2020-21 College Basketball thread

Gonzaga coach Few cited for DUI

 

Or would it be a streaming service. We have basically watched television dramas move from networks to streaming. It is hard to believe sports will not follow.

 

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Few too many?

 

I know SWAC schools do like to rack up the paychecks with bodybag games when it comes to basketball. Many don't even play home games until the conference schedule starts in January. But holy shit, this schedule for Alcorn State.
Thirteen road games in November and December, including three of last year's Final Four teams (Gonzaga, Baylor and Houston; they also played the latter two last season) and a few other tournament regulars, for a team that went 6-13 last season and hasn't won a non-conference game against another Division I program since beating Samford in 2012.
Yikes.

Men's Basketball Non-conference Schedule Released - Alcorn State University Athletics

 

Alcorn State plays four games in nine days: Dec. 14 at Wichita State; Dec. 16 at Tulsa; Dec. 20 at Baylor and Dec. 22 at Oklahoma.

That's just brutal. I feel bad for those players, though I understand why the school plays that kind of schedule.

 

We’re reaching the threshold on number of streaming sites I can keep track of. If sports follows to exclusive streams for each league/ conference, there are whole chunks of sports I’ll just stop following because it’s too intrusive to keep clicking between apps. (Apple’s TV app tries to solve this, but it is clunky.)

I found I once again enjoy my overpriced Direct TV package.

 

And I bet you are a person who enjoys a home delivered newspaper. Which is, like DirectTV, another product that is seeing subscriber numbers decline.

 

No. And newspapers don’t have 20 different apps sitting on my Apple TV screen right now that I have to switch between on college football Saturday for my second screen viewing. My big TV has Direct, which has a six- screen sports channel where I can watch all of them at once. (ESPN’s app freezes continuously when put into quad view).

The streams will be bundled someday. And it will look like cable TV.

We’re just making a giant loop back to cable TV, but with the internet.

 

We still have cable because of the ease of watching college football and the abundance of channels I have that show it. I know I could get some of that on a package with a non-cable provider, but the truth is where we are, it would not save me a whole lot of money maybe 30 or 40 bucks. And I'm just not ready to give it up. We have another year or so left on our current cable contract and I think we'll probably take a look at cutting the cord then. But what my cable gives me for football is worth it.

 

Is 4 games in 9 days in December really that brutal?

 

When you’re on the bus to four different cities (I promise you Alcorn is not chartering to the Great Plains), I would say so.