PTI-Rich Rod

Submitted by WoodleyIsBeast on
Pardon the Interruption just brought up Coach Rodriguez and how three years back he passed on the Alabama job. At least Wilbon had nice things to say, saying that college football is not fun when Michigan and Notre Dame struggle and we just talk about the coaches. Damn negative press, hurry up next year already!!!!
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BiSB

December 8th, 2009 at 7:37 PM ^

some people around here dont need caps or punctuation or a basic understanding of sentence structure or the difference between their and theyre and i can understand theyre stuff just fine so stop it your being redeculous

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JohnMick

December 8th, 2009 at 7:03 PM ^

They talk about the one player who they want to promote at the time. Remember this summer when they only talked about ManRam? It's total bull. And the thing about the ESPN Chicago and LA? GIMMEABREAK

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UMWest22

December 8th, 2009 at 7:25 PM ^

I especially like how, when they do their promo for ESPN Chicago, they show athletes under the url, and usually half of them are pictures of Notre Dame players. Last I checked, Notre Dame was in Indiana, not Illinois... (Granted, I'm sure that Notre Dame has a HUGE fanbase in Chicago.) Same with ESPN Dallas, showing Sam Bradford, and not, oh, I don't know...Colt McCoy. Just one of the MANY things about ESPN that irritates me.

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Beavis

December 8th, 2009 at 8:41 PM ^

Initially I thought the exact same thing - "FU ESPN Chicago - there are more Wolverines here than Domers!" But then you had to see all the Sun Times and Trib stories on the ND coaching situation.... So from a journalistic point of view, it actually seems warranted. And to all of the major ESPN haters on this board, what else do you watch? Seriously? How do you get your sports? I know ESPN has thrown Michigan under the bus recently, but they were also all over our dicks when we started 4-0. It's not like they're coming out with trash articles like Rosenberg and the Freep.

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JohnMick

December 9th, 2009 at 8:35 PM ^

They were all over Tate when he was hot. Saying he was going to be the next Brees (which I kind of still think, but that's against the point) and then they chastise RichRod and the whole program when we lose. They overwhelmingly sacrifice journalism to capitalize on what's hot. There aren't stories about all sports and all the teams in them, just the "cool" ones. I don't really approve of the "what else do you watch?" argument either. It's the same rhetoric that got a bunch of German's lifting their arms and walking funny, praising a guy with a little mustache. As far as "how do you get your sports?" I think Yahoo Sports is a better, lesser, evil, and many sports reporting blogs now (not unlike this one) do a good job of filling in the gaps.

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HartAttack20

December 8th, 2009 at 7:13 PM ^

I agree it can be biased and may not be the best reporting in the world on ESPN, but I watch it every day. I watch it every morning to get the basics on what went down the day before and anything that may be coming up soon. If you want news on your specific team, obviously you aren't going to get it in a nation wide sports channel. Obviously not what they are going for. I am intelligent enough to try to take what I get off of any news show and unbias it or research it further so I can figure out what is really true. It's not a big deal.

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Louie C

December 8th, 2009 at 11:15 PM ^

Wilbon is hot/cold when it comes to Big Blue. I remember during the '08 campaign he and Kornheiser both agreed that Michigan will be in top form once RR got his type of players in place.

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