If you haven' t seen Joe C's interview on CBS, immediately after the brackets

[Plainosooner]

were released, I just watched it on Soonersports.com.

I'm not just saying this because he's OUr guy. I watch this portion of the selection show most seasons. This year, I was on ESPN hearing their guys. But I thought that was the most competent interview with the committee chairman I've ever seen. He know what he was talking about. He took challenging questions from four different talking heads and with solid info, answered each of their "why this team," or "why not that team."

He did a great job.

http://www.soonersports.com/mediaPo...m_id=31000&key=BIGZYUVIMOIJQKN.20160316223104

 

[Sooners83]

were released, I just watched it on Soonersports.com.

I'm not just saying this because he's OUr guy. I watch this portion of the selection show most seasons. This year, I was on ESPN hearing their guys. But I thought that was the most competent interview with the committee chairman I've ever seen. He know what he was talking about. He took challenging questions from four different talking heads and with solid info, answered each of their "why this team," or "why not that team."

He did a great job.

http://www.soonersports.com/mediaPo...m_id=31000&key=BIGZYUVIMOIJQKN.20160316223104

yes...totally agree, and yes I did watch it live. He not only represented our University very well but all of the D-1 athletics directors. Great answers to some very tough questions. We are blessed to have him at OU. It was kind of weird that ESPN didn't have the show live themselves, but I guess it is just the matter of time they roll out the bucks for the next contract.

 

[Plainosooner]

yes...totally agree, and yes I did watch it live. He not only represented our University very well but all of the D-1 athletics directors. Great answers to some very tough questions. We are blessed to have him at OU. It was kind of weird that ESPN didn't have the show live themselves, but I guess it is just the matter of time they roll out the bucks for the next contract.

ESPN isn't allowed to have it until the CBS show is over. It's what CBS is in part paying more than a BILLION dollars to televise. They get an hour to present the brackets. This year, it may have been an hour and a half.

It's the same sort of legality as some major championship. Local sports casts are not allowed to show highlights of a Monday Night football game until the game is over, neither from the feed of the network nor from their own sideline cameras. It's the way the contracts are written.

All of the major networks these days, have agreements to send game broadcast highlights to their competitors. But whoever is doing the live broadcast and paying for it, gets to set the rules for whatever limitations they choose.

 

[Sooners83]

Again...it has more to do with the contract of coverage of this years final 4, and for the most part the entire championship run. I am pretty sure it was totally hands off for ESPN to say anything until CBS made their announcements. It seems that at some point CBS got a colilation of other networks to broadcast the games. Interstingly enough TBS is doing the final 4. ESPN just didn't bid enough money for it...and for the most part that makes me very happy. They already own the current contract all of the major college football games..

ESPN isn't allowed to have it until the CBS show is over. It's what CBS is in part paying more than a BILLION dollars to televise. They get an hour to present the brackets. This year, it may have been an hour and a half.

It's the same sort of legality as some major championship. Local sports casts are not allowed to show highlights of a Monday Night football game until the game is over, neither from the feed of the network nor from their own sideline cameras. It's the way the contracts are written.

All of the major networks these days, have agreements to send game broadcast highlights to their competitors. But whoever is doing the live broadcast and paying for it, gets to set the rules for whatever limitations they choose.

It just makes me happy to see ESPN sit on the sidelines...very happy. CBS and other networks have combined to bring all of the games and I would assume quite the financial flow for such networks as TruTV. TBS will be doing the final 4 and the championship game. It is all about the money....and this time ESPN didn't step up to the plate....so sorry.

 

[Plainosooner]

The one really bad thing in this, I believe TBS gets the final four. So unless you have cable tv, you don't get to watch in your living room.

And lets' not forget that for years, CBS screwed us all in the midlands, showing 12 minutes of an OU game in Texas and Oklahoma, to show us Duke playing a 16 seed in the first round. And the decisions about who was going to be shown were made in New York, not by the stations locally.

I called the CBS outlet in Dallas more than once, when they were showing UTEP against somebody you didn't care about, instead of the OU first round game, and the station said, "it's not our decision." Or they'd be showing the OU game and they'd get up 12 and switch to the Duke game where they were up 25.

I think this switch to four networks was forced on them in many ways. It stunk that it took so long, be at least they finally got there.