The west coast is the best coast......but ESPN stands for Eastern Sports Programmng Network.Issue is they're are dumb and didn't schedule mostly morning and early afternoon games.
Too late for east coast coverage, and even folks on west are burnt out from games all day.
Maybe there is network politics where they couldn't schedule on bigger networks earlier, but the fact they weren't trying all they could for years and years to get earlier is the dumbest business practice I've seen