No College Gameday at Cameron this year

[JasonEvans]

ESPN has released the list of where they will take College Gameday (http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/ESPN-releases-next-season-s-College-GameDay-sche?urn=ncaab-265102) this season. They will be at the Duke-VaTech game in Blacksburg, but will not be at any of the games in Cameron.

--Jason "all of our most interesting games this year are road or neutral games" Evans

[CameronBornAndBred]

--Jason "all of our most interesting games this year are road or neutral games" Evans
Disagree..we have several conference games that I'll be looking forward to.
As far as the "most interesting" being on the road, that's ok with me. Better exposure never hurts, and tough road wins (and losses) are always great for team building.

[Duke of Nashville]

ESPN has released the list of where they will take College Gameday (http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/ESPN-releases-next-season-s-College-GameDay-sche?urn=ncaab-265102) this season. They will be at the Duke-VaTech game in Blacksburg, but will not be at any of the games in Cameron.

--Jason "all of our most interesting games this year are road or neutral games" Evans

Who ownes the rights to the Big Ten ACC Challenge? Figured that the MSU game would be mega-hyped....

[pfrduke]

Who ownes the rights to the Big Ten ACC Challenge? Figured that the MSU game would be mega-hyped....

ESPN does, and it will be heavily hyped, but it's on a Wednesday and in December, so the gameday crew won't travel. They have, to my knowledge, never traveled for a mid-week game before. And they don't start until college football season is over, so as not to interfere with the other College Gameday.

[Duvall]

ESPN does, and it will be heavily hyped, but it's on a Wednesday and in December, so the gameday crew won't travel. They have, to my knowledge, never traveled for a mid-week game before. And they don't start until college football season is over, so as not to interfere with the other College Gameday.

Plus, it might require ESPN to reduce its NFL coverage by 0.5% for that week, and that's just not possible.

[OZZIE4DUKE]

ESPN does, and it will be heavily hyped, but it's on a Wednesday and in December, so the gameday crew won't travel. They have, to my knowledge, never traveled for a mid-week game before. And they don't start until college football season is over, so as not to interfere with the other College Gameday.
They should be in Durham on Sept. 18 for the upset of the century. :cool:

[devildeac]

Paging DukieinKansas. I am thinking/remembering you have a connection at espn. Care to contact her and see if she can rectify this gross miscarriage of truth, justice and the American way of TV programming/scheduling.;)

[Kdogg]

ESPN does, and it will be heavily hyped, but it's on a Wednesday and in December, so the gameday crew won't travel. They have, to my knowledge, never traveled for a mid-week game before. And they don't start until college football season is over, so as not to interfere with the other College Gameday.

Wasn't the first College Game Day (basketball) the mid-week Duke/Carolina game at Cameron? They had the game on ESPN, EPSN2 and ESPN Classic.

[pfrduke]

Wasn't the first College Game Day (basketball) the mid-week Duke/Carolina game at Cameron? They had the game on ESPN, EPSN2 and ESPN Classic.

It's entirely possible - I'm merely going off of memory. Nonetheless, I don't remember them sending the crew (Rece, Digger, Jay, Hubert, Coach) on the road for anything other than the weekend games, when they can do the full 2 hour (or 90 minute, or whatever it is) morning show on Saturday morning and then come back for the 9pm prime-time game of the week.

I do remember the multi-broadcast Duke-Carolina game you're referring to, although have no recollection as to whether it was a weekday or whether they sent the gameday crew on the road for that game. If they did, I retract the absolute portion of my prior post and recast it in general terms (i.e., they usually or generally don't do mid-week).

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Paging DukieinKansas. I am thinking/remembering you have a connection at espn. Care to contact her and see if she can rectify this gross miscarriage of truth, justice and the American way of TV programming/scheduling.;)
I'd rather she got said connection to the Brunchgate at the Alabama game. :cool:

[Duvall]

Wasn't the first College Game Day (basketball) the mid-week Duke/Carolina game at Cameron? They had the game on ESPN, EPSN2 and ESPN Classic.

Nope, it was the 2004 end-of-season game on a Saturday night.