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YOU GUYS! IT'S FINALLY HERE! Yes we finally have football, but I'm actually talking about Bruce Feldman's return. He jumped ship from ESPN to CBSSports.com, where I presume he won't work for a company with sacrificed it's last shred of credibility in order to protect a disingenuous nitwit like Craig James. His first column went up yesterday, shortly after he absolutely torched ESPN in a radio interview with Dan Patrick. Welcome back, Bruce.
I'm sure this is part of an insidious plot that stretches all the way to Gordon Gee. Three Ohio State player, RB Jordan Hall and DBs Travis Howard and Corey Brown, are suspended for the Akron game for receiving impermissible benefits at a charity event. I don't think many people realize just how easy it is to accidentally receive an extra benefit. I'm not sure the players knew what they were doing was even wrong. Considering the low valuation (less than $300) and Ohio State's less-than-challenging upcoming opponent, I don't think this will have much of an impact on the Buckeyes, even though Howard and Hall were slated to start.
For real. Stop it with the conference realignment talk. BYU to the Big 12? Probably not, but who knows. Let me know when something's actually happening. We have actual football to talk about now.
Dana Holgorsen rules, exhibit 819237912873: THE MOUNTAINEER MANTRIP. And speaking of WVU, it's now a felony to burn a couch in Morgantown. Talk about a tragedy.
There's still a chance, dudes. I mean, if a 61 year old man can come back and play football, why can't any of you? /waits for first person to say "Kickers aren't real football players"
Last but not least, a little treat for y'all. Last night's Kentucky/Western Kentucky game was a straight up pillow fight, but it did give us this. I believe the word your searching for is "LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!111" It would seem that Morgan Newton is, in fact, not Cam Newton.
By the time this posts, there will be roughly 30 hours until Penn State football kicks off. Remain calm and remember to breathe.
Rob Bolden will start against ISU. Late addition to the party, but sources are reporting that Rob Bolden will get the starting nod against Indiana State. Both quarterbacks will get time in this game, but it was unsure as to who would step off the bus first. Now we know (and sort of expected).
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Team Bolden!!!!
We win. You suck.
by PSUinOH on Sep 2, 2011 7:07 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 3 recs
If the Ohio State thing was an isolated incident at pretty much any other school
I would say no biggie and move on. But when are people going to clue in that there is a complete lack of institutional control at OSU. You would think over the past year the OSU compliance department would be drilling into these kids heads what is and isn’t an improper benefit. You would think coaches and staff would be watching them all like hawks to make sure no one else did anything to hurt the school. You would think even some of the players would keep their eyes open a little bit more so that some idiot on the team doesn’t hurt them any more. But none of these things happen. None. It’s just business as usual at OSU.
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by Frank O'Brien on Sep 2, 2011 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I would have loved to see Feldman end up at Yahoo sports
But I’m guessing CBS brought the (much) bigger paycheck. Good for him, good for us, good for college football.
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by newenglandnittanylion on Sep 2, 2011 8:22 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
He didn't fit into the Zerg hive in Bristol
So it got rather acrimonious at the end. Not Olbermann-level, but it still wasn’t not amicable.
It really is amazing how little I use ESPN.com anymore. If I wasn’t forced to go to ESPN tv for games, I would have almost zero contact with that company. However, I love football too much to do a full boycott.
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Myself as well...
Once football season ends, I can go great stretches devoid of any contact with the marketing department of the NBA ESPN.
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DP thought of himself as so much more than a SportsCenter anchor. The opinion of the rest of the world, not so much.
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by Frank O'Brien on Sep 2, 2011 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
As far as we know, it wasn't on bad terms.
He asked out of his contract in July 2007, ESPN asked him to stay, and he left in August. He & ESPN have both said it was on good terms. Maybe he’s hiding something but I’d guess he just wanted a change.
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I get the impression from listening to him over the past few years
That even though they kept a fairly good lid on it, publicly, there was some actual animosity.
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Bruce is free!
/tear
And now that he’s free, he basically revealed that:
a) ESPN is a business, not news
b) purposefully leaves investigative news to YahooSports, etc
c) actually has agendas
d) SEC is the primary focus of college football
e) organization itself is unorganized
f) defends hooker killers who interferes with college sports programs
I know we all knew the above for a long time, but it’s different hearing it from a horse’s mouth.
And I wonder if ESPN has the introspection to realize that they have a HUGE public relations problem. It’s emblematic for these modern times in a way how the mothership caters to the major sports leagues and college conferences rather than the sports fan.
by Mr. Rosewater on Sep 2, 2011 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions
The shame of it is,
there are some good writers trapped in that hell hole. Very happy that Feldman is free from there and will be back writing on the college football beat.
As an 8 year old boy meeting JoePa:
Me: Coach, I really am a big fan of Penn State
Joe: Glad to hear that
Me: I am also a big Notre Dame fan as well
Joe: Son, you can only be a fan of one or the other, not both. Make sure that you pick a winner.
I don't care is tO$U benefits were $3
After everything that happened, they should be uber-careful.
Advice to college football kids – don’t take anything, even a sandwich (isn’t that what Kellen Moore did?). If you are not sure if it is OK, it probably isn’t. Or ASK SOMEONE!
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You've pretty much nailed the reaction in Columbus.
It’s not so much the act, which is relatively benign (apparently the benefits in question were a gift bag at some charity event), so much as the unmitigated stupidity that is taking ANYTHING for free after all the crap they’ve seen and all the education they’ve received over the past nine months. There’s a lot of people banging their heads against the wall right now.
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Yea I was gonna say
There’s no way these kids didn’t know what they were doing was wrong. Or they’re very very thickheaded.
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