Anybody Notice FSN showed the entire 5k from the Pac-10 championship

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17 years ago 05/19/2007 9:49pm EDT

I was flipping through channels before work on Friday and noticed on FSN Prime Ticket they were showing the Pac-10 meet so I turned to it. They started the 5k as I flipped to it, so I figured they would show a couple laps, go to commercial, then show the last lap. Or I figured they would show a highlight package. But to my amazement they showed the entire race. The only thing that bothered me was they kept saying "Rupp needs to kick earlier then most" the entire race. Other than that I was impressed. Anyone else see this?

17 years ago 05/19/2007 9:53pm EDT

re: Surprised

I saw it this afternoon. They picked it up about 3 minutes into the race then showed the rest uncut. Pleasant surprise.

17 years ago 05/19/2007 10:44pm EDT

re: *

I accidently picked it up at lunch (cst) on Friday. I, too, was pleasantly suprised. I was getting a little tired of the Pre references, though. But was still very happy with the coverage!

17 years ago 05/19/2007 11:50pm EDT

re: Surprised

Yeah the other announcer was sweating Rupp big time. I agree, he does have a nice stride, but damn.

17 years ago 05/20/2007 12:15am EDT

re: easyee

It was a pleasant surprise. They had shown the last 100m of the other distance races previously. It's definitely a good start -- I think we'd all be less angry about the terrible coverage if we knew they'd pick one exciting distance race each time and show it start to finish. Of course, I'd prefer to see ALL of them start to finish, but it's a start... And yes, the announces were terrible. I loved how he tried to define "turnover". It was unintentional comedy at its best.

17 years ago 05/20/2007 12:56am EDT

re: asddsf

the big 12 meet was on before hand. terrible coverage. the pac 10 actually showed the 15's, the entire 5k, and even part of the 10k. good flipping between track and buffallo v. ottawa.

17 years ago 05/20/2007 2:01am EDT

re: Surprised

Jeeze it was a week ago and they just showed it ? It sucks. I missed it. There's such piss poor meet coverage nowadays. No pictures, no videos usually, or it's real late. Notice how there's less videos and pictures than last year, or they are very late like FSN was. By the time they have it nobody is interested anymore. The NCAA is killing the sport. Also look at the articles and websites and there is either very few pictures or old file photos from meets earlier in the year. They are so cheap they won't get good, recent pictures from A.P. or Getty, they just a few old stale pictures. Track is dead.

17 years ago 05/20/2007 3:20am EDT

re: asddsf

asddsf wrote:
It was a pleasant surprise. They had shown the last 100m of the other distance races previously. It's definitely a good start -- I think we'd all be less angry about the terrible coverage if we knew they'd pick one exciting distance race each time and show it start to finish. Of course, I'd prefer to see ALL of them start to finish, but it's a start... And yes, the announces were terrible. I loved how he tried to define "turnover". It was unintentional comedy at its best.

announcers were terrible????

those are probably the two most knowledegable track people alive.

could you do ANY better?

taking into account track (distance AND sprint races included ) PLUS FIELD EVENTS?? no you could not.

by the way, if you enjoyed the coverage, why don't you WRITE FSN saying as much. it helps.

don't just write to complain. trust me.

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