(01-10-2017 12:42 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  For the first time ever, I didn't watch last night's Clemson-Alabama game or the two semifinal games. Watched a lot of the bowls. ESPIN is an evil disgusting sanitary napkin disposable container. I've been brainstorming on ways to lead to its demise as they've destroyed so many athletic teams with their disgraceful labels:
"BCS"
"Non BCS"
"P5"
"G5"
"Major"
"mid major"
ESPIN is actively destroying athletic teams of universities around the country. Let's destroy them. Anyone else pass on watching?

Cheers!

(01-10-2017 01:41 PM)goofus Wrote:  I watched the last 9 minutes of the 4Q of the NCG. I was lying in bed watching on my phone.

I don't believe ESPN showed a single commercial the last 9 minutes of the game. Both teams were running no huddle offense. It made for a fast moving entertaining experience as a viewer. Typically watching a game on ESPN feels like being stuck in mud.

(01-10-2017 01:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  I watched on the WatchESPN app using my mother in-laws password. I swear WatchESPN is the crappiest app ever. I watch live TV through apps like Sling, BTN, Fox Sports Go and many others and only WatchESPN has really poor quality video and constant freezes. It's the worst streaming app around. Thank god I don't pay for it.

(01-10-2017 01:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  I watched on the WatchESPN app using my mother in-laws password. I swear WatchESPN is the crappiest app ever. I watch live TV through apps like Sling, BTN, Fox Sports Go and many others and only WatchESPN has really poor quality video and constant freezes. It's the worst streaming app around. Thank god I don't pay for it.

(01-10-2017 01:59 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think it's your mothers-in-laws wifi. Use it at home with my wireless internet. Perhaps one or twice the picture went from HD to SD. Got my first smart TV a few months back and works great with the builtin google cast that Vizio calls smart cast. (M-series).

(01-10-2017 02:17 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 01:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  I watched on the WatchESPN app using my mother in-laws password. I swear WatchESPN is the crappiest app ever. I watch live TV through apps like Sling, BTN, Fox Sports Go and many others and only WatchESPN has really poor quality video and constant freezes. It's the worst streaming app around. Thank god I don't pay for it.

(01-10-2017 01:59 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think it's your mothers-in-laws wifi. Use it at home with my wireless internet. Perhaps one or twice the picture went from HD to SD. Got my first smart TV a few months back and works great with the builtin google cast that Vizio calls smart cast. (M-series).

I have to agree with Steve. Streaming HD video requires tons of bandwidth. The WatchESPN app actually does a terrific job of compressing that data stream - but there are still minimum requirements. Works great for me on my cable internet wifi, and I even watched some games on my cell phone while sitting with relatives at the hospital recently (while logged in to the hospital's WiFi -- I know, not a good idea, but I was desperate!).

(01-10-2017 01:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I watched the championship game and it was an instant classic. Your loss if you didn't watch it.

The semifinals are more difficult simply because it's New Year's Eve. We had people over at our house and put the games on TV, but they were more in the background (especially since they weren't particularly close). New Year's Eve semifinal games were always (and will always continue to be) a really bad idea.

(01-10-2017 02:17 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 01:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  I watched on the WatchESPN app using my mother in-laws password. I swear WatchESPN is the crappiest app ever. I watch live TV through apps like Sling, BTN, Fox Sports Go and many others and only WatchESPN has really poor quality video and constant freezes. It's the worst streaming app around. Thank god I don't pay for it.

(01-10-2017 01:59 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think it's your mothers-in-laws wifi. Use it at home with my wireless internet. Perhaps one or twice the picture went from HD to SD. Got my first smart TV a few months back and works great with the builtin google cast that Vizio calls smart cast. (M-series).

I have to agree with Steve. Streaming HD video requires tons of bandwidth. The WatchESPN app actually does a terrific job of compressing that data stream - but there are still minimum requirements. Works great for me on my cable internet wifi, and I even watched some games on my cell phone while sitting with relatives at the hospital recently (while logged in to the hospital's WiFi -- I know, not a good idea, but I was desperate!).

(01-10-2017 01:59 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think it's your mothers-in-laws wifi. Use it at home with my wireless internet. Perhaps one or twice the picture went from HD to SD. Got my first smart TV a few months back and works great with the builtin google cast that Vizio calls smart cast. (M-series).

(01-10-2017 02:48 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 01:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I watched the championship game and it was an instant classic. Your loss if you didn't watch it.

The semifinals are more difficult simply because it's New Year's Eve. We had people over at our house and put the games on TV, but they were more in the background (especially since they weren't particularly close). New Year's Eve semifinal games were always (and will always continue to be) a really bad idea.

I've heard it was a great game. Maybe I missed out, maybe I didn't. I'm trying to take a stand. One person isn't going to do much I know. Maybe a few will join me. I want espn to stop the marginalization of many proud universities by using non-official, non-NCAA labels to destroy our school's athletic teams. That's my purpose for not watching. If I'm alone in this, so be it. I don't think I am. When ESPN stops referring to the highest attendance football and basketball programs (BYU, ECU, Air Force and Navy as examples in football) as "non-power schools" and calling Wake and Rutgers "power schools" and when ESPIN stops referring to top 25 attendence year in and out for decades basketball programs such as Dayton, St Louis, UNLV and New Mexico as "mid-majors" while claiming horrific programs like Northwestern and Oregon St are "majors" I'll watch them again.
Rigged sports media is ruining our sport. There will be more casualties: Kansas St and Iowa St and other Big 12 schools not named OU and Texas: When You think you'll never be called a "mid major" remember what happened to Rice, SMU and Houston; former SWC schools now deemed "mid-majors" by ESPN. ESPN IS COMING for OU & UT and will put them in other "power conferences" leaving you for dead if we don't change things. The effects of being labeled as "non-power" and "mid-major" are absolutely crippling.
Cheers!

(01-10-2017 02:48 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 01:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I watched the championship game and it was an instant classic. Your loss if you didn't watch it.

The semifinals are more difficult simply because it's New Year's Eve. We had people over at our house and put the games on TV, but they were more in the background (especially since they weren't particularly close). New Year's Eve semifinal games were always (and will always continue to be) a really bad idea.

I've heard it was a great game. Maybe I missed out, maybe I didn't. I'm trying to take a stand. One person isn't going to do much I know. Maybe a few will join me. I want espn to stop the marginalization of many proud universities by using non-official, non-NCAA labels to destroy our school's athletic teams. That's my purpose for not watching. If I'm alone in this, so be it. I don't think I am. When ESPN stops referring to the highest attendance football and basketball programs (BYU, ECU, Air Force and Navy as examples in football) as "non-power schools" and calling Wake and Rutgers "power schools" and when ESPIN stops referring to top 25 attendence year in and out for decades basketball programs such as Dayton, St Louis, UNLV and New Mexico as "mid-majors" while claiming horrific programs like Northwestern and Oregon St are "majors" I'll watch them again.
Rigged sports media is ruining our sport. There will be more casualties: Kansas St and Iowa St and other Big 12 schools not named OU and Texas: When You think you'll never be called a "mid major" remember what happened to Rice, SMU and Houston; former SWC schools now deemed "mid-majors" by ESPN. ESPN IS COMING for OU & UT and will put them in other "power conferences" leaving you for dead if we don't change things. The effects of being labeled as "non-power" and "mid-major" are absolutely crippling.
Cheers!