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re: Mighty Alabama can only afford one (1) camera for baseball games.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 8:58 am to UPT
Posted on 4/3/15 at 8:58 am to UPT
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And The University of Alabama has exactly zero to do with that.
Take your beef up with ESPN/SEC Network for only crewing one camera operator for their production.
That is BS. The SECN did not send ESPN lite to A&M for every single game and Bama gets less than the local high school.
We have 2-3 cameras a game, maybe more. A play by play and color guy. Not to mention they all know what they are doing. Very hard to tell the difference when you're watching SECN and SECN+.
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Posted on 4/3/15 at 8:58 am to bamasgot13
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None of these people are employed by Alabama, so the OP was not right. This is an ESPN issue, not a "mighty Alabama" issue.
I feel like we have repeated this phrase to them at least 15 times, but they ignore it every time. If ESPN felt that there were enough viewers of an Alabama/LSU Thursday night baseball game, they would bring more cameras and more staff. However, they are in the business of trying to make a profit. Spending top dollar to broadcast a game with horrible ratings is not in the best interests of ESPN.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 9:00 am to Farmer1906
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That is BS. The SECN did not send ESPN lite to A&M for every single game and Bama gets less than the local high school.
We have 2-3 cameras a game, maybe more. A play by play and color guy. Not to mention they all know what they are doing. Very hard to tell the difference when you're watching SECN and SECN+.
You're also playing in your home stadium. Alabama isn't, and I'm pretty sure we aren't the only team using the Met.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 9:01 am to Farmer1906
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That is BS. The SECN did not send ESPN lite to A&M for every single game and Bama gets less than the local high school.
We have 2-3 cameras a game, maybe more. A play by play and color guy. Not to mention they all know what they are doing. Very hard to tell the difference when you're watching SECN and SECN+.
Congrats. I guess ESPN cares more about aTm games because more people watch your baseball games.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 9:04 am to KamaCausey_LSU
Jay dardenne gonna swoop in and bring the money back and then some so I'm not worried bruh
Posted on 4/3/15 at 9:17 am to Farmer1906
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That is BS.
It's not BS at all. It's 100% correct.
ESPN/SEC Network contract out a production truck that supplies enough cameras, audio equipment, replay systems, and a director and operators for said replay, audio, and camera equipment. Some trucks are really big, some aren't very big. Television networks make the vast amount of their money from advertising. Apparently this thursday game wasn't worth it from a money stand point for ESPN to send out a bigger truck with more operators. Seems pretty bushleague to me, I don't understand running a one camera shoot on a major network. That's pretty embarrassing for SEC Network, not Alabama.
Another possible reason for it being a one camera shoot is a technical problem in the production truck like someone dropping a coffee on the switcher.
Either way it's completely an ESPN/SEC Network issue.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 10:06 am to UPT
Why does espn mistreat poor little Bama for every game yet A&M has the wirks every game. A&M invested millions, Bana didn't. Maybe it will be better back at their home stadium, but if Bana wanted to do it better, they could.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 10:09 am to Slippy
it was pretty pathetic
if you can't get the angle at that field, then don't play at that field
if you can't get the angle at that field, then don't play at that field
Posted on 4/3/15 at 10:14 am to Farmer1906
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A&M invested millions, Bana didn't. Maybe it will be better back at their home stadium, but if Bana wanted to do it better, they could.
Are you not reading? It doesn't have anything to do with the fricking stadium you idiot. It has to do with ESPN. They could hire a truck to do a 40 camera production in Hoover if they wanted to. For some reason they didn't find it prudent to do so on a weeknight game against LSU. The University of Alabama didn't have one fricking thing to do with it. I'll say it again to try to get it through your thick skull; These universities do not pay for these productions or provide the staff. That is completely on ESPN.
I'd bet a dollar to a dime there was a catastrophic technical issue on the production truck before the game.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 10:17 am to Monticello
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I feel like we have repeated this phrase to them at least 15 times, but they ignore it every time. If ESPN felt that there were enough viewers of an Alabama/LSU Thursday night baseball game, they would bring more cameras and more staff. However, they are in the business of trying to make a profit. Spending top dollar to broadcast a game with horrible ratings is not in the best interests of ESPN
I'm a LSU fan and I agree with this. You have to forgive most of them. LSU fans think that just because THEY care about college baseball, the rest of the country does as well, or at they should. The reality is that very people give a shite about college baseball. Certainly not enough to justify large production value for each and every game. The fact that the game was available on any type of visual medium is a huge thing in and of itself.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 10:54 am to Slippy
Wall Mart ran out of cameras. They hade to save money for bail and Greg Marshall. Some body hade to make this joke.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 11:04 am to Alt26
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I'm a LSU fan and I agree with this. You have to forgive most of them. LSU fans think that just because THEY care about college baseball, the rest of the country does as well, or at they should. The reality is that very people give a shite about college baseball. Certainly not enough to justify large production value for each and every game. The fact that the game was available on any type of visual medium is a huge thing in and of itself.
Thank you.
What college baseball means to LSU is totally different in Alabama. It's like the difference between the interest in wrestling in Missouri or Iowa v. wrestling in Louisiana. It's an awesome sport in Iowa but people in Iowa don't seem shocked and offended that people in Louisiana don't care about wrestling as much. 
Posted on 4/3/15 at 11:05 am to Monticello
What amazes me the most is there is a 5 page thread about fricking cameras. God damn off-season. 
Posted on 4/3/15 at 11:06 am to Dthrash
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Wall Mart ran out of cameras. They hade to save money for bail and Greg Marshall. Some body hade to make this joke.
Have you introduced yourself to the OT board yet?
Posted on 4/3/15 at 11:09 am to UPT
What? Every team I've seen on SECN and SECN+ had multiple cameras at the games except Bama. It's highly unlikely there was some issue w/their equipment that relegated the game to a single camera.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 12:09 pm to Alt26
Alabama doesn't care about college baseball, but they are spending $30M on a new stadium while their basketball program can't win a game and Auburn is playing for football national titles. Makes sense to me.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 12:16 pm to lsu711
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Alabama doesn't care about college baseball, but they are spending $30M on a new stadium while their basketball program can't win a game and Auburn is playing for football national titles. Makes sense to me.
None of your post made sense to me.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 1:26 pm to Slippy
So if LSU is playing in the super dome as the home team and something goes wrong, then it's LSU's fault?
Posted on 4/3/15 at 1:28 pm to bama my heart
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So if LSU is playing in the super dome as the home team and something goes wrong, then it's LSU's fault?
Or like if the Super Bowl were played there and the lights went out for 20 minutes, whose fault would that be?
Posted on 4/3/15 at 1:30 pm to Monticello
The bookies from Vegas shut the lights outs. The teams hade to cover the spread. 
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