[NU Sports] TV vs. the tele

[Scott Zeller]

For some reason they are showing the NU game on the lone Big Ten network
feed on Comcast in the Bay Area rather than one of the other games. Hooray!

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > In any case, it is worth drifting around at game time to see if they've
> > got another feed up somewhere. Ya never know.
>
> Yeah, I'll look just in case, but here's what was in the newspaper
> about it:
>
>   Shrewsbury said the Big Ten Network picks which games to feed the
>   Lincoln system. The network often carries multiple games at same time.
>
>   Minnesota and Purdue, for example, will play at 11 a.m. along with
>   Northwestern. Shrewsbury said there has been no discussion yet
>   about alternate feeds.
>
> I'm not happy with how Northwestern is mentioned in the above.  However,
> Nebraska and Minnesota have a very long history, having played each other
> 51 times, more games than the Huskers have against any other Big Ten
> school.
> The word here is that Nebraska asked to be in the same division as
> Minnesota because of that long history.
>
> Nebraska and Northwestern have only met four time (with the Cats having one
> win, back in 1931), and Purdue is one of two Big Ten teams that Nebraska
> has never defeated, with just one loss back in 1958.  (The other team
> they've never beaten is Ohio State, with two losses, 1955 and 1956.)
>
> Anyway, it is better to be able to watch the game a day late than
> not at all. :-)
>  --
> Mike Nolan
>
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