Notre Dame jumped out to a 12-4 lead in the first five-and-a-half minutes of its game against NC State. Good luck watching that start unless you were inside Purcell Pavilion though.
Because the earlier game on the ACC Network between Florida State and Georgia Tech went long, the lower-right corner of the screen announced that the beginning of the game between the Irish and Wolfpack would be streamed on ACC Network Extra. So I obliged by firing up my ESPN app to watch the start of the game.
The only problem was I didn’t see the game I need to see to do this job. Despite my app telling me I was streaming the Irish, it in fact was showing the remainder of the contest between the Seminoles and Yellow Jackets. So I completely missed the Irish’s hot start because I was misled.
Maybe it was an issue with me being an Xfinity customer, or maybe it was something on ESPN’s end. It might even have been something on my end, in which case shame on me. Whatever the reason though, I was put at a disadvantage in covering the start of this game, and I apologize if my game story isn’t the best tonight.
I’m not paying extra for the ACC Network to be shut out of an exciting start to a game. Something needs to be different so that this doesn’t happen again.
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