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Another bad outcome of the Stupid TV Deal (STVD)

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Warning: The Stupid TV Deal, heretofore known as the "STVD", is now my irritatingly obsessive pet peeve. Therefore as a public service, I will post "STVD" in the topic title of any post about the STVD so that you can avoid my irrational rants and raves. Thank you.

This morning over my breakfast I wanted to catch up on yesterday's college games. Not once in either the ESPN's or CSTV's post game shows did the MWC get a mention, much less any video highlights. I suppose the Mtn. had them, but how would I know?

This is a direct consequence of the STVD. So I ask you, if a college football conference has a season, but no one sees it, did it really exist?

:angry: :angry: :angry:

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Warning: The Stupid TV Deal, heretofore known as the "STVD", is now my irritatingly obsessive pet peeve. Therefore as a public service, I will post "STVD" in the topic title of any post about the STVD so that you can avoid my irrational rants and raves. Thank you.

This morning over my breakfast I wanted to catch up on yesterday's college games. Not once in either the ESPN's or CSTV's post game shows did the MWC get a mention, much less any video highlights. I suppose the Mtn. had them, but how would I know?

This is a direct consequence of the STVD. So I ask you, if a college football conference has a season, but no one sees it, did it really exist?

:angry: :angry: :angry:

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Man, I really wanted to watch the Poke-TCU game, wonder why it wasn't on CSTV or VS?? Disgusting

GO BRONCOS

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Man, I really wanted to watch the Poke-TCU game, wonder why it wasn't on CSTV or VS?? Disgusting

GO BRONCOS

There was one place in Texas where the TCU-Wyo could be seen. That was the TCU campus. When I got home from the watching party at the Amon Carter Stadium I found UNT - ULaLa on TV. I got a call from a friend who is a transplanted Penn State fan who noticed the same thing.

Even my Penn State friend he was saying "How the f*** does that happen?"

The Mtn, that's how!

"If you can't answer a man's argument all is not lost you can still call him vile names" Elbert Hubbard.

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Warning: The Stupid TV Deal, heretofore known as the "STVD", is now my irritatingly obsessive pet peeve. Therefore as a public service, I will post "STVD" in the topic title of any post about the STVD so that you can avoid my irrational rants and raves. Thank you.

This morning over my breakfast I wanted to catch up on yesterday's college games. Not once in either the ESPN's or CSTV's post game shows did the MWC get a mention, much less any video highlights. I suppose the Mtn. had them, but how would I know?

This is a direct consequence of the STVD. So I ask you, if a college football conference has a season, but no one sees it, did it really exist?

:angry: :angry: :angry:

Highlights shows tend to focus on the Top 25 schools and particularly spectacular plays from outside the Top 25. You don't have anybody in the Top 25 so I don't think that you can blame the STVD for the lack of highlights. Well, not unless you can blame the STVD for not having any Top 25 teams.

Yoda out...

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After deleting some of my posts and closing the offending SteveAztec thread, a couple of elites have been able to open it long enough to respond to me anyway.  And since I can’t respond on a closed thread, here is my response…

Other than the initial inquiry, this has never been about letting Steve post again; I doubt that he even wants to post here.  My complaint is about his treatment on this board and the failure of admins to control attacks on him – and worse, to sometimes participate in those attacks.

Steve was first banned on the SDSU board.  When he was banned, it was a sufficiently controversial that they started what became an 8 page thread on the topic to justify the decision (https://aztecmesa.proboards.com/thread/9747/steve-aztec-longer-member-board).  It is clear that Steve had support in the community and there was some criticism for the Board Administrators for having failed to “expel the dozens of people who've been taunting him.”  (And take a look at the thread that I bumped; initially it was supporters happy about Steve getting a radio show.  Then the haters arrived.)

I can’t say if Steve took it too far in response, but I will say that he denies most of various accusations and adds important missing context to others.  But I wasn’t a party to any of the events and can’t say who is in the right and who is in the wrong.  And I have to admit that if half of what has been said about him is true, depending on context, I might well have banned him too.  Or more likely I might have banned those who were taunting him.  (Steve had lost a brother-in-law to suicide and there have been a number of memes of people blowing their brains out, as well as posts blaming Steve or his sister for the suicide – and admins apparently let it go.)

I am in no position to evaluate the truth or falsity of the laundry list of claims made on this board about how Steve responded to all this.  My complaint, however, is about his treatment on this board.  I may be wrong, but his banning on this board at least appears to have been less about what he did on this board and more a carryover from the SDSU banning.  The same taunting continued – more suicide memes – apparently ignored by the admins. Utenation supposedly posted the first and it is explained away because he didn’t know about the suicide.  But was the post taken down?  Was an apology issued?   Indeed, for years, admins on this board have allowed Steve to be vilified based on little more than anecdotal hearsay.  This is a privately owned board, but it is not a private board – anyone can join.  And more than that, It’s not an anonymous board; people know who Steve.  You have a duty to protect your posters from libelous statements and unproven allegations -- especially when, having been banned themselves, they have no ability to defend themselves.

Even Retrofade (who says he’s not a mod but can post to closed threads) put up a “blowing his brains out” meme several years ago.  He knew that Steve lost his brother-in-law to suicide, and he now says that “Steve is a mentally disturbed individual”, which is libelous by the way, but excuses his meme as nothing more than being in “poor taste”.  Apparently it is okay with the board's current admins to taunt a "mentally disturbed person" because the post has never been taken down.  The poster has never been admonished.  And there has been no apology, unless you consider "he deserved it" to be an apology.

In my view, you owe Steve an apology for the treatment that you have tolerated and, in some cases, engaged in.  A former Aztec board went out of business when sued (not by Steve).  It won’t be the last one.  You need to fix this.  You need to administer your board and prevent libelous and incendiary attacks -- hearsay-- on posters. 

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The reason there were no highlights on national TV is there were not MWC games of national importance. Had nothing to do with the TV contract. How often before did you see MWC highlights? Hardly ever. And sometimes a game doesn't get televised. That happened way more often before. Until the mtn gets on satellite, the contract does suck, but it had nothing to do with the highlight programs.

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Warning: The Stupid TV Deal, heretofore known as the "STVD", is now my irritatingly obsessive pet peeve. Therefore as a public service, I will post "STVD" in the topic title of any post about the STVD so that you can avoid my irrational rants and raves. Thank you.

This morning over my breakfast I wanted to catch up on yesterday's college games. Not once in either the ESPN's or CSTV's post game shows did the MWC get a mention, much less any video highlights. I suppose the Mtn. had them, but how would I know?

This is a direct consequence of the STVD. So I ask you, if a college football conference has a season, but no one sees it, did it really exist?

:angry: :angry: :angry:

I was thinking to myself yesterday, that all 3 MWC games were on the mtn. & that equals the MWC playing in a vacuum..............3 games on TV available to a pittance of viewers. For whatever reason, other than the local paper is challenged when covering local sports..........but when the Las Vegas Review Journal prints it's daily TV GAMES on the inside of the sports section, they NEVER list any MWC games on the mtn outside of the UNLV game, and if UNLV is not playing on CSTV or Versus, those game don't get listed either.....................I'm not saying the RJ doing this is a product of the MWC TV situation, it's just another example of lousy local coverage.

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