I love ESPN

[King Crimson]

so, last weekend i was kind of amused by the catapult of Graham Harrell to Heisman #2 "all of a sudden" (decisive win at KU, impressive)...Harrell is a great college player and he's not the mere "system" guy that Kliff Kingsbury or Sonny Cumbie Leach has had in the past. He was highly recruited. But listening to May and Granny Clampett talk up Tech's underrated D is such shameless ratings whoring.

i'm sure there was never any "pure" time.....but, this crap is unreal.

[campinfool]

His Heisman chances will go the same way Chase Daniel's dis after he meets the front four of Texas. He'll get some yards, but he will get his uni dirty while doing it.

[PSUFAN]

I agree, ESPN's starting to act like Yearbook Geek.

[King Crimson]

His Heisman chances will go the same way Chase Daniel's dis after he meets the front four of Texas. He'll get some yards, but he will get his uni dirty while doing it.

by "dirty" you mean playing on the fast track turf in Lubbock?

"heisman", did you not see how i qualified that (Baylor fan posing as UT fan when they win)?

[Terry in Crapchester]

I caught a bit of the Cincinnati-USF game last night and had the severe misfortune of seeing the halftime show. That whole schtick between Holtz and May about the ND-Pitt game was particularly nauseating to me. It's sad that Lou Holtz has allowed himself to be reduced to "Dr. Lou."

Fuck EsPiN, and the horse it rode in on. If Time Warner decided to drop them from my cable package, it wouldn't bother me in the least. Matter of fact, I'd prefer that the NCAA boycott EsPiN entirely, but it's not exactly like that'll ever happen.

[War Wagon]

If it weren't for ESPN, there'd be no reason to have cable.

[MuchoBulls]

I caught a bit of the Cincinnati-USF game last night and had the severe misfortune of seeing the halftime show.

At least you didn't have the sever misfortune of watching the entire game.

Memo to ESPN, please do not put us on Thursday again. Thanks in advance.

[Goober McTuber]

If it weren't for ESPN, there'd be no reason to have cable.

Of course not. Because American Idol, The Batchelor and Dancing With the Stars are all on network TV, right?

There’s a lot to despise about ESPN but they do carry a lot of college football games.

[War Wagon]

Of course not. Because American Idol, The Batchelor and Dancing With the Stars are all on network TV, right?

If you say so.

[Goober McTuber]

Of course not. Because American Idol, The Batchelor and Dancing With the Stars are all on network TV, right?

If you say so.

Just ask your wife. She has the remote.

[War Wagon]

She's too busy playing on PokerStars.com to have time for such foolishness.

[Left Seater]

If it weren't for ESPN, there'd be no reason to have cable.

RACK

There’s a lot to despise about ESPN but they do carry a lot of college football games.

and RACK!

[King Crimson]

But glad to get 500 college games a week.

you can thank the U of Oklahoma and U of Georgia for suing the NCAA in 1981 under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act for that. Fuck ESPN.

the original lawsuit was hatched as a bet over a steak dinner at Norman's Indian Hills Steakhouse....and went to the Supreme Court.

[RadioFan]

The "entertainment" aspect is beginning to be a little too prominent. Gettin' real tired of all the soap opera shit...Favre, Brady, Terrell Owens, he said/he said crap, etc.

But glad to get 500 college games a week.

There's a pretty simple answer for that, and it sort of goes along the same lines of local TV news:

Watch the live stuff and maybe some post-game. Then turn it off and read a newspaper. Nine times out of 10, any major daily close to a major CFB program is going to obliterate ESPN's so-called "coverage," of any given team. They're national. They have neither the inclination, nor the resources to actually cover local teams, even if the teams in question are big-time programs.

Hell, they can't do it in the NFL. Don't be fooled, bro.

[campinfool]

"heisman", did you not see how i qualified that (Baylor fan posing as UT fan when they win)?

What the hell does that mean?

[Terry in Crapchester]

The "entertainment" aspect is beginning to be a little too prominent. Gettin' real tired of all the soap opera shit...Favre, Brady, Terrell Owens, he said/he said crap, etc.

But glad to get 500 college games a week.

There's a pretty simple answer for that, and it sort of goes along the same lines of local TV news:

Watch the live stuff and maybe some post-game. Then turn it off and read a newspaper. Nine times out of 10, any major daily close to a major CFB program is going to obliterate ESPN's so-called "coverage," of any given team. They're national. They have neither the inclination, nor the resources to actually cover local teams, even if the teams in question are big-time programs.

The only problem with that idea is that you still get spoon-fed a healthy dose of their shit in-game.

Hell, it was pretty nauseating watching the ND-Washington game on WWL2 last weekend. Case in point:

Mark Jones (paraphrasing, but this is pretty close to what he said): "We were walking around before the game, and I couldn't believe how many Notre Dame fans had made the trip from South Bend. There was a lot of love out there for you, Coach (Davie)."

Two problems with that:

1. The WWL loves to pigeonhole ND into the same category that applies to most other college football programs, i.e., that most if not all of their fanbase lives only a stone's throw away from campus. Not so in ND's case. Hell, there's a pretty healthy ND fan/alumni base in Seattle. Who's to say that the ND fans in attendance weren't locals? And even if that isn't the case, it's a bit presumptuous to assume that ND fans in attendance came to the game from South Bend. ND's fanbase is national, not regional. There is a travel agency that books roadtrips for ND games ([Zysdale]run by a classmate of mine[/Zysdale]), but short of said agency booking a charter flight from South Bend to Seattle, it's a bit fictitious to say that the ND fans came to the game "from South Bend." They came from their homes, which may or may not have been (and in most cases, were probably not) in South Bend.

2. 99% of ND fans hate Boob Davie with a passion. Now, I don't expect the WWL to advertise that fact, and particularly not in a game he's announcing, but let's not get carried away on the other side, either.

[RadioFan]

Good points, Terry.

I normally like Mark Jones, but that is an idiotic comment about the fans coming out from South Bend, if he said it.