It Could Be Worse
The Bay Area ignores college sports as well as almost any part of the country, which might explain how the Cal-Stanford game on Dec. 1 will be televised on the dreaded Versus. Can you imagine USC-UCLA or Oregon-Oregon State, etc., putting up with that arrangement?
Since the game is at Stanford, there are only 50,000 seats available to begin with. The alumni better make sure they have satellite TV or a good cable system.
It's even worse when you realize that this is where the Pac-10 hold its headquarters. The officials and bureaucrats live here and can't get this game shown on local TV? There are many other marquee Pac-10 football and basketball games that don't get shown on any channel in this region period. Cal's game in the first round of the 2007 Pac-10 Tourny against a possible NCAA #1 seed wasn't shown in the Bay Area on any channel. Several games between top 25 Pac-10 teams were not aired for season recaps of Big-12 Women's Basketball.
I guess it is no wonder that the head of officiating positions for football/basketball is nearly life term positions and why Dave Libbey still works for the Pac-10, because the administrators don't watch the games!
wow Scott you really hate Versus! hahaha....it's not that bad. Some USC games have also been only on Fox sports West (Pacific) which is even a smaller channel..I had to call Comcast to find out what it is...:))