Utah at Houston postponed

[NashvilleUteFan]

To Wednesday at 4pm MT due to inclement weather. Still broadcasting on ESPN+

[//r00t4Utes]

I was really hoping the rivalry game and games against ranked teams like HOU and ISU would be on regular channels and not streaming only.

[//r00t4Utes]

Not that I’ve missed a game, just I’m old and like the stations broadcast and usually better broadcast team/announcers.

[Minnesota Ute]

RE best announcers to call the game

I know you said you are old, but I’m in my mid 50s, so I am also somewhat old. So if you are old old, then maybe disregard (for example I wouldn’t recommend this to my parents who struggle just to put their cell phone on speaker mode). But if you are just regular old like me, meaning you have a smart phone and you know how to use it; then I would strongly recommend downloading the ESPN700 App, and syncing the game. Bill Reilly is awesome! TBH, I’m not a huge fan of Mooney and miss Jimmy Soto as color, however as compared to almost any of the jokers they have on TV, they are worlds better.

So again, if you have a phone and you have a TV you can pause, and you have just a little patience and are not technologically challenged, listen to the Voice of the Utes on game day!

[The Miami Ute]

I’ll try that…how do you sync the game?

[Minnesota Ute]

All I do is just start the radio feed, then you’ll quickly see that the TV is about 15-30sec ahead (typically although it can be as much as almost a minute). So you watch the play, and un-pause it as Bill’s play by play or the sounds matches the game.

Depending on the venue, sometimes you can hear the ball hit the rim on a FT, or usually you can hear the refs whistle on a foul or OB. So the absolute easiest way I find is to:

Turn the radio down
watch the TV and pause it when the ref blows a whistle
then mute TV, turn up the radio/app
then push play when you hear the whistle on the radio.

The downside to that method is you may have to watch for a bit until a whistle happens, but usually it doesn’t take long.

Football is much easier than basketball due to the amount of stoppage. It’s easy to sync on the refs whistle at the end of any given play. I’ve been listening to KFAN for Vikings and ESPN700 for Utes for probably going on a decade if not more.

[Minnesota Ute]

Just an FYI though for anyone attempting this maneuver, it doesn’t happen often, probably only happened to me a handful of times that I can recall, but if the radio is ahead of the TV you are screwed. That is the kiss of death because there is no way that I found to pause the radio (I didn’t try purchasing a radio app like iHeart). I didn’t document it, but I believe that it was a problem that was very specific to a certain channel that aired Ute games very occasionally, like FS1 or something, where they had an excessive TV delay.

[Minnesota Ute]

ESPN+ is way cheaper than buying DishNetwork just to have the awful low quality poor distribution Pac12 Network. I know it’s great to be on regular TV, but given that we are a long way from commanding regular TV spots, I for one am ecstatic about being on ESPN+.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

Thanks Minnesota!!

[Minnesota Ute]

Absolutely, also if you have the patience and/or skill to resync often, I like to rewind and watch any of the TV filler content during the commercials on a timeout. Then I can always catch up and resync when the game is back on. So it’s kind of the best of both worlds because the TV usually has some interesting special interest stuff on past players, past games, conference standings, etc.

I’m always happy to bring more listeners to Bill Reilly and ESPN700, it’s a real blessing to have an interesting & passionate play by play like Bill (or Paul Allen for Vikings). They are so much more invested in the team you are watching than the random TV guys that get assigned. Bill Walton was the worst. One time I literally watched with no sound at all because I couldn’t get the radio feed and he was on the broadcast.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

Bill Walton was one of the greatest players of all time and the worst announcer of all time. I always turned the sound off. It’s nice when announcers have ties to the team and know the players and coaches. Vin Scully was my favorite even though I was not a dodger fan. My brother was a huge dodger fan and we shared a room growing up in the mid 60s to early 70s and listened to the dodger home games late at night laying in bed. I felt like I was at the game. Great memories.

[NarfUte]

Bush and Hobby are both closed tomorrow due to the weather, no infrastructure to handle any snow in Houston.

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