Re: UC Vision?

[Antonio Mazzaro]

I take the IT guy's response "a new program through the Big East" to mean
that streamed games will be available, through the Big East (read, pay them
not UC).

I haven't been able to locate any info on any possible Big East streaming
program, but it sounds to me like there will be.

Antonio Mazzaro


On 9/12/06, Nathan Allen <address@hidden> wrote:
> John-
>
> I emailed the good people at UC this same question and the response I
> received along with my email is below.  Unfortunately, given the complete
> lack of national t.v. games, I think us out of towners will have to fire
> up
> 700wlw on the internet and listen to the games.  Not good times.
>
> By all means, if you feel like ranting, go ahead. I cannot express how
> disappointed I am that the UC vision experiment looks officially dead.
> Never understood why ESPN would care if there was a separate stream to a
> game that they did not want to pick up anyways (maybe because they fear
> too
> many streams will take audiance members from their games?), but I don't
> know
> how you fight the world wide leader.
>
> NJA
>
> _____________________
>
>
> Nathan,
>
>
>
> Unfortunately as of right now the answer to that is no.  A new program
> through the Big East prevents us from streaming any of the games.
>
>
>
> I have not been privileged to any other plans athletics may work out with
> the Big East and ESPN.  I recommend checking the athletics website for any
> information.