01-02-2008, 05:41 PM | #31 | |
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I still occasionally get people who think that BYU is in the WAC. |
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01-02-2008, 05:45 PM | #32 | |
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On the other hand, my youngest son who is a pretty big sports fan didn't realize the following. Baylor was a BCS team. Arkansas was in the SEC. The Big Ten has 11 teams. Missouri isn't in the Big 10. Stanford has had a winning football team in it's history. There were some other things, but I can't remember them. |
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I bet I have seen a game with every single top 25 team this year (or at least a good portion of the game). Who here hasn't that considers themselves to be an avid college football fan? It was a lot harder living on the east coast, because games were so much earlier. Now, it is a piece of cake in Pac 10 land. |
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01-02-2008, 07:24 PM | #36 |
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The only team that Tex listed that I had not seen was ASU, until their recent bowl fiasco. However I did know that they were led by D. Erickson, and they were a plucky team that was very close to going to the Rose Bowl. I knew a sentence worth of information.
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Expand the issue to ESPN highlights and the effect is even more profound. BYU is probably the least discussed top 25 team right now, and has been all year, on ESPN. Most fans get their television information on teams through ESPN. That is also a problem. ESPN doesn't appear to want to talk about BYU because of the MWC contract with CSTV (extrapolating a bit, since they talked about BYU much more when the MWC was with ESPN). I am actually surprised you or Tex disagree with any of this. It seems pretty obvious to me. |
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Cali, obviously being on TV more is better than less. Thanks for that observation. I was just commenting that I think Mike expects too much from college fandom.
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