Originally Posted by
elnutsmalljaws
You are RIGHT, the Classic is only 3 days, call it temporary insanity for thinking it was like the rest of the tourneys. But you can't tell me that we have 50 anglers starting and fishing the first 2 days and then 25 on the last day that we can't have 10-12 cameras following the top anglers around with some coverage. I am not necessarily saying the entire thing needs to be shown live but the final weigh-in of the top fellas after Day 2 would have been nice. We can have cameras all over a golf course, nascar race, hanging from the speakers at Rupp, baseball and football stadiums, and other regular season events but we can't get 10 to cover the "Classic". A couple of years ago ESPN had the Classic on the Day it was fished. I remember watching Day 1 and Day 2 a couple of hours tape delayed but the final Day was several hours long as they brought in the top 6 or so and showed the weigh in live plus other fishing that took place throughout the day. That coverage was bashed on here by MANY and it was wished then that somebody who actually cared about fishing would take over the series and give it the just due. I did not think they could make it worse but they did. Show the coverage a couple of hours after the weigh in at least not 168 hours after.
Before somebody says, "Well you have 50 to start where do you put the 10 cameras?". 50 to start but realistically how many of them have a shot at winning, 15 or 20, start with having the camera on them and adjust from there. Surely guys like KVD, Skeet, Ike, Klein, Duckett, Evers, Swindle etc would be picks to start and if any of them are not on fish then move the camera boat to another angler during the day. Day 2, pretty easy, look at the leaderboard after Day 1 and adjust, Day 3 with 10 cameras out of 25 fisherman you have 40% of the field covered and surely you have the eventual champion covered. I am not nor ever will be in tv production, but we can put cameras on every single nut and bolt of a nascar, have in car cameras, rear bumper camers, front bumper camers, cameras in the grass showing the asphalt view, cameras in pit boxes, crew chiefs, cameras on the commentators, 2 different "Hot Cameras" debut at Daytona showed the thermal temp of the inside of the race car and temp of tires on the cars, plus who knows how many other camers. No way am I saying the Bassmaster Classic is even in the same league as the Daytona 500 but if we can have a 100+ cameras (who knows the real number) covering the "Bassmaster Classic of Nascar" and show it LIVE, then we could get 10 to cover the Bassmaster Classic and show same day coverage even it tape delayed a couple of hours. Just me, but knowing the outcome just does not make it a MUST SEE TV for me. Sort of like DVR'ing a football or basketball game that you can't see and you hear the final score before seeing the game, just not the same.
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