Per Veazey: MSU to play UCLA in Anaheim
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Flight is probably about $400. Hotels can be had for $75 a night. Eating while you are there - couple hundred. You can do this for less than a grand.
our game against washington state was also on HDNet this past year (as was texas tech, i believe). there are lots of media outlets these days, not just cbs and espn. hell, the san diego game was even on tv.</p>ETA: when i said earlier to someone else that "i'm sure it'll be a nationally televised game. maybe CBS will carry it.", i was probably jumping the gun a little. i wasn't thinking about what ucla was losing. i would still put my money on the game being available on television in mississippi in some form.
Hey honey, I know it's only two weeks before Christmas, but can do you think I could take one thousand dollars to go by myself to Los Angeles? I know our two children (one of which is still in the womb at this writing) need gifts and all, and I know I already spend three hundred a year for home basketball games, not to mention the couple of grand I drop during football season for tickets and tailgating, but how about a little me time?
Sorry to burst your bubble. We do not have national appeal to TV. We just don't. As a program, we have respect from other programs. But in TV land, we are still Mississippi, plain and simple.
And I don't care by which method we lose the game, if we indeed lose - blowout, buzzer beater, blowing a 30 point lead, it doesn't matter. I don't want to hear anyone complaining, You got what you wanted, a road game against an elite program. I am all for upgrading and making an exciting schedule, but not unless some of those teams are willing to come to Starkville, or play us on a true neutral court.
And I don't care by which method we lose the game, if we indeed lose - blowout, buzzer beater, blowing a 30 point lead, it doesn't matter. I don't want to hear anyone complaining, You got what you wanted, a road game against an elite program. I am all for upgrading and making an exciting schedule, but not unless some of those teams are willing to come to Starkville, or play us on a true neutral court.
I didn't say national appeal, but better than WGN I suspect.MSUCostanza said:
If we have an eight point lead with 48 seconds left and proceed to miss free throws and commit turnovers while UCLA nails threes to take the lead, people are going to complain. So if that or something else gut-wrenching happens, don't read the board for a couple of days.
I make no pretense about running my house with an iron fist. I go where I am allowed when I am allowed.
Neutral court is in west coast time zone. Difficult game because of the travel against a down UCLA. Nothing to gain with the RPI, but so much to lose because of the neutral court. Play the game at UCLA. If we lose then the computers do us justice. Bad move, because we could have played at UCLA.
How is this any different than when we played Cincinnati last year? Granted, I don't keep up with basketball a lot, but isn't UC a nationally respected program? I know at the very least they're pretty good.
Plus, I bet Byrne made this move mainly because he was expecting a big name team at that SEC/Big East tournament thing in Tampa and instead we got DePaul.
Plus, I bet Byrne made this move mainly because he was expecting a big name team at that SEC/Big East tournament thing in Tampa and instead we got DePaul.
Regardless of if someone likes this news or hates this news(us playing UCLA out there), i would hope everyone can agree that HDNet is hardly nationally televised.lawdawg02 said:
If roughly 14 million people across the entire US have access to the network, I cant see how it could be suggested that its nationally televised. Nationally televised, to me, means readily availible to most anyone that watches a decent amount of sports.
In terms of level of a program, Cincy is ahead of DePaul...but not by much. Cincy back in the day of Huggins was awesome. Cincy post Huggins is an afterthought, if a thought at all.Todd4State said:
http://www.uclabruins.com/ot/ucla-corporate-mission.htmlHanmudog said:
UCLA AVERAGES 10,000 per game. They are playing 30 miles from campus and still well within the second largest populated area of the country...itll be a big homecourt advantage.