INSTANT SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS RESPOND TO ESPN'S NEW SHOW

So I initially read the word meringued as “Méringued”, which in the context of Corso makes sense anyway.

Is it too early to request Bunda on Friday ?

Note that “bunda” and “Corso” should never appear in consecutive threads, otherwise Orson will be forced to post his Corso album cover fark from about a year ago.

I just saw this link on another site and, since we’re talking about Les Miles, it’s worth posting:

http://www.bigheadcaps.net/Colleges-Logos_c_52.html

Hopefully Gunslingers(http://gunslingers.blogspot.com/) tivod this sucker.

Jebus, you’d look like that too if Larry David stole your watch.

Honestly, from a football aspect, the show was a tremendous disappointment. I feel like I could have learned more watching the ticker on ESPN News for half an hour.
Those guys are clowns though, so at least I got a (very small) chuckle out of it.

The best part was Les Miles saying “we have great respect for the Pac-10 conference” No word on Hayley Lafontaine though.

Since I moved in March, I haven’t had cable, so I can’t watch the ESPN too often. What I have seen in that time has been of poor quality. Other than some games I’ve seen on there, the organic content has been quite weak. Its gotten to the point where its just an MTV level of banality beyond the usual news and games.

The beginning had me wondering if I was watching some lame ass remake of Drumline w/ Rece Davis playing the part of Orlando Jones.

Rece Davis: So what’s the concept?
Grambling State Band: ONE BAND, ONE SOUND!

Dear Jebus-

Will we have to suffer through Corso EVERY day? Can we get Ron Franklin on from time to time? Michele Tafoya would be better, if it’s OK with You. And – PUHLEEZE – no Brent Musberger.

Bully — You must admit, the resemblance is uncanny.

Oh, so Jebus and Bully are the 2 people who watched Drumline?

The GSU band was just on Sportscenter and Mike Greenberg made Rece Davis look like James Brown.
My apologies to Mr Davis.

yoyo – I’m not sure the Merkin is cut out to be an every day kind a guy. I’ll talk to my people and see if we can get Franklin in there for you. Is Tuesday/Thursday OK?

I suspect Herbie’s privates have known the inside of a tanning booth.

Excellent report, Jeebsy!

PW—

Three people, PW. Three people.

They already couldn’t fill 2 hours of Gameday without going into excessive fluff about Pete Carroll’s styling gel or Troy Smith playing himself on the Xbox; what maked ANY of you think that a daily 30 minutes is going to be anything but fluffy crap? This won’t be an NFL Live—it’s going to be Sportstainment at it’s worst. I’ll admit, I’m looking forward to the ’What’s it like to coach at Notre Dame" roundtable with Lou, Ara, and Weis, but only because I’m a Domer—the only other redeeming value would be to watch Holtz spit on everyone.

Though I’m betting AFN won’t pick this up, so I’ll be missing it…don’t know if that’s good or bad.

No, Bully was alone in that theater. I never saw Drumline but I did see You Got Served. If it’s a Steve Harvey joint, I’m there.

http://www.rolltide.com/pics15/414/EB/EBWICCMZLZJMDHN.20070720142220.jpg

Speaking of sportstainment… why the hell did the Alabama/FSU game this year need a name and a logo? I’m just thankful it’s not being named for its sponsor… the “Texas State Fair Fried Coke River City Showdown”

1. If that’s what your looking for then you might want to buy Uncle Rico’s time machine ’cuz those days are long gone. Fight On

It should be called “Battle of Two Guys Who Couldn’t Get The Hell Out Of West Virginia Fast Enough”.

Blazin’, I know, I’m just sayin’ is all. Any expectations that this would be substantive are completely hopeless.

That said, ESPN is a bunch of marketing geniuses—they know how starved we are right now for CFB content. They could have Mark May mudwrasslin’ Craig James in those Borat swimsuits and we’d watch as long as they promised to talk about their top 25 in between rounds.

Wow. Heisman candiates being tossed around no mention of Steve Slaton. Hmmmmm…………

I saw on EA 08’ that UF/UGA was simply called “UF/UGA game.” Das Maus has way too much control.

