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The WNBA held a virtual draft on Friday with zero issues
Oh, NFL. ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted that he received a text from a participant on the NFL’s mock draft that “mock draft today already had a technical glitch with Cincinnati’s first pick! Brutal.” ESPN’s Dianna Russini said she was texting with multiple coaches and general managers who were on the mock draft call, and everybody is saying the same thing, which is bandwidth is a problem. There are many communication issues.” Russini didn’t stop there: I was on the phone with a head coach talking about the mock draft today, and he was losing his mind because his Internet went down…apparently, his young children were all on their iPads using up the bandwidth. Everybody get off the Internet”-in loud dad voice.”
Lastly, from Russini:
Text from a GM during this mock draft, “there are early communication issues because 32 of us GMs are on a conference call and we didn’t hit mute. Sounds awful”
I understand this is a test run to work out the kinks, but the potential disaster here is spectacular. Could you imagine a team missing their selection because of a computer issue? It all feels last minute and not very well thought out.
There were always going to be some early bugs that ended to be addressed. It sounds like there was difficulty figuring out whether the issues were on the teams’ side or on the leagues’ end. Russini
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