BASS

[idbefishing]

The only advantage I can think of is that we can easily relieve ourselve over the side of the boat. Women can but it much harder, my girlfriend have done it and it was quite comical. College league won't be like you would like it to be because of one simple reason: money! How many of you guys would be able to afford tournament fishing as a boater on a college kid income? How many of you boater earn at least 35-40K/year? Heck beer money is hard enough to come by let alone a boat and truck payments. Not to mention entry fees, gas, food, logging, etc... When I was in college, I normally leave the party/bar at about the same time I leave the house to go to the lake now. It won't happen on a large scale and you can quote me on it.
Ray Scott aren't going to buy BASS because he sold it to ESPN. Tournament fishing got to where it is today because of media exposure. ESPN got all the media infrastructure to successfully support BASS. Anyone who acquire BASS would needs similar set up or getting whack big time by TV contract. I can't see Ray Scott or even Johnny Morris and all his money would take that gamble. I'M NOT A FAN OF ESPN, I HATE WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITH BASS. Anymore it is a HUGE business and you have to treat it like so. It's ain't the 80's and 90's anymore.

[SuperSprint007]

Just my two cents on it, but i think that if bass was sold, FLW would buy it....my thought is FLW could buy it out and shut it down maybe take the classic and the records and merge it with their own. I would hope they would preserve the history of BASS. I think espn is slowly killing bass... the website is horrible, the tv coverage is getting less and less....I really dont think it would take to much effort on there part to make it better and nothing seems to be getting better...

And for the top woman getting a spot in the classic, so what, they added one and did not take away from anyone's chance to get in. It will give them a little bit more publicity with main stream media and maybe draw a few more fans. I guess if they added a college division then had the champion of it make the classic would you all have a problem with that?????

[artcarney_agr]

I wouldn't have any problem seeing how a college angler would stack up against the pros. I'd root for him/her everytime, being the young gun underdog skipping class to fish in the classic would be overwhelming, and fun to watch! Maybe by then all colleges will have a team and a school owned boat...I know of two colleges that have purchased brand new Rangers for their club, so it is very possible!

Go to this site for more info on the college angling scene:

http://www.collegebass.com/

Air times for that tournament are:
November 1, 2007 - 5:00am ESPNU
November 2, 2007 - 5:00am ESPN2

It's a step in the right direction for college angling and it's only a matter of time before either BASS or FLW takes notice.

Here's another one, television air dates will probably be in January, last year's shows on this site as well:

http://www.collegiatebasschampionship.com/index.htm

[bigrod]

My Insight tv says it is on ESPNU at 2pm thursday afternoon. I don't see anything except college football live at 5am.

[ekubassfsher]

The tournament will also be on tomorrow "thursday" at 2:00 pm on ESPNU. I also agree 100% with the college circuit. Talked with some guys from Drury University while at our National Tournament and they have been trying to set this thing up as well. I believe we can get this up and running within a couple years.