</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by nate jonesacc:
My point was, and still is, that ESPN would focus on the West Coast MUCH more if they could get some FF teams and some Championships. I'm not talking about showing games as much as the how the whole network is oriented. "Outside the Lines" and "The Life" are two recent examples. Both were based on Duke. They could have been based on Stanford or Arizona, but they just aren't putting out the numbers that a Duke/Maryland/North Carolina threesome is. Excluding this year, UK, NC and Duke have been DOMINANT in the past 11 years.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">ESPN does not carry any Pac-10 games. If they did ESPN would pay a lot more attention to the Pac-10 teams. Why would ESPN hype a conference that is rarely on its station? You don't see Fox hyping the AFC or CBS hyping the NFC.
Also, I have yet to hear anyone in the Pac-10 complain about a lack of respect this season. They sent 6 of its 10 teams to the dance for crying out loud.
The time zone issue is a huge factor. Most games in the Pac-10 don't start until 10pm and fox sports south doesn't even air all of the games. Conferences on ESPN do not have this problem Take a look at Casey Jacobsen, he was lighting the Pac-10 up this season and very few people have even seen him play.
The Pac-10 as a confernce has been very successful over the past seven years in the NCAA tournament. Since 95, there has been 7 teams from the ACC, 6 from the SEC, 6 from the Big 10, 4 from the Pac-10, 2 from the Big East, and 1 from the Big 12 in the final four. Two of those Pac-10 teams were champions, which is equal or more than any other confernce. By the way, out of the seven final four teams from the ACC, UNC made up four of them.
For someone to say the Pac-10 does not produce final four teams and does not produce champions is ridiculous.
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