If you haven't watched anything other than live sports then how do you know what ESPN says about our players? If anything, the ESPN Gameday crew continues to blow sunshine about UM year after year, though that finally began to dissipate in the last couple of seasons.
I've never heard Fowler, Herbstreit, et all, call UM players thugs. Whether we like it or not, the Shapiro mess was news in the CFB world, so of course it was discussed, on ESPN and every other CFB program. That doesn't mean the reporters hate UM.
and what does "make a big deal about [UM] losing a game" even mean? explain how they treat our losses any differently than other losses.
No idea what you're so angry about. I didn't know that Kirk Herbstreit and Fowler constitute all of ESPN. I know what ESPN personalities
used to say about our players, and I doubt it has changed. Sorry you couldn't understand that, but you should have been able to gather it from my post. And no clue why you're talking about Nevin Shapiro, either.
ESPN likes to build teams up so they can tear them down and have a story when they lose. You really couldn't figure that out?
Not angry at all.
I don't know why our fans persist in the unsupported claim that ESPN and other CFB media hate UM. Other fanbases do the same thing, and it's equally ridiculous.
Not saying that Fowler and Herbstreit are all of ESPN; that's why I added "et al." I was focusing on Gameday, bc that is ESPN's signature CFB show.
I assumed the reference to "controversy" was the Shapiro mess, given that you did not specifically reference anything.
You may have theorized that "ESPN likes to build teams up so they can tear them down and have a story when they lose[,]" but that doesn't make it so. ESPN talks a lot about the teams that are on top of CFB, when they are on top. They did it with us, USC, UF, and now Alabama and FSU.
If something happens like the Reggie Bush scandal, Jamies Winston allegations and cover-up, Shapiro, etc..., they will talk about that as well. It does not mean they were trying to tear down USC, FSU, or UM. It's CFB news, and people are interested so they report it.