New Pac 12 network to televise 58 women's college soccer matches this year

Okay, for those of us that enjoy watching top notch college soccer, we're all going to have no life in the fall. Thankfully there is the DVR and Tivo's of the world, where you can record, and watch later around your free time.

58 women's college games on one network, in one season? Just from the Pac-12?
The entire WUSA and WPS combined probably didn't televise 58 matches in all six combined years of existance, LOL.

I was reading up on Oregon State's team this coming season, and came across this.

I wonder if this is a misprint:
http://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/...cle_8e98ea20-b9d6-11e1-9123-0019bb2963f4.html

 

Okay, here's a new link.

Stanford to be televised 12 times this year on the Pac 12 networks.
So I guess the 58 televised matches are for real, since Stanford is just one of 12 schools in the conference, plus this link also mentions 58 matches. That's at least 5,220 minutes of televised women's soccer coverage from one network alone, lol. I remember a time when there were only like two women's college soccer matches broadcast from the western teams each season, at most.

This is insane. The 2011 Women's World Cup really grew the college game for media and television opportunities. It certainly didn't hurt. Now we just need a better pro league.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=25805

 

And I found the link to the full schedule of all 58 matches.
Again, this is insane.
The Big Ten conference network has what, 8 matches? Maybe 10 per year?

I'll paste the full schedule below, and here's the link:

http://www.pac-10.org/SoccerW/Tabid...ac-12-Networks-Womens-Soccer-TV-Schedule.aspx
Pac-12 Networks Women's Soccer Televised Schedule
Date Time (PT) Matchup
Aug. 17 7:00 PM Santa Clara vs. Stanford
Aug. 25 12 Noon BYU vs. Utah
Aug. 26 1:00 PM Minnesota vs. USC
Aug. 26 3:00 PM Missouri vs. California
Aug. 31 4:00 PM Duke vs. USC
Aug. 31 4:00 PM Boston College vs. Stanford
Sept. 2 12 Noon San Francisco vs. California
Sept. 7 7:00 PM Boston University vs. Stanford
Sept. 7 7:00 PM Loyola Marymount vs. UCLA
Sept. 9 12 Noon Georgetown vs. Stanford
Sept. 9 4:30 PM Tennessee vs. UCLA
Sept. 14 4:00 PM Hawaii vs. Washington State
Sept. 14 4:00 PM Penn vs. California
Sept. 14 4:00 PM Gonzaga vs. Oregon State
Sept. 14 6:00 PM Seattle University vs. Oregon
Sept. 16 12 Noon Seattle University vs. Oregon State
Sept. 16 12 Noon Air Force vs. Colorado
Sept. 16 7:00 PM Pepperdine vs. UCLA
Sept. 20 7:00 PM Washington State vs. UCLA
Sept. 21 2:00 PM Arizona vs. California
Sept. 21 2:00 PM Washington vs. USC
Sept. 21 4:00 PM Colorado vs. Oregon
Sept. 23 2:00 PM Arizona State vs. Stanford
Sept. 24 7:00 PM BYU vs. Oregon
Sept. 27 6:00 PM Oregon State vs. Stanford
Sept. 28 12 Noon Washington State vs. Utah
Sept. 28 2:00 PM USC vs. Arizona State
Sept. 28 2:00 PM Oregon vs. California
Sept. 28 2:00 PM Washington vs. Colorado
Sept. 30 1:30 PM USC vs. Arizona
Sept. 30 1:30 PM Oregon State vs. California
Sept. 30 1:30 PM Washington State vs. Colorado
Oct. 1 7:00 PM UCLA vs. Arizona State
Oct. 5 1:00 PM USC vs. Oregon State
Oct. 5 1:00 PM Stanford vs. Utah
Oct. 5 3:00 PM Arizona vs. Washington
Oct. 7 12 Noon UCLA vs. Oregon State
Oct. 11 7:00 PM Stanford vs. Arizona
Oct. 12 1:00 PM USC vs. Washington State
Oct. 12 1:00 PM Oregon vs. Utah
Oct. 12 1:00 PM California vs. Arizona State
Oct. 18 7:30 PM Washington State vs. Stanford
Oct. 19 3:30 PM Arizona State vs. Oregon State
Oct. 19 3:30 PM Washington vs. California
Oct. 19 3:30 PM Utah vs. USC
Oct. 21 5:30 PM Washington vs. Stanford
Oct. 25 7:00 PM Oregon vs. Washington
Oct. 25 7:00 PM Utah vs. Arizona State
Oct. 26 3:00 PM California vs. UCLA
Oct. 26 3:00 PM Colorado vs. Arizona
Oct. 28 4:00 PM Colorado vs. Arizona State
Oct. 28 6:00 PM Stanford vs. UCLA
Nov. 2 2:00 PM UCLA vs. USC
Nov. 2 2:00 PM Washington vs. Washington State
Nov. 2 2:00 PM Utah vs. Colorado
Nov. 2 4:00 PM Oregon State vs. Oregon
Nov. 2 4:00 PM Arizona vs. Arizona State
Nov. 4 11:00 AM Stanford vs. California

