Awful Announcing
An occasional noon ET kickoff could maybe help a Pac-12 school's national exposure, and that may be why some schools are considering it. But will any of the schools interested be worth a featured slot in Fox's noon window?
This Pac-12 championship was up 44 percent over last year's.
Pac-12 Network is still struggling, and behind the scenes, some of the network's expenditures are not helping matters at all.
"We give them a whole other window of high-quality, highly rated games. ... Playing more night games than we did in the past unlocked the kind of value our schools were looking for."
Dawson called Jones' tweet "childish behavior that is unacceptable" and "frustrating and disappointing to us on many levels."
Mark Jones tweaked Washington in a tweet over the weekend, angering the school and the Pac-12.
Future Pac-12 overflow will wind up on Fox Business, which is good news for how many people will be able to watch it. But overflow really isn't a key issue in the conference lagging behind its competitors; lagging TV revenue and significant league network challenges are much larger problems.
In a rare act of defiance, ESPN replied on air to Chris Petersen’s sentiments about playing games at 7:30/7:45 p.m. local time
What a sequence, and the perfect play-by-play man was on the call for it.
