12-13-2024, 12:05 PM
(12-12-2024, 11:35 PM)M T Wrote: Hey, ESPN, I certainly didn't like how you ended this match, and how that compared to how you ended the other match.
When Stanford won, you focused on Stanford rushing onto the court for 5 seconds, and then followed one player on the losing team for the next 30 seconds (only showing her and her two teammates adjacent to her), and then you cut away to ads. When you came back, there was a short (recorded) clip of Stanford putting its name up for the next match and an interview of a Stanford Player.
When Louisville won, you focused on Louisville rushing onto the court, through the greeting of the other team at the net. You did spend a few seconds showing the other team and then Louisville putting their name up (live). Instead of cutting away to an ad, you showed the Louisville fans and the Louisville coach and then eventually went to an interview of a Louisville player.
I really can't understand why you focused on one player, and chose one from the losing team. Is she the boss's daughter?
"ESPN" is a 4-letter word here. You ESPNed Stanford again.
Did anyone see any crowd shots of Stanford fans? It is a work day, during work days, so I didn't come in until the middle of set 1. I remember seeing some Purdue fans shown, and one of the coaches. Well, yeah, the fact that the game is in the middle of the work week, 2000(?) miles away from Stanford, is going to put a damper on Stanford fans, but I have to figure there were some. It was pretty sparse attendance.
Cmon, get over it. Despite the rare Plunkett/Elway/Luck/McCaffrey years and the occasional NCs in the non-revenue sports we just don’t have any semblance of a national media footprint, much less east of the Rockies — most sports fans in those time zones still think we’re from a small town in Connecticut.
That milk has been spilt for a long, long time.
We have a small fan base at home, and media follows the numbers. On the road? Forget it.