BTW, last night, I played Ark @ UF on All-American. I broke the NCAA rushing record for one game by running ONE PLAY. I called Counter Lead from twins I formation, and broke up 20-50 yard runs each time. Of course, Humanity Advanced was getting IV’s like crazy. Counter plays in general have and still are way too hard in this game if you have a primo back.

Now, of course UF put a similar amount of offense on me, but Arky still won.

The only thing I can say after watch that show today is, jebushchrist, please help us.

Synopsis:
- The college football-specific ESPNHD thing at the beginning has Manningham, McFadden, Booty, and Ian Johnson. Prepare to see those four all season.
- We open with Grambling State band, even though the show probably won’t cover I-AA football. It promises to be the most fan-interactive show on TV. Rece Davis looks like an idiot trying to conduct the band.
—Highlights from the National Championship game overdubbed with Mic Hubert :)
—Corso and Herbie are indeed wearing matching black suits, blue shirts, and red ties.
—Lee’s story lines: Bowden and Paterno have coached forever, will the Big 10 add a 12th team? (he recommends Missouri), can USCw run the table with “the second toughest schedule”
—Kirk’s story lines: Saban, Tebow taking over at Florida, Pac-10 is strong top-to-bottom (but not as good as SEC)
—Joe Schad from ACC media days: VT players are still trying to cope with shooting, there will be tributes coming
—ACC preview: Lee likes FSU in the Atlantic division (new offensive coaches, 8 starters on defense back, Chuck Amato back); Kirk likes VT in the Coastal (has schedule, opportunity to win the tougher division); Kirk and Rece pump up Virginia as a good team (??)
—The show will broadcast viewer-made videos, first is from a rabid Husker fan
—ESPN does a feature on Ray Rice: he’s a good guy, outside shot at Heisman; they plug his Heisman campaign
—They do a video game sim of the first Thursday night game, LSU @ Miss State: LSU wins 28-14
—Interview with Les Miles: he backtracks on his anti Pac-10 remarks, plugs the SEC, Rece tries to goad him into making a big deal out of it but Les doesn’t take the bait, Les refuses to say “Alabama”
—Limas Sweed does a 30 second plug of Texas’ program under the guise of a (presumably recurring) segment called “Senior Thesis”
—Poll of who should be #1:
1. USCw
2. Other
3. Michigan
4. LSU
5. West Virginia
—They read fan letters. ESPN ANTI SEC BIAS ALERT (you know, if you believe in such a thing) Sandwiched between two reasonable questions is a loon from Kentucky boasting that the Cats could take USCw.
—Other questions: who goes to SEC title game first, Spurrier or Saban? (Lee says Saban); Can Wake repeat in the ACC? (Kirk says no, may not make a bowl game)

Tomorrow: Jim Tressel, Ian Johnson

This era of ESPN is a repeat of the MTV era when “The Real World” Started.

Bye Bye primary mission. Hello garbled craptaculothon. (Please add that to your dictionaries.)

It looks like Corso “has a-nother question for you”.

Doompa-de-doo.

I’m giving this a week, but hopes and expectations are low. If the best idea Lee can come up with is moving Missouri to the Big Ten, then BFD. We don’t want them. What happens then to fill out the Big 12? Another Texas team? CSU? Wyoming?

We don’t need a Little Caesar’s-AT&T-A&W Root Beer-Kragen Auto Parts championship game, either. It’s already on the schedule, see “Michigan vs. Ohio State”.

Is it just me, or does Herbie’s hair look like blond FieldTurf?

28-14, B@b33!!!!!!!!1

#26:

Craptaculothon. Duly noted.

I was waiting to see steam shooting out of Les’ ears and for him to turn green and yell “HULK SMASH! HULK SMASH!” when Rece esentially phrased the question “So, USC’s gonna be in the MNC game. Can you make it?”

I thought they were going to bill the FSU-Bama game as the coach who doesn’t have time for shit vs. the coach who doesn’t have much time, period.

#28: Agreed. Missouri isn’t even a natural fit for the Big Ten given the region it currently covers. The most natural 12th Big Ten team is Notre Dame, though that’ll never happen as long as ND’s sugar daddy NBC keeps giving it TV contracts (and the BCS keeps giving it easier guidelines to get in than other schools).

