Serious question: If Marcus Freeman wore a big gold chain, adopted a flashy nickname and had rappers on the sideline, how different would the conversation about Notre Dame be this morning?
Black men gotta wear the clown suit to win popular support. Sad.
Woke up feeling the same about WVU hoops as I did last night. It was a tough loss. Arizona is a good team who’s playing extremely well right now.
I don’t want to overreact. They weren’t winning a national title after beating Kansas .. and aren’t likely missing the tournament losing to Arizona. It’ll be fine.
Players transfering from one school to another and being paid is not what is harming the health of college football. ESPN and their employees, and some national sports journalists, are the disease.
ESPN has been active in trying to devalue all conferences and teams that are not in the SEC. SEC homers and journalists that cover those teams, and some national journalists, are following what ESPN pushes as their propganda and narratives. Why? Many of them would dream to work at ESPN so there is no critical thinking among some of them.
This is not a new thing either, but it has reached to the point now where they try to devalue 11-1, 10-2, and 13-0 seasons for schools not in the SEC and avoid any talk about any SEC school losing two games against teams that finished with 6-6 records. That is what kills a sport - players, coaches, alumni, and more, put in time, blood, sweat, empty the bank accounts to help fund for success, coaches coaching up their team, players doing their work to try and win, fans fill the stadiums to cheer for victory, and more, are then told by ESPN and their employees that everything they worked for is no good and doesn't matter and then everyone becomes meaningless, and everyone they played were nobodies.
That is what ESPN wants, by the way, in order to push everyone not in the SEC down so they can prop up the SEC. Remember, the SEC has ALL of the SEC media rights and are paying a lot of money for it. They want a return on their investment. Thus, that is why we are seeing the evilness out of ESPN and their propganda and narrative machine. Teams from the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 making deep playoff runs is a negative for the ESPN/SEC relationship.
ESPN has not been a friend of the Big Ten for a long time either. Remember back when ESPN lowballed Jim D. and he then went to FOX Sports? The Big Ten became an enemy of ESPN. Why did ESPN try to lowball the Big Ten back then? Don't think to hard. Fast forward to today and you got the answer - to devalue the Big Ten and pay the SEC more so the SEC can be propped up to a higher level financially. And about three years ago ESPN claimed they removed their BID offer for Big Ten rights but the truth is that the Big Ten rejected ESPN.
The leadership at the SEC HQ do not care for any of the other conferences. They want a college football playoff where 8 SEC teams are in the playoff. Their media rights partner, ESPN, wants the same thing too. But ESPN was not able to force that into reality since things are controlled by the conference commisoners of more than just the SEC and university presidents/channcelors. That is one of the reasons why we see ESPN and their employees saying the things they are saying last season and this season - to create a brainwashed audience so they can create a playoff structure that can get 8 SEC teams into the playoff. Remember, brainwashing is derived from pushing false narratives and propganda - to get you to believe something that isn't reality to be reality. Think politics since it happens all of the time in politics.
Moving forward, college football fans need to continue to expose the propganda and narratives that ESPN is pushing and kill the disease.
The Big Ten needs to end all talks with the SEC and forget about doing any scheduling agreements with the SEC. The House Settlement rules are in the process of getting approved so there is no need for more Big Ten + SEC meetings around new rule making.
In the coming months the Big Ten needs to say "NO" about immediate changes to expanding the college football playoff to more teams. That is what the SEC and ESPN want in order to get more of their teams into the playoff. They aren't doing that to add more teams from the Big 12 or ACC, and the Big Ten was the conference that put the 2 auto spots for the ACC and 2 auto spots for the Big 12 on the table, not the SEC.
“SEC teams shouldn’t lose 3 games” well they don’t get to play purdue, maryland, michigan state and northwestern. the bottom SEC teams are infinity times better than bottom B1G teams. not auto-byes when you’re banged up midseason like those B1G games are.
What you’re looking at here, folks, is the best center in college football.
Put this one in the time capsule as the ultimate example of what coaches mean when they say “finish” …
With West Virginia’s lost to Houston,
Oklahoma and Texas both control their own destiny for a rematch of the RRR in the Big 12 championship.
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