uniftw wrote:valleychamp wrote:Leave it to Valleytalkers to bemoan this.
"Nobody gets that channel!"
"Its not national!"
"Wait till you see what WSU gets!"
Its a very cool show, and its a good thing for UNI's program. There are at least a half dozen ways to watch the show, and this is most definitely a benefit to UNI.
WSU gets a show like this, even on regional TV, and we would never not hear about it and how the success and exposure it's bringing.
Someone else gets it and it becomes an issue of "OH OF COURSE ONLY ILLINOIS AND BLAH BLAH BLAH REGIONAL!"
This has nothing to do with me being a WSU fan. Hell, it probably has more to do with me being an FSU fan.
I just don't care. Evansville can have a documentary on public access television and I won't care, either -- and honestly that's not far off from how I see this. Regional coverage is meaningless to me.
UNI is a nationally ranked, nationally recognized, excellent basketball team, nearly guaranteed an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament, with a great chance to win the Valley regular season and/or Arch Madness. UNI has a few of the best players in the entire country, and a criminally underrated coach. UNI does not need exposure on a regional Chicago channel. If this was Evansville having a documentary on a regional Chicago station, I'd be excited for them ... if it was Loyola, I'd be overjoyed. But it's not ... it's UNI, and that makes it a cute story, but not "major exposure."
This is all about what you want your program to be. If you want to be a cute regional team, then awesome, great news! If you want to be a nationally prominent team, then who gives a flip about a regional sports channel in a region you're already in?
If WSU has a documentary on a regional sports channel, I'll be happily watching, but I damn sure won't be talking about what "A HUGE DEAL!" it is for us. Because whether it helps us get a few more eyeballs on the program in Illinois and Iowa is meaningless to me. You know what helps get eyeballs on you in Illinois and Iowa? The 175% of this conference and the 47 games a year we already play in Illinois and Iowa.
More people are exposed to UNI by a single top 10 highlight on SportsCenter than will be exposed to UNI by this entire documentary. The documentary will be exciting and good television for UNI fans, I'm sure. It will not be "great exposure."
