(01-03-2019 02:39 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Neil, I agree with you. The SEC has a high % of the top watched games each year even though the few B1G games included on the list can be rated higher, but may not be the most watched game of that year. So Herbstreets comments are way off target.

The anti ACC bias on ESPN is even noted among SEC fans, though it is not always noted derisively, but sometimes humorously. There is not a lot of deepening love by SEC fans for ESPN. Most don't like having the BigTen inserted regularly into the Finebaum show.

And what pisses me off the most with regard to Herbstreet and a few other ESPN analysts is that they look and sound authoritative but spew drivel quite frequently. By God, we have enough of that out of our politicians! When I'm trying to escape what has become the stupidity and lies of real world events, the last thing I want to see or hear on a Saturday morning escape is more of the same. I'm sick and tired of hearing things that are unsubstantiated and sometimes flat out a lie, being passed off as the truth.

ESPN in my opinion uses its own statements to justify keeping the ACC low balled. I find that to be almost criminal, but lay the blame on folks like Swofford who should at least raise a ruckus about it, and should never have used every feeble excuse to only lengthen your servitude to them.

I'm hoping the SEC either re-ups with CBS or sells its T1 to anybody but ESPN.

But let me add one of my own pet peeves. I'm sick of their commentators glossing lousy calls by officials and refusing to show replays of bad calls, and I'm even sicker of them talking about every damned thing under the sun while play is ongoing. I'm there to watch a game, not to discuss off field minutia, not to see 15 to 20 minutes of celebrity crap, or watch their internal advertisements for events outside of what I'm there to see.

But hey that's just me. I'm mostly a happy old guy. I love my garden, my muscadine vines, long walks, my pets, and most of all my family, and I once loved my sports almost as much as those. But that was back in the day of Kirk Gowdy and Pee Wee Reese, Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, and Dandy Don Meredith. and Dizzy Dean. Those guys added to the enjoyment of the games. These ESPN guys abosofrigginlutely do not, they detract from it.