For the out-of-town fans on here. Majority of the games on the plus. ESPN still hasn’t come out with their OTA games, but highly unlikely anyone outside of the ACC and SEC gets those dates.
34 home dates - 29 on ESPN+ (Every conference home weekend is fully televised)
Games not on TV
Missouri State - Saturday, Feb. 14th (conflict with softball)
Maryland - Saturday, Feb. 21st (conflict with MBB)
Kansas State - Tuesday, Feb. 24th (conflict with softball)
UTRGV - Tuesday, Mar. 10th (conflict with the Louisiana Classics at Oakbourne)
Southeastern LA - Tuesday, Mar. 24th (conflict with softball)
I’ll look into the away TV games at some point, but that’ll take much more time than this did, haha.
Somehow the other schools are able to broadcast every baseball game. Must not have any “conflicts”
I’ll say I’m satisfied with 29/34 dates considering the money issues. And it’s not like a few years ago where we hosted Southern Miss and maybe one of the games was on TV.
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Much better than last few years.
Out of conference games are a crap shoot, but I’m pretty sure 80-100% of Conference games are on the plus. It also depends on how good the team is playing if they will be upgraded to regular ESPN.
I just combed through ESPNs press release from last year of their OTA games. Over 160 games on linear TV. Below are the only teams outside of the ACC & SEC that got on big boy ESPN channels. Just listing the home teams in said games. It’s a pretty random selection of teams.
Arizona St (Big 12) Twice on ESPN2
Oklahoma St (Big 12) Once on ESPN2
ECU (AAC) Once on ESPNU
Illinois St (MVC) Once on ESPNU
High Point (Big South) Once on ESPNU
UC Santa Barbara (Big West) Once on ESPNU
Evansville (MVC) Once on ESPNU
I think we’ve got one realistic shot of getting on TV and that’s the LSU game because they normally do like to highlight in-state matchups. They don’t really ever flex the schedule either.