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Topic: ESPN's approach to "MACtion"
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SBH
11/5/2020 9:45 AM
It sure seems like ESPN is suddenly portraying our league as the crazy aunt of college football. I understand the need for the dollars, but please present us as a legitimate member of the college football univeese.
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AZBobcat
11/5/2020 10:44 AM
Beats the days of Lou Holtz, who once coached in the MAC, calling us "Ohio U" the entire time and talking like the MAC had fewer scholarships than the big conferences... or the announce team spending literally the entire Ohio game talking about the OSU matchup coming Saturday
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OhioBobcat
11/5/2020 2:46 PM
SBH wrote:expand_more
It sure seems like ESPN is suddenly portraying our league as the crazy aunt of college football. I understand the need for the dollars, but please present us as a legitimate member of the college football univeese.
I agree with you, I picked up on that too. It was especially noticeable on the SportsCenter studio. They seem to view and portray it as a football gimmick.
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Pataskala
11/5/2020 5:04 PM
I think sometimes that the ESPN people have to justify their existence (and ESPN's) by blowing stuff out of proportion to maybe make things seem more strange than they are. It's like some of the headlines on USA Today. During last night's game the pbp guy said something about the wackiness of the MAC's opening night because five extra points had been missed in MAC games last night, among other things. If you have to point out missed extra points -- mostly by freshman kickers -- that's stretching things.

At least the MAC got all its opening night games played without cancellations due to covid. I think the B10 is the only other 1A conference to play its full first-week schedule. Saturday's Cal-Washington game has been called off, so the Pac-12 is already having problems.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
11/5/2020 6:13 PM
SBH wrote:expand_more
It sure seems like ESPN is suddenly portraying our league as the crazy aunt of college football. I understand the need for the dollars, but please present us as a legitimate member of the college football univeese.
They've been doing this for years. The entire #MACtion approach is essentially an in-joke about how the MAC plays bad football with no stakes (hence Wednesday games -- separate from other conferences), but that that's fun to watch because it's high scoring.

If ESPN thought there was a way to market the MAC as a legitimate member of the college football universe, the contract wouldn't be for weekday games when the legitimate members of the college football universe aren't playing.
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BillyTheCat
11/5/2020 9:19 PM
You guys get jacked up for seven months to complain for the next five months. Need my popcorn.
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Ted Thompson
11/6/2020 9:55 AM

Per this, it is good to be on ESPN the original.

 

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UpSan Bobcat
11/6/2020 10:21 AM
I don't care too much how it's presented. MAC football games are getting attention, and that's good.
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BillyTheCat
11/6/2020 11:05 AM
UpSan Bobcat wrote:expand_more
I don't care too much how it's presented. MAC football games are getting attention, and that's good.

+1
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Pataskala
11/6/2020 11:13 AM
BTW, ESPN just laid off 300 more employees, including Ivan Maisel, who has been writing for them for 18 years. Another 200 positions won't be filled.
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Tymaster
11/8/2020 10:00 AM
A couple of interesting things here.
1) The drop off in viewership from ESPN to ESPN 2 is beyond precipitous. They probably need to begin retooling the amount of channels and retool the bulk of that content to their app.
2) Their MAC promotion is fine. It gets viewers and that is something we've never had. Would you prefer we sign a deal like C-USA and be on outlets that you can't even find online? We are a fun product and we're not really a player in the CFP. It is what it is.
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