ESPN passes on UNI

[Newshound]

For the final weekend of the regular season, ESPN2 had the choice of Evansville at UNI or Ill. State at Creighton. The network chose the latter, leaving the Valley to pick up E'ville at UNI. While ISU-Creighton may be the more "sexy" matchup, you'd think they would want to show possibly the league's regular-season champion -- especially if that game has any bearing on the league race.

[JayJ79]

Re: ESPN passes on UNI

here is the thought process behind the ESPN execs making that programming decision:

"why the heck would we want to show Northern Illinois? they have a 6-14 record"

[06panther10]

Re: ESPN passes on UNI

I guess the race for second place is much more interesting.

[9YRPLAN]

Re: ESPN passes on UNI

I guess the race for second place is much more interesting.

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and ill take that as a compliment
eff em

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: ESPN passes on UNI

They may also be thinking that Evansville will start to slow down a little bit with such a small rotation. They may also think that since UNI won in E'ville by close to 10 points, that a return game at home may not prove to be as tight. Whereas, the CU/ILSU game was much closer. Two teams with probably more 'national name' making a run at a conference title (or post-season berths) may be more interesting. I don't know...I'm just glad UNI got on tv that final weekend to make a push for post-season.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: ESPN passes on UNI

I guess the race for second place is much more interesting.

It is guaranteed to be a "race." Our "race" for first place is not.

[clenz]

Re: ESPN passes on UNI

here is the thought process behind the ESPN execs making that programming decision:

"why the heck would we want to show Northern Illinois? they have a 6-14 record"

How can that be? The said it themselves, Northern Illinois has an 11 game winning streak