(11-20-2018 10:13 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  When Hofstra went to Marshall, ESPN+ stopped working every commercial. It stops during halftime of soccer games. Back when games were on ESPN3 for free, I don't remember having those problems. ESPN+ has four of Hofstra's six OOC away games, and I get it for free because I was paying for ESPN Insider, which became part of ESPN+. Somebody said that you can complain that ESPN+ isn't free or you can buy one fewer drink a month and spend that on ESPN+. Given that the CAA streams for free, I'm fine with CAA.TV rather than them using ESPN+ (and I prefer CAA.TV if it works better), but ESPN+ has so many games in so many sports that it's not worthless in general. Furthermore, if every conference that is on ESPN+ streamed for free on their own website, it would be harder to find games. Having to go to a website for each conference would be like if you owned ten TVs and got each channel on only one TV. Regardless of whether it's rooting for a CAA team OOC, rooting against a team, or seeing that the score of a close game that is almost over, ESPN+ is useful at watching games or parts of games that you might not have known were happening when the game started.

I see your point. If you're a HUGE sports fan who likes to watch lots of different sports from different college and pro leagues, and the stuff on free cable isn't enough for you, then there's clearly a lot of value in the plus.

But for somebody like me, who mostly only focuses on the few teams that I root for, then it's not worth the extra money, especially when I already pay so much for cable, and get tons of sports on TV as it is.