Penn State OTR: Add Two More Horrible Games To The Big Ten Network's Schedule

Add Two More Horrible Games To The Big Ten Network's Schedule

Posted by ha-mace 07/02/2008 4:47 PM
Category: Sports Tags: Coastal Carolina, Temple, Football Schedule, Penn State Football, Big Ten Network

The Big Ten and their ~~unwatched~~ ~~crappy~~ new Network announced the kickoff times and TV arrangements for a couple more of Penn State's games for the 2008 season. Are you ready? Seriously, are you sitting down? If you're not, how do you normally check out the Internet? Weirdo. Anyway, here are the additional two teams you'll get to see on the Big Ten Network: Coastal Carolina and Temple!! Wait, what? Oh, and you're going to have to pay premium for that network in 2009. HAHA!

As I told you back when it was confirmed that the BTN would be on Comcast in about another month, you didn't have to worry about any good games showing up on the network. Already we knew that six of the games (including at Ohio State and the homecoming game against Michigan) would be on the ABC/ESPN networks, so it left only the bottom feeder games (Temple & Coastal Carolina) and part of the conference schedule. At this point the schedule, with times and networks, looks like this:

08/30 Coastal Carolina (noon) Big Ten Network
09/06 Oregon State (3:30pm) ABC
09/13 at Syracuse (3:30pm) ABC
09/20 Temple (noon) Big Ten Network
09/27 Illinois (8pm) ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
10/04 Purdue (n/a) n/a
10/11 at Wisconsin (8pm) ESPN/ESPN2
10/18 Michigan (4:30pm) ESPN/ESPN2
10/25 at Ohio State (8pm) ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
11/08 at Iowa (n/a) n/a
11/15 Indiana (n/a) n/a
11/22 Michigan State (n/a) n/a

The Big Ten also announced that the decision as to whether the Illinois and Ohio State games will end up on ABC might not be made until 12 days prior to the game. Also at least one additional conference game so one of those four remaining unannounced games will show up on BTN (Purdue, Iowa, Indiana or Michigan State).

It also should be pointed out that every Penn State home game over the last four years has been on TV and only 2 games of the last 166 overall weren't broadcast. So, it's a safe bet that all of those other games will show up somewhere.

That means just because your student tickets sold out in 90 seconds, you can still watch Penn State beat up on Coastal Carolina. I mean there's no shot in hell they would lose to a ~~Division I-AA~~ Football Championship Subdivision school, right?

+ 4 comments

Anonymous says,

And if either of these games wasn't on TV, people would be bitching about it.

So why is it so bad these games ARE on TV? Isn't that what the BTN is for? Posted 07/02/2008 6:34 PMReply

Anonymous says,

yes, and also Costal Car and App State are not D2. Posted 07/02/2008 6:52 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Yea and Coastal Carolina is no App State I would know I'm a transfer from Umass one of the top Division I-AA schools. We lost to App. State In the championship game and App State was champions 2 years straight. Posted 07/02/2008 10:16 PMReply

herbaltea says,

if you're at one of the kiosks in the hub, you may not be sitting down
and every time you use the abbreviation BTN, I imagine V interrupting a Penn State game to lecture us on our socioeconomic wrongdoings. Posted 07/03/2008 1:00 PMReply