 

Well, I'm beginning to think this starts to make up for all the years where we got lack of coverage of college soccer from the west. So here are our reparations.

 

Meanwhile, the Pac 12 networks are only televising 28 men's college soccer matches.
58 vs. 28, women over men.

Chalk that up to Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, Amy Rodriguez, Lauren Cheney, Kelley O'hara, and Christen Press. You might as well throw in Julie Foudy in to that list as well, although that was decades ago.

http://pac-12.org/SPORTS/SoccerM/Ta.../Pac-12-Networks-Mens-Soccer-TV-Schedule.aspx

 

And now that I think of it.

Would the Pac 12 networks also be interested in televising matches in the summer for a women's pro league? I mean, that's when school is out. There's nothing for them to televise in the summer. But the pro league would have plenty of former Pac 12 (and Pac 10) players in it. Might be a good idea to bombard them with e-mails if and when a new pro league is officially formed again. I mean, they only have seven new networks, it's not like they won't have any extra bandwidth in the summer to fill slots by televising pro soccer with former conference players in it. That sure beats putting sham-wow infomercials on six of the those networks everyday in the summer. They can pick up and televise MLS matches too.

 

I just now saw your post.
Good point.
Although if your carrier subscribes to the Pac 12 network, you're supposed to get all the programming (national and regional programming) on their "TV Everywhere" platform, which is live and on-demand content on your smart phone, online (on your Mac/PC computer/desktop/laptop), and your tablet, etc.

Therefore, seemingly, you would at least get all 58 matches on your mobile, tablet, and computer, at the very least. Virtually every major provider will pick up this network. Every major provider but one or two picked up the Big Ten network right away. Now they all have it.

 

Pac 12 networks to televise 9,482 women's volleyball matches this year ....

http://www.pac-12.org/Volleyball/Tabid/1463/Article/157652/Pac-12-Womens-Volleyball-TV-Schedule.aspx

 

August press release from ESPN:

ESPN-U will televise twelve U-20 women's world cup matches in August.
Tournament runs from Aug. 19 - Sept. 08, so there will be more than 12 when you include the knockout round in early September. Also, it doesn't say yet, but it's assumed that all matches (all 32 matches) will be available on ESPN-3. The 2012 U-20 women's world cup had all 32 matches available live and on-demand on ESPN-3. I will copy and paste this press release info, and post it on the other board.

"Twelve FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup games on ESPNU (teams TBA), including doubleheaders at 4:45 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. on August 18, 19, 25, 26 and 31 and single games at 7:45 a.m. on August 21 and 22."

*LINK*
http://espnmediazone.com/us/highlights/2012/august-2012/

 

Yeah, how are they ever going to get to class?
Arizona State's head coach was quoted, "Well, we have plenty of 5-hour energy bottles in our storage room. We will have to give all the girls' plenty of energy each day, because they will only be averaging one hour of sleep per every 24 hour time block. And that's on the bus"

Women's intra-conference volleyball tip-off action begins "Live" at 3:00 A.M. Pacific time with Colorado vs. Utah. Double-header action concludes with a 5:30 A.M. match between Washington vs. Oregon State. That match must end by 7:30 A.M. so the girls can get to their first morning class on time.

