Tennessee Softball 2025

[DeerPark12]

If they are playing at Columbia State it's not a big place anyway. When my daughter played high school ball Columbia was in our district and that’s where we played when we had to go there. Columbia didn't have a high school field. They do have one now and it's on the back side of the softball complex. Maybe playing there.

It’s not at Columbia State, it’s at the Ridley Sports Complex, where they’ve had it since 2014. Seating for about 2000, plus standing room.

 

[Rickster]

Many Thanks to all who replied

Good luck. Thanks for being a Lady Vols softball fan. Daughter too!

 

[briancrice]

Does anybody know if there is any sort of television for the game tomorrow? I don’t see anything listed on the espn app. Thanks!

We will have an audio broadcast, but that is all. The logistics of a TV or streaming video broadcast are just too great at a neutral site.

For it to be picked up by SECN plus or ESPN plus, it has to be produced by a participating school that has a contract with ESPN. Doing a production off campus requires a TV truck, which comes with an expense of about $25,000. Tennessee has equipment and wiring inside the on campus facilities, plus a production room on campus that performs the same function, so that expense isn’t incurred at home. Then you would have the expenses of bringing in a crew and broadcast talent. It’s just not feasible for Tennessee to spend the money to do that for a single game.

Since it is a hard sellout every year, the local group that organizes the event every year looked into having one of the Nashville TV stations broadcast a few years ago, hiring a crew that does high school football in the fall. There was some interest, but if the game runs long, it runs into primetime programming, which they are not allowed to preempt for non-network programming.

It is unfortunate that these challenges exist, but having one game that is not televised is worth being able to play in front of a couple thousand people that don’t get to see Tennessee softball any other time, and it’s a big deal for the community.

 

[Rickster]

We will have an audio broadcast, but that is all. The logistics of a TV or streaming video broadcast are just too great at a neutral site.

For it to be picked up by SECN plus or ESPN plus, it has to be produced by a participating school that has a contract with ESPN. Doing a production off campus requires a TV truck, which comes with an expense of about $25,000. Tennessee has equipment and wiring inside the on campus facilities, plus a production room on campus that performs the same function, so that expense isn’t incurred at home. Then you would have the expenses of bringing in a crew and broadcast talent. It’s just not feasible for Tennessee to spend the money to do that for a single game.

Since it is a hard sellout every year, the local group that organizes the event every year looked into having one of the Nashville TV stations broadcast a few years ago, hiring a crew that does high school football in the fall. There was some interest, but if the game runs long, it runs into primetime programming, which they are not allowed to preempt for non-network programming.

It is unfortunate that these challenges exist, but having one game that is not televised is worth being able to play in front of a couple thousand people that don’t get to see Tennessee softball any other time, and it’s a big deal for the community.

Thanks for highlighting the difficulties of streaming. Is "live stats" in the same situation?

 

[briancrice]

Thanks for highlighting the difficulties of streaming. Is "live stats" in the same situation?

No, live stats are easy. They come from the stat program that is used to do the official scoring.

 

[Rickster]

BROADCAST INFO
Fans can listen to Charley Collier's live radio broadcast on UTSports.com and the Tennessee Athletics Gameday App. Live stats and the audio stream are available on the Tennessee softball schedule page at UTSports.com. Please note, there will be no streaming for this game.

SB Preview: #7 Lady Vols Host Eastern Kentucky in Midstate Classic Tuesday - University of Tennessee Athletics

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Seventh-ranked Tennessee will play host to Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday at the Ridley Sports Complex in Columbia, Tennessee, as part of the annual

utsports.com

 

[chuckiepoo]

We will have an audio broadcast, but that is all. The logistics of a TV or streaming video broadcast are just too great at a neutral site.

For it to be picked up by SECN plus or ESPN plus, it has to be produced by a participating school that has a contract with ESPN. Doing a production off campus requires a TV truck, which comes with an expense of about $25,000. Tennessee has equipment and wiring inside the on campus facilities, plus a production room on campus that performs the same function, so that expense isn’t incurred at home. Then you would have the expenses of bringing in a crew and broadcast talent. It’s just not feasible for Tennessee to spend the money to do that for a single game.

Since it is a hard sellout every year, the local group that organizes the event every year looked into having one of the Nashville TV stations broadcast a few years ago, hiring a crew that does high school football in the fall. There was some interest, but if the game runs long, it runs into primetime programming, which they are not allowed to preempt for non-network programming.

It is unfortunate that these challenges exist, but having one game that is not televised is worth being able to play in front of a couple thousand people that don’t get to see Tennessee softball any other time, and it’s a big deal for the community.

The game could be broadcast via YouTube with very little cost or overhead. I’m amazed when I see arguments that a broadcast from a neutral site is cost prohibitive. May not be espn quality, but certainly Flosports quality would be better than nothing. I get to view Oak Ridge high school sports of football, basketball (boys and girls) and baseball games via YouTube. The dedicated producer has been doing it for years and has trained up a staff of volunteers. Imagine that. They are currently in Gulf Shores, Alabama doing a baseball tournament via YouTube. They will be in Murfreesboro Thursday broadcasting the State Basketball tournament (radio only due to licensing restrictions).