Plans to nationally televise the Butler-Independence football tilt are dead.

The grand poo-bas at the North Carolina High School Athletic Association nixed having ESPNU broadcast the game live. Why? Because the NCHSAA makes the rules, that’s why. Rules like waaay too many HS football playoff games in order to fund the NCHSAA.

Putting Indy-Butler on TV would’ve only helped the programs and the kids in them and not the NCHSAA. Accordingly, it is not allowed.