It has been painfully clear that ESPN is trying to crush the league, and by default, the flagship university of the very state where their headquarters resides. It is absolutely incredible that they are allowed to attempt to destroy the financial viability of academic institutions in order to increase their own value without the NCAA doing or saying anything about it (they are a company, and I get why they want to increase the value of their products / decrease the value of the competitors, but with the NCAA doing nothing about it???).
On a side note, I found this part of the "ND fellatio" funny:
"Say what you want about Notre Dame, the Irish -- even non-football sports -- are good box office. It wasn't a coincidence that ESPN's first GameDay visit at a women's basketball game was for a primetime matchup between Notre Dame and Connecticut."
Gee, do you think that UConn's women had anything to do with that matchup being primetime??