ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

[Telekinesis]

This article put a smile on my face, despite its age:

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/neel/031106ohiostate.html

 

[Oh8ch]

This [Mark May] is ridiculous. ESPN is literally hanging on to any tidbit of information they can use for headlines these days, and if they can spin it to serve their needs, they will.

And the folks most likely to click any link implying problems for OSU are OSU fans.

Which is unfortunate when you consider that if there is one thing ESPN has not done a single time through this entire process it is break new news.

 

[ulukinatme]

Well, if these witch hunt infractions continue through the various college football programs, maybe this will help bring about the revisions to the NCAA rules so college football can move past all this. It seems like theres a new "rule breaker" every week now with Alabama being added to the mix. Given 10 more years, every program may be under probation

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

I'm told ESPN was slow to report the Miami deal. I'm also told not a lot on the old ticker either (unlike who at Ohio State may have bought a car, or what recruit just picked scUM over Ohio State, or .. Ohio State... Ohio State... Ohio State...)

If true, and I do trust the guy who told me this, ESPN is getting shown their ass regarding "cookie jars" Hammered Ohio State because of BTN... is late to even comment on Miami.

Dumbasses.

 

[alexhortdog95]

I'm told ESPN was slow to report the Miami deal.

That's becuase it isn't tOSU. If it's not tOSU they don't care. They have such a hard-on for you guys it's borderline psychopathic stalking.

 

[colobuck79]

That's becuase it isn't tOSU. If it's not tOSU they don't care. They have such a hard-on for you guys it's borderline psychopathic stalking.

There's nothing borderline about it.

 

[Deety]

Can we get a restraining order?

 

[BlufftonBuckeye]

This article put a smile on my face, despite its age:

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/neel/031106ohiostate.html

But I swear, if he'd sit with these kids in the Block O for just one afternoon, they'd make him believe, make him want to believe, if not in all things Buckeye, then in something else, in anything else, in the idea of believing itself.

Does that sound corny? Yeah, well, whatever, man. Grab a seat in the south end zone at The Horseshoe this weekend, then come talk to me.

Damn.

 

[Gatorubet]

Can we get a restraining order?

Fine Deety. Stick with the victim mentality. But like the ESPN headline says, Tressel put a colored glass bottle in the clear glass recycling bin. COLORED GLASS IN A FREAKING CLEAR RECYCLING BIN!!

Youngstown State. Mo C. ReCy Bin..... You can keep calling it something other than intentional all you want, but....as Pat Forde said in his three page article....who puts colored glass in his clear glass recycling bin?

Yahoo examined Shapiro like he was under an x-ray machine, and there is NOTHING in the story about any recycle bin problems. Not at his mansion. Not at his yacht. Nothing.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Yahoo examined Shapiro like he was under an x-ray machine, and there is NOTHING in the story about any recycle bin problems. Not at his mansion. Not at his yacht. Nothing.

Oh yeah, well where do you think the glass for the bottom of his yacht came from, huh?

 

[BB73]

I'm told ESPN was slow to report the Miami deal. I'm also told not a lot on the old ticker either (unlike who at Ohio State may have bought a car, or what recruit just picked scUM over Ohio State, or .. Ohio State... Ohio State... Ohio State...)

If true, and I do trust the guy who told me this, ESPN is getting shown their ass regarding "cookie jars" Hammered Ohio State because of BTN... is late to even comment on Miami.

Dumbasses.

College Football Live yesterday spent almost their entire show on it. And as I mentioned in another thread yesterday, one of the SportsCenters started out with over 11 minutes on it.

And a few of their talking heads have said that if even part of this stuff is true, Miami deserves the Death Penalty. I don't look at their website, but I've read that they were extremely slow to highlight the scandal over there, and that seems very wrong.

ESPN's TV coverage, however, seems to be appropriate to me. They're not over-hyping it like they did to tOSU, but they've been talking about it quite a bit for the last 36 hours.

Of course, yachts/hookers/ponzi scheme/strippers/abortion should be a much more exciting story than a few guys getting free tattoos and a famous coach not reporting a couple of emails.

Unfortunately for tOSU, the public is now somewhat jaded regarding the constant talk of the problems in college football. That wasn't the case back in March. Perhaps it wouldn't be the case now if ESPN and other media members hadn't been hammering on tOSU for months on what has ended up being relatively minor violations by players and a coach with a major 10.1 violation for not reporting it.

