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Very good article***
Dec 31, 2014, 5:49 AM
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Re: Very good article***
Dec 31, 2014, 7:49 AM
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The Fowler inlay...ugh...so disturbingly funny! The listening to Cowherd description: solid gold! Good article.
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Wow, some truth to power here!***
Dec 31, 2014, 8:37 AM
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He lost it all with his climate change analogy
Dec 31, 2014, 9:12 AM
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Since there has been no warming for over 18 years who is denying the facts.Seems ESPN is biased, but he isn't? I won't hijack the thread by responding to any debate about AGM.
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Re: Love ESPN bias towards SEC being exposed
Dec 31, 2014, 9:43 AM
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Great article and thanks for posting.
Here is the most telling paragraph from the article...
The result is the perpetuation of the idea that any win in the SEC is a marquis victory justifying the kind of towering rankings that have seen four of the conference’s teams make appearances in this year’s College Football Playoff top four (no other conference has placed more than one). But the SEC’s 0–for–4 performance against its rivals from little brother the ACC on the final weekend of the regular season and its subsequent 5–6 record against Power Five teams contradict the prevailing narrative of superiority that has afforded the SEC benefit of the doubt on all matters subjective?—?chiefly the rankings that decide college football’s playoff participants.
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Re: Love ESPN bias towards SEC being exposed
Dec 31, 2014, 1:37 PM
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Either way, ESPN’s deal with the SEC is reportedly the longest in all of television, with the SEC Network alone potentially accounting for 12 percent of ESPN’s profits this fiscal year. That, combined with the possible preference enjoyed by SEC teams in the form of more favorable coverage… which begets higher rankings… which lead to better bowl bids with higher payouts, amounts to a redistribution of wealth that will only further widen an income inequality gap in college football.
Common is the rebuttal that ESPN has a vested interest in all of the Power Five conferences, with which they have broadcast deals as well. But ESPN doesn’t have a deal with any other conference that’s anywhere near approaching the one it has with the SEC.
That bit right there too...spot on!
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Re: Love ESPN bias towards SEC being exposed
Dec 31, 2014, 10:05 AM
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Great article although kinda technical I did enjoy his use of vocabulary,
Now if a true 16 team Play off were in place I think that would help off set some of the bias!
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Re: Love ESPN bias towards SEC being exposed
Dec 31, 2014, 11:21 AM
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Did I just read a subtle reference to Fight Club near the end? Mind caves? Power animals?
Daddy likes.
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great article. I love his point about the SEC being inserted
Dec 31, 2014, 12:51 PM
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Into things they have nothing to do with ("Clemson has SEC speed.") and how great college teams used to be compared to the NFL and are now compared to the SEC.
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It really does turn my stomach
Dec 31, 2014, 12:58 PM
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As it should even teams like Alabama, Auburn, LSU and TAM. It is degrading to all of the individual programs out there that are paying the price and putting forth the $ and effort.
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Re: Love ESPN bias towards SEC being exposed
Dec 31, 2014, 1:33 PM
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D@mn good article...
Its a revolving door...
ESPN makes money off SEC by promoting and loving the conference--SEC gets better coverage, rankings, bowls, and money--ESPN's promotion and love fest brings in recruits for SEC schools to make money
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another great article from this guy
Dec 31, 2014, 2:12 PM
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Hope he keeps it up
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todays peach bowl backs what he is saying***
Dec 31, 2014, 3:14 PM
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Re: todays peach bowl backs what he is saying***
Dec 31, 2014, 3:34 PM
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Agreed. Hope Ga Tech and OSU can show the same as TCU and Notre Dame did.
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