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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Just watched their three experts talking about lessons from this week. They are patently building straw man cases for not-SEC teams and then tearing them down. Two weeks ago, Baylor was #1. Then, they started talking about their weak schedule last week, but explaining it away. Now, they are setging the stage to explain them away as pretenders. Utah was legit last week, even #1. Now, they were always pretenders. Last week, Ohio State maybe didn't even feature in the top 8. Now, they're #1 at warp speed.

Build 'em up. Put SEC teams right behind 'em. Then, talk 'em down hard if they lose. Ignore a pathetic performance like Alabama against Tennessee. Just try to sneak two SEC teams in at the end.

The massive layoffs are not the end for ESPiN. Soon, they will go down.
 
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/espn-made-two-critical-mistakes-132855270.html

Why did ESPN, which is still richly profitable, feel compelled to cut so many people?

John Ourand at Sports Business Journal has the best explanation.

He says it comes to down two big problems for ESPN.

  1. ESPN is losing subscribers.
  2. ESPN is paying an obscene amount of money for sports.
ESPN is losing subscribers because of a critical mistake it made in 2012 when it was negotiating carriage deals with cable companies like Comcast, Cablevision, and Cox.
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LovelandBuckeye said:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/espn-made-two-critical-mistakes-132855270.html
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Overpaying for broadcast rights is just one part of it. The biggest head scratcher to me is that they're overpaying for "talent."

Why does College GameDay need 9 people? (Rece, Desmond, Corso, Herbie, Pollack, Sam Ponder, "The Bear", George Whitfield, Tom Rinaldi). The show was superior when it was just the three person panel with an occasional report from Ivan Maisel or Wojo.

Why does NFL Countdown need 15 people? And why the fuck are Stephen A Smith and Frank Caliendo two of them?

How many shows are actually the same show, but with different people yelling over one-another in a different format? First Take, PTI, Around the Horn ... it just winds up being seven solid hours of a hundred different "journalists" discussing the same six topics.

Instead of laying off secretaries and copy editors and producers of the 4:30 am edition on ESPNews, they need to layoff all the fucking redundant talking heads and get back to what they were in the 90s.

More reporting, less op ed.
 
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Dryden said:
Overpaying for broadcast rights is just one part of it. The biggest head scratcher to me is that they're overpaying for "talent."

Why does College GameDay need 9 people? (Rece, Desmond, Corso, Herbie, Pollack, Sam Ponder, "The Bear", George Whitfield, Tom Rinaldi). The show was superior when it was just the three person panel with an occasional report from Ivan Maisel or Wojo.

Why does NFL Countdown need 15 people? And why the fuck are Stephen A Smith and Frank Caliendo two of them?

How many shows are actually the same show, but with different people yelling over one-another in a different format? First Take, PTI, Around the Horn ... it just winds up being seven solid hours of a hundred different "journalists" discussing the same six topics.

Instead of laying off secretaries and copy editors and producers of the 4:30 am edition on ESPNews, they need to layoff all the fucking redundant talking heads and get back to what they were in the 90s.

More reporting, less op ed.
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Why does shithead still have a job?
 
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I completely agree with Dryden, espin has too many shows that use different people to argue about the same damn topics.
I think there are 4-5 different college football talk shows, its insanely redundant.
 
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matcar said:
MTV of sports. Morphed into something other than sports broadcasting. Miss those days of Aussie rules football.
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One of the things I loved about my sat subscription in Japan... sports from around the globe.
International Rules Football was fuckin amazing... Irish vs. Aussies in some crazy ass game that in later versions involved more than a few broken bones.
European soccer, Aussie rules, rugby, NFL, NBA, NCAA ... had it all. Live. 24/7. Somebody is playing a sport somewhere in the world damn near every hour of the day. No time for editorializing, spin, and people that love the sound of their own voice trying to tell me how to think.
And then you have ESPiN in the US... the talking heads are if you're lucky. Do they still show Poker and Spelling Bees... wtf is that shit? Should be on the Hallmark channel or something. Billiards and Bowling? I guess they're sports... not very interesting though...
 
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It just seems like no matter when I turn on ESPiN whoever of the talking heads that is on is overly emotionally invested in whatever they are discussing. I used to watch some of Mike and Mike in the mornings, because I liked some of their guests, especially CC. But now even those two can't seem to discuss anything without almost yelling and getting overly loud. I guess it is the Steven A effect....
 
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