What would they call the Big Ten then, though, if they added a 12th team? The Great Lakes Conference, perhaps. But can they really re-brand the conference after setting up a TV network? Probably not. So it’s already bad enough to call itself “Big Ten” with eleven teams, but I guess they took care of that by embedding an 11 in the whitespace in its logo. Thing is, there’s no way to put a 12 in it and keep pretending.

It simply won’t happen, and I’m really surprised that Corso would bring it up on the first show. Presumably he’s had the whole off-season to think this through, so glaring logic holes should have been taken care of by now. Or, at least filtered out of the debut program and saved for later when they’re running short of ideas. Oh well; logic never was his strong point.

We should let the guys from DC radio know that Les ducked all the Haley Lafontaine questions.

Great stuff, Jebus.
Say hello to your dad for me.

I still can’t get past the first sentence in Brian’s comment. No cable since March?! What do you do all day? Talk to your wife/girlfriend? That’s no way to live, my friend.

They interviewed the Urb on the phone this morning. Most was about a playoff, Tebow, Leak, and Donovan.

Easiest way to fix the Big 10. Drop Indiana. Thank you, I’ll have my Nobel prize drop shipped to my winter home in Florida.

Oh, and: there’s always room for Bunda and Corso in the same thread, as long as it’s not Corso’s Bunda.

Internet dude, Internet…browsing around and downloading TV shows & movies by the boatload. Its actually quite awesome not to have TV per-se. Its basically like longhand TiVo. And what’s more, the internet connection I use is “borrowed” shall we say. I’m just living the dream, you might say.

Also, this morning, on Mike and Mike without Mike and Mike but with Rece and Herb and Lee, about the only thing Corso said was that M Vick and others should surround themselves with character, not characters.

Then he repeated it two more times.

He is still a penis, a dick with ears.

Oh I guess it would be prudent to mention that the Apt building I live in has a theater room which has a HD projector hooked up to it, so in about 39 days I will be setting up my cot and mini-fridge and not leaving ’til they threaten to void my lease.

B,
Good stuff.
Just be careful with the borrowed interwebs.
My bro-in-law in NYC had his entire hard drive hacked and wiped because the dude he was “sharing” from found out and was none too pleased.

Brian – just don’t eat Cheetos while watching porn all day. You’ll just have to trust me on that one.

Dave, wasn’t there talk recently of them going ahead and renaming the whole thing “The Big Conference” without even adding a #12?

True, if you’re gonna beat off and eat anything, it aught to be Funnions. God those things are nasty.

I prefer okra and liver. .. but enough about my girlfriend.

#45, that’s only allowed if Gregory Peck replaces Delany as conference commissioner.

“This era of ESPN is a repeat of the MTV era when "The Real World" Started.

Bye Bye primary mission. Hello garbled craptaculothon. (Please add that to your dictionaries.)"

I can’t believe NewAZTiger and I agree about anything, but he’s absolutely right here.

Oh, and ONE HUNDRED COCKTAILS to Pappy.

#45: I think so, and if they did adopt that name, why stop at 12 when you can absorb the MAC and make 25? That’ll show those obnoxious rednecks from the SEC.

I certainly agree with NewAZTiger’s analogy, except I quibble with his timeline somewhat. ESPN is currently closer to year three or four of that MTV era…

Real World started around ‘92-’93, and while it was a harbinger of the demise of the music video on MTV, the channel was still watchable both from a music (during the height of the alternative music era, they ran a nightly version of 120 Minutes, if memory serves) and a non-music standpoint (The State, Liquid MTV, etc.)

[/Guy who went to college in the early 90s and spent way too much time parked on the sofa]

It wasn’t until three or four years later that MTV death-spiraled into a music-free schlock-fest of Real World knock-offs (hello, “Road Rules”) and lame celebrity toe-sucking. ESPN has definitely reached this point. I can barely stomach five minutes of non-game programming these days…

Jebus-

Tu/Th is OK w/ me. Thanx. Are you sure Corso can’t contract lockjaw?