About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced during the first-round playoff streaming and highlights key performances from various games.

We thought this year we were going to get to work on staggering playoff game times, so we don’t have eight of the best games going on at the same time. We thought we were going to get to work on getting video review for officials at games before the semifinals. OK, that at least is happening in some places, but otherwise, we found out on Saturday we need to go back one year and work on 2024’s thing some more — having all of these games on ESPN+. When you look back at this podcast years later, yes, this is the one where the first-round playoff streaming was a borderline disaster. Essentially half of our opening eight games had some streaming issue, one of them so severe that it never got on the air at all. That’s bad. That’s a problem. The NCAA folks will talk to ESPN about it this week, but it’s also the NCAA that puts all of this work on overworked sports information professionals in a division where we already expanded the basketball season so that these folks are working winter sports and football and any other fall sport that might still be in its playoffs at the same time. But the action on the field was really good, so we’ll spend…

Topics covered

• playoff game times
• streaming issues
• NCAA football
• game analysis
• team performances

Keywords

• playoff
• streaming
• NCAA
• football
• game analysis
• Susquehanna
• Muhlenberg
• LaGrange

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NCAA, ESPN, Susquehanna, Chapman, Whitworth, Muhlenberg, Union, Springfield, Cortland, LaGrange

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