In years past with msc or fox sports, all games were on tv most years. Some years even the exibition games were televised.
Anyone that thinks being available on espn3 or btnplus is the same as on tv is an idiot.
Beside screwing over the local fans, it is also a matter of less exposure...which our team can surely use at the present time.
The non-conference TV situation with the Big Ten Network is awful and irritates me to no end. The old days with MSC/ Fox Sports North was for sure much better during the non-conference schedule. Once the Big Ten Season starts it is better now than it was in the old days.
I was shocked to hear a game against a SEC team was not on TV anywhere and it really pissed me off. I then typed ESPN3 into my browser and was watching the game in a minute or two. The quality was good and I only had one slight delay in the feed. The lack of exposure for the product and promotion of our team is a problem, though. Since I was able to watch the game and enjoyed it I was somewhat pacified, and then.....
I got really angry again when I realized that the Big Ten could be streaming all the games in the non-conference that we get screwed out of because they do not chose to air them, when ESPN does not put them on an of their platforms. This rotten situation would be tolerable in the NC season if the Big Ten Network would stream the games for free and not try to force us to buy that BTNtoGo package, especially when they have the ability to determine if we are BTN subscribers, as they do for the occasional non- BTNtoGo streams that they do put out once in a while
Since the BTN does not have the capacity to show all the games on alternate channels like they do on Saturdays