This is delightful.  It's like Lore Sjoberg wrote a guest column.

DId I take a wrong turn somewhere and end up on SB Nation?

It was seriously so bad. I couldn't concentrate on the game at all. Stopped watching at halftime. Great job, ESPN.

I wish espn would quit trying to be cute, it wasn't cute it was bufugly with an emphasis on the bu(tt) part.

Thanks for making that miserable game way more miserable espn.

the lack of punctuation at the end was particularly enjoyable IMO

I kept waiting for ESPN to tell us that the overhead cameras weren't working.... Could this have been a cover-up for a technical issue?

The camera angles were so bad that I couldn't even stay excited for the game, some of that may have had to deal with the play of the squad, but I think a lot of it had to deal with the cameras. You could not tell if shots went in, if foul calls were good or not, and got no idea of flow of the game. This was worse than the glowing puck, at least I understood the idea behind that. Couldn't they have done this with a lower profile game?

The OSU fans & media were just as pissed-off as we were.  I follow a lot of the local sportswriters and radio personalities on twitter and can tell you that they were just as nunplussed over the camera position as you were Brian.

For a night at least we were united as brothers in hatred of ESPN.  

#worldpeace

In broadcasting for over 27 years. I've operated that camera for both college and the NBA. It is strictly a replay position. You are supposed to shoot tighter and a lot of times you don't get the ball going through the hoop because either an official or a 3 point shooting forward *I'm looking at you T Mills* gets in the way. If a producer had asked anyone who has EVER done a basketball game if this was a good idea, they would point their finger and laugh at said producer for even asking such a stupid question. I'm sure the grunts working the game hated, especially the poor sap that had to operate the center court hand held. All of his creativity was usurped by the evil empire that is ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Bad Decisions. I'd ask what kind of Mickey Mouse operation they are running there, but then I remembered they are owned by the Mouse.

they had to have the regular cameras in place, right?  

If there was a question of whether someone got a shot off before the buzzer, whether someone's foot was on the 3 pt line, who the ball touched last before it went out of bounds - they would have had more camera angles than the ones on floor, no???

The attempted comedy was a success. Well-written sir

I actually went out to a local bar to watch this game (don't have cable, am poor). After entering said establishment I was delighted to see another wolverine fan sitting at the bar. He said "You're not going to  like this camera angle." I had no idea why the camera angle would be different than, you know, normal basketball viewing camera angle, but I was shocked to see the monstrosity unfold. Being that the camera angle was as it was I had four drinks rather than my regularly scheduled two and made fun of things on twitter instead of watching the game. I then drive home, was pulled over and luckily got only a speeding ticket. Thanks ESPN for nearly ruining my life by forcing me to make poor choices with your horrible decision to go with the fucking butt-cam.

seems like i work most weeknight games this season, but wasn't working last night and was so pumped to turn it on with an empty house...and i lasted...oh, about three minutes before turning it off completely.

worldwide leaders, man.  bill simmons is gone, yet stephen a and skip bayless remain employed.

In this particular case I did not laugh, though I 100% agree with the sentiment.
Oh well. Can't like everything. I'll read the next piece which will likely be great.

Me feels that. Although watching Michigan lose anything, but especially to Ohio State is going to be some level of unwatchable. 

at least it took the focus off another inept performance by the team...........yick

It would have been better if they shot that low from both ends of the floor. At least you wouldn't have as many overlapping players/refs.

But still, don't do that.

It amazes me that a network whose bread and butter is broadcasting live sports would think this was a good idea to try. ESPN sucks.

My friend and I were convinced something was wrong with the regular cameras until they started blowing each other about how cool the new camera angle was during the halftime show. Unbelievable that anyone thought this was a good idea.