Watching College Baseball On Television - One More Reason To Leave the Big 12

by Jon Johnston on Feb 17, 2010 4:00 PM CST in Nebraska Husker Baseball

Perhaps the people in charge of the Big 12 should start here.

College baseball season begins anew this weekend, and I'm sure you're wondering where you can catch all the games this season.

The SEC and ESPN together with FSN and Comcast will feature 46 SEC baseball games on TV this season. If you want the complete, ginormous list, you can download the PDF here.

The Big 10, the cold-weather conference that's been largely irrelevant in college baseball for the past, oh, 40 years, will be showing 33 games on the Big 10 Network, you know, that one that features "second and third tier sporting events". They're most likely all going to be in HD, too. Imagine that, college baseball in HD. Wow, technology.

Up next, the Big 12. After the jump comes your enormous, humongous long-listing of the Big 12 games that will be shown on television this season. I had to move it after the jump because it would take up the whole front page.

This is it!!!!

Sunday, March 28: Texas at Texas Tech, Noon
Saturday, April 10: Missouri at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 17: Texas at Texas A&M, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 24: Kansas State at Missouri, 2 p.m.
Saturday, May 1: Kansas at Oklahoma State 2 p.m.
Sunday, May 30: Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, 1 p.m. AT&T Bricktown Ballpark; Oklahoma City

Five. Five friggin' Big 12 games on television, not including the Big 12 championship game. My hands were worn out from typing all that. I'm sure that had they added a sixth game it might have overwhelmed Fox Sports ability to carry the signal.

Might I remind everyone that the Big 12 features Texas, the #1-ranked Texas Longhorns, probably the finest college baseball program in the nation (and if you don't think it pains me to say that you can kiss my patootie)?

Oh, but, hey, at least we're ahead of Conference USA..... oh, wait! We're not. They'll have 13 games on television, including one that features (gasp!), the Texas Longhorns and Rice which will be well worth watching because both teams will feature great pitching.

Is it any wonder why schools might be considering leaving this conference? Is there any question whatsoever about how far beyond it's fallen? Who runs this damned thing, anyway?

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Well, at least Texas home games will be available online for free.

I’m not sure about the rest of the Big XII.

by Texas Wahoo on Feb 17, 2010 4:17 PM CST reply actions

As much as I hate the big 10 in general...

They really did a much better job at calculating the value of collegiate sports in general and realized that there was large amounts of interest and potential profit making to be had in areas where it was assumed none existed. (at least on the conference side, not the ESPN side, they were cashing in like crazy) If you remember when there was discussion about the Big Ten forming its own channel, one of the issues mentioned was that while people would watch Indiana vs. Illinois in football, would people watch them play in sports like women’s volleyball? Turns out that there is a market for that, in addition to ESPN not provided fair market value for cf in general.

Now that the gig is up, ESPN has very little recourse but to throw tons of cash and coverage to the SEC when negotiating their deal. Honestly, there is no reason to believe that the PAC 10 deal coming up won’t be much larger (if not the formation of a Pac 10 network) as well as the Big XII. (if it exists in 2016) But you have to had it to the Big Ten, they were the first to realize they were ultimately being hosed by the ESPN.

by meatybob on Feb 17, 2010 4:32 PM CST reply actions

Not quite as bad as you think.

There are a few other games on FCS…

2010 FCS BIG 12 BASEBALL TELECAST SCHEDULE
Sunday, March 21: Nebraska at Texas, 1 p.m.
Sunday , April 18: Texas at Texas A&M, 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 25: Oklahoma at Texas A&M, 1 p.m.
Sunday, May 2: Baylor at Texas, 2:30 p.m.

http://www.texassports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/020410aaa.html

by tjguitar85 on Feb 17, 2010 9:51 PM CST reply actions

that

brings us up to nine.

Thanks for the info and the link!

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by Jon Johnston on Feb 18, 2010 7:49 AM CST up reply actions

I have this book....

funny stuff!

"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game;
In the deed the glory"

GO BIG RED!

by Brian Speers on Feb 18, 2010 8:21 AM CST reply actions

Don't forget NET!

Our fearless friends at NET have a bunch of games, some probably on CBS College Sports as well.

Tuesday, April 6th Creighton @ Nebraska
Tuesday, April 13th Wichita State @ Nebraska
Sunday, April 18th Kansas @ Nebraska
Tuesday, April 20th Nebraska @ Creighton
Friday, April 30th Texas A&M @ Nebraska

by Husker Mike on Feb 18, 2010 10:50 PM CST reply actions

i purposefully

did not include games that were provided inside Nebraska, nor streamed, because if I did that, the other conferences would kick our Big 12 asses by an even further margin.

Although, I do thank you for posting the games so people seeing this post know about them.

Question is – are those available outside Nebraska via streaming? I guess I’ll go find out.

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by Jon Johnston on Feb 19, 2010 8:09 AM CST up reply actions