Finebaum just said that the NCAA puts limits on telavised college baseball games.

I was bouncing (channel surfing) between TCU crushing Arkansas in the winner take all game in their regional and flipping back to the SEC Network - Finebaum... looking for more baseball news, and one caller asked him why aren't there more college baseball games on TV.

Finebaum said, thought his a PR person (SEC Network) that the NCAA is has limits on how many college baseball games can be televised, put on TV, in one year.

Can someone here tell me why the NCAA is putting limits on college baseball?

What do you all think about that?

 

I totally understand, because that's how I feel about that organization too.

But just when I thought the NCAA couldn't get any crappier I find this little gem out.

Why why hail are they putting limits on games that can be shown on television? That has to be something the SEC/Sankey should looking into right now. Yes, I know he's not exactly working to better that aspect/sport in our conference.

Football is king, but we need to be able to make any sports TV deals... unfettered from the NCAA's anti-competitive rules.

 

He read off a statement WRITTEN by the PR department from the SEC Network offices... NOT AN OPINION by Finebaum.

I should have been more clear in my OP, that this was a statement by the SEC office PR people, and NOT one of Finebaum's silly opinions.

But I do agree that his opinions are usually garbage homer-ism crap.

 

Who knows. I know that the NCAA has NO bearing on our football TV network contracts with, nor controls on how many football games are televised throughout the year, so this baseball rule looks kind of suspect to me. I wonder if the TV networks are really behind this "rule" by the NCAA? The last thing the TV networks want to do is payout more money to a sport that is somewhat regional in popularity. With low viewership for most of the year... till the playoffs.

That seems odd to me. Limits on Baseball TV but no such limits on football. They're both college spots and limiting one seems fishy to me, even if baseball is not that popular. The NCAA should NOT have the right to limit games/revenue at all.

 

If you're refuting what I posted then you find the rule.