Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[FCollinsBuckeye]

pride comes before the fall

and goeth before destruction

 

[Mike80]

saw it linked on another forum, but according to that Feldman idiot, the "tide has changed in the UM-OSU rivalry"...no I won't go there.....

 

[Muck]

saw it linked on another forum, but according to that Feldman idiot, the "tide has changed in the UM-OSU rivalry"...no I won't go there.....

The tide is always in for TSUN during the summer....unfortunately they forget that it always goes back out again come November once again leaving their hopes high & dry.

 

[FrancisSoyer]

Delaney gets a lot of points in my book for flipping the bird to ESPN. Dude has gigantic balls. I think it proves that Buckeye fans aren't totally full of shit when they say ESPN hates OSU more than the other schools.

 

[Muck]

Delaney gets a lot of points in my book for flipping the bird to ESPN. Dude has gigantic balls. I think it proves that Buckeye fans aren't totally full of shit when they say ESPN hates OSU more than the other schools.

The only problem with that theory is that Delaney/Big Ten =/= Ohio State.

Does ESPN show other Big Ten schools...say, Iowa...the hate in the same manner?

 

[Systems_id]

The only problem with that theory is that Delaney/Big Ten =/= Ohio State.

Does ESPN show other Big Ten schools...say, Iowa...the hate in the same manner?

Do they have a reason to? Iowa isn't arguably the most successful program of the decade.

 

[BigWoof31]

In 2006, Delany went back to the negotiating table with Wildhack and executives George Bodenheimer and John Skipper. They hammered out a 10-year, $1 billion deal for roughly 40 football and 60 men's basketball games. Another 35 to 36 football games and more than 100 men's basketball games went to the BTN, which launched Aug. 30, 2007

By comparison, what was ESPN's offer in 2004? Does the article mention this?
Clearly it was lower, but I want to know how much lower it really was.

 

[jwinslow]

Ohio State does = B10 football for the past five years.

I would say it is limited to football, but basketball is a very different animal. It is an inclusive sport vs CFB's exclusive nature. It is also a lot harder to affect recruiting, rankings and NC berths with talking up/down conferences or teams. The big east love doesn't really affect that much in march.

 

[BigWoof31]

If I'm not mistaken, that Shapiro idiot was the same guy who thought that branding ESPN as a "Sportstainment" channel was a good ideal.

Thus the original movie programming, the corny "Who's more now?" campaign, the divulging of "Page 2" to be more jokes related as opposed to an editorial section (how it started).

Sharpiro leaving the WWL was the best thing that's happened to that network. That and its expansion to cover all of the World Cup games.

 

[Muck]

If I'm not mistaken, that Shapiro idiot was the same guy who thought that branding ESPN as a "Sportstainment" channel was a good ideal.

Probably...I knew he was an idiot as soon as the article credited him bringing coverage of frickin' Texas Hold 'Em Poker to ESPiN.

 

[Jaxbuck]

I just went from ignoring ESPN to evangelizing against them. If you're an Ohio State fan and you watch anything ESPN that is not an Ohio State game, you might as well be Shawn Crable.

I've been there since 2003 but I will watch games (muted 99% of the time) on ESPN that aren't OSU related if they interest me.

I'll take the Braylon Edwards late night tour of secluded American public parks before I will watch.....

-any type of half time show.

-Gameday or any type of "expert" panel show especially the NFL garbage

-Sports Center if I have control of the remote (bars, restaurants and gym's will fuck you on this one).

-their "original content" shit

-Chris Berman, Stuart Scott or Michael Irvin.

-give a click to any espn website

I've held firm to that since 2003 and I don't miss a thing. NFL, NHL, MLB and B10 all have their own networks, ESPN has no value other than the broadcast of games to me.

 

[Jake]

CFB fans as a whole are idiots.
CFB fans as a whole watch ESPN.
ESPN tells CFB fans as a whole that Ohio State is evil.
Idiot masses accept it without realizing they're being told what to think.

Insert "general population" for "CFB fans" and "mainstream media" for "ESPN" and you have the formula for everything that is popular in this country.

 

[SmoovP]

The only problem with that theory is that Delaney/Big Ten =/= Ohio State.

Does ESPN show other Big Ten schools...say, Iowa...the hate in the same manner?

Let me ax you a question.

Does the B10 Network have a large viewership outside the B10 geographical footprint?

I think the B10 Network is on my cable system, but I've never tuned in.

 

[jwinslow]

Last fall, the total was 42 million subscribers, with 75 million overall who had access to it.

Does the B10 Network have a large viewership outside the B10 geographical footprint?

It is part of the standard package on DirecTV, used to be on Dish, but I believe it is optional on Dish and most cable providers outside of the footprint.

I haven't seen a set of ratings for the non-big ten footprint.

 

[scott91575]

saw it linked on another forum, but according to that Feldman idiot, the "tide has changed in the UM-OSU rivalry"...no I won't go there.....

That was some asshat editor who made that title. In the actual article (well, more like response to an online question), he simply talks about OSU sanctions so it's more likely UM will have the upper hand in the next 5 years. It actually was not that bad. Yet those headlines on the front pages are not made by the writer of the blogs/articles/etc (many of their articles are associated press where ESPN adds their own headline). Those are the real jagoffs at ESPN. Not only do 90% of them have to be a bad pun, but they often take a slant on an article not intended by the author.