02-16-2012, 03:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-16-2012, 06:46 PM by Viking_Guy.)
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. The men's home basketball game tonight is not being webcast. Audio, sure, but no video. At exactly the same time, the women's game is being webcast by Oregon State. For free. Over exactly the same system.
They've upped the cost of the subscription to Stanford's premium all-access package, and by my guesstimate are offering maybe 60% of the games they used to about three years ago. One women's soccer match for the entire season. Water polo? Hah! But they did offer coverage of most of the women's volleyball games in the fall, so I thought, "Okay, Maples, they can make it a permanent installation..." and gave them a pass.
But not webcasting a home basketball game against a conference foe in the latter stages of the season?
I can see the management consultant team from HBO Showtime's House of Lies in the Athletic Department's offices, explaining "And once they're subscribers, we cut costs to the bone, because people just don't want the hassle of unsubscribing..."Â (The end of that show's premiere episode, with the management consulting team explaining to a skeptical financial services CEO the merits of a dog-and-pony "mortgage refinancing" plan, was just wonderful).
VG
They've upped the cost of the subscription to Stanford's premium all-access package, and by my guesstimate are offering maybe 60% of the games they used to about three years ago. One women's soccer match for the entire season. Water polo? Hah! But they did offer coverage of most of the women's volleyball games in the fall, so I thought, "Okay, Maples, they can make it a permanent installation..." and gave them a pass.
But not webcasting a home basketball game against a conference foe in the latter stages of the season?
I can see the management consultant team from HBO Showtime's House of Lies in the Athletic Department's offices, explaining "And once they're subscribers, we cut costs to the bone, because people just don't want the hassle of unsubscribing..."Â (The end of that show's premiere episode, with the management consulting team explaining to a skeptical financial services CEO the merits of a dog-and-pony "mortgage refinancing" plan, was just wonderful).
VG