Looking all over social media, one tweet was synonymous, “it’s time to start airing the basketball state championships.”
For five years now, the state tournament has been found on the NFHS Network, a website that you have to pay a monthly fee of $10.99 per month in order to be able to watch your event.
However, during the girls state championship on Wednesday and Thursday, the standards of the price did not meet the quality of the streaming product.
Viewers were hit with streaming issues, long breaks in the action and some may have missed big events throughout the game as some viewers saw more skips in the video.
At the last second, the 5A state title game was aired on Fox Sports Southwest, as viewers flocked to the national high school broadcast website for anticipation of the start of the game but were saw with a message of a delay in the game.
Viewing being plagued with connectivity issues, delay messages every year is deterring away the viewership of the website and with the tweet below, it shows the amount of trust viewers really put in the website.
It’s time to start airing the state tournament once again. A decade ago, you can find all the games on Fox Sports Southwest, just like the football state championships, and with no issues.
It remains unclear on why this move was placed to begin with but it’s a move that FOX is currently missing, and the opportunity really hurt this year outside of the girls state championships.
The boys so far have seen two games winners on the first day of championship action, and with a day left on the schedule, it really is a opportunity miss to spotlight the communities that are taking part in the competition, show neutral fans the quality of basketball that the state of Texas has to offer, with Texas Tech being the last Texas team to be in the national spotlight in 2019 at the collegiate level and give more exposure to the standout players, who are currently under the radar and are seeking more offers or for some, kick start their recruitment by a big performance on the big stage.
Regardless on your thoughts of football, the talent in Texas is in abundance, but basketball in the recent years have stepped up in quality with the amount of close games.
