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Message: [QUOTE="M.S.G., post: 4365828, member: 10660"] Maybe I'm dense, no actually I know I am.. BUT... I see it here, I hear it constantly from Patriots fans about how much they haaaaaaaaaaaate big bad ESPN. I just don't get it. Like people flat out refuse to even tune into the channel. I noticed posts even in this thread, people dancing on their grave, even commenting that there are "so many other ways to get your sports news" in this day and age. But really, are there? I mean let's be honest. I'm a true blue Husky fan but was our predicament really to blame on ESPN? To me it was always very black & white - schools such as Rutgers, Syracuse, BC, Louisville got out of the Big East to chase the football Power 5 money and it paid off because they had football programs that moved the needle. We did not. So we missed out. You can make the argument that we have a bigger market share than BC in New England and Syracuse and Rutgers in the tri-state area. That's all fine and good, but to point the finger @ ESPN is just disingenuous when you can't face what's looking back at you in the mirror. Fast forward a bit, we are bumped out of the Big East. Well, duh. None of those schools have football. We do, we have to scramble and we end up in the godawful conference. Was that our fault? Yes/No. If the football program wasn't a rudderless ship floating aimlessly, perhaps it would have been different. Is that why people blame ESPN also? Stuck in a conference that never made sense for us in the first place and we get a 3rd rate TV deal from ESPN? Uh duh, of course the AAC got a crap deal. It didn't, and never has brought anything to the table. Did we win the national championship out of the AAC? Sure did, but we had a player/coach to thank for that.. Am I compromising the facts here? I read a handful of posts in here tossing and turning at 4am this morning and it just kind of lame and whiny to blame ESPN for our own problems. Don't even get me started on Patriots fans............. To tack on a bit, okay so ESPN loses the Big 10, and replaces it with the SEC? Yeah.. You think they're going to lose a step? With the Big 12 and Pac WhateverIsLeft in tow - I mean???????????? Okay Fox levels up considerably and NBC scores in this scenario but I fail to understand how ESPN "loses"? Explain it to me like i'm an 8 year old please. [/QUOTE]

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