ESPN Actively Trying to Devalue the ACC

swampsting said:
I pay attention to ESPN for live games, College Football Final and that's about it. Hell, I quit watching GameDay a couple of years ago. I couldn't care less who the guest picker is, whether it's Roy Clark, Carl Perkins or Eddie Van Halen (which would be hard, since they're all dead), or even what campus they're at, other than to tell the nearby bars to order a lot more liquor with Fowler and Herbie in town.
Haven't watched a SportsCenter in years.
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You picked 3 great pickers of course when they were living.
 
Vespidie said:
They got by for years on schtick with the likes of Berman, Vitale, etc. which breathed an air of freshness into the broadcasts.
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Berman's act got old and stale and he never let go of it. Like Shady Tree in "Diamonds Are Forever," "critics and material I don't need. I've been doing the same act for 40 years!"
Vitale, for all his bluster and fawning over his friends, is a great cheerleader for college hoops and is absolutely one of the nicest people in the world. Met him a couple of times when I worked in North Carolina. Could not have been nicer. Yeah, his schtick is wearing thin, too, but I kinda cheer for the guy too knowing what a good man he is away from the microphone and camera.

Back to our original thesis. ESPN sucks by and large.
 
I never watch sports center. Had it on for some stupid reason, and lo and behold, the ACC had a rough weekend because GT and Clemson lost came across. I was dumbfounded by the stupidity. We lost to ACC teams, and UNC & FSU kicked SEC ass. All I could chalk it up to was some Ugag grad writing the copy.....stupid and biased, it had to be a Dwag.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
How did VT get in that list? What have they ever done?
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I never have understood why ESPN appears to spread around little dumps and throw shade on the ACC an inordinate amount of time. I know I'm looking thru gold and conference colored glasses, but come on, this DAF article is case in point. Why would they needlessly and at times fraudulently degrade their own commodity? I understand the negative returns of projecting too much homer-ism and the need to at least appear to be objective, but good grief, this is ridiculous.
 
So literally no teams in the ACC struggled outside the ACC?

If ESPN is deliberately doing it to cost the ACC money, that seems like defamation to me.
 
verdi said:
ESPN will be thoroughly embarrassed when we smash the dwags and later Bama in the playoffs this year.
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They'll just trot out the same line they always do: "Well, Bama was clearly not excited about playing Georgia Tech in the National Championship game and this reporter thinks they should have gotten a bye for the Championship Game in which case Georgia Tech would be an automatic forfeit and the title awarded to the SEC yet again."
 
I think ESPN knows they they can’t afford all of these conferences in the long term, so they’re trying to build up the SEC as the one, true conference. Then they’ll sell off the ACC media rights.
 
Vespid said:
I never have understood why ESPN appears to spread around little dumps and throw shade on the ACC an inordinate amount of time. I know I'm looking thru gold and conference colored glasses, but come on, this DAF article is case in point. Why would they needlessly and at times fraudulently degrade their own commodity? I understand the negative returns of projecting too much homer-ism and the need to at least appear to be objective, but good grief, this is ridiculous.
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I think the answer is obvious. Like recruiting services, they cater to the masses and value money over any kind of journalistic integrity. The fan bases of the Big 10, SEC and even the Big 12 are far bigger than that of the ACC. By throwing shade on the ACC they are feeding the superiority complexes of the bigger fan bases. It's like shilling for likes on social media platforms. Don't forget they have more money invested in the SEC than any other conference so of course they are going to bias their coverage toward them.
 
If the fan bases of the Big 12 is larger than the ACC, it's not by much.

Did ya'll see that Bama fool talk about how "Clemson's run is finished". LSU just opened the season and lost two years in a row to an ACC team that hasn't beaten Wake in five years. Where's the LSU is finished!

If Texas beats Bama this week, the media will say it's normal as a conference game...
 
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