When the Cal football team opens up the 2012 season, the renovated Memorial Stadium will be showcased on a brand new network.
The Pac-12 Networks —which will launch on Aug. 15 and consist of a national network and six regional feeds of coverage for conference teams and universities — will show three of the Bears’ first four games in the fall, beginning with Nevada at 12 p.m. on Sept. 1 in Berkeley. The following week, the channel will air Cal’s noon bout with Southern Utah at home. On Sept. 22, the Bears’ trip down to Los Angeles to challenge national title contender USC will likewise be featured on Pac-12 Networks.
“We’re pleased that Pac-12 Networks will telecast our return home to Memorial Stadium,” said Athletic Director Sandy Barbour. “It is symbolic of the beginning of exciting new eras for both the Pac-12 and Cal Athletics. The conference has done a fabulous job in creating this media enterprise which will provide significantly increased exposure our tremendous teams and student-athletes so richly deserve.”
Head coach Jeff Tedford was likewise pleased with the exposure his team will receive from the network.
“Having three of our first four contests on Pac-12 Networks gives our fans and alumni all over the world an opportunity to closely follow and engage with Cal football,” Tedford said. “Our conference plays a brand of football that is on par with the best in the country. Pac-12 Networks provides a great opportunity to showcase our program and our student-athletes.”
The Bears won’t be the only Pac-12 team all over the screen. The Pac-12 Networks will show 15 games during the first three weeks of the season and showcase at least one game from each team during the first four weeks.
While most of Cal’s TV schedule has yet to be determined, the Bears will be on national TV at least twice. Cal’s Sept. 15 venture to Columbus, Ohio to face Ohio State will be nationally televised on ABC at 9 a.m. Pacific time. The Bears’ Friday evening game against Washington — 6 p.m., Nov. 2 — will be on ESPN2.
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Someone needs to tell Tedford about exposure. There is good and bad exposure. Being on TV will do wonders for the team and the university if they are playing at home and the weather is nice and the beauty of the campus is enhanced. Then Cal has the most difficult task at hand an that is showing the rest of the nation, most importantly High School Recruits, that Cal’s football team can win a game against a notable opponent. The last time was when they beat Miami in the Emerald bowl. Maybe Tedford thinks that all these games being broadcast means that fans are happy with his inability to bring their football team to a prominent level.
Better seeing it go to athletics than than the over paid tenured professors many of whom preach anti American propaganda every day in the classroom.
FOOTBALL IS NICE, BUT HOW DOES IT SERVE THE UC’S TEACHING AND RESEARCH MISSION?
How does Birgeneau justify pumping $10 million/year (from campus funds) into the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics… and how does he justify lying about having done that for ~ 7 years?
Parents, when Mr. Nathan Brostrom says ‘the stadium renovation adheres to all CA state safety regulations relevant to building/renovation of structures on fault lines’ what he really means is that the UC asked for – and was granted – an exemption from the relevant law (Alquist-Pirolo Act).
That is to say: UC is lying to you about public safety!
Keeping my fingers crossed for major seismic activity on the Hayward fault!
I think you are being untruthful when you say the UC is lying about public safety. The Act was amended so that Memorial Stadium could spend money to make the stadium safe. The original Act limited the amount of money that could be spent on structures that were on the fault, and that would have left Memorial Stadium completely unsafe in the case of a major earthquake on the fault.
If Birgeneau didn’t make it clear, the campus funds that go into athletics are a means to multiply alumni donations to the university. For example, if you go to a basketball or football game, you will see the Haas family. Athletics gives alumni another connection to the university, and that influences donations. It would be great if Cal alumni gave to the university without us needing athletics, but we are not Harvard. If you look at a list of the top 10 universities with endowments, the vast majority come from schools with strong athletic departments.