AKA “More news reported in an untimely fashion due to your blogger’s long weekend at the beach”
As of last Friday, The Big Ten Network is now available to be viewed by us loyal lazy Comcast subscribers. I finally got around to surfing up my selection of channels to watch some BTN programming last night. And I found myself strangely mesmerized by footage of MSU’s football team running 7-on-7 drills.
Obviously, the network’s coverage is tilted toward that odd game with oblong ball at the moment, but I do note they’ll be showing a replay of last year’s MSU-Texas basketball game at 4:00 a.m. this Saturday–an excellent chance to relive perhaps the peak moment of the 2007-08 Spartan basketball campaign, when I was saying things like “There’s no limit how far this team can go if they hold on to the ball like they did tonight” and “This game will be huge when it comes to securing a #1 or #2 seed for the Big Dance.”
Believe it or not, it’s only 58 days until college basketball Midnight Madness. The sky’s the limit once more . . .
My wife and I watched the replay of the ’98-’99 team against Minnesota (which I didn’t remember who won) and part of the Mateen-less game against North Carolina from ’99-’00. We didn’t finish the second one because she couldn’t stand the horrible picture quality.
The BTN doesn’t do as good of a job yet with the replays of b-ball as they do with football. I’ve watched four MSU football games during the offseason 1990 at U of M, 1998 vs. OSU, 2000 vs. ND and 2006 at Northwestern. The football games they have interviews with Joe Rexrode from the LSJ, media people from the other teams and various former players.
The b-ball games don’t have crap for interviews and they break them up in a bizarre way, not following the orginal TV breaks. They also seem to do their ‘next in the game’ promos very clumsly, just showing the next good play, whereas in football the announcer says something like ‘Next MSU tries to take the lead.’
Did the Texas game have any bells and whistles, it being newer? I saw there’s an early 90s era game upcoming, too.