Michigan State vs. Michigan

[LoKyBuckeye]

Good, cuz quite frankly I was sick of giving you updates. Be gone! :p

fine... see if I ever ask you for a favor again! I must now go and post a good bye thread and leave this board because I have been treated so badly

 

[methomps]

I don't know if anyone else is on the West Coast, but ABC has handled this situation horribly. They cut away from this game to show the start of my beloved Trojans' game. Then in 2OT they randomly come back for a bit. Then they return to USC/Wazzu (which is 21-0 at this point). Michigan scores in 3OT and they do a gamebreak, but instead of showing us the 2pt conversion, they show the scoreboard and what's-his-name gives us a play-by-play as if this were radio.

Oh, and scum sucks

I wasn't the only one who noticed it

Maisel's emails

I'm a Michigan alum and bleed Maize and Blue, but am stuck in LA for the next few years for grad school.


I was watching the UM-MSU at the bar where in Santa Monica where the alums all go and was honestly a bit irked when it was delayed fifteen minutes for the end of the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game. At the time, though, I just thought to myself, "Hey, this is coming down to a last-minute kick, and I'd be livid if they cut a Michigan game in the same situation." I excitedly watched OSU's upset hopes sail wide left and then moved on to three-and-a-half of the most agonizing quarters of Michigan football since New Year's. But we faithful stuck with it and our 300-strong crowd went wild when Brian Thompson recovered the onside kick and Braylon snatched the 36-yard TD. When the D stuffed State with 5:00 remaining, we shared that euphoric energy that only masses of true fans can generate -- I could actually feel the chill of an October wind gusting through the Big House.


"We are now sending the signal over to Washington, where the Trojans of USC are getting ready to face the Washington State Cougars."


We were stunned.


The bar manager went through every channel on ESPN Gameplan and couldn't find anything but the pregame warmup for USC-WSU. I've been on the West Coast for a-year-and-a-half now, and I know they don't care about the Big Ten, so I would understand for the main ABC affiliate to switch coverage. For ESPN/ABC not to have a single one of its hundred or so channels that were covering college football that afternoon stick with such a game, however, is a travesty.


I'm sorry to be one of this week's many complaining fans (and with the Florida fiasco, I'm sure you have your hands full of them), but I needed to complain to ESPN/ABC and the computerized phone system just hasn't done it for me.


Thanks and keep up the great work


Ben Conway
UM '03
Los Angeles


Mark Mandel of ABC Sports responds:
Bottom line is we stay with a end of a close game everywhere except the home markets of the next game, which get the start of their game. So, if he was living in Michigan, he would have seen the entire MU-MSU game. Since he was in LA, he saw the end of a great OK-OSU game, most of the MU-MSU game and the start of the USC game.


Maisel responds:
Ben, you need to think of this sort of stuff when you pick a graduate school. I say it's your fault.