There's a lot more discussion now saying things like "we can't blame the players" and "the NCAA is broken and needs to be fixed" than there was when it was tOSU's turn in the barrel.

Many casual fans will end up remembering the 2011 offseason as tOSU and Miami both having big scandals, and won't even remember that Boise State, GT and N. Carolina were also hit by the NCAA this year. That's because the last three are smaller fish, I understand that, but the equation of tOSU's problems to what has apparently happened at Miami is annoying.

And ESPN is still doing that - they toss in a mention of tOSU whenever they can when talking about the situation.

 

[Buckeye86]

Perhaps it wouldn't be the case now if ESPN and other media members hadn't been hammering on tOSU for months on what has ended up being relatively minor violations by players and a coach with a major 10.1 violation for not reporting it.

Perfect summary in my opinion.

 

[AKAK]

Of course, yachts/hookers/ponzi scheme/strippers/abortion should be a much more exciting story than a few guys getting free tattoos and a famous coach not reporting a couple of emails.

Well, the thing that strikes me is that they're never going to get to the ridiculous level of *wink* *wink* minutae they did with Ohio State. And that's mostly because there is so much here, it would take 2 years to come up with all the fake accompanying car scandals that you could tie to all the actual indiscretions.

I guess my point is that whether they like it or not, and whether they run with every little side article or not, this Miami thing is too huge for them either to ignore, or not run with.

The thing that really strikes me about the Yahoo article is what's NOT there. And I don't mean that in the "well, if this was going on, you know that someone knew" stuff. (I mean that's there too). I'm talking about having one paragraph like this:

Shapiro named 39 Miami players or prospective recruits who he says received prostitution paid for by the booster. Due to the sensitivity of the claims, Yahoo! Sports has chosen not to reveal the names of the players Shapiro claims were involved. However, two players confirmed the booster paid for sexual favors for themselves and others during their careers with the Hurricanes.

And compare that to ESPN freaking out over who player "g" or whatever was.

That and they're only naming players that they have corroborating evidence on... not the 30 odd others that they don't. (Kirk Herbstriet, are you paying attention... yes, mother fucker, I'm talking to you) No mention of drugs really, you know that went down, too.

Wetzel can only do so many side articles while Robinson is doing the radio talk show circuit. I'm sure the Newspapers in Miami are wondering how they are going to dig into all this stuff...

I guess my point is, if it got to Ohio State levels of details and rehashing it would take YEARS. But, realistically, someone is going to have to do it, with ESPN's complicity or not. Poor Dan LeBatard is realizing it was the wrong day to quit amphetamines.

The worst part is, somewhere, in Bristol, some cocksucker is focus grouping whether bartered tatoos or free hookers moves the needle farther.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

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That and they're only naming players that they have corroborating evidence on... not the 30 odd others that they don't. (Kirk Herbstriet, are you paying attention... yes, mother [censored]er, I'm talking to you) No mention of drugs really, you know that went down, too.

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The worst part is, somewhere, in Bristol, some [censored] is focus grouping whether bartered tatoos or free hookers moves the needle farther.

I picture myself saying that to him right before I hit him with a Louisville fucking Slugger.

I have been saying this for two days at work. Really? Miami, FL and no mention of blowing rails off some hooker's tits? Seriously? No yayo? Where's Rick Ross when you need him?

True True!

 

[Gatorubet]

On the first day it broke - after the Miami story had been broken for almost half a day - ESPN had some headline article about Tressel making a visit to the Browns camp. LLLLLLoyd was there as well. But the headline was "Tressel shows up at Brown's Camp" or something, and the only point of the article was to have the first sentence of the article label him as "disgraced Former Ohio State Head Coach...blah blah" and to quickly rehash the tat-5 deal.

It truly has been eye opening the last few weeks once it became apparent tOSU troubles were not going to spin into the kind of morass the Miami folks actually have. Granted, the story about TP and his agent claiming things is something legitimately "new", but to have Miami exploding and to see two stories about tOSU - and one not involving a current coach - while the Miami story is ignored is something that should be the subject of someone's Doctoral Thesis on journalistic/ethics. I'm pretty sure that ESPN has been getting some interesting mail and e-mail from your zips codes - but that is part of covering college sports.