The Clemson Tigers outscored Cal 23-10 over the weekend in their first ever ACC matchup to sweep the Bears, while Cal collected 18 hits against the Pacific Tigers en route to a 14-8 win on Monday.
Great crowd on a beautiful Sunday. but the Bears’ bats fell one timely hit short. It would have been awesome to see the crowd erupt. Looking forward to watching the GA Tech games. One serious concern I have. The games televised from Cal and Stanford are inferior in number of video cameras, replay features, graphics, etc. compared to virtually every other ACC team’s home television coverage. Our video on ACCN is now limited to one camera behind home plate, far inferior to the full complement of cameras, replay and graphics PAC-12 Network provided. Our commentators are excellent. But we need to have competitive video coverage. It will be a consideration (in addition to money earned of course) on the part of a star player selecting where to play his college ball: “Do I want my parents, friends, and MLB scouts to be able to see me play on television, where the quality of video coverage is at least consistent with the other D1 college programs’ television coverage?” If the answer is yes, the player will not select Cal. I don’t know if the ACC Network has made this decision to shortchange Cal and Stanford on this or if, rather, the schools themselves across the ACC are responsible for footing the bill for these features. But as it stands now this is a glaring discrepancy.
I’m currently working on a (very opinionated) opinion piece about the Acc’s recycled pac12 game day operations for Cal baseball/softball and really appreciated your thoughts on this.
I will have something on this soon! I’ve been collecting screenshots, clips, and graphics from all of the former PAC teams who are using ESPN+’s engine for their new conference games (ASU, UA, UU, & Stanford) to show how little effort Cal’s media team has put into their game day production in comparison to the other schools, with Cal having the Pac12’s San Ramon HQ practically in their backyard.
Road games are a great viewer experience on ESPN+ for Cal in the ACC, but boy do they make home games even more frustrating to watch.
Good to hear, JB. I imagine Roxy is also quite annoyed at the poor video. One would think he and Darby are lobbying for a drastic upgrade of the video coverage.
Great crowd on a beautiful Sunday. but the Bears’ bats fell one timely hit short. It would have been awesome to see the crowd erupt. Looking forward to watching the GA Tech games. One serious concern I have. The games televised from Cal and Stanford are inferior in number of video cameras, replay features, graphics, etc. compared to virtually every other ACC team’s home television coverage. Our video on ACCN is now limited to one camera behind home plate, far inferior to the full complement of cameras, replay and graphics PAC-12 Network provided. Our commentators are excellent. But we need to have competitive video coverage. It will be a consideration (in addition to money earned of course) on the part of a star player selecting where to play his college ball: “Do I want my parents, friends, and MLB scouts to be able to see me play on television, where the quality of video coverage is at least consistent with the other D1 college programs’ television coverage?” If the answer is yes, the player will not select Cal. I don’t know if the ACC Network has made this decision to shortchange Cal and Stanford on this or if, rather, the schools themselves across the ACC are responsible for footing the bill for these features. But as it stands now this is a glaring discrepancy.
Hey Rae!
I’m currently working on a (very opinionated) opinion piece about the Acc’s recycled pac12 game day operations for Cal baseball/softball and really appreciated your thoughts on this.
I will have something on this soon! I’ve been collecting screenshots, clips, and graphics from all of the former PAC teams who are using ESPN+’s engine for their new conference games (ASU, UA, UU, & Stanford) to show how little effort Cal’s media team has put into their game day production in comparison to the other schools, with Cal having the Pac12’s San Ramon HQ practically in their backyard.
Road games are a great viewer experience on ESPN+ for Cal in the ACC, but boy do they make home games even more frustrating to watch.
Good to hear, JB. I imagine Roxy is also quite annoyed at the poor video. One would think he and Darby are lobbying for a drastic upgrade of the video coverage.
Thank you. Well put.
Completely agree