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Originally Posted by macallan25
I don't know what you mean by no TV coverage in the Big XII, oh well.
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Oh - I wasn't taking a cut at Big XII teams here, just that the Big XII signed a pretty bad TV contract a while back, which doesn't put every game on regional coverage (because it's slanted toward much wider coverage of important games, read: Texas teams minus Baylor) . . . this means that some of the teams had to pay for video for their non-conference games, even though it wouldn't be on TV, purely for replay purposes. AFAIK, this is the last year of that tragic deal, and they'll be making much more per team with future deals.
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Originally Posted by macallan25
So why couldn't they play the ABC feeds with no sound? Pretty sure you didn't need any to get that call right.
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When I say "feed" I mean the literal feed to the viewer, as dictated by the production trailer - they do have access to most (if not all) camera angles. This actually was part of the problem in the Oregon case, if I'm reading correctly - the two angles that were clear (and they were VERY clear) were the ones that didn't come in before the HJ asked for a ruling, and he couldn't slog through the others fast enough.
Either way, there's no doubt OU got jobbed here - I just don't think it was intentional. PAC-10 officials may very well suck on the whole, but in this case it just seems like a confluence of shitty events for the Sooners. No way the record can be changed, though - that would be a terrible precedent.