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predictions for Oklahoma State game
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10 months 1 week ago #31999
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
What I find odd is that ESPN apparently has little flex in its scheduling once things are set.
Current year rankings, which almost always have a few surprises for everyone this time of the season, have little to do with having to schedule this year's TV coverage 6 months ago.
I'm sure long term, year to year rankings and historical match competitiveness between specific programs at specific sites are heavily weighted in making programming decisions.
KU at OKSt, where Self's KANSAS teams always have the most trouble (8-8 ) after KU @Morgantown (5-6) is almost always going to be a TV programmer's top choice guarantee until future results prove Self has gotten over his alma mater blues. (I don't include departing tu -- where Self's KANSAS squads are also 8-8 -- in this discussion as a matter of "GTHtu!" principle.)
OU had not (and still hasn't) won in AFH since 1993. That's a negative for any programmer, human or machine.
From that perspective alone I can see other games from the whole wide world of Men's College Basketball being more appealing to programmer algorithms.
I do think that what could potentially be OU's last ever appearance in AFH would have been a big positive, but maybe that "last competition" weight was shifted to the Sat Feb 17 KU in Norman 3:00 PM game, where OU is competitive? It may in fact end up being the last game the two programs play for years. And I note that the Norman game is indeed on ESPN.
To close by circling back to my opening, I am surprised that there is apparently little flex built in to the ESPN scheduling process to allow for rescheduling program platforms for surprises such as OU being ranked so highly as conference play begins.
Oh, and yes, it's true and undeniable -- we're spoiled (and loving it!)
Oh, well...
Current year rankings, which almost always have a few surprises for everyone this time of the season, have little to do with having to schedule this year's TV coverage 6 months ago.
I'm sure long term, year to year rankings and historical match competitiveness between specific programs at specific sites are heavily weighted in making programming decisions.
KU at OKSt, where Self's KANSAS teams always have the most trouble (8-8 ) after KU @Morgantown (5-6) is almost always going to be a TV programmer's top choice guarantee until future results prove Self has gotten over his alma mater blues. (I don't include departing tu -- where Self's KANSAS squads are also 8-8 -- in this discussion as a matter of "GTHtu!" principle.)
OU had not (and still hasn't) won in AFH since 1993. That's a negative for any programmer, human or machine.
From that perspective alone I can see other games from the whole wide world of Men's College Basketball being more appealing to programmer algorithms.
I do think that what could potentially be OU's last ever appearance in AFH would have been a big positive, but maybe that "last competition" weight was shifted to the Sat Feb 17 KU in Norman 3:00 PM game, where OU is competitive? It may in fact end up being the last game the two programs play for years. And I note that the Norman game is indeed on ESPN.
To close by circling back to my opening, I am surprised that there is apparently little flex built in to the ESPN scheduling process to allow for rescheduling program platforms for surprises such as OU being ranked so highly as conference play begins.
Oh, and yes, it's true and undeniable -- we're spoiled (and loving it!)
Oh, well...
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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