(11-22-2018 09:32 AM)ImaTiger Wrote:  - #1 NCAAMB recruit
- #1 team in the NBA
- NCAAFB Team Playing for division championship

3 hours of ESPN this morning and surprise surprise there was minimal to no coverage of any of the above. Tacit mention of the Grizz and all sympathies to the Spurs.

Time for the sports monopoly to fire half their staff. Opps already did that.

Friends we have got to support the local sports media! These national sports media brats and regional wanna-be lackeys don't give a damn about us.

Wiseman news have been all over ESPN
Unless you live in Memphis or care about the city of Memphis NO ONE cares about the Grizzlies. No stars.
Tiger football team isn't even ranked. Why would they give any airtime to an unranked team (see the Grizzlies comment)

(11-22-2018 11:07 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  ESPN is reduced to mainly 4 things:

NFL

Lebron

College Football playoffs (since they have rights to it they will milk it)

What Stephen A. thinks

And half of ESPN doesn't care what he thinks either

Tough to blame ESPN when you lose by 20 to Ok State.

(11-22-2018 09:32 AM)ImaTiger Wrote:  - #1 NCAAMB recruit
- #1 team in the NBA
- NCAAFB Team Playing for division championship

3 hours of ESPN this morning and surprise surprise there was minimal to no coverage of any of the above. Tacit mention of the Grizz and all sympathies to the Spurs.

Time for the sports monopoly to fire half their staff. Opps already did that.

Friends we have got to support the local sports media! These national sports media brats and regional wanna-be lackeys don't give a damn about us.

You had me until that last sentence. Almost zero local sports media are pro U of M. A few might be pro Grizz, but there is such a massive SEC bias that it's ridiculous. Not to mention, they are too focused on click bait stories and reporting.

Not all of these are cord cutters:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/22/espn...bscribers/

At the beginning of the Minny/BC basketball game tonight, ESPN announcers said one of the teams was really looking for a P6 win. They are trying to get public acceptance of their favored terminology (also possibly trying to influence current contract negotiations with American conference); this really ticks me off and I wish some decent company would come along and buy these knuckleheads.

There is really no basis for P6 that dates more than a few years of excellence by Nova and a couple of other teams. I realize the AAC hasn’t done its job but the Big East hasn’t earned that title either.

Big East is entirely a power league and it is not a question.

(11-26-2018 10:03 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Big East is entirely a power league and it is not a question.

Break it down for me. Remember what league teams were in when they accomplished something or the AAC blows them them out of the water by any metric because Houston, Memphis, Cincy and UConn are historically top 20 programs. Wichita St, Tulsa and ztemple had good years.

(11-22-2018 11:44 AM)tmoneyinmphs Wrote:  Do yourself a favor and stop watching all sports channels when you're not watching an actual game. Who cares what their commentators think? I never need their opinion to form my own opinion.

My opinion of espn is not very good. I'm not a big fan of how sports leagues are being run. I see espn and similar channels as a form of "national media" for corrupt sports leagues. They spew their brand of what they want you to see and like every day in the different sports. It doesn't include a p6,g5, midmajor college team like memphis tigers. It doesn't include a small market nba team in memphis. At some point, you just need to realize it and turn it off. You are helping them continue their bs by watching and visiting their sites every day.

For me, i watch tigers and grizz games only and maybe future opponents and that's it. I don't watch any of the other stuff. As soon as the game is over, the channel is switched or the tv is turned off.

This right here. I only tune to ESPN to watch a game. The rest is simply ESPIN and I am not interested.

I think with Memphis getting Wiseman, Jefferies, Dandridge and hopefully more studs, I believe we will be on the National TV shows a lot next year. Mostly neutral sites but still showcased more than normal.