http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebas...s-highlights-the-big-ten-is-a-mess-and-boring
What a load of hooey.
What a load of hooey.
ESPN being ESPN, never hesitant to put down the Big Ten
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http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebas...ung-and-the-sec-give-us-another-wild-Saturday
Compare it to this article.
Compare it to this article.
The title of the post is a bit dramatic, but if you actually read the blog post, what would you argue with? Let's also be quick to point out this is one writer making a blog post - not all of ESPN.
He points out that there's 2 good teams and after that - outside of a decent-looking Ohio State/Michigan, not much. He points out that it's usually a ultra-competitive league - it's not this year. He points out there's a lot of situations happening that is bringing down the play - like Minnesota's scandals and Northwestern's injuries adding to an already disappointing season. Then you have what are traditionally pretty good programs having bad years - like Wisconsin having its worst season in quite some time. You have IU looking bad. Iowa has been a regular tournament team lately and is looking bad. Maryland has been in the tournament - they could make it, but certainly are not good.
To argue that the Big Ten is NOT down is silly. The title of the article may be a bit much, but it's overall not exactly wrong.
Maybe I'm dumb but I seriously don't understand how exactly MSU's loss against OSU can make the Big Ten more boring...
I don't know, but I agree with his post above. I don't know why some people are loathe to admit that the BIG is down. Just shows how good the conference usually is. Our down year (2 good teams and a bunch of 'meh') is the standard every year for the SEC. Take it as a compliment.
He's right that B1G is very disappointing this year, but way off base in calling the number 1 team in the country being upset "boring".
Myron Medcalf is ESPNs Stephen A Smith of college basketball.
the B1G is always down when purdue is gonna win it. Haven't you guys noticed this over the years? haha...oh man I'm turning into a cynic.
The headline was really inaccurate and uncalled for - total BS. Come tournament time, I think we will see a lot of pretenders from other conferences and I think the Big Ten will surprise a lot of the so called experts with how well we do as a conference. I do hate the scheduling of the Big Ten games; when you have the projected #1 and #2 teams in the conference and they only play each other once and on top of that the one game you do have and its not until nearly mid-February! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
I never usually respond to ESPN articles but I saw them both on the same web page yesterday and couldn’t help but call them out on their hypocrisy.... Pretty dumb leaving both articles side by side... duh!
