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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 162025" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>There are so many good points in a very thoughtful post that I am not sure I can touch them all. We are reading the same book if the page is different sometimes, but I’m a slow reader.</p><p></p><p>As to Dinich, my first thought is that if everybody everywhere hates her, she is doing a good job. But that is a copout. The problems you enumerate are all intertwined with what TV and particularly ESPN has done to sports, and not just with the SEC channel. (ND has a national network that can demand an Orange Bowl appearance?) They are incestuous, and so much money, metric tons of it, showered by ESPN and now the Fox Sports network , is eventually corruptive, and as you note with Fox on the one hand and MSNBC on the other doing to politics, will turn the Power Five conferences at minimum into a toxic mix of greed running head on into maybe the few remaining who see college sports as elevating and inspirational. (Thomas coming back from the biggest mistake of his football life to make the big scramble against Georgia, followed by Butker’s improbable FG made the hair on my arms stand up. Sure, I was ecstatic that GT won the game, but those personal triumphs I can still visualize, and they are why I like sports.)</p><p></p><p>Lastly as to that, ESPN has changed, for the worse, the role of “reporters”. They are now expected to be provocative, opinionated – real, real, opinionated – and to mix these opinions of the action with the reality of the action. Because ESPN knows what others do not: all the dumb opinions in the world are off into the cosmos and forgotten. The bad that print reporters do, however, lives after them. (My personal worst of the worst is almost every sideline reporter, and I hope Roddy Jones does not fall into that trap.)</p><p></p><p>(I agree with you on Louisville, and I did forget them. I’d like to forget the coach as well. Now we have FSU AND Louisville … AND Syracuse in basketball? Is there not a quota for shame?)</p><p></p><p><strong>Everything about the ACC's branding screams Russell Athletics</strong>: I can’t add a thing to that. Dammit, the whole passage is funny. Right, but funny.</p><p></p><p><strong>… make the SEC look like a backwoods cockfight betting league</strong> <strong>…No one applies to GT because they saw the cake race on a commercial</strong>.… <strong>I mean,does Starksville even have internet access? …Whoever is running the ACC is an SEC Fanboy reject.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Now, each of those lines on their own would get you time on Comedy Central. But wrapped in a very thoughtful and provocative -- dare I say innovative in a context outside a football offense? -- proposal for the ACC to get it together and emphasize not just football/sports, but – surprise! – academics, would be ground-breaking and seize the narrative. This post alone, seriously, could be a template .</p><p></p><p>A really thoughtful piece of work, which suggests to me you are not an engineer. Now I am obliged to say, before somebody on the board goes off, just joking. I can appreciate criticism like that any time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 162025, member: 2175"] There are so many good points in a very thoughtful post that I am not sure I can touch them all. We are reading the same book if the page is different sometimes, but I’m a slow reader. As to Dinich, my first thought is that if everybody everywhere hates her, she is doing a good job. But that is a copout. The problems you enumerate are all intertwined with what TV and particularly ESPN has done to sports, and not just with the SEC channel. (ND has a national network that can demand an Orange Bowl appearance?) They are incestuous, and so much money, metric tons of it, showered by ESPN and now the Fox Sports network , is eventually corruptive, and as you note with Fox on the one hand and MSNBC on the other doing to politics, will turn the Power Five conferences at minimum into a toxic mix of greed running head on into maybe the few remaining who see college sports as elevating and inspirational. (Thomas coming back from the biggest mistake of his football life to make the big scramble against Georgia, followed by Butker’s improbable FG made the hair on my arms stand up. Sure, I was ecstatic that GT won the game, but those personal triumphs I can still visualize, and they are why I like sports.) Lastly as to that, ESPN has changed, for the worse, the role of “reporters”. They are now expected to be provocative, opinionated – real, real, opinionated – and to mix these opinions of the action with the reality of the action. Because ESPN knows what others do not: all the dumb opinions in the world are off into the cosmos and forgotten. The bad that print reporters do, however, lives after them. (My personal worst of the worst is almost every sideline reporter, and I hope Roddy Jones does not fall into that trap.) (I agree with you on Louisville, and I did forget them. I’d like to forget the coach as well. Now we have FSU AND Louisville … AND Syracuse in basketball? Is there not a quota for shame?) [B]Everything about the ACC's branding screams Russell Athletics[/B]: I can’t add a thing to that. Dammit, the whole passage is funny. Right, but funny. [B]… make the SEC look like a backwoods cockfight betting league[/B] [B]…No one applies to GT because they saw the cake race on a commercial[/B].… [B]I mean,does Starksville even have internet access? …Whoever is running the ACC is an SEC Fanboy reject. [/B] Now, each of those lines on their own would get you time on Comedy Central. But wrapped in a very thoughtful and provocative -- dare I say innovative in a context outside a football offense? -- proposal for the ACC to get it together and emphasize not just football/sports, but – surprise! – academics, would be ground-breaking and seize the narrative. This post alone, seriously, could be a template . A really thoughtful piece of work, which suggests to me you are not an engineer. Now I am obliged to say, before somebody on the board goes off, just joking. I can appreciate criticism like that any time. [/QUOTE]
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