...that we have a top 5 national baseball matchup and the only way to see it is on the SEC+ Network streaming venue. No ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, nor anywhere else.
Pretty sad....
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Because it’s college baseball.
How can I watch a regular season MLB game with two of the top teams playing next week?
Or a regular season NFL game...
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Basically a club sport that only MSU fans care about ... **
These games are pre-selected aren't they? At least we have SEC+. I remember well the days when all we had was radio.
Get prepared, that’s the way all sports are headed. At some time in the future, the Super Bowl will be pay per view.
If you’re having trouble watching- our baseball games can be found always live on YouTube. It never gets taking down because no one cares that much about college baseball nationally and objectively speaking. If you have trouble next game let me know and I’ll send you the link.
No asterisks needed.
Cornhole, pickleball, poker, and even drone racing are more popular and have a more widely available national tv window.
You better embrace it for the time being, because it's the only thing we can afford to be good in.
Sports are more accessible than ever on broadcast. 20 years ago there was no guarantee our football game was going to be on TV and there certainly weren’t any college baseball games on until the CWS. Sports are the only live thing that is valuable for its ad revenue now with people recording shows. Broadcast TV will still want it on network/cable TV.
Those events are prerecorded and packaged in a 1 hour program for casual channel surfer viewing. A live baseball game that takes a minimum of 2.5 hours to complete is just a different animal.
You can definitely tell the difference in ages of posters when these topics come up.
Pre-1990 before the conference expansion and championship, MSU and Ole Miss were lucky to get the TBS game once or twice a season and that was usually to be the sacrificial lamb to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, or LSU when we could barely score much less have a chance to win.
Hell even into the mid 90s basketball only had a midweek and a couple of weekend JP games. CBS only showed Kentucky games for the most part. And the Jackson affiliate didn’t even show the Wednesday night JP game if it didn’t involve State or Ole Miss.
Baseball? Yea right. You were lucky to see one game on TV before the SECT and Regionals.
But there's plenty of softball on tomorrow night and Saturday. Pathetic job as usual ESPN/SEC Network.
I can guarantee that if the eyeballs dictated otherwise, their programming would change.
It’s not like they don’t have the data. If college baseball was being streamed by enough people, then they’d be selling that to advertisers and putting it on wider platforms. They run a business not a charity. If they can squeeze more money out of something, they will.
If Alabama was any good in baseball the SEC network would probably carry all of their games and Paul F would gush over them every friggin day.
CWS Championship: 2.5M viewers
WNBA Championship: 1.9M viewers
They are certainly in the same neighborhood.
We’re not terribly far into the SEC+ era to be honest. Pre 2015, it was a good year if 5 of our games were on any TV or streaming the whole year. Unless you want to count the old Maroon to the Max which never worked successfully the few times I tried it.
The concept of every game including random midweeks being on streaming is only about a decade old.
ESPNU started airing a Thursday night package in about 2011, and that helped baseball’s visibility, and then the SECN opened the floodgates a few years later.
The concept of every game including random midweeks being on streaming is only about a decade old.
ESPNU started airing a Thursday night package in about 2011, and that helped baseball’s visibility, and then the SECN opened the floodgates a few years later.
After years of advertising and pushing the sport by the network that chooses what to show. Even after over a decade of ESPN pushing women's sports, it's still an argument over which is more popular between those two or between baseball and softball. Imagine if ESPN had chosen to push college baseball instead?
Come on, that’s a weak excuse and you know it. If baseball was truly popular outside of a few passionate pockets like Starkville, the big games would be on ESPN2 or ESPNU at least some of the time. Instead, even the best regular season series matchups are treated like niche streaming content. That’s not because the games are “too long.” They show 4 hour golf tournaments where literally nothing happens for 45 minutes at a time. They show poker marathons where grown men stare at cards in silence. The format is not the problem- It’s because the broader audience just isn’t there. Not as many people care outside of Starkville as our baseball fans think. Go watch it on YouTube for free.
So what you’re saying is, the only reason college baseball isn’t mainstream is because there’s an agenda at ESPN to push women’s sports. That’s a take for sure.
They definitely push women’s sports. Which they should. It’s 50% of the population and most of the male half already consumes their content. Good business decision. But I’m afraid the lack of popularity for college baseball has nothing to do with that.
My point is that ESPN pushes WNBA games a heck of a lot harder than college baseball.
have you seen those mad layups and set shot 3 pointers! thrilling! It is like back to the 60's ball!
and don't forget the Harry Potter Nerds playing Quiddich out there. Yes, it happens
Unfortunately
is the answer is not the right answer though!The (SEC Network/ESPN) should reserve one game a weekend as a flex game that they decide on what teams to televise based on record and ranking.
I don’t think of WNBA or softball as mainstream, so no. It would have a bigger fan base , though.
I also think we have to wait on ESPN’s business decision at this juncture. The WNBA lost hundreds of millions getting to 2025, and after one year of profitability, now is set for more years of bigger losses as they finally have to pay players something that doesn’t require them to have an offseason job, and that’s with the new media deal. Clark was the miracle they needed to not be subsidized for a year, but can they get there year in and year out?
