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jwinslow;866813; said:
Well I think the gator faithful can agree with the ESPiN angle, even if it did inspire your team :p
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Yep. GatorCountry has an article coming out about Herbie and what was seen by the GatorNation as anti-UF bias in his and ESPN's constant mantra to repeat TOSU with TSUN.....or at least put a PAC-10 or Big-10 team as #2. ESPN would not show the SEC hi-lights, as they are all about ABC televised conferences in their coverage.

Guess now that GC are linked with ESPN they are trying to make nice. I assume it will be all kissy kissy with Herbie, and how much he loves the Gators. ::sigh::: marketing:(
 
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Gatorubet;866833; said:
Yep. GatorCountry has an article coming out about Herbie and what was seen by the GatorNation as anti-UF bias in his and ESPN's constant mantra to repeat TOSU with TSUN.....or at least put a PAC-10 or Big-10 team as #2. ESPN would not show the SEC hi-lights, as they are all about ABC televised conferences in their coverage.

Guess now that GC are linked with ESPN they are trying to make nice. I assume it will be all kissy kissy with Herbie, and how much he loves the Gators. ::sigh::: marketing:(
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The same Herbie who had Ohio State fans all pissed off? Not many people on here will debate that Florida was the better team on Jan. 8th, but it was not a forgone conclusion that Florida should automatically be in the game. Florida did not look good in the last stretch of the season excluding the Arkansas game. (Where they even tried to give it away)
 
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bigballin2987;866838; said:
The same Herbie who had Ohio State fans all pissed off? Not many people on here will debate that Florida was the better team on Jan. 8th, but it was not a forgone conclusion that Florida should automatically be in the game. Florida did not look good in the last stretch of the season excluding the Arkansas game. (Where they even tried to give it away)
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Big - most Gators were and are of the opinion that ABC and ESPN had a vested interest in having a non-SEC opponent in the title game. While I can see reasons why some might not like us as much as other teams, given the fact that we just won, and not pretty, even the LSU smack down of Cheesburger and Co. did not seem to give us any ABC/ESPN love in the run up to the game. Just our perception.
 
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Gatorubet;866833; said:
Yep. GatorCountry has an article coming out about Herbie and what was seen by the GatorNation as anti-UF bias in his and ESPN's constant mantra to repeat TOSU with TSUN.....or at least put a PAC-10 or Big-10 team as #2. ESPN would not show the SEC hi-lights, as they are all about ABC televised conferences in their coverage.

Guess now that GC are linked with ESPN they are trying to make nice. I assume it will be all kissy kissy with Herbie, and how much he loves the Gators. ::sigh::: marketing:(
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Herbie is about as un-biased a college football analyst as there is out there.

And had USC not choked against UCLA, chances are it would've been USC instead of Florida and certainly USC would have made it had they not lost to Oregon State.

but this is a worthless debate and it will never be settled, the bias debate that is.

Until the polls are either public or not a factor, one team will claim one thing while another will tell the first they are full of shit and claim their OWN personal grudge.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;866854; said:
Well, you guys did have Gary Daneilson and CBS. :p
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We needed that .0101 :biggrin:

Actually, and honestly, I thought the blatant media politicking was at its absolute worst last year, whether it was ESPiN, CBS or ABC.
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Yep. It was so bad that it started to become a my-network-versus-your-network thing. Hell, started....it did!
 
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Gatorubet;866850; said:
Big - most Gators were and are of the opinion that ABC and ESPN had a vested interest in having a non-SEC opponent in the title game. While I can see reasons why some might not like us as much as other teams, given the fact that we just won, and not pretty, even the LSU smack down of Cheesburger and Co. did not seem to give us any ABC/ESPN love in the run up to the game. Just our perception.
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My bad. I didn't mean for my post to be pro-OSU or anti Florida, all I meant is that anyone can find fault with anything. Very few fans at all like ESPN. I just think everyone can find support and find enemies in any commentary. But in all honesty, a lot of OSU fans were pissed off about Herbie's comments about the game.
 
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Gatorubet;866850; said:
Big - most Gators were and are of the opinion that ABC and ESPN had a vested interest in having a non-SEC opponent in the title game. While I can see reasons why some might not like us as much as other teams, given the fact that we just won, and not pretty, even the LSU smack down of Cheesburger and Co. did not seem to give us any ABC/ESPN love in the run up to the game. Just our perception.
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The LSU smackdown coverage (besides being highly expected) was dwarfed by the "greatest bowl game ever" in the desert, which now graces the cover of NCAA 2008.
 
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Recruiting geeks have turned a niche website into multimedia brand by Jeff McCallister / AUGUST 30, 2007
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Tim Johnson ?It wasn?t a raid?: Helwagen (right) snatched his old colleague Rapp away from Buckeye Sports Bulletin this summer
Lee Schear begged the sports department at the Dayton Daily News for more coverage of the off-season recruiting efforts of his favorite football team, the Ohio State Buckeyes.
?I really upbraided the staff there and let them know I thought they were ignoring some important stories,? said Schear, who owns and operates Schear Financial Services in Dayton. ?Finally they said, ?Hey, no one cares about that stuff. If you?re so bullish about it, write it up yourself.? In a nutshell, that?s how Bucknuts was born.?
That was 1998, when Schear?better known as ?Mr. Bucknuts? on the site he founded?got in on the ground floor of what has become an Internet micro-information boom. His assumption that other Buckeye fans had the same thirst for information he did was on the mark, as proven by the occasional million-hit day enjoyed by Bucknuts.com.
?Generally speaking, there?s a good deal of interest out there in recruiting news and insider reporting, but when you think of the macro web sites like ESPN.com, Sportsline or FoxSports, that stuff?s just not in their wheelhouse,? said Eric Fisher, who reports on online media for Street & Smith?s Sports Business Journal.
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