FRR: Vested Interest

McGee still dodged the UCONN question. Wow, there was a picture of Calhoun. Big deal. The cover is all people see AND a majority of the article is about OSU. So annoying.

+1000, if not more

Yep, boycott 'em.

Stop watching and supporting this kindergarten azz, biased reporting.

The only thing they're gonna understand is when you hit 'em in the pocket.

Until then, embrace the hate and give a healthy dose back to the azz holes: Pat Forde, Bino Cook and Colin Cowterd!

Sick of these jack offs repeating the same ol' line, while ignoring the obvious in Auburn and rest of the SEC.

GO BUCKS!!

I don 't often say this, but this kid (and sounded very young) really sucked! He could not articulate his reasoning for defnding ESpin's choice of covers or the allocations of words in the story itself. It was ALL about what would catch readers' attention, giving the time we are in. He also had no apparent depth to his knowledge of the subject matter about which he wrote, at least I could not discern it. I increasingly agree that there is little or no real professional journalism in that farse of a sports marketing company. Just seems to be what sells at any one time, baby!

I posted this in the house and seems relivant here as well:
To throw Tressel under the bus for 1 instance is a sad statement for where sensationalized media is @ right now.He is entitled to a mistake here and there and one that we know of does not and should not define a liftime of good and I have no problem with his book (s) . So media please get over your miserable selves and let he who is without misgivings please cast the first stone.Thanks thats what I thought no balls or your lives are so pathetic and miserable you have to try and tear a good man down to help rationalize and justify your meager existance. Pahtetic Miserable Wretches please get lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I missing something here ? This cover of SI does not look like a Tress sweater vest to me. It looks more like a womans practice jersey of some kind like basketball or track. If I would not have read the writing on it I would have not seen it as a Tress vest. Wonder if they could not use the real thing ? Just wondering.

I called and canceled my subscription to ESPN this morning. Couldn't take it anymore. I'm going to use this magazine to start my bonfire this weekend.

His explanation of the cover made perfect sense to me. While I may not like it, they are doing their jobs (which is to sell as many magazines as possible). Personally, I think the staff writers at Bucknuts and the Dispatch do more to cast a negative light on this situation than the national press does. That is not a condemnation of them, but a reality check of the times we live in. I thought his comparison to Carolina basketball was a good analogy. We are getting more attention on this because we are an elite college program that most of the nation has interest in. It's our turn to take punches from the media on this, (and they are going to milk it for all its worth, for as long as they can). But IMO any perceived bias against the program is a testiment to OSU football's national prominence. It is simply a matter of more readers being interested in the trevails of Ohio State than those of UConn.

Just got done listening to the FRR show -- that guy was full of $hit as far as saying it's about timing. He's just trying to cover up his employer's bias. As others have mentioned in this thread, you don't see the level of criticism (not even in the same zip code) toward blatant recruiting violations like Calhoun had or Bruce Pearl or the Newton scandal had when compared with Ohio State, and that is the issue. Scam Newton may be one of the older incidents when compared with all the things that have happened, but I would easily say it was the largest violation and the posterchild example of corruption in NCAA sports and the SEC conference as well. I also liked at the end how he tried to make more $hit up saying that Ohio State and the B10 were "saying things" about other schools at the time of the Scam Newton incident and Dave Biddle called him out in asking him what he had heard and he really couldn't produce any solid answers. The whole interview with this guy was just a sham, and exactly what I expected from an ESPiN employee.