Golden Nuggets: Pac-10 Media Survey
by Berkelium97 on Mar 10, 2010 5:00 PM PST
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Thirty-one writers who regularly cover the Pac-10 participated in a survey on a variety of topics. Here's a list of many answers given to the questions. There are some pretty entertaining answers in there.
Cal fared well in writers' opinions:
Your choice for Pac-10 player of the year:
1. Jerome Randle, Cal 13 votes, 2. Landry Fields, Stanford 12, 3. Quincy Pondexter, Washington 6
Your five-man all-conference team: 1 tie. Landry Fields, Stanford 31, Quincy Pondexter, Washington 31, Jerome Randle, Cal 31, 4. Derrick Williams, Arizona 22, 5. Patrick Christopher, Cal 13,
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The Pac-10's most entertaining player:
1. Jerome Randle, Cal 14, 2. Isaiah Thomas, Washington 6, 3. Venoy Overton, Washington 2
Also: Michael Dunigan, Oregon, Landry Fields, Stanford, Jorge Gutierrez, Cal, Quincy Pondexter, Washington, Tajuan Porter, Oregon, Klay Thompson, Washington St., Max Zhang, Cal, 1 each.
The Pac-10 coach of the year:
1. Herb Sendek, Arizona St. 18, 2. Mike Montgomery, Cal 8, 3. Kevin O'Neill, USC 3
A couple writers had a pretty good sense of humor.
If Oregon makes a change, your choice for the Ducks' next coach:
1. Mark Few 7, 2 tie. Steve Alford 2, Cameron Dollar 2, Scott Drew 2, Mike Dunlap 2, Bob Knight 2, Paul Westhead 2
Also: Randy Bennett, Todd Bozeman, Jamie Dixon, Tim Floyd, Steve Lavin, Mike Montgomery, Chris Mooney, Josh Pastner, Tony Rodham (Hillary's brother), Dave Rose, Reggie Theus.Which Pac-10 player will be the best NBA player in five years?
1. Derrick Williams, Arizona 8, 2. Tyler Honeycutt, UCLA 7, 3. Klay Thompson, Washington St. 6
Also: Landry Fields, Stanford 3; Abdul Gaddy, Washington, Quincy Pondexter, Washington 2 each; Jayne Appel, Alex Stepheson, No one, 1 each.
After the jump we have more on the Pac-10 survey, the 2010 Big Game moves two weeks earlier, Monty talks Pac-10 tourney, Wilner looks ahead to the Pac-10 tourney, Braun congratulates Randle, and Gary Franklin Jr continues to shine.
Cal Football
- Citing a conflict with finals week, Stanford has moved the Big Game to Nov. 20th instead of Dec. 4th.
Cal Basketball
- Monty talked extensively about the Pac-10 tourney during yesterday's press conference. He's concerned about the desperation of other teams and the Bears' lack of depth during the three-games-in-three-nights race.
- Faraudo talks more about the Pac-10 Basketball Writers' Survey.
- Braun congratulated Randle for his Player of the Year award and Randle thanked him for bringing him to Cal. Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins defends Randle's selection as Player of the Year.
- Led by Gary Franklin Jr's 29 points, Mater Dei routed Buchanan 90-65 in a CIF Division I Regional game.
- Wilner looks ahead to the Pac-10 tournament and what its outcome means for Pac-10 NCAA berths.
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Am I the only one annoyed the the results of the bball writer survey?
I mean, these writers are paid to be experts about the sport, right? So if we ask them questions, I’d rather a serious answer instead of ‘Jayne Appel’ or ‘Tony Rodham.’
Maybe I’d be more forgiving if I actually found the answers funny. But I’ve been hearing “LOL TEH PAC 10 IS HURRIBLE!” jokes for 3 months and I’m tired of them. I just want to know what the experts think and all some of the experts gave me were jokes.
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If you wanted to know what the experts think, why the hell are you asking sportswriters?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I have a fair amount of sympathy for someone who is a Pac-10 basketball writer in Eugene or Pullman or even Seattle this year. We’ve had the great privilege of watching the Bears vs some crappy teams this year, but imagine if our team sucked, and we had to watch them 18 times, 14 of which were against other completely shitty teams? As fun as I think it would be to be a sportswriter, a journalist’s salary isn’t going to be enough to convince me that giving up my Saturday to watch OSU vs WSU is any kind of fun.
