Scheduling conflicts
Let me vent. For the second straight Saturday, the OU and OSU men’s basketball games go head-to-head on television. Last week, OSU played Texas A&M on ABC, with a start time about 20 minutes before the OU-Texas Tech game on the Big 12 Network. Today, it’s OU-Texas on ABC at 2:30 p.m., with OSU-Kansas at 3 p.m. on CBS.
That’s ridiculous. A ton of basketball fans would like to see both games. Last week, I tried something crazy — and it worked. I TiVo’d both games, but watched them at the same time. I started out with OSU, since the Cowboys tipped off first. After the OU game started, when a commercial arrived in the OSU game, I would jump to the OU game (from the start). So I would fast forward through commercials of both games and go back and forth. It certainly kept me on my toes, but I got to see both games in their virtual entirety.
This week is not so easy. Not that that was. Today, I’ll be at the Bedlam women’s game, which starts at 1 p.m. I thought about taping both men’s games, driving home from Lloyd Noble Center, write my column from home while watching both men’s games. But no way that would work. You can’t write AND watch two basketball games simultaneously. I don’t think.
Anyway, I wish these games were more spread out. But oh well. I’ll figure something out.
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An increase in television coverage is a good thing, but the schools and conferences surrender their scheduling options as a result.
We have TV to thank for games being on every night of the week. Sunday and Friday used to be sacred when it came to college basketball, but not anymore. I think we’ve reached the point where they are too many games on TV. And that’s coming from a guy who spends $100 a year for the Full Court package on DIRECTV so he can see Kansas and Washburn tangle every November.
I am glad you “ranted” today. I could not figure out why they could not have played the women’s game on Sunday. Guess thye did not know at the start of the season how good this game would be.
You will almost have to have two tivos to record all three games. We plan to watch the women’s game, start the tivo on the OU men’s game , and hope the women’s game ends before the OSU game starts. We will then tivo the OSU game as we watch the OUmen’s game. Here’s to no OT.