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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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ulukinatme;1958743; said:
This schedule will be tougher than it seems. All of these teams went to bowls last year if I recall except 3, and one was USC which would have qualified sanctions aside. Also, this is Notre Dame we're talking about here, they'll find a way to screw up regardless.

Theres 3 teams on this schedule that you can never count out no matter what the record is that year: BC, MSU, and Michigan. I would add USC to that list, but usually we just lose. With the other 3 teams it can go either way. Sparty always plays the Irish tough, Michigan has been pulling out late heroics the last two years, and BC is the king of Irish upsets...
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So the fact that a bunch of mediocre Notre Dame teams have lost to a bunch of mediocre opponents in recent years, transforms those mediocre opponents into stalwarts? Two-thirds of bowl teams are mediocre, so citing an opponent's toughness based on their being a bowl team isn't convincing. 95% of the time, if a team doesn't make a bowl, they're terrible.

The opponents you're citing are decent at best for the most part. And that aptly describes Notre Dame's schedule. It's not awful, it's probably decent. There aren't many blatant lay-ups on it, but there aren't any currently top-flight opponents. And Notre Dame will likely have the same 9-4ish record that has become their specialty against merely decent competition.
 
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Wells4Heisman;1963964; said:
ESPN was sure to point out that Ohio State was the last team to have a losing record the year after winning a national title... funny thing is it occurred in 1943.
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As DBB pointed out, they didn't say anything about the fact that WWII is what caused that team to be broken up. Or the fact that tOSU associated itself with the Army's ASTP officer training, which didn't allow guys to play football; while teams like TSUN associated with the Navy's V-12 program, which did allow guys to play football.

They also didn't bother to mention that they bounced back to go undefeated the next season (9-0 in 1944).

They said that Paul Brown was gone after 1943, implying that he had either quit or been fired because of the bad record. Brown was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Navy in 1944, and became the coach at Great Lakes Naval Training (just north of Chicago).

Nor did they mention the fact that tOSU has had the fewest losing seasons (5) in college football since the polls started naming National Champions.

But I wouldn't expect them to say any of those things.
 
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Wells4Heisman;1963964; said:
ESPN was sure to point out that Ohio State was the last team to have a losing record the year after winning a national title... funny thing is it occurred in 1943.
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Which begs the question.... why are you watching ESPN? What more do they have to do to your school before you stop giving them your ears & eyeballs?
 
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knapplc;1964062; said:
Which begs the question.... why are you watching ESPN? What more do they have to do to your school before you stop giving them your ears & eyeballs?
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I find it humorous to turn on College Football Live and listen to the crock of shit their reporters spew out on a daily basis.
 
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Maybe I'm just obstinate, but I stopped watching ESPN years and years and years ago. Exceptions have to be made for certain games, but that's it. I literally haven't seen Sportscenter, aside from glimpses flipping channels, in 15 years.
 
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knapplc;1964062; said:
Which begs the question.... why are you watching ESPN? What more do they have to do to your school before you stop giving them your ears & eyeballs?
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I avoid ESPN as much as possible. But I watch College Football Live for 3 reasons:

1 - They do feature current news about college football, and I want to be current on CFB news. I follow a bunch of online websites (avoiding ESPN's), but also want to see a TV show that features CFB.

2 - I watch the way that they treat tOSU and report it on this board, in order to track things that they've said and done, and hold them accountable for it.

3 - My tracking it allows others to avoid it completely, knowing that if anything noteworthy occurs I'll post it. So other BP posters can continue to be outraged at ESPN without having to watch it at all. It's a public service. :biggrin:
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1964086; said:
And one I thank you for.
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As do I. I try to avoid ESPN as much as possible and I thank God every day for The Big Ten Network...at least that provides some sort of alternative news source on TV. Hopefully more up to date alternative news sources will develop for college football and I can ignore ESPN altogether.
 
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osugrad21;1964096; said:
I watch ESPN every day. I watch Baseball Tonight, Sportscenter, loved the 30 for 30 series...

Bring on the hate. When they stop talking about tOSU, we have become irrelevant.
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Have you been watching shark week too much? Stop chumming the waters for BP rookies. :lol:

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Until the Tebow Holds Clipboard Channel is a reality, I must watch ESPN to learn how awesome he still is.....

....and how the SEC will haz all yur trofies, now that the Eye of Mordor is no longer on a 24/7 quest to boost the Pac-10.

Contracts with CBS are just coincidental. Really. ESPN and the Pac-10 just broke up and it wanted to date other conferences.
 
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