Changes to schedule:
9/18 → 9/17 @Nevada
9/25 bye → @Arizona
10/02 @Arizona → bye
11/06 bye → @WSU
11/20 @WSU → furd
12/04 furd → bye
These schedule changes really tick me off. First, moving the Nevada game to Friday night at 7 makes it harder for our fans to get there on time. Good to see the AD cares more about some TV money than the fan experience.
Playing 8 straight conference games is not going to be easy. We don’t really play that well after bye weeks so maybe not the worst thing for the team.
Moving Big Game two weeks earlier though is stupid. Let the furd move their finals if they have an issue. They don’t even have a fanbase so this doesn’t affect them. I was looking forward to ending the season with the Big Game for the first time since 2006 at home. Looking at future schedules through 2013 and it looks like we’ll have the same problem with the Big Game unless there is some rescheduling.
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by CaliforniaEternal on Mar 10, 2010 7:37 PM PST reply actions
Good to see the AD cares more about some TV money than the fan experience.
This statement might be unfair. I don’t know who made the decision to move the game, but it might not have been entirely Sandy’s decision.
And frankly, national TV exposure and money is more important to the team than fans making the away trip. Sure, it sucks for people who are planning on going to the game (and I’m one of them) but I recognize that national TV and the $$$ will be a much bigger benefit to the program and in my best interests as a fan.
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According to Sports Media Watch, a 9/18/09 game between Boise St and Fresno St got a 2.1 rating [3.1 million viewers] on ESPN. That game was the 2nd highest rated Friday night game. ESPN2 gets lower ratings for their Friday nights games so we should compare our numbers later to see what kind of exposure this brings.
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by CaliforniaEternal on Mar 10, 2010 8:49 PM PST up reply actions
A 10/23/09 Rutgers/Army drew a 1.0 U.S. rating and 1.6 million viewers on ESPN2 Friday night. Ouch. I hope we do better than that.
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by CaliforniaEternal on Mar 10, 2010 8:54 PM PST up reply actions
Another comparison
Missouri at Nevada on Friday night, Sept. 25, 2009 on ESPN2 got a 1.6 rating and 2.365 million viewers.
By comparison, our Sept. 19 game at Minnesota (Saturday noon ET kickoff), which aired on ESPN, drew a 3.3 rating and 3.323 million viewers.
I am a Vereenian.
I don’t have a problem with the decision to move the Nevada game. I hear what you’re saying about “fan experience” but I don’t think it’s fair to rip Barbour for this. It’s a road game for Cal, so the “fan experience” factor is more than a little outweighed, IMHO, by the TV exposure. It was highly unlikely we were going to get a national TV audience for a Saturday game and the exposure is good for the program.
I’m disappointed that the Big Game isn’t the final regular season game. I haven’t liked this trend. Yeah, I know stanfurd shit on the tradition already when they started the whole Notre Dame series 20 or so years ago, but it’d still be nice to have the Big Game be the last game at least every other year. On the bright side, I suppose I’m glad that we don’t close the first week in December. I’ve never really liked regular season games in December.
I am a Vereenian.
We’ve been complaining about TV exposure forever, and now that we get a national game you’re complaining about it even more? Come on. Take a day off work, fly up to Reno, watch the game, gamble the weekend away.
Also, the schedule is not finalized yet. However, it is worth nothing our schedule ends nicely…three home games in a row.
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I am being entirely selfish with the Nevada game. I’m getting married in Hawaii the weekend of the Davis game and then going on a honeymoon the following week of the Colorado game. So I miss the first 2 home games which is fine by me because both of those games should be blowouts.
To make up for those 2 lost games, my plan was to travel to Reno on Friday night and have some fun, then see the football team for the first time on Saturday. Since I’m already taking almost 2 weeks of vacation, I’ll probably have to take some sick time that Friday afternoon for the drive. It’s either that or wait another 3 weeks for the next home game. Not a hard decision there.
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by CaliforniaEternal on Mar 10, 2010 8:29 PM PST up reply actions
Let the furd move their finals if they have an issue.
That doesn’t seem like a realistic option.
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The ‘furd doesn’t have this finals problem every year, but next year their finals are as early as they can be (they start December 6th). In 2012 their finals start on December 10th, so there should be no problem having Big Game on December 1st. In 2014, we again have the problem, but in 2016 and 2018 the first weekend of December will be fine.
The Furd/FootballJesus series ends in 2011 (when the game is Thanksgiving weekend) so shouldn’t we be able to have the game be the last game of the season from here on out, excepting the years named above, even when it’s in their tiny little lego stadium?
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