ESPN's SEC bias

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vikubz

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Watching the 'SEC Weekly' program (as if that's not biased enough) and while talking about the Heisman race the commentator said, "We like it when the Heisman winner comes out of the SEC." Are they going to change it to SESPN?
 
DelusionalHawk said:
If the Big 10 starts performing year-in and year-out like the SEC does, I am sure we would get more recognition.
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What does that mean? The B10 is .500 against the SEC in the CapOne and Outback bowls. So maybe our non-con record is a little weaker than the SEC's but not everyone can schedule 4 non-BCS teams like Florida does year in and year out. Maybe we could change our bowl affiliations so the number 2 Big Ten team plays the WAC champ and the Number 3 B10 team plays the number 5 Big 12 team so we can inflate our bowl record, too.

Maybe we could convince the B10 officials to protect our top teams, too, so they don't have to worry about upsets. It sure worked for Florida last weekend.
 
I don't mind the SEC buzz, as much as I hate hearing about Tebow... seriously, he is one guy... on a team that could probably win even if they had Juice Williams as their QB
 
ESPN just signed a huge deal to broadcast a bunch of SEC games over the next X number of years, didn't they?

Actually, just found this...
The deal begins with the 2009-10 season and ends the league's look into starting a network to carry its sporting events.

ESPN will have rights to every SEC home football game not on the network package and all league matchups will be shown on some outlet, including at least 20 a year on ESPN or ESPN2. That includes two primetime Thursday night matchups and Saturday night games.

Given this arrangement, ESPN is going to be far from impartial when it comes to coverage of the Big 10. That also means that everything you are going to hear coming from ESPN is probably going to have an SEC slant to it.
 
hawkfan2679 said:
ESPN just signed a huge deal to broadcast a bunch of SEC games over the next X number of years, didn't they?

Actually, just found this...
The deal begins with the 2009-10 season and ends the league's look into starting a network to carry its sporting events.

ESPN will have rights to every SEC home football game not on the network package and all league matchups will be shown on some outlet, including at least 20 a year on ESPN or ESPN2. That includes two primetime Thursday night matchups and Saturday night games.

Given this arrangement, ESPN is going to be far from impartial when it comes to coverage of the Big 10. That also means that everything you are going to hear coming from ESPN is probably going to have an SEC slant to it.
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Just remember... you can't spelll "S-E-C" without the "C-A-S-H"!
 
This seems similar to the ESPN Plus coverage that the Big Ten used to have... I'm sure that the SEC's is a more lucrative deal. And looks like more games will actually move over to the main ESPN channels.
 
It's all about hype. The SEC schools used to fight with each other but they learned to set their differences aside and hype each other. That's why LSU could lose to 2-5 (or w/e it is) Vanderbilt and it would be SEC depth. The Big 10 needs to do the same.

Then again, a 15 year 2 billion dollar contract doesn't hurt either.
 
vikubz said:
Watching the 'SEC Weekly' program (as if that's not biased enough) and while talking about the Heisman race the commentator said, "We like it when the Heisman winner comes out of the SEC." Are they going to change it to SESPN?
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It would take alot to change it from BSPN!!!!
 
okeefe4prez said:
What does that mean? The B10 is .500 against the SEC in the CapOne and Outback bowls. So maybe our non-con record is a little weaker than the SEC's but not everyone can schedule 4 non-BCS teams like Florida does year in and year out. Maybe we could change our bowl affiliations so the number 2 Big Ten team plays the WAC champ and the Number 3 B10 team plays the number 5 Big 12 team so we can inflate our bowl record, too.

Maybe we could convince the B10 officials to protect our top teams, too, so they don't have to worry about upsets. It sure worked for Florida last weekend.
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We were terrible last year in bowls, remember? 1 win, yes against an SEC team in South Carolina, but They were a middle of the pack SEC team. And I honestly think the WAC champ would probably beat OSU or Penn St. this year, so that would not work.
 
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