ESPN sucks.

[Wiedersehen]

The coverage tonight was horrible. Aside the fact that the yellow playoff logo pops up after every play makes you think there was a flag, the bashing of IU was nauseating and way over the top. They took every opportunity to make it known that we shouldn’t have been in the playoff.

How’d we get the D crew calling our game?!?! And an Alabama color guy at that. F them.

 

[ulrey]

I watch the skycam channel.. much better

 

[HoosierAlum07]

Duh! They’ve sucked for the last 30 years!

 

[IUNorth]

The coverage tonight was horrible. Aside the fact that the yellow playoff logo pops up after every play makes you think there was a flag, the bashing of IU was nauseating and way over the top. They took every opportunity to make it known that we shouldn’t have been in the playoff.

How’d we get the D crew calling our game?!?! And an Alabama color guy at that. F them.

To be fair… IU gave them every reason and opportunity to bash them. Or maybe put differently…what did IU do that would have drawn any sort of praise? They wanted to call a close game. I’m sure they were annoyed with the execution and overall soft play and approach too.

 

[daddyhoosier]

*A one loss Big Ten team shouldn't automatically be ahead of a 3 loss SEC Team just because we assume the Big Ten is a good conference
*Also a 3 loss SEC Team should get in ahead of a 1 loss Big Ten team because everybody knows (read we assume) the SEC is way better conference

 

[abraxis]

To be fair… IU gave them every reason and opportunity to bash them. Or maybe put differently…what did IU do that would have drawn any sort of praise? They wanted to call a close game. I’m sure they were annoyed with the execution and overall soft play and approach too.

It was a long, cold game with little excitement generated by IU. Everyone was ready to go home once it got to 27-3.

 

[raar2]

We didn't offer anything for ESPN to complement until the last 4 minutes.

But I wish they'd shut it about our defensive line., or our offensive line for that matter. ND didn't do anything spectacular. 2 sacks. TWO.
ND rushed for 193 yrds on 35 carries. Take away the 98yrdr and that's less than 2.8 per carry. We did miss too many 1st strike tackles allowing them a couple extra yards per, so that was bad.

But for ND
-RL did a good job finding the dump off to save downs
-ND safety's are really good.

For IU

D line did good job (except for once). They stayed in front of Leonard and keep him to no long gains but the trade off was he had more time and the ability to dump off or just get rid of the ball. I think our pressure was better than the stats show.

On offense, Rourke was so so very off for 90% of the game. That's all. I hate it for him but it wasnt' ND like it was OSU. He just flat out missed receivers. Again, I hate it for him. He killed his draft stock.

 

[Crusty The Baker]

ESPN and ABC are owned by Disney, which is paying the SEC $300 million a year for 10 years to televise games. So, they stir the pot in favor of the SEC. I guess you could say that Disney “owns” the SEC, and Fox “owns” the Big Ten.

Disney, ESPN winning big on $3 billion SEC TV contract

Nearly four years after that TV contract was signed, the SEC and ESPN are seeing a major payoff.

www.on3.com

Interesting to think of major college sports teams as sort of subsidiaries of these media companies. Schools benefit from the feels.

 

[82hoosier]

We didn't offer anything for ESPN to complement until the last 4 minutes.

But I wish they'd shut it about our defensive line., or our offensive line for that matter. ND didn't do anything spectacular. 2 sacks. TWO.
ND rushed for 193 yrds on 35 carries. Take away the 98yrdr and that's less than 2.8 per carry. We did miss too many 1st strike tackles allowing them a couple extra yards per, so that was bad.

But for ND
-RL did a good job finding the dump off to save downs
-ND safety's are really good.

For IU

D line did good job (except for once). They stayed in front of Leonard and keep him to no long gains but the trade off was he had more time and the ability to dump off or just get rid of the ball. I think our pressure was better than the stats show.

On offense, Rourke was so so very off for 90% of the game. That's all. I hate it for him but it wasnt' ND like it was OSU. He just flat out missed receivers. Again, I hate it for him. He killed his draft stock.

He tended to fold up as soon a defender got a hand on him.

 

[Wiedersehen]

To be fair… IU gave them every reason and opportunity to bash them. Or maybe put differently…what did IU do that would have drawn any sort of praise? They wanted to call a close game. I’m sure they were annoyed with the execution and overall soft play and approach too.

Cignetti’s punt in the fourth quarter was incredibly spineless. The entire country was baffled. We weren’t playing to win at that point.

 

[grammy2]

I wish Kamara, Walker, West and Carpenter would meet McDonough in a dark alley.