DXing College Football 5 November 2016

[Ct Yankee]

College football on MW regardless of the distance away from me.   *=Flagship, #=affiliate

1727z WOR 710am  New York   Indiana/Rutgers*   "Indiana with one timeout left before half"
1730z WBBR 1130am New York  Navy/Notre Dame#  "75 yard drive and Navy comes back and takes the lead"
1732z  WELI 960am New Haven, CT  Brown/Yale*  "Yale has it on the 25 yard line.  Brown player penalized for targeting"
1736z WPOP 1410am Hartford, CT Sacred Heart U/Central Connecticut State U*  "15 yard personal foul penalty on #10"
1747z WXLM 980am  Groton, CT  Endicott College/ US Coast Guard Academy*  "They get to the 17, but don't make the      fourth and three"
1755z WMCA 570am New York  US Air Force Academy/West Point#  "Army Football Here on AM 570, The Mission.  Army Football brought to you by Mercedes Benz.  46 yard pass puts Air Force on top by 11"     Hmmmm....that's all four service academies on the radio here.  
2025z WWKB 1520am Buffalo, NY  Maryland/Michigan  "Michigan now 21, Maryland 0"  Odd on a couple accounts - first that I am able to receive this ESPN affiliate during day time - second, surprised they are not broadcasting Syracuse.
2041z WHAM Rochester, NY Syracuse#/Clemson "Hand off to the right, to the 19, a 13 yard run"
2216z WLW Cincinnati  BYU/Cincinnati* "Bearcats will have to win two of their last three if they want to go to a bowl game"

[Pigmeat]

On WWKB and Syracuse.  When the old Big East football conference collapsed by attrition in 2012, the better teams and those with large TV markets moved on. Syracuse went to the ACC. When you make a conference move your media rights have to be renegotiated. The conference handles the stuff with TV networks and the schools handle the third tier rights locally, in-house stuff, mostly the radio affiliates and coaches shows.

I don't know if Syracuse ever had WWKB as part of their network to begin with, but it sounds like they carry the Big Ten game of the week now? (BTW, Clemson ran Syracuse out of the stadium yesterday. WWKB may have cut away out of mercy for the locals.)

With all the musical chairs between conferences these days, dx'ing college sports isn't as simple as it used to be. You've got Colorado playing in a league based on the West Coast and West Virginia playing in one based on the Great Plains. Notre Dame plays everywhere, and I'm sure has plans for an opener on the Moon as soon as the details can be worked out.

[Ct Yankee]

http://www.ispsports.com/radio-network-affiliates.cfm?pid=47&type=1&affiliates

As shown in link, WWKB is listed as a 'Cuse affiliate.  It's all UConn's fault (I have a son who is an alum).  When UConn started beating BC in football, BC realized it was destined to become the second dog in New England (a region that does not produce enough talent for one D-1 team) with both teams in the Big East.  BC's answer to staying revenant in the northeast (thus, nationally) was to jump to the ACC in 2005.  After that, all the pieces started jumbling about trying to chase the next buck.  Rutgers in the Big Ten, BC in the ACC - both programs were better off in the Big East - program growth/success sacrificed for cash flow.

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2016/03/13/data-suggests-boston-college-would-be-better-off-leaving-the-acc

[Pigmeat]

The local newspapers called the B.C. grab "Swofford's Folly" after ACC Commissioner John Swafford. Anyone who knew beans about Eastern Football knew B.C. couldn't draw flies to their games. Boston is a pro town. If you're not named the Patriots, the Celtics, the Bruins, or the Red Sox's, no one in the region was going to turn on the TV to watch you play. The B.C. media market is one of the biggest myths in college sports.

the thing I enjoyed most about that 2005 ACC grab was UVA being forced by the Governor of VA to vote Virginia Tech into the ACC. Those schools absolutely loathe each other. The alums and powers that be at the very preppy UVA look at the folks at Tech as untouchables, barely removed from the apes. I'm sure there were a lot of Land Rovers and BMW's in Charlottesville dragging effigies of the Gov. and the school President behind them through the streets after that vote. "Oh Muffy, I'm just so miffed they're allowing those hill-dwelling cretins into our league I may have to transfer to Hampden-Sydney in protest! By the by, do you happen to have a penny for my right loafer? I think my valet may purloined it."