Bradley completely shut out of MVC television package

[tornado]

I understand that the Valley favors getting their top teams onto the network..
but this is a chance for the Valley teams to be seen NATIONALLY on ESPN...there will be 46 telecasts.........including 26 different Men's Basketball games on the various ESPN outlets,
and teams like Wichita, Indiana State, UNI, and even Missouri State are locked in with at least 3 to EIGHT times, many on ESPN, ESPN2 & ESPNU...

BUT Bradley gets completely shut out of the televised games...and appears only twice on their webcasts (ESPN3)...

http://www.mvc-sports.com/mbasketball/news/2013-14/6843/missouri-valley-announces-espn-telecast-plans/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer0d2bb&utm_medium=twitter

[Chico]

Post the TV schedule in the locker room and have the Braves show them what a mistake they're making.

[Buesch N Chips]

Any word on any Comcast games?

[tornado]

no - ESPN obviously gets 1st pick of what games they want - then the rest of the TV info trickles out later...
Last year the ESPN news came out the 1st week of October but the rest of the TV schedule info wasn't revealed until October 26...
I suspect it'll be a couple weeks until we hear more.

[tornado]

Just saw this release -- could this mean they are set on selling TV packages via streaming and that there won't be any or many BU games televised??
If someone knows any more about BU's TV plans - LMK - but since the season is already well into full swing - wouldn't a release of anticipated games & dates that we can watch have already been released by now?

http://www.nmnathletics.com/regflow/PackageInfo.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&REG_GROUP_ID=181243&SHOW_ALL=YES&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email1&utm_campaign=recapture

[BU freak]

Time to get out of the MVC. Once Wichita leaves (which is inevitable), the MVC will be an also-ran. Anyone excited when they added Loyola? BU should be kicking and screaming to MVC officials about this

[Canton BU fan]

Time to get out of the MVC. Once Wichita leaves (which is inevitable), the MVC will be an also-ran. Anyone excited when they added Loyola? BU should be kicking and screaming to MVC officials about this

Leave for where? That sounds good but what conference would want Bradley that would be any better? Maybe a newly formed conference?

[ph]

FWIW, in response to a question about local TV on TOB, Bobby mentioned that we should hear of a package closer to the start of the conference season.

[tornado]

schools without football are largely like passengers without tickets...if we get out of the MVC then where do we go?
We are not "positioned well" which would mean having FB, making the NCAA the past few years, or drawing 10K

[TheAsianSensation]

I think the lack of TV is bad luck instead of anything else.

There was a consensus top 3 going into the year: WSU, InSU, UNI. Obviously, if we're getting TV appearances, it's probably one of those games.

5 of our 6 games against those schools are weekday games. The MVC gets no weekday TV games. They get plenty of weekend games. All our best games are trapped in a window where we can't get TV.

If we had Missouri St's schedule, we'd have 3 national appearances, they'd have 0, and it'd be no big deal. The ONLY reason they're on TV and we're not is because of that.

Also, our Sunday night package with ESPN disappeared, and that cost us a couple more appearances.

[tornado]

I think the lack of TV is bad luck instead of anything else.
...

I believe there is a ton of evidence to the contrary - even in past years when we have been very bad & interest declined (early 90's, early 2000's, and the past few years) we still had TV deals in place with at least a dozen or more broadcasts of BU games, and announced by October.
This is the first year in my memory that not a whimper of info about a BU TV deal and it's mid-November!
A few years back (2010) half the TV games were announced in early SEPTEMBER & the rest by mid-Oct.!!
BP began tweeting the TV schedule by mid-to-late Oct. each of the past couple years.
There are local stations that want to do BU games on TV but of course the decision is not in the hands of the TV people.

[wizard1]

Bradley TV Coverage

Bradleys TV coverage has been and is not good at all and it makes me wonder if the "Keystone Kops" in our Ath. Dept. are capable of putting TV deals together or if they somehow have another agenda, or just don't care.
It seems like we struggle every year for mediocre TV---What is going on and why can't we get this handled correctly? Good TV coverage creates fan interest and can help in recruiting. Another reason why our fan base is getting smaller.
Wiz

[Canton BU fan]

I became a fan from seeing games on tv. It's VERY important to building and maintaining fan interest. Games on tv do not take away from ticket sales either as some in the past have thought in all sports. Look at the Blackhawks. They wouldn't televise home games until fairly recently and that certaintly hasn't hurt ticket sales.

[TheAsianSensation]

I believe there is a ton of evidence to the contrary - even in past years when we have been very bad & interest declined (early 90's, early 2000's, and the past few years) we still had TV deals in place with at least a dozen or more broadcasts of BU games, and announced by October.
This is the first year in my memory that not a whimper of info about a BU TV deal and it's mid-November!
A few years back (2010) half the TV games were announced in early SEPTEMBER & the rest by mid-Oct.!!
BP began tweeting the TV schedule by mid-to-late Oct. each of the past couple years.
There are local stations that want to do BU games on TV but of course the decision is not in the hands of the TV people.

I was talking about national TV appearances, not local. Obviously the national appearances have been decided for a month.

By the way, I agree with you on the local schedule. It's a bit discouraging it's out this late.

[bradleyfan124]

First the ticket fiasco and now the TV package. What is going on up at Bradley? Does the Athletic Dept. not have a clue on how to market things. Are they purposely trying to discourage Bradley excitement? Dr. Cross needs to answer some questions.