[Postgame Thread] Texas Defeats Ohio State 24-23

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Ohio State	10	10	3	0	23
Texas	0	3	0	21	24

[u/Swampy_Cav]

Holly Rowe was pissed lol

[u/Sankee72 → u/Swampy_Cav]

Whole interaction was wild. Sark loves a mic in front of him but his two chances for interviews tonight were another level of bizarre

[u/Trepanation87 → u/Sankee72]

The first led to the second. He was held at the tunnel for like 3 minutes waiting for Holly to finish interviewing Day.

[u/Sankee72 → u/Trepanation87]

Oh interesting. They kept saying technical difficulties. This makes it even funnier that holly got so mad.

[u/e3super → u/Sankee72]

I honestly think she was more annoyed with the production team. It seemed like Sark ran off to go sing The Eyes of Texas with the team, so they might've held him up from something actually important to him twice in a row. Given it was into the camera, the look was giving, "Production, why can't you tell Kirk and Chris to shut the fuck up for long enough to get at least one quote from this fucker today?" This is coming from someone who was in broadcasting for several years and saw looks like that many times. On-location talent and camera ops have a habit of getting pretty pissy with production when they miss a shot or cut down a segment they had lined up because they let the studio talent yammer on about something asinine.

[u/Xminus6 → u/e3super]

Was Herbie going over how many draft picks the Buckeyes had in the past two years again?

[u/texasgambler58 → u/Xminus6]

Yes, once we started coming back, he went on and on. Hey, Herbie, you're supposed to be unbiased, remember?

[u/mishonis- → u/e3super]

Can't they just record those interviews and play them a few minutes later when it's convenient?

[u/e3super → u/mishonis-]

They absolutely can, but it will all just depend on what the plan is going in. As with anything in television, a recorded segment takes a bit of effort and planning. I'm satisfied ESPN is set up to run multiple workflows at the same time more than the small channel I worked at, but it is kind of a thing to record a live to tape segment while you're on air. For the first one, I gather that was their intent, but something didn't go off with it. For the postgame interview, you'd probably aim to do that live, so you don't have to go through the trouble of recording a segment that you're gonna play 45 seconds later. For our channel, we'd rarely do live to tape segments that were intended for broadcast during a live program, and I don't recall much of any being quick turnaround. A lot can go wrong with those types of things, so you want your production team to have some QC time before putting things on air, which is why our live programs were almost entirely true live (sometimes 20 second delay for programs that needed it) or pre-recorded and edited packages that the producer and director would QC prior to broadcast.

[u/SUJB9 → u/Sankee72]

It likely was a technical difficulty. They tape the second coach interview, it isn’t live. So Sark wasn’t waiting for the Day interview to finish (or shouldn’t have been).

[u/Aquaman33 → u/[deleted]]

Professionalism goes both ways. He has a job to do same as her, and wasting his time is unprofessional on the networks part, even if it's not Holly's direct fault.

[u/OlGusnCuss → u/[deleted]]

He didn't "treat Holly disrespectfully" How long does he wait?.... he does have a job to do.

[u/jabbargofar → u/[deleted]]

It's a post game interview. They are utterly meaningless and a waste of everyone's time. Holly provides no value whatsoever.

[u/Vaedev → u/jabbargofar]

I disagree. Who doesn't want to see the immediate reaction?? Mean, over serious take.

[u/jabbargofar → u/Vaedev]

Uh, you can still see their reaction without an interview...? It's the interview that interrupts the reaction, forcing them to awkwardly compose themselves only to utter off ritualized, forgettable nonsense. Though you can sometimes catch a glimpse of their reaction when they drop the act and return to celebrating in the brief second between the end of the interview and the camera cutting away.

[u/AustnWins → u/Trepanation87]

She didn’t have time for him then, he didn’t have time for her at the end. She looked quite pissed though.

[u/purplebuffalo55 → u/AustnWins]

Holly Rowe interviewed Ryan day at halftime

[u/AustnWins → u/purplebuffalo55]

Right, while Sark was held at the tunnel at half in case she wanted to interview him

[u/FPG_Matthew → u/AustnWins]

In case Laura Rutledge wanted to interview him no? There’s usually two sideline reporters, one for each team. If Holly had May, Laura had Sark? At start of the 3rd, Laura was the one apologizing for not getting the interview

[u/AustnWins → u/FPG_Matthew]

I don’t know, but something happened at half time with the ESPN crew and Sark, such that they apologized publicly coming out of halftime, like you said.

Not sure what it was but clearly Steve wasn’t happy about it. No big deal.

[u/philleferg → u/Trepanation87]

Fuck them. They can do it before or after on their time. During the game or at the end when they should be celebrating with their team? Fuck that. Work it in or fuck off. Look at my flairs and you know how hard this was to say.