The Wiz of Odds: ESPN's 'Game Day' Problem
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Kernal
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Pretty good comparison. I only watch games on it- never SportsCenter or commentary shows.
Have I missed the part where we played a Bret Bielema coached team this year?Well now I'm just confused
NUpolo8
Banned
Not unless I missed it too.....Have I missed the part where we played a Bret Bielema coached team this year?Well now I'm just confused
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
BTN is totally obsessed with the Big 10 conference. It's all they ever talk about!
zoogs
Assistant Coach
Yes, and if it were BTN that had such shared interests and financial ties with ESPN, it would also be an issue. Though you'd be right -- a lot fewer complaints in B1G country.
Guy, you made a good point earlier that the SEC/ESPN also depend on college football outside of the SEC. That's true, but only to an extent. They don't need any of the other conferences to flourish, and indeed, can't be expected to expend any effort to that end. Absent any other parties with influence, they need only that the NCAA College Football landscape be alive so as to present an external prop with which its SEC teams can, on occasion, interact.
Sustained success should be earned on the field, not to work at tipping the environment in their favor, and surely that's what they're trying to do, wielding the current interest and success of their football teams and the influence of ESPN as their weapons. I suppose time will tell how effectively they can actually accomplish this.
Guy, you made a good point earlier that the SEC/ESPN also depend on college football outside of the SEC. That's true, but only to an extent. They don't need any of the other conferences to flourish, and indeed, can't be expected to expend any effort to that end. Absent any other parties with influence, they need only that the NCAA College Football landscape be alive so as to present an external prop with which its SEC teams can, on occasion, interact.
Sustained success should be earned on the field, not to work at tipping the environment in their favor, and surely that's what they're trying to do, wielding the current interest and success of their football teams and the influence of ESPN as their weapons. I suppose time will tell how effectively they can actually accomplish this.
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Stumpy1
All-American
Its not just the B1G fan base that is complaining about the biasness. Go to a Big12 team's website or a Pac12 team's website, there are threads discussing it there also. I would call it jealousy if it were just one conference that was exclusively doing the complaining but it's not.
Branno
All-Conference
Does Fox Sports One talk about the B1G and BTN over and over like ESPN does with the SEC and their network?
NUpolo8
Banned
When USC was winning everything in sight, literally everything they did was on Sportscenter. In 2012, Notre Dame was omnipresent, regardless of how they snuck through their weak schedule. Florida St is currently receiving press. Oregon gets gameday every year it seems. Ohio st was an unstoppable juggernaut right up until they weren't.
The common the se with all of those teams are, they were contenders. And if Nebraska was (and they could be as soon as this year) you can bet Espn will cover us. That I'm sure of.
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zoogs
Assistant Coach
That's true. It'd be silly for them not to cover the top teams, the ones they have to. While at the same time primarily focusing on driving interest to SEC sports.
We're in agreement that Nebraska teams should be good enough that even SEC Network partners can't help but cover us, and it's up to our coach to get us there.
We're in agreement that Nebraska teams should be good enough that even SEC Network partners can't help but cover us, and it's up to our coach to get us there.
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shyndy
All-Conference
We are mostly talking 2009 and on since from 2009 to now since over that span espn has vested 2.25 billion in the SEC(that's alot of money that requires a lot of return). Otherwise I'd agree with you, it isn't that long ago they obsessed over Usc, Miami, Ohio state, etc. honestly, most of FSU's press has been negative (maybe deserved). If you watch their shows they like to tAlk down FSU. That said I think there might be pressures in some areas to push the SEC, but I doubt they are sitting guys down and telling them it's their job to pump the sec, or we'd get some whistleblowing. The bias is real, but its a strange mishmash of a plethora things, probably the largest factor being simply that the sec is and has been good and chocked full of talent. That said there are some ridiculous SEC homers, many of them on ESPN and you don't tend to see that much with other conferences. There are people that are homers for teams, but not someone trying to promote the idea that a weak sec team would run the table in the acc for an example. Trevor matich for example seems so ridiculous that I wonder if he's getting an extra paycheck, dude had FSU 5th and Bama 3rd.
Stumpy1
All-American
I sometimes wonder if a bug is put into the ears of the ESPN guys doing games. It seems like no matter what game you are watching, even from a different conference, on ESPN and there sister channels, the commentators continuously talk about SEC this and SEC that and compare EVERYTHING to them. It wouldn't bother me if the comments were some how related to the game I am watching but 9 out of 10 times, it's not.