billyjack wrote:Speaking of exposure, i find the exposure during games on ESPN News of empty seats at Houston, Temple and even Gampel Pavilion to be pretty interesting. This exposure on ESPN News has taught me that the prime seats at both Houston and Temple are red, which matches their team colors... while at the same time, East Carolina and UConn have gray empty seats, which does not match their colors. Weird. Thanks "ESPN News" telecasts...!
On a similar note, i like ESPN U football telecasts of Pitt games and Miami (Fla) games. It's cool how the seventy-thousand empty seats at Heinz Field are in "Steelers' yellow" and don't match Pitt's colors, whereas the seventy-thousand empty seats at the Joe Robbie Replacement Stadium are "Dolphins' orange" and they do match both the Hurricanes' orange school colors and also the Hurricanes' alums' and boosters' orange prison jumpsuits like Aaron Hernandez's.
I don't know, i just think that's cool.
All that tells me is that we would get better slots than the AAC as we have better teams/fanbases.
Besides DePaul, I think every team in our conference has a good to great fanbase.
BE teams that are good for TV.
1. Nova (highly ranked, packs the house)
2. Georgetown (national prestige)
3. St. Johns (MSG)
4. Xavier (Cintas is packed every game, some national prestige)
5. Creighton (16,000 + fans)
6. Providence (Cooley, Dunn and Henton are all great stories)
7. Marquette (great fanbase, and they will be a good team in a year or two. Wojo could be a star as well)
The AAC has some good teams, but half the time they are all playing so god awful bottom tier AAC team. On the other hand, we have a great matchup virtually every game night.
It sucks, but FS1 is a bust so far. Think if we were on ESPN this year how different the perception would be.