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It's sounds fkin bizarre but **** it's true. They scaredoffsu I been saying this ****, there the only threat to south Florida and the sec needs sfla recruits to win. If Fsu blocks them from sfla they can't win, the sec and espn does not want Fsu to be the first playoff winner either. It's my opinion *** the negs I agree with the ****** and wow he has balls just to say it. The witch hunt is on the sec and espn will go harder now to get them.
 
This is why the sec wanted Fsu because they saw how Jimbo was recruiting, they wanted Fsu in the sec badly. If Fsu is in the sec right now this is nothing or won't be that big of a story.
 
Stylie said:
Wtf?
http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/jimbo-fisher-blames-espn-sec/
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It would be cliché to suggest that you not believe everything you read. But I'm going to do it anyway, because the banality of that old bromide doesn't make it any less true.

News coverage is one thing; we're not there to see most news take place firsthand and, therefore, have to rely on professionals to report whatever facts they uncover. But everything you need to know about sports, you can witness for yourself.


Sure, if you want to busy yourself with the maudlin melodrama and mad money aspects of athletics – the way ESPN jock coddlers Tom Rinaldi and Darren Rovell do – there's plenty that transpires outside your jurisdiction. But if you concern yourself with that trivial little corner of sports in which people toss balls, slap pucks and sink putts, it's all beamed straight to you, live and direct, allowing each of us to be our own reporter and provide our own analysis.

So it's been painfully perplexing to witness ESPN use its outsize influence to prop up a Southeastern Conference that, for the first time in a decade, is arguably in a state of decline.

I'm sorry, let me back up the truck a bit. It occurs to me that you may not be aware that ESPN is trying to shape the outcome of the college football season to serve its own corporate interests. Yeah, that's happening.

ESPN has invested heavily in the SEC of late – highlighted by its launch of the SEC Network in August – and needs at least one, ideally four, of the conference's teams to make the inaugural College Football Playoff, to which ESPN holds exclusive broadcast rights (the first set of Playoff rankings will be unveiled tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET on the network as well).

It's good business sense to do whatever's in your power to advance and protect such an investment. Unfortunately, ESPN is the most powerful media brand in college football, managing a portfolio of broadcast rights to not only the Playoff, but every major conference and 33 of the 35 bowl games staged last season. This gives ESPN the power to control the narrative in the most subjective sport in America.

That narrative? "SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC!"

The Worldwide (Cheer) Leader

It can be argued that Texas A&M derived its lofty ranking through the first month of the season on the hype generated by the SEC Network's inaugural game broadcast, a 52-28 trouncing of a South Carolina team which, barely halfway through the season, already has four losses. The win immediately propelled the No. 21 Aggies to ninth in the Associated Press poll (South Carolina's previous ranking), and they eventually vaulted all the way to No. 6 on the strength of wins over Lamar, Rice, SMU and Arkansas before dropping their next three games by a combined 91 points.


The rhetoric on ESPN up to that point had been that QB Kenny Hill was making fans ask, "Johnny who?" and A&M had even garnered four first place votes at its peak. But where any reasonable commentary might now suggest A&M was a tad overrated, the conversation on ESPN unfailingly shifted to what impressive opponents could have felled such a mighty juggernaut. Until Saturday, four of the top five teams in the country – three of which have had their reputations burnished by wins over Texas A&M – were in not only the SEC, but the SEC West.

OK, maybe ESPN flirts like that with all the boys. With a stake in the fortunes of each of the major conferences, it behooves the Worldwide Leader to shake its pom-poms for them all, right? That notion is belied by either an alarming instance of bias or ignorance among ESPN's announcers and analysts, perhaps suggesting there's an editorial directive to promote SEC teams at the expense of their conferential competitors.

For example, two different broadcasters on the network, analyst Brock Huard and anchor Cassidy Hubbarth, proclaimed that Florida State – one of only two teams in this week's AP top five not in the SEC – "barely escaped," "struggled" and took Wake Forest "down to the wire" in a game it won 43-3.

Or consider the way ESPN covered a pair of wins against Tennessee earlier this season. The first, a 24-point margin of victory for the Big 12's Oklahoma, was characterized on Twitter as "Oklahoma holds on to beat Tennessee 34-10." [Emphasis added.] The second, a three-point win, 35-32, for the SEC's Georgia, was positioned, "Dawgs run away from Vols."

Despite the advent this year of a playoff, the polls matter, perhaps as much as ever. The Playoff Selection Committee's rankings are formulated by a membership whose decisions will undoubtedly be based to some degree on polls determined by lazy voters who are influenced by media coverage of the sport – coverage that is dominated by ESPN. Could a two-loss SEC team make the playoff?

