The Lions' Pride

It seems unfortunate that many of these are too late to the party. ESPN seems to have a stranglehold on sports channels, and given what they charge cable companies to carry each ESPN channel, their money isn't going away any time soon.

This is just whimsical thinking based on what I wished would happen (but won't due to TV politics), but I would love to see someone big (e.g. Fox) release an entirely online channel that you can just pay for by itself. You know, take that first step towards getting rid of these terrible cable packages that force you to pay 60$ for a bunch of channels that you don't want. I'd much rather pay more per channel and get only the ones I want.

Of course, that dream will not happen because they get more money overall with the bundles, but still.

God, the bitching that is done and the belief that we are the victims in this is pathetic.

God, the bitching about the bitching is getting pathetic.

I'm not trying to start something on the board or in this thread, but I feel like I'm missing something here. 13, feel free to PM me and fill me in on your point of view here. Certainly there are many on this board who feel like ESPN as wronged PSU in some way. And clearly there are those who used to represent Penn State who made huge mistakes (and committed crimes). There is a lot of blame to go around.

I was excited to start watching NBC Sports until I found out Erik Kuselias was the lead anchor, he can get very annoying

If I were in charge of starting a network... ( I like to think I'm smarter than I am)
1. Overpay for football- I would sign up every college game I could get. In the fall I would have college games on every night of the week. (Spotlight game even if it's Sun Belt or WAC games). Don't even have to necessarily pay for big boy football. Espn killed it and broke in with weekday MAC games.
2. No more debate shows. It's played.
3. Make sportscenter a highlight show like ESPN news or old sportscenter. More like old sportscenter less like the Today show.
4. NFL sells and ESPN beats it to death. I would focus Sundays more on recapping the college football slate but I doubt this will happen because fox is so in with the NFL.
5. USFL is supposed to be coming back soon and play in the spring... sign them up. Spring football!!
6. Put whatever live sports on you can even if ... god help me... it's soccer.

Kuselias called out Freeh and the NCAA for the joke they are and is in clear support of Joe/PSU football in this entire saga.
His commentary is the reason I paid more attention to NBC Sports actually.

I should know this but it's tough to keep up with all the sports outlets. Dan Patrick is on NBCSports. I know he has bad blood for some managers/executives at ESPN, but what was/is his stance of the Freeh report and us.

Not sure on DP. Haven't heard from him since the summer craze web his stance was "we'll if this isn't lack of institutional control, then what is?" Maybe Costas has swayed him since.
I do know that Kuselias and Costas have a lot of influence over there and they both seem to be in our corner (Kuselias moreso).

That is a ballsy bet.

First, Fox is putting itself on the line with this and KNOWS it will take $$$$$$$ to compete with the snobs in Conn. Yet that is EXACTLY why they just might do it. I remember way back when Fox came on as a 4th TV network and most people laughed at 'em. Well, lookie lookie. When they took the NFL away from CBS people were stunned. It's all about $$. They KNOW that. They also know they can cherry-pick the best talent to get off the ground in a hurry and there again, $$$$ talks. Steal away the right people and you're off to the races Oh, and did I mention, the folks up in Conn. think they're the ONLY sports show in town. Good, let 'em keep thinkin' that. Competetion is what they need to ram a large rod up their rear ends, to put it politely.