There Is No Anti-OSU Media Bias

Whether or not it is "just business", if you are biased because you are a competitor or just don't like Ohio State, you are still biased.

Duane, Southern Cal claims eleven national titles. They have 7 Heisman winners. They are a huge college football program.

Can you honestly tell me that ESPN's coverage of USC's scandal has been similar and on the same scale as their coverage of OSU's scandal?

EDIT: I just finished reading the article. I agree 100%. ESPN is going after OSU to damage the Big Ten Network.

This is exactly what LeCharles Bentley said in his radio show isn't it. He even stated it was about money. ESPN is going after tOSU not because its tOSU its because tOSU is the biggest dog in the B10.

Agree. Duane has identified the reasons behind the bias, but that does not deny that bias exists...

Duane, I have to totally disagree with your logic. ESPN and the other media for years have had a running battle with OSU over their style of football, the apparent nonchalant attitude of Tressel with the media, and money/prestige war that goes along with competing conferences and teams. For a long time I have watched ESPN debate the level of OSU when it comes to other named teams. OSU always is put as "second fiddle" Remember the hype when OSU vs. Notre Dame in a previous bowl game. OSU had no chance against the highly touted ND team. After A J Hawk and co. dismantled ND i never heard any ....Oh..I must have been wrong...comments. Taking aim at OSU shows that ESPN can play a Nancy Grace and make one believe that EVIL lurks at OSU. Admit it...ESPN is Biased. Have been and most likely will be.

USC is Pac-10 which means USC is in the ESPN back pocket. Can't damage their own product. ESPN hired three Ohio State alums and made them key parts of their college football coverage. If someone who makes decisions at ESPN does not like Ohio State those hires make no sense. ESPN does not hate or love Ohio State. This attack is all about money. There are no competitors out there for ESPN. Just because the Big Ten Network is about Big Ten sports does not mean it could not get a foothold and start expanding. At some point it has to occur to some smart guy that college football should have its own network and cut ESPN out altogether.

I don't see how ESPN could possibly make the Big 10 Network fail. While ratings of particular games could fluctuate, the Big 10 Network gets money from every cable subscriber every month and I don't see how ESPN could sabotage that revenue stream. Likewise, I don't see how the Big 10 could inflict great damage on ESPN as they have plenty of programming should the Big 10 leave the network. If the Big 10 was smart, they'd leverage their assets to build a strong partnership with ESPN rather than go to war.

Those guys were all hired (or at least 2 of the 3), before the B10 Network was formed. Sorry.

Explain the huge ticker headlines, and front page coverage of the Kalis UM commitment? I haven't seen that kind of coverage for the #1 overall player, let alone the 6th rated OT in country.

Almost like ESPN was gleeful that we lost a top rated OH player...

Even when Michigan got in some trouble for Xtra practice espn ran with it - they have an obvious vendetta against the Big-10, I think it does all come down to $$$$ and espn wanting a monopoly on the sports world.

Agreed, think about it. B10 is now in bed with Fox. Lets say in 5 years when the ESPN deal is over, the B10 does a huge deal to move games to Big Fox, FX and other Fox Stations, then Fox realizes this is huge bank for us. They then go out of there way to start bidding up the renewal contracts of SEC or Pac10 or any of the other BCS conference to move games to there stations. Now you have ESPN making alot less money overall and paying even more money out for contracts to any of the conferences they sign to a deal.

ESPN is doing a hatchet job on tOSU only because they are in the B10. IF what happened at tOSU happend at scUM, they would be feeling the same heat.

I also, disagree with one point though Duane. Herbie, Speils and Smith have been at ESPN for years now. They were hired before this fight started. They won't fire them aslong as they don't give them a reason too. LeCharles might just be canned pretty soon as he is the first former Buckeye that has a job with ESPN that has spoken out about whats going on. Herbie and the rest won't have jobs for long if they actually decided to call a Spade a Spade, but they will tote the company line or just not say anything public to keep there jobs.

What does when they were hired have to do with ESPN being biased against Ohio State???