BAMA not in the early lineup on ESPN/ESPN2

[THE BAMA IRISHMAN]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1803853

Appears BAMA hasn't signed any deals with ESPN yet. After the first five games they will!

Anyone notice the matchups? Louisville and the USA Conference are getting paid. Louisville?

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[TerryP]

Out of the 5 games you have mentioned, 2 of the are OOC and slated for PPV. So, in essence they will be televised by ESPN...just on their GamePlan option.

The other three are SEC games which I'm willing to bet will be picked up by a "free" network. (considering cable as free TV

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The link to this schedule contradicts the announcement the other day on Tidesports.com that ESPN will pick up the Ole' Miss game. If you will note, that schedule you have linked doesn't even have any games listed for the Sept. 11th weekend...the same weekend TS.com said we will play at 9PM, CST.

Not only that, look at the weekend of the 18th. There are two slots open on ESPN and the Duece that we could easily fall into.

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[fosterkeats]

UAB is already picked up twice...

Congratulations CUSA & Mountain West... the only way anyone would ever watch you is if you move your games to Tuesdays & Fridays...

 

[FAYETTE4BAMA]

Louisville 5 times? Did jet-gate make them that interesting?

 

[IAM4ALA]

Well ESPN has not announced any SEC games yet.

So we still may be picked up in the early going.

on the 18th the ESPN2 8:00 and ESPN 6:30 SEC slots are still open.

All the other weeks nothing listed. I dont think Tidesports.com is wrong.

Like I said in an earlier post we will be on ESPN quite a bit this year!

 

[Mussofan22]

With our early schedule, I wouldn't expect a lot of interest from the networks.

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[toddhsv]

With all due respect people, If September 18th, ESPN has Alabama/Western Carolina. . .then I would think they could do a whole lot better!

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[bamanut_aj]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by toddhsv:
With all due respect people, If September 18th, ESPN has Alabama/Western Carolina. . .then I would think they could do a whole lot better!

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Yeah, that's not exactly the draw that ESPN is looking for. Looks like I'll be having to watch that one at Wilhagen's on PPV.

 

[The Tide]

The chances of Bama being on tv for the Utah St. and West. Carolina are extremely slim. They will most likely be on ESPN gameplan.