College Sports on TV...

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<p>I am not a sports fanatic (don’t ask me who’s who, or where they are in the polls, or what the players’ names are), BUT I really enjoy watching college sports on TV. I think that March is the best TV watching month of the entire year because of the men’s and women’s basketball championships.</p>

<p>So when ESPN came into existence a while back, I thought, good - I’ll get to turn to that and watch some sports events. So the other day when there were lots of good events taking place, what kinds of things do I see on ESPN and ESPN2? Rodeo, Poker, SportsCenter (which must be on a gazillion times a day), and on and on. What happened to Sports, especially college sports? So I paid extra to get ESPN-U, which is ALL college sports. What do I get? Lots of repeats of the previous week’s football games.</p>

<p>So with everything going on in college sports, why can’t the sport channels deliver any of that to us? Why can’t there be a Women’s Sports channel? I love NCAA Women’s basketball, especially the playoffs (which ESPN2 broadcasts). But what about other games during the season? What about soccer, what about volleyball, what about… </p>

<p>Grrrr. Just a rant. I guess that with all the other niche programming, a channel devoted entirely to college sports (or two channels - a mens channel and a womens channel) would be worth paying for. And SportsCenter (and other “original programming”) would be banned from this channel!</p>

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<p>as much as i hate to support any of rupert murdochs ventures, the fox sports channels are pretty good. The normal fox sports channel, soccer channel, and then a series of geographically focused channels which allow me to watch different sports from all the major conferences.</p>

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<p>digmedia, the problem is the size of the audience is so small for most sports. </p>

<p>I would love to see division 3 sports on tv. I would love to see more college soccer on tv. </p>

<p>The audience just isn’t there.</p>

<p>Maybe, we will be able to watch some of these sports on the internet someday.</p>

<p>Oh, and there is a college sports channel. CSTV</p>

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<p>fox soccer channel just finished its first season of live college soccer games, fridays at 8. there are talks of expanding the coverage, and maybe not rerunning every premiership game 3-5 times</p>

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<p>I have to pay better attention.</p>

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<p>dig, I have no doubt that the day is fast approaching when we will be able to see all of this. Just think how much things have changed since we were kids: A handful of college basketball games on the weekend, 1 or 2 big football games on Saturday. No college baseball, softball, etc. even at the Division I level. In addition to CSTV there is ESPN U now – not sure how widespread the availability is (we don’t get it).</p>

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<p>FCSP and FCSC also exist as college sports networks.</p>

<p>Are the college soccer championships going to be on tv?</p>

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<p>FSN tries and comes close, but who needs to hear jocks and wantabes talking about sports in Best Damn Sports Show. Just show the damn games…</p>

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<p>the final games (semis and finals) of the NCAA soccer tournaments are usually on TV.</p>

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<p>I think some of it must be regional–springtime in Maryland brings lacrosse 24/7</p>

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<p>I remain entirely opposed to D1 sports the way it is. Scholarships for undeserving students while the most meritorious usually get nothing…that is ridiculous. College sports on TV is merely making the athletics system even more corrupt.</p>