Wiener roast set for 6pm in Fayetteville

[ScreamingTiger]

Thanks to the hogs stellar performances so far, this game will not be televised.

The Tigers' Oct. 15 game against Arkansas will kick off at 6 p.m. at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. The game is not scheduled to be on regular television, although there's still a chance it could be picked up on pay-per-view.

I figured JP might pick this one up. Anyone here what the JP game is that week?

[Djshockley3]

Thanks to the hogs stellar performances so far, this game will not be televised.

The Tigers' Oct. 15 game against Arkansas will kick off at 6 p.m. at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. The game is not scheduled to be on regular television, although there's still a chance it could be picked up on pay-per-view.

I figured JP might pick this one up. Anyone here what the JP game is that week?


No idea, I know that CBS has a doubleheader with LSU/UF at 2:30 and either UGA/Vandy or Bama/Ole Miss. :D

[supergenius]

No idea, I know that CBS has a doubleheader with LSU/UF at 2:30 and either UGA/Vandy or Bama/Ole Miss. :D
IMO, CBS will take Bama/Ole Miss and JP will get Vandy/ Dawgs. RTR

[ScreamingTiger]

I heard JP doesn't have a game when CBS has two

[supergenius]

I heard JP doesn't have a game when CBS has two
I have never heard that before but it could be true. RTR

[Djshockley3]

IMO, CBS will take Bama/Ole Miss and JP will get Vandy/ Dawgs. RTR


No ESPN 2 is gonna get the other game. :D

[autiger1126]

CBS will get UF/LSU at 2:30 and there second game will either be bama/ole miss or vandy/uga, depending on the outcome of games this weekend. Whichever of the two games gets selected for CBS at 11:00, the other game will be a 6:00 ESPN2 game. JP doesn't get a game on a CBS doubleheader. Arkansas athletic director is being a douche and not letting the game even be on PPV because he can't sell out his own stadium. We tried to get them to put in on PPV and black it out in arkansas, but ESPN gameplan gets all the SEC games, and can't black it out.

[jbuzbee]

. Arkansas athletic director is being a douche and not letting the game even be on PPV because he can't sell out his own stadium. We tried to get them to put in on PPV and black it out in arkansas, but ESPN gameplan gets all the SEC games, and can't black it out.

Thats ridiculous. There are almost two weeks before the game and we have a game here in Little Rock this week. The game will be sold out....don't worry. Don't believe everything you hear on Alabama radio....Costas and Gumble they are not.

[autiger1126]

Auburn TV effort Hogtied
Friday, October 07, 2005
By PHILLIP MARSHALL
Times Sports Staff pmarsh9485@msn.com
Arkansas won't allow live telecast; radio only option

AUBURN - For the first time since 1993, the year of an NCAA-imposed blackout, Auburn will play a Southeastern Conference football game without live television coverage.

The Tigers' visit to Arkansas on Oct. 15 was not chosen for network or cable television, and Razorbacks athletic director Frank Broyles refused repeated requests to allow the Auburn Network to televise the game back to Alabama on a pay-per-view basis.


"It's not going to happen," Auburn Network president Mike Hubbard said Thursday. "It's awfully disappointing."

Broyles said he refused because the game, which kicks off at 6 p.m. at Razorback Stadium, is not a sellout and because, by contract, it would be available nationally on ESPN's Gameplan package. Hubbard said the Auburn Network offered to buy the remaining tickets and was working with the SEC office in an effort to get ESPN to black out the game in Arkansas. Broyles wouldn't budge.

"Every time we came up with a solution, they came up with some other problems," Hubbard said. "I tried in good faith to go above and beyond whatever it took."

The Auburn Network has exclusive marketing and production rights to Auburn sports programming.

"We have been looking for a situation like this for 10 years, an away SEC game that's not televised," Hubbard said. "We'd prefer it to be televised, but if not, it would have been a perfect situation for us."

Broyles said his decision, which he explained to Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs, is not unusual.

"The ADs will tell you, if it's a solid sellout on a yearly basis, they'll use pay-per-view," Broyles told The Morning News in Fayetteville. "Otherwise, they don't. I told (Jacobs) the reason we couldn't let them have it and us not have it. Until we have a sellout, it's not economically sound."


Hubbard said the Auburn Network has not had any previous requests to televise games on pay-per-view turned down and has not turned down others, including Arkansas.

"We have worked with them in the past on at least two occasions to take pay-per-view back to Arkansas," Hubbard said. "We thought we kind of had an unwritten rule of reciprocity. Apparently, we didn't."

The game will be televised on a tape-delay basis, but the only available live coverage will be on the radio.

"I'm sorry for our fans that won't be able to see it," Hubbard said, "but we should have the largest radio audience, probably since the 1993 Alabama game. It really does cost us and Auburn a good bit of revenue."

Back on the field, the 22nd-ranked Tigers (4-1 and 2-0 SEC) had their final practice of the week Thursday. They'll lift weights today and be free to go home for the weekend. They'll return to practice Sunday as preparations begin for the Razorbacks (1-3 and 0-2).

AU recruit selected: Defensive tackle Bart Eddins, an Auburn commitment, was selected Thursday to participate in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Jan. 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. He is one of two players invited from the state of Alabama, joining Huffman offensive lineman Andre Smith.

Eddins, whose brother, Bret, and father, Liston, played at Auburn, said he was grateful for being chosen.

"It's just a huge honor for me, my teammates and my school."