[Husker] TV weirdness

[Mike Jaixen]

Call me contrarian, but if I was a TV executive, I'd have chosen those other games in a heartbeat over Nebraska/Western Michigan... especially the Baylor/Wake game.  Each school is guaranteed a certain number of TV appearances on FSN, and they get the bonus of being attractive to a sizable audience outside Big XII territory.  So why not get one of your required Baylor TV games out of the way and get some ACC exposure as well?

Let's be honest...except for Kalamazoo and the state of Nebraska, interest in the NU/WMU game is going to be rather light.  Western Michigan is better than most folks will give them credit for, but both Baylor/Wake and Okie State/Wash State look more compelling and have better name matchups.

Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Rod Wellman <gobigred66 at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Rod Wellman <gobigred66 at mac.com>
> Subject: [Husker] TV weirdness
> To: "“Husker List“" <husker at tssi.com>
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 10:49 PM
> I can see why ABC didn't jump on NU's first three
> games.  But check  
> this out:  Fox Sports Net decided NOT to show any of
> NU's first three  
> games on their cable package.  And it gets better.  They
> picked the  
> following two games over Nebraska's first game with
> Western Michigan.
> 
> Wake Forest at Baylor
> Oklahoma State at Washington State
> 
> Let's see...we'll pass over NU vs West. Michigan (a
> pretty decent team  
> from last year) and Bo Pellini's coaching debut...and
> instead take  
> Wake Forest against the B12 perennial dormat Baylor.
> 
> Am I the only one who thinks this is ludicrous?
pears to be on their end.