COUPLE ISSUES WITH TV DEAL!

Feels great to be back writing again... We need to get a few things straight around here. Whats is the deal with MWC television channel THE MTN?

Last night the UNLV game was not televised or replayed like they said because of the weather. Well weather is one thing but not having the students on campus for a production is another.

TCU cancelled school Wednesday, so there were no students around campus. What does that mean exactly? Well THE MTN this high profiled channel that the conference has its TV deal with, saves money by getting students to broadcast there games on the station. WHY? Every other school in the conference doesn't do this. Sounds like a cheap way to do things. TV deals in major college sports are the trend these days. If you don't have a major deal your in the minority and other schools are making twice as much for there programs. I think the MWC is much more high profile than playing games on THE MTN, VS, and CBSC. They have ranked football and basketball teams in the top 10 every year. They have produced a BCS teams four years in a row now. They are holding these kids back from exposure. Just to earn more money off them. Trust me I would pay these kids but thats another topic.

Its sucks to not have this conference on ESPN big Monday anymore. I don't care how late the games were. It doesn't affect the WAC or WCC. THE MWC needs to get out of the TV deal they have. No one likes to watch these games on those channels. There not in HD and the announcer are okay but the color guys are horrible. They cant pronounce the players names, they mix up the players and tell stories about the wrong ones. What is going on here. There has to be some good ex-coaches out there that they can get. Guys like Charlie Spoonhour, Rick Majerus, or even Marcus Banks. There has to be plenty of old players from this conference that can do color commentary better than anyone they have. Shoot I can do it. (refer to old 2004 state title game). Also another topic.

My point here is get a new deal or jump to another conference. How do you have teams like BYU, TCU, UTAH, and future teams Nevada, Bosie St, and Fresno St on this channel. Why are we not on national television. You cant have this anymore. If we were like WCC is now I say what are we complaining about but this is just ridiculous.

The MWC is a power conference now and they deserve respect. Players like James Ferdette, Louis Amundson, Ruben Douglas, Danny Granger, and Lenord from SDSU deserve the same breath as Duke, Georgetown, and Uconn players. They have the best TV deals. Makes it hard for these east coast writers to watch these games when the coverage and announcers are so bad. Also makes it hard for recruits who dont have these stations to check out schools on the west coast.

Anyway email me with some topics and lets get some conversations going on with the blog here.

SIMSZEE