Last week on The Experts, ESPN U's roundtable of college football commentators, the question was posed, "Could a two-loss SEC team make the playoff?" Mike Bellotti's circular defense of his "yes" answer had nothing to do with X's, O's or anything remotely resembling a reasoned case for inclusion. In a response that evoked Nigel Tufnel's rationalization of amplifiers that go up to 11, Bellotti simply said, "They have four teams in the top five." Teams that ESPN, through its determined campaigning, has helped place there. By Jordan Burchette | October 28, 2014
 
If we were undefeated for two years straight, we would be dealing with some sort of this too. As much as FSU is our rival, I think we can unite on this ESPN / SEC bias.
 
Lol yes jimbo..lets blame espn and sec for your rapist theif qb and pregnant wife beating, robber of a running back

Totally not your fault
 
Dwinstitles said:
It's sounds fkin bizarre but **** it's true. They scaredoffsu I been saying this ****, there the only threat to south Florida and the sec needs sfla recruits to win. If Fsu blocks them from sfla they can't win, the sec and espn does not want Fsu to be the first playoff winner either. It's my opinion *** the negs I agree with the ****** and wow he has balls just to say it. The witch hunt is on the sec and espn will go harder now to get them.
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Or maybe it's that FSU is entitling a little monster at QB. Maybe there is no grand conspiracy and it is their own **** fault.
 
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Jimbo is right that the SEC gets away with murder (figuratively, not just Hernandez).

But his own guys aren't saints.
 
Stylie said:
But..... it's the SEC's fault that Jimbo's players are total **** ups?
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U think the sec doesn't have *** ups? Every school has it and every school that recruits well has it. Fsu is a major threat and they scared, sec wants in roads back to sfla. Fsu be cleaning up and going to the Midwest to clean up as well, what Fsu is doing is dirty but it's part of cfb if u want to win.
 
Reading Cane2's post made me want to just forget college football altogether. I have no interest in following something where the odds against something that I enjoy so much is stacked high. Ain't got no time for that.
 
I'm watching that cfb playoff **** to see if things have changed or if espn will slurp the sec. **** is out of control and influences recruits it's sort of like propaganda, kids in sfla sitting at home watching sec sec sec sec. Will that said kid grow up a miami fan? Probably not
 
Kirijax said:
Reading Cane2's post made me want to just forget college football altogether. I have no interest in following something where the odds against something that I enjoy so much is stacked high. Ain't got no time for that.
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I up to a point where I just accept we can't win in this era. My mind is set on that and until we wake up we can break this whole **** down. I don't believe we will but Fsu on the other hand is trying hard and I have to applaud those fa g g out s.
 
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i wanted to jump further on the hate train, but the article takes what jimbo is saying completely out of context. watch the video. he's blaming espn and the sec for the negative perception of fsu's performance and their ranking/playoff outlook, not their off the field issues.
 
db305 said:
i wanted to jump further on the hate train, but the article takes what jimbo is saying completely out of context. watch the video. he's blaming espn and the sec for the negative perception of fsu's performance and their ranking/playoff outlook, not their off the field issues.
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This. Although good ol Jimbo wouldn't be precluded from saying what was implied by the article too. He's running a cesspool up there but the amount of scrutiny those scumbags are getting isn't nearly equivalent in degree to anything a SEC school EVER gets for their equivalent pools of cess. They definitely don't get the respect or even the benefit of the doubt that an Alabamy is getting and they're the freaking defending natl champs that are still undefeated. Excuse me while I go puke for having to come to their defense.

As sad and nauseating at it might be, it actually is time that we join forces with FSU and Bob Stoops and Bo Pelini and Nike U and even Urb to battle the scourge that is the SEC not only in the media but in the actual power structure of the NCAA. An "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type deal.
 
Dwinstitles said:
Stylie said:
But..... it's the SEC's fault that Jimbo's players are total **** ups?
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U think the sec doesn't have *** ups? Every school has it and every school that recruits well has it. Fsu is a major threat and they scared, sec wants in roads back to sfla. Fsu be cleaning up and going to the Midwest to clean up as well, what Fsu is doing is dirty but it's part of cfb if u want to win.
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I have not seen 1 thing on ESPN about the TE from Alabama and the drug issue and 5K. Would be nice if they at least showed a little negativity about the SEC once in a while. Like how they lead in arrests by an extremely large margin. I forgot the exact numbers, but it was like 80/20 compared to ACC.
 
I'm not buying the SEC crap, however Espn is whole other story. Cam Newton was on espn all day when his allegations came out.
 
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