Thanks a lot ESPN

[Matt1735]

Watching Ohio State - Florida on ESPN2 while Duke is winning on the main station. They break into the OSU game for the final seconds of Coach K's win.

If I wanted to watch that game, I would have watched... Instead I was watching Ohio State and Florida for a reason.

Then ESPN2 stays with it through a stupid ****ing interview.

Really ESPN, I know you and Duke love each other, but if I wanted to watch, I would have.

Thanks.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Blown away Vitale wasn't announcing.

 

[MileHigh]

He was there. On the floor among the photographers, on his knees.

That or he's waiting back at the hotel.

As mentioned on the other thread, this was an ESPN wet dream come true.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Stupid.

But it is ESPN.

 

[marvinhall05]

I wasn't a big fan of the cut into the Duke game...UF was shooting themselves out of the game so I wasn't totally outraged by the change

 

[Starman]

It's not enough to power-slurp K on one channel, they have to do it on all of them.

 

[MileHigh]

It's not enough to power-slurp K on one channel, they have to do it on all of them.

I think they cut to it on ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN Classic.

And of course it's dominating ESPN.com

 

[apeman33]

What in the blue hell happened that caused the Kansas-Kentucky game to start an hour late? The schedule I have had an 8 p.m. Central time tipoff. Was it wrong?

 

[KYSportsWriter]

What in the blue hell happened that caused the Kansas-Kentucky game to start an hour late? The schedule I have had an 8 p.m. Central time tipoff. Was it wrong?

You serious?

The Duke-Michigan State game ran long, and it didn't help matters that ESPN had a mini-party for Coach K after the game.

 

[MileHigh]

What in the blue hell happened that caused the Kansas-Kentucky game to start an hour late? The schedule I have had an 8 p.m. Central time tipoff. Was it wrong?

They always do that for some stupid reason. Doubleheader at the Garden and you've got 25 minutes between games. College basketball games typically take about two hours, if not more. Duke-Michigan State didn't start until closer till 5:15 MST. Lots and lots of late fouls pushed the ending closer to 7:25, 7:30 MST. Then all the fellatio for Krzyzewski. Then the confetti and Dukie V had to be cleaned up off the court, the other teams had to warm up. Boom, you've got an 8:08 MST start.

 

[SalukiNC]

OSU won by 7 on November 15 ... Coach K became Division I's winningest coach ... Real toss-up there.

 

[apeman33]

What in the blue hell happened that caused the Kansas-Kentucky game to start an hour late? The schedule I have had an 8 p.m. Central time tipoff. Was it wrong?

You serious?

The Duke-Michigan State game ran long, and it didn't help matters that ESPN had a mini-party for Coach K after the game.

No TV here. And our internet is too piddly to run ESPN3. And now I'm going to have to redesign a page because our deadline is 11 p.m.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

OSU won by 7 on November 15 ... Coach K became Division I's winningest coach ... Real toss-up there.

He broke the record; we know that.

It's the way ESPN handled it that has people rankled.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

What in the blue hell happened that caused the Kansas-Kentucky game to start an hour late? The schedule I have had an 8 p.m. Central time tipoff. Was it wrong?

You serious?

The Duke-Michigan State game ran long, and it didn't help matters that ESPN had a mini-party for Coach K after the game.

No TV here. And our internet is too piddly to run ESPN3. And now I'm going to have to redesign a page because our deadline is 11 p.m.

Gotcha.

 

[Tarheel316]

My feelings about this are probably obvious.

 

[PeterGibbons]

I really hope this doesn't cut into Sportscenter's 20+ minutes of NBA lockout coverage

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

ESPN fails to cover the Penn State story, we say "HOW DARE THEY!?!?!?!!?!?!"

ESPN cuts away to the biggest sports story of the day (and a rather big one historically) and we say "HOW DARE THEY?!?!?!?!?!!?"

I understand the consternation. It's not like winning more than 900 games is anthing special, after all.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I don't think ESPN is alone in overhyping this. Fox Sports' Bill Reiter:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/Mike-Krzyzewski-coaching-milestone-is-one-to-savor-111511

Savor this. Enjoy this. Remember how this felt when it happened. Realize that on Tuesday night, when Michael William Krzyzewski became the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history with his 903rd win, we finally experienced authentic greatness.

This moment did not need to be forced, shined, spun or hyped. Duke’s 74-69 win over Michigan State at Madison Square Garden was the thing America loves to proclaim but rarely sees: an all-time moment, a glimpse of incredible and lasting greatness, an achievement that actually meets our desire to experience events, sporting and otherwise, that we can rank among the most important of all time.

W.T.F.

I could seriously list 50 moments this year alone that are more memorable than this. And I have no idea what "authentic greatness" is, or why Dean Smith didn't achieve authentic greatness, or why this achievement is any authentically greater than Aaron Rodgers winning the Super Bowl MVP or Dirk and the boys stuffing it in LeBron's cakehole or Game 6 of the World Series.

The MSN.com headline of that column says "Coach K's moment one we'll tell our kids about." I'm not even going to tell my kids when they wake up in eight hours.

Seriously was there some laughing gas pumped into the MSG air conditioning or something?

 

[murphyc]

Last Saturday I turned on ESPN after breakfast (about 8:40 a.m. PT) to catch the end of ESPN College GameDay, so I could catch the picks for the week. Instead, ESPN was showing pre-game stuff from Penn State. So was ESPN2. I don't get the other ESPN channels, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were all showing it. If I had wanted to watch anything from the Penn State-Nebraska game, I would have purposely tuned into the channel covering it. I don't know how short GameDay was cut, but I turned on ESPN at that time specifically to watch that show, not pre-game crap from (Un)Happy Valley.

 

[HanSenSE]

I don't think ESPN is alone in overhyping this. Fox Sports' Bill Reiter:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/Mike-Krzyzewski-coaching-milestone-is-one-to-savor-111511

Savor this. Enjoy this. Remember how this felt when it happened. Realize that on Tuesday night, when Michael William Krzyzewski became the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history with his 903rd win, we finally experienced authentic greatness.

This moment did not need to be forced, shined, spun or hyped. Duke’s 74-69 win over Michigan State at Madison Square Garden was the thing America loves to proclaim but rarely sees: an all-time moment, a glimpse of incredible and lasting greatness, an achievement that actually meets our desire to experience events, sporting and otherwise, that we can rank among the most important of all time.

W.T.F.

I could seriously list 50 moments this year alone that are more memorable than this. And I have no idea what "authentic greatness" is, or why Dean Smith didn't achieve authentic greatness, or why this achievement is any authentically greater than Aaron Rodgers winning the Super Bowl MVP or Dirk and the boys stuffing it in LeBron's cakehole or Game 6 of the World Series.

The MSN.com headline of that column says "Coach K's moment one we'll tell our kids about." I'm not even going to tell my kids when they wake up in eight hours.

Seriously was there some laughing gas pumped into the MSG air conditioning or something?

This is part of why I'll miss the NBA this winter. College hoops has become all about the coaches, not the players. Can we get a network just for Vitale and his ilk to go on and on about coaches 24/7, and leave the rest of the networks to the games?