Comments on: Highlighters & Headsets: Critiquing College Gameday

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:12:38 +0000

My biggest beef with Gameday is Hubert Davis — someone needs to tell him that he’s not on the NFL Today, so he can cut all the rollicking fake-laughter shit out.

By: JimmyLemke

JimmyLemke — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:07:49 +0000

That’s why I love the Horizon League Network. All home games for free online. AWESOME

By: The Hemogoblin

The Hemogoblin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:50:30 +0000

I know that GameDay once went to Hinkle Fieldhouse for a Butler game a couple of years ago. I remember them making some giant deal out of it because of Hoosiers.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:45:18 +0000

“there is absolutely no reason to go to Durham, Lexington, or Bloomington every other week.”

Bloomington? I agree they need to get out of going to places like Lawrence and Chapel Hill every week, just not sure ESPN GameDay was around the last time Bloomington was relevant.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:39:04 +0000

Other than Gonzaga (who I don’t consider a mid-major), just about the only time ESPN went to a non-BCS school that I know of when they went to Carbondale, IL for a match-up between the SIU Salukis (when we were still pretty good) and the Creighton BlueJays. It was a great day and the crowd was intense. Yes, the game didn’t have a lot of TV value (final score: 48-44 Salukis) but I am surprised that they’ve never gone back to a mid-major school.

By: Steve Moore

Steve Moore — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:04:42 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Yeah I just think it could be a lot better if they thought outside the box and let their hair down a little bit. College hoops inherently has more atmosphere than football, yet it comes across dull and boring on TV.

As for JR’s question: Now that I can get ESPN3 stuff on my TV via my XBOX360 (best. partnership. ever.), I’d be happy to pay $100 or even $200 for the year to be able to literally watch any game I wanted. They already charge more than that for ESPN Full Court, which has a very limited scope as it is.

By: garik16

garik16 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:49:34 +0000

Having been to gameday twice (When you’re in the walk-up line for Duke-Carolina, your sole advantage over tenters is that you can go to college gameday as you’re actually, you know, at the stadium), I totally agree.

The whole thing is freaking staged. Duke’s student section doesn’t do large signs, or the given out commercial signage, but they basically hand these out and require people to make signs (or well not require, but heavily push it on the fans who are there). It’s just lame.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:01:34 +0000

Excellent point on going to other areans (too many good ones to list but there are great rivalries out that) and these less frequent stops will draw more enthusiastic crowds who may never get to experience it again.

As far as the yelling, that seems a product of being inside a loud arena and so close to the fans. They have to yell to hear themselves talk. NCAAF Gameday is seperated a bit from the stands on a stage, not so with NCAAB.

Finally, I love ESPN3. Dropped cable because of all the games I can watch. I miss out on some but there are more than enough to make up for it on ESPN3.

My question is, how much would you be willing to pay per year for unlimited access to every D1 game the NCAA has? You can watch on demand, search the game you want, etc.