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CBS is Finding a New Way to Screw Over SEC B-Ball Fans Unless Your Team is Kentucky. Reposted
Posted by Thomas the Terrible on December 20, 2007
I originally posted this on 10/29/07. I received a lot of nasty e-mails from Kentucky basketball fans who are the equivalent to Alabama football fans. Now after an embarrassing four game skid maybe CBS will wake up. Then again watching Kentucky lose is rather entertaining. (Snicker Gardner Webb)
CBS or as I like to call it See BS, is the most watch network on Television. They have such riveting shows such as CSI (insert city name here), The Amazing Race & Survivor. While I detest all these shows it should be noted I detest most non-sports television with the exception of Hell’s Kitchen because Chef Ramsey rocks.
Being the sports programming president must a stressful job I’m sure, why else would they choose to air seven Kentucky games this season, which is at least four more times than any other SEC team and five more times than Tennessee.
If anyone should be upset about this, that someone should be Billy Donovan and his bad back. After all since Kentucky’s last trip to the final four, Florida has been to three final fours and captured back to back national titles as well. LSU has also been to a final four since the last time Kentucky has been there. Only Ashley Judd gives Kentucky more love than CBS and I would like to give something to Ashley Judd….but let’s stick to the topic.
This season, CBS is choosing to send crews to seven Kentucky games, three Florida games, two Tennessee games and one game each for Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.
The Vanderbilt, Georgia and Arkansas appearances, as well as one Florida and one Tennessee appearance, come against – guess who? – uh huh that’s right Kentucky.
If memories earned you TV dates, more people would remember Florida’s national championships than Kentucky’s. If expectations sent the networks scrambling to video your bandwagon, Tennessee is the only SEC team that’s a consensus pre-season top-10 pick. Trouble is, Kentucky has another edge this season, a new UK coach and that means a renewed enthusiasm for Kentucky basketball.
What do you do? Pearl’s already done it.
You take off your shirt and paint your chest. You open your mouth and pour out your heart. You put out a must-see product that’s more than ready for its close-up, and then you call out the network that prefers to live in the past much like the Alabama fans. Pearl should just keep sweating and screaming and coaching his shirt off. If he does his job, CBS will have to add two more Tennessee games.
So go ahead CBS, air more Kentucky games, ESPN will pick up the others like they have in the past. Somewhere down the road, in between the making of the new show CSI Narnia & David Letterman’s top ten list of why CBS Sports sucks, a network official will start to wonder why viewers aren’t watching as much basketball on CBS as they are on ESPN. Maybe then they’ll get a clue.
GO VOLS!!!!!
So I profess on this day 12/20/07.
steve p weir said
Shut-up…Enjoy your little period of fame because without Ky no one would even know we ever played basketball in the SEC the last 60 years…I pull for the SEC team but Im begining to wonder why after seeing and hearing all the hate. We will be back and probably much sooner than you can ever imagine. Have fun in the meantime.
Thomas the Terrible said
The whole point of the post is to ask why show a team that is struggling when other teams aren’t. Of course being a fan of KY you fail to see that. Hence is why most KY fans are the equivalent to Alabama football fans. Miss Tubby much?
tom said
Man you are a major whinner, i thought tennesse fans had pulled it together but you prove that wrong . Jefferson pilot owns all the SEC games CBS has to buy them ….. so this is the equivilent of saying drinking gatorade makes me thirsty. why whine if ky is on CBS, everytime they are on, teams from the SEC are mentioned. and nationally more recognition is given to the best sports league in the nation. THE SEC of which tenn is a member when you come down to starksville i hope you don’t whine like this again. oh and by the way bruce is a nasty smelly guy i stood by him once do you think you could show him a bath tub?
Thomas the Terrible said
You’re an idiot. CBS owns all telecast rights to SEC football and basketball. Lincoln Financial Sports gets the second dibs & there is no more Jefferson Pilot, hasn’t been for a number of years. If Lincoln Financial sports had owned the exclusive telecast rights that you claim, they would be showing the “better” games instead of crap like Miss State and Auburn.
See the comments above your idiotic ranting. And also re-read the post because I certainly mention Florida and LSU as well.
Plus you’re not good enough to stand by Bruce Pearl and that snide childish comment you made confirms that fact. Can’t wait to beat your ass in Starksville just like we did in football.