Leave it to ESPN to celebrate the status quo. The unabashed romance with incumbent programs, many of which have been trashed and thrashed...some managing to resuscitate, others still struggling for respectability. Linkhttp://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17336754/alabama-crimson-tide-notre-dame-fighting-irish-ohio-state-buckeyes-oklahoma-sooners-usc-trojans-lead-list-college-football-blue-bloods
What all of this amounts to is nothing more than ESPN shilling to hype it's lucrative markets in defiance of the reality that disruptive programs outside of media markets are messing with Disney's balance sheets. Disney really doesn't cotton to that. It would rather a Hunger Games orchestration of predictability that guarantees viewers of certain affiliation. It likes a "champeen" of the hill, an Alabama of invincibility and certainty that will juice the ratings and keep them there evermore
The problem with all of this is that it is simply obsolete thinking. The reality is there is no national affinity for any college team. And in a society that demands production, all the Gus Dorais of Nortre Dame don't mean a damn going forward. And guys dressed up like Romans calling themselves Trojans waving effeminate V's aggressively look like so much mannequins of obsolescence.
The masses want entertainment, not the ennui of the same old incumbents plowing three yards and a cloud of rubberized dust pellets. The future belongs to the Clemsons, Oregons, TCU's and others who have entertainment to sell in spades, scoring in bunches, moving past cobwebs of a past that is best left in the attic of sports memory.
What all of this amounts to is nothing more than ESPN shilling to hype it's lucrative markets in defiance of the reality that disruptive programs outside of media markets are messing with Disney's balance sheets. Disney really doesn't cotton to that. It would rather a Hunger Games orchestration of predictability that guarantees viewers of certain affiliation. It likes a "champeen" of the hill, an Alabama of invincibility and certainty that will juice the ratings and keep them there evermore
The problem with all of this is that it is simply obsolete thinking. The reality is there is no national affinity for any college team. And in a society that demands production, all the Gus Dorais of Nortre Dame don't mean a damn going forward. And guys dressed up like Romans calling themselves Trojans waving effeminate V's aggressively look like so much mannequins of obsolescence.
The masses want entertainment, not the ennui of the same old incumbents plowing three yards and a cloud of rubberized dust pellets. The future belongs to the Clemsons, Oregons, TCU's and others who have entertainment to sell in spades, scoring in bunches, moving past cobwebs of a past that is best left in the attic of sports memory.
