Big Ten has a total monopoly on these games? Incredible.
People said pirates disappeared hundreds of years ago...they're still around, they run cable companies...
2007-09-03 19:54:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
The problem isn't so much with the cable companies, it's with the Big 10. I have Comcast, and it was explained to me that the reason they are not carrying it is because the Big 10 wanted it to be given to all basic customers. Comcast, on the other hand, would like to make it a part of an extended sports package so that the people who really want the network would be paying for it. I follow the Big 10 simply because I live in Illinois, and would like to see more football games and basketball games broadcast.However, the truly big games will still be covered by the networks - we're not going to lose the Michigan-Ohio State game. I don't want my cable bill to go up 4 or 5 dollars a month just so I can see a women's gymnastics meet between Iowa and Minnesota. As much as I feel the cable companies tend to rake their customer's over the coals a bit, in this case, the Big 10 must shoulder most of the responsibility for the fact that its' fans will not be seeing as much of its' product. This may end up biting them in the future. Many of the elite athletes, particularly in basketball and football, are looking to go pro aafter college. If the Big 10 does not get the same exposure as other big conferences, such as the SEC or the Pac 10, they will see fewer of these athletes, and the level of play will continue to drop.I think they have overestimated the drawing power they have. As a fan of college football, I'll simply pay more attention to the other conferences, and hope that they evemtually realize that there are plenty of other teams out there to watch. I do have to beg to disagree with the person who said this is like Notre Dame negotiating the rights to their games. Last I checked, NBC was a regular broadcast network. It costs nothing to see those games.
2007-09-04 04:02:24 · answer #1 · answered by artistictrophy@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that the early non-conference games ar a joke in the Big 10.
But, how is having the Big Ten Network any worse than what Notre Dame did?
They negotiated to have all their games shown nationally and no one has a problem with that.
I think The Big TEN Network is a good idea.
2007-09-04 01:37:31 · answer #2 · answered by mr_cj_jr 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Does the big ten have its own cable station now?
Sorry to answer your question with a question.
2007-09-03 20:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by grouch2111 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would watch the WAC channel before I would watch the Big 10 channel
2007-09-04 00:46:54 · answer #4 · answered by 502EGL 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well it was supposed to be a big blow out so they did not think the game would be good enough for TV. If mich had won then there would be no talk of this.
2007-09-04 00:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by Cowboy87 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
mr.piston I agree with you greed is bad and it taking over our country
2007-09-04 00:26:19 · answer #6 · answered by paulcondo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