(04-16-2018 10:32 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 11:55 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 08:06 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 05:30 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 02:08 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  The ESPN lovers are quite obvious on here...

... not quite as obvious as the ESPN Hater, though.

I don't hide my disdain for ESPN though.aters
You and others on here do hide your pro ESPN feelings.
There's another who I can't name for fear of getting banned who's an out right ESPN hack. I don't know if he's employed by them...mheore than likely he roots blindly for ESPN because his conference is owned entirely by ESPN for decades.

I don't hide my feelings, I've said ESPN is awesome many times. I'm not afraid to criticize them either, as I am with PLUS.

Haters usually have a personal axe to grind. They are often younger, and don't remember the days before ESPN, when maybe there were two college football games on a week.

I’m 41 and my Dad was taking me to Iowa games since the late 70’s. Been to close to 1,000 college athletic events and watched every single game Iowa game growing up with “Mack” McCausland on local tv. I was doing just fine before espn. I’m doing fine without it. You love espn because LSU (SEC SECSEC) is tied in with ESPN for the rest of your life. You claim not be a conference homer but you seem to love the SEC and the ACC—the latter because they are tied in with your beloved espn for our lifetimes.

I don't know about you, but I have no true "memories" of things that happened in my first two years of life. Which is how long you had lived before ESPN. So the reality is that you simply can't know what college sports was like before ESPN, which is basically what quo said.

Sports fans don't "love" ESPN. They appreciate how much it has done for college sports.