Most Oakland basketball fans have likely seen the introspective "All-Access" program on Fox Sports Detroit. The production could soon become an Emmy-award winning program. It was one of 33 nominations for Fox Sports Detroit from the Michigan chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
"Oakland Basketball All-Access" is nominated alongside FSD's "Pistons Live Pregame Compilation" and "Red Wings Live Compilation Reel" in the Sports Program category. WXYZ-TV's "Ford Lions Report" is the only other nominee in the category.
FSD's other collegiate programs for Michigan State and the University of Detroit are also nominated in other categories.

The series features in-depth stories about Oakland University athletics and its student athletes with a primary focus on basketball.
The winners will be announced June 15 at  the annual Michigan Emmy Awards.
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Less than a year after Oakland University modified its home court to update the school's logo, it was again sanded down to replace their conference affiliation.
The Summit League emblem near the free-throw line was replaced with the yellow Horizon League logo.
The logos of former Summit League conference opponents will also have to be removed from the north wall.

Oakland men's basketball Greg Kampe held court at an introductory press conference at the Detroit Athletic Club to announce the school joining the Horizon League. Kampe promoted the seemingly limitless benefits of entering the conference as well as the potential changes to his team's style of play in a different conference.

In a nod to the Grizz Gang, Oakland University quickly published a road map highlighting the highways leading to the campuses of its new Horizon League rivals just hours after announcing it had joined the conference.
The travel within the Great Lakes region is accentuated with estimated time of travel.
The creators even included the "scenic route" through the Upper Peninsula, which would likely still be a shorter travel than most road trips within the Summit League.

Greg Kampe’s rigorous scheduling philosophy came with several benefits for Oakland and its players — exposure, experience playing in the craziest atmospheres, RPI — and equally important, money. For opening the 2013-14, Oakland will take in more than $90,000 for games at North Carolina and UCLA.

In addition to making chartered flights to far-off lands of the Summit League possible, a travel philosophy Kampe credited in part to Oakland’s in-conference success in recent years, paydays like these help fund the entire athletic department.

With a change in Oakland’s travel itineraries coming this season in the Horizon League, the athletic seasons will likely involve far fewer chartered flights and a lot more busses. Director of athletics Tracy Huth said fewer “guarantee” games are likely in the future.

“(Coach Kampe has) tried to schedule the upper-RPI teams so recruits see who we’re playing,” Huth said. “We think playing in the Horizon League will be better when dealing with recruits. We think we can cut down on those high-end games. We’ll certainly keep some. You know Coach Kampe, he’s a competitive guy and he wants to play against the best. We’ll sit down, and we’ve talked about that."

Huth did say the previously-agreed upon games for 2013-14 are still on the schedule.

Much has been speculated about the fractured relationship between Oakland and new conference mate University of Detroit. Oakland coach Greg Kampe noted Detroit utilized its veto power to keep Oakland from the Horizon more than a decade ago, with the perception the school may have wanted to keep the Metro Detroit market to itself.

Oakland director of athletics Tracy Huth offered another theory Tuesday.

“Years ago, we were just coming out of Division II,” he said, adding Detroit possibly saw Oakland on a lower level and they didn’t want to play. “I guess you can’t blame them.”

“Over the past 14 or 15 years, we’ve been able (to complete the jump to Division I) and they recognize that it’s good competition. It’s going to be good for both institutions … in a number of sports.”

Kampe has said he would be willing to schedule the Titans if they were to visit the O’rena for the first rematch, feeling owed a game based on the order of the previous series.

It remains to be seen when the conference schedule is released this summer when (and where) the first Oakland-Detroit rematch takes place.

It had long been speculated Oakland could possibly be excluded from the Horizon because of a minimum-seating requirement for basketball venues set at 5,000 seats. Oakland’s O’rena, as you may know, has a capacity of 3,000 seats, but can be stretched to nearly 4,000 with the help of standing-room only admission.

Oakland director of athletics Tracy Huth addressed the stipulation early in his presentation to the Board of Trustees Tuesday, saying the school will apply to the conference seeking leniency through a waiver. Huth was confident the Horizon would grant such a request, but noted a backup plan is in place for Oakland to play its conference games at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

Another intriguing factor unfathomable in the Summit League, is the possibility Oakland could host conference tournament games at the O’rena.

The Horizon tournament plays opening-round games at the site of the higher-seeded team, with semifinals moving to the home court of the No. 1 seed. The championship game is then played on the home floor of the highest-seeded remaining team.

“It will be a packed house and we’ll pack them in,” Huth said of the possibility. “You’re probably not going to find a more exciting venue to play in. That’s an attractive thing. If you look at the numbers of the conference tournaments, whether it’s on the men’s or women’s side, some of the bigger conferences have great attendance, but attendance is an issue at those conference tournaments, so the ability to pack the place to the rafters and to give your students the ability and fans the opportunity here, that’s a great thing. It will be great whether we’re playing here or Valpo, or (wherever).”

Oakland had previously pitched a joint bid with Palace Sports and Entertainment to host the Summit League tournament at The Palace, but the plans were scrapped because The Palace was already obligated to host Disney on Ice.

Likely an afterthought to the reduction in conference travel, potentially having a home crowd to cheer them during a conference tournament game is another welcoming thought to joining the Horizon League.