Rutgers Women's Basketball National TV Schedule Announced
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Hate to keep bringing this up, but it is something that I feel is significant,... and it urks me. I just don't know what it will take for us to get the kind of national coverage that we deserve. If I'm reading correctly, we're being treated to 6 nat'l televised games with a chance at a "Wild Card" seventh game.???!
Meanwhile, we will get a chance to see just about everybody else at least two, maybe three times in-between each of our TV appearances. Just take a look at other WBB program sites and their nat'l TV schedules. This has a direct correlation to the recruiting advantages that certain programs are enjoying. If most of your games are on national TV, you're gonna get top recruits(UConn, SCar).
If it was a decision based on being a top 10-20 team, okay, we are right on the bubble of that group. But you have Michigan, Indy, and Iowa each on 13 times, as of now......who knows,...more may be added later as wild cards. Haven't we been handling Ohio State for the last couple of years??! They will be on 11 times total( 10 times on BTN). Not BTN+...........Big Ten Network, nationally!!
This is what Diamond meant when she talked about "platform". Guess what! NCState has 16 nat'l TV appearances scheduled as of now..
We have to come out again in the kind of numbers to make them cover us. Also need the kind of campus wide effort and energy that the Schiano FB team enjoys. The scrappy play of our WBB team doesn't seem to be enough.
Oh,....last thing, I promise. South Carolina has 21 of its 29 reg season games set to be broadcast on national TV.
Yes to much of what you are saying. Don't think that talking about UConn or South Carolina is a good starting point. Similarly, I probably wouldn't try and compare most schools 1 on 1 across conferences, since each conference's coverage choices and opportunities probably vary.
All of that said, to get on TV more often - win and generate enthusiasm. As you say, there really isn't a lot of reason to put Rutgers on national broadcasts until they show that they are worth watching.
In the multiple discussions over the years about Rutgers as a program, I have said various times that one of the issues is that the team doesn't generally pull off upsets. They win the games they are expected to win and lose games where they are an underdog. This isn't necessarily a bad thing (especially when the team is pretty good) but it doesn't generate a lot of excitement. I remember how exciting it was when RU pulled off an upset and you could watch the other team's coach getting more and more upset.
I guess my main frustration stems from the tough hill to climb to get back to a team as talented as our mid 2000s Cappie-led team. I truly believe that the best talent wins titles at the HS and college level, generally. The great coaches get their edge over other great coaches by having a little bit more talent (ex.- to top an All-World talent such as Cappie, it took a unique, 6-5 with handles and ups, All-World talent such as Candace Parker.....and a shady timekeeper)
Kudos to UConn and SCar for the sustained success and huge fan bases they have worked to develop. Their nat'l TV spotlight is well deserved. They are marketers of the WCBB game, just as Tenn once was under Pat. My beef is not centered on these programs. They represent the end goal of what most all programs aspire to become. That being said, they DO enjoy a recruiting advantage with all the TV exposure vs their opponents who get very little.
It's that thing of fairness and equity across amateur sports, only to see Notre Dame get all of its games put on NBC. Greg is over here chopping away year after year to get the kind of recruits that they can get, just from being one of the featured games on TV every week. That always seemed unfair to me.
I feel like the product that we've put on the floor for the last few seasons is comparable, NOT to the UConn s and SCs but to many of these other programs that get more airtime. It seems like our airtime is just a shade above Illinois'....maybe even with Minn or Purdue. And that's a maybe.
Now you know, we deserve better than that. I think we have been on par with if not better than Mich, OSU , and Mich St over the past few years. The Big Ten Network has not treated us as such. They kept ranking us in the bottom half of the conference pre-season polls,...only to see us UPSET everyone in the upper half of the conference except Md and Iowa twice. And now looking up at Indy the past 2 seasons.
By this logic, we should be on the Big Network at least 10 times, just like the above mentioned. Not 6!!!
Feels like we still get punished for the down years of the Fab 5 and the ugly 6-26 season. We are past that and trying to build up just like these other programs are trying to. The UNCs, Duke, UGa, GT, Ole Miss, Vandy, Mich, Mich St., and on and on. They are getting many of their targeted recruits and have not won any more than we have over the last few years. Their TV exposure is giving them an edge over us in recruiting. I know,....the BTN(FoxSports) does not cover the Big10 WBB games nearly as well as the ACC and SEC do for their WBB But on top of that, we don't get our fair share of coverage from BTN. We have to go on 9-game win streaks for them to start scheduling us mid-season(I guess with those, TBD later, wild card slots.)
Thanks for lending an ear to my rants.
Kudos to UConn and SCar for the sustained success and huge fan bases they have worked to develop. Their nat'l TV spotlight is well deserved. They are marketers of the WCBB game, just as Tenn once was under Pat. My beef is not centered on these programs. They represent the end goal of what most all programs aspire to become. That being said, they DO enjoy a recruiting advantage with all the TV exposure vs their opponents who get very little.
It's that thing of fairness and equity across amateur sports, only to see Notre Dame get all of its games put on NBC. Greg is over here chopping away year after year to get the kind of recruits that they can get, just from being one of the featured games on TV every week. That always seemed unfair to me.
I feel like the product that we've put on the floor for the last few seasons is comparable, NOT to the UConn s and SCs but to many of these other programs that get more airtime. It seems like our airtime is just a shade above Illinois'....maybe even with Minn or Purdue. And that's a maybe.
Now you know, we deserve better than that. I think we have been on par with if not better than Mich, OSU , and Mich St over the past few years. The Big Ten Network has not treated us as such. They kept ranking us in the bottom half of the conference pre-season polls,...only to see us UPSET everyone in the upper half of the conference except Md and Iowa twice. And now looking up at Indy the past 2 seasons.
By this logic, we should be on the Big Network at least 10 times, just like the above mentioned. Not 6!!!
Feels like we still get punished for the down years of the Fab 5 and the ugly 6-26 season. We are past that and trying to build up just like these other programs are trying to. The UNCs, Duke, UGa, GT, Ole Miss, Vandy, Mich, Mich St., and on and on. They are getting many of their targeted recruits and have not won any more than we have over the last few years. Their TV exposure is giving them an edge over us in recruiting. I know,....the BTN(FoxSports) does not cover the Big10 WBB games nearly as well as the ACC and SEC do for their WBB But on top of that, we don't get our fair share of coverage from BTN. We have to go on 9-game win streaks for them to start scheduling us mid-season(I guess with those, TBD later, wild card slots.)
Thanks for lending an ear to my rants.
