Here I sit, taking a break from outside yard work that needed catching up on. I thought I would hop on the ESPN web site to see if the University of Georgia Bulldogs might muster up some bark, and if Coach Mark Richt can do anything to right the ship (see my commentary on Bleacher Report)
ESPN.com is my default "go to" site for scores because si.com is not always so good. The ESPN site is smart. It knows I am coming to their site from Athens, Georgia and that I use AT&T for broadband access, so I get this banner ad above the scoreboard:
So I had to take the bait and click on the link to see how many people did not show up for the game. Ah, but I couldn't. Once the ESPN360 player opened, here is what I got:
SO here is a note to the people who run these platforms for ESPN. If I am a college football fan coming in to check on the score of a game I know is not on TV, don't try and advertise, falsely, that I can watch the game on ESPN360. It is bad business, bad practice, and I don't think the Federal Trade Commission would take to kindly to it. You have a great platform, and if you were honest about what could be watched today, I actually would have been more enticed by a banner ad telling me that I can watch the Northwestern - Iowa game. That one is a lot more enticing that Tennessee Tech - Georgia.
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