Carson Field Football Board

Here's what I really don't understand, and I realize it's probably naive.

If you are a TV network putting a product on TV for people to watch, why in name of Roone Arledge wouldn't you want to make that product as desirable as possible? Why does espn rip so many teams/conferences when THEY actually paid the conference/teams to show them on THEIR network?

Honest to god, if you degrade your children like that, you get child services called on you. Espn is like a verbally abusive parent, calling their own children stupid morons who will never amount to anything. And it goes beyond them degrading UC, or the Big East conference. Jesse Palmer was just ripping some QB the other day (can't recall which game) for every move he made; I mean little minutia things that he himself probably never did right once in his "career" (laughing). I guess John Q. Public must feed off that stuff, and I just must be weird for being so bothered that I'm not wanting to watch games any more.

I know I could turn the sound off, but that really isn't a good way to watch either. I want to hear the crowd, and the call of a good play by play guy excitedly calling a big play. Even though we're watching, good announcers enhance the viewing experience. Espn has turned it into politicized, agenda mongering of the worst kind. It's just sad.

Not worried IF we get the humidity along with a good cold front...Every time they have come into the Nip during the late fall it has been a disaster for them when we have had cold wet weather....They do not react well to it!
I think we have them at night anyway so it will be at it's coldest daily temps fro gametime.
Louisville did the Big East a favor by playing the way they did! Hopefully we both go into that upcoming game undefeated!

GO CATS!

Herbstreit does something much worse than blasting UC on the air... he ignores them. Indifference is much more damaging to a program that making unfair comments.

Examples of Herbie's indifference to UC was during the 50 states show ESPN did a few years back when they discussed each of the schools in every state. During the Ohio show they had helmets on the studio of the Buckeyes, the MAC schools and YSU. No UC. The covered all of these programs extensively except for UC, who gave a 15 second shot (this was 2009 the year after UC first won the Big East).

Spot on '85 . Great post.