 

Four years ago, none of these matches were televised by anyone.
Two years ago (2010 U-20 World Cup), there were a few matches televised on either ESPN-U or ESPN-2, and all 32 matches of the entire tournament (group + knockout) were on ESPN-3.

I doubt they televise the U-17 tournament though (but who knows).
The U-17 team is even better than the U-20 team (for their respective age in comparison to the competition). I would love to see them broadcast the matches on ESPN-3 at least, but they didn't do that two years ago, based on what I can recall.

 

Here's the link for the 2010 U-20 women's world cup television schedule, held two years ago, by ESPN. Looks like there were more matches televised than I thought (18 of them).

http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-20-W...010-FIFA-U20-Womens-World-Cup.aspx?print=true

 

Here's the link to the broadcast schedule for the U-20 women's world cup.
At least 17 matches will be televised in total (including all USA matches), but only one of the semifinals will be broadcast? (I think both will be broadcast when it's all said and done). If not, ESPN-3 should still have it.

http://wsocexpress.com/2012/06/21/under-20-womens-world-cup-unofficial-espn-networks-schedule/


ESPN NETWORKS SCHEDULE: 2012 UNDER-20 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
(Subject to change)
ESPN2 (Live):
8/27 2:55 AM EDT United States vs. Germany
ESPNU (Live):
8/19 1:55 AM EDT Brazil vs. Italy (Group B)
8/19 6:15 AM EDT Japan vs. Mexico (Group A)
8/20 2:55 AM EDT Ghana vs. United States (Group D)
8/20 5:55 AM EDT Argentina vs. Canada (Group C)
8/22 1:55 AM EDT Brazil vs. Nigeria (Group B)
8/22 6:15 AM EDT Japan vs. New Zealand (Group A)
8/23 5:55 AM EDT United States vs. China (Group D)
8/26 3:15 AM EDT Korea Republic vs. Brazil (Group B)
8/26 6:15 AM EDT Switzerland vs. Japan (Group A)
8/30 2:55 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Quarterfinal)
8/30 6:25 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Quarterfinal)
8/31 2:55 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Quarterfinal)
8/31 6:25 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Quarterfinal)
9/04 2:55 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Semifinal)
9/08 2:25 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Third Place)
9/08 6:15 AM EDT FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (Final)
ESPNU (Replays):
8/19 5:30 PM EDT Japan vs. Mexico (Group A)
8/19 7:30 PM EDT Brazil vs. Italy (Group B)
8/20 2:00 PM EDT Argentina vs. Canada (Group C)
8/20 9:00 PM EDT Ghana vs. United States (Group D)
8/22 2:00 PM EDT Brazil vs. Nigeria (Group B)
8/23 2:00 PM EDT United States vs. China (Group D)
8/23 9:00 PM EDT United States vs. China (Group D)
8/26 8:20 AM EDT Korea Republic vs. Brazil (Group B)
8/27 12:00 AM EDT Korea Republic vs. Brazil (Group B)
8/27 2:00 AM EDT Switzerland vs. Japan (Group A)

 

Pac 12 networks now announces that six women's field hockey matches will be televised.
You gotta be ticked, if you're a Pac 12 field hockey player, or a family member of one.
I mean, women's soccer gets 58 matches televised, and women's volleyball gets 82 matches televised. But women's field hockey gets only 6 televised?

But hey, those are probably the first ever 6 matches televised in conference history.
Maybe the first ever 6 women's field hockey matches televised in college history for any conference.

http://www.pac-12.org/CrossCountry/...7688/More-Television-Schedules-Announced.aspx

 

Some more news in terms of college soccer broadcasting this year on TV.
An incredible super Mega blockbuster match-up has been announced, between the Brown Bears women's soccer team vs. the intelligent ladies from Yale. That match will air live on Fox Soccer Channel (Nov. 1, 2012), and could be the most anticipated college soccer match of the year (and quite possibly the most anticipated match of all time) ........

http://www.brownbears.com/sports/w-soccer/2012-13/releases/20120626d2cg93

 

And a much lesser anticipated match-up, Portland vs. San Diego will be televised on ESPN-U (Oct. 19, 2012) ........

http://usdtoreros.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/sched/usd-w-soccer-sched.html