GoldenWarrior11 wrote:Freshjive2103 wrote:GoldenWarrior11 wrote:An ESPN analyst saying that a non-ESPN property is overrated? Color me shocked. Next thing you'll see is a Tulane/East Carolina basketball game on ESPN 2. Oh wait...
Yet there are those who tout Joe Lunardi (an ESPN employee) and his bracketology as evidence/proof that the Big East is an elite conference. So when an employee of ESPN says something negative on the conference, it is because there is a conspiracy against a non-ESPN conference... but when an employee is positive on the conference and gives it credit... no conspiracy exists. Color me shocked as well.
I tout the Big East's successful out of conference record and performance as evidence/proof that the league is an elite conference. I don't need Joe Lunardi to tell me that.
Stu Jackson had an excellent screenshot of ESPN touting the "top" basketball conferences last week (with regards to out-of-conference records), and ESPN "conveniently" left out the Big East. The Big East was 2nd in the country with a .760 winning percentage. Poor research or biased reporting? You tell me.
butlerguy03 wrote:Bias exists. People want to hear that they are right. Who on this board watches Fox News Channel or MSNBC? If you do, you're doing the same thing as the AAC people watching ESPN and the Big East people watching Fox Sports 1.
BEhomer wrote:correction. it's not news it's a show. it's not journalism it's entertainment. all they're after is ratings and $. if it means cutting off the competition like Fox sports by belittling Big East, why shouldn't they? I anticipate Fox to do the same.
BEhomer wrote:correction. it's not news it's a show. it's not journalism it's entertainment. all they're after is ratings and $. if it means cutting off the competition like Fox sports by belittling Big East, why shouldn't they? I anticipate Fox to do the same.
GumbyDamnit! wrote:BEhomer wrote:correction. it's not news it's a show. it's not journalism it's entertainment. all they're after is ratings and $. if it means cutting off the competition like Fox sports by belittling Big East, why shouldn't they? I anticipate Fox to do the same.
It's disappointing but expected. We cannot be so naive to think that decisions and messaging are not carefully thought out in order to maximize ESPN's own content. Whenever there is $ involved in anything you can bet on an agenda from those who want to get their hands on it. There is purpose in everything they do. I don't say that from a paranoid space but from one who reluctantly accepts the market in which we live. NCAA athletics are a high stakes game with billions of dollars involved. To expect a Utopian environment where everyone is equal and gets the same fair shot, is as funny on the playing field as it is on Wall Street. When TCU gets bumped in favor of OSU, when a pass interference flag gets picked up in an NFL playoff game with America's Team benefiting, when the NY Knicks get Patrick Ewing...etc.(OK so there is a hint of paranoia in there), it's hard not to think that larger dollar interests are at play.
I think in the immediate future we have to behave as if everyone is against us--especially ESPN and the Football 5. Bring back the Hoya Paranoia of the 80's, play for us, and play with a chip on our shoulder. The only way we change it is when we have 5 teams in the Top 20, 3 in the Top 10, 3 in the E8 and 2 in the FF.
BEhomer wrote:correction. it's not news it's a show. it's not journalism it's entertainment. all they're after is ratings and $. if it means cutting off the competition like Fox sports by belittling Big East, why shouldn't they? I anticipate Fox to do the same.
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