RIPPA Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 18 hours ago, hammerva said: Yeah there is a lot of awful coming from this particular tweet It is bad enough that there is a high school football game on ESPN. It is really bad when the team getting squashed by IMG was an 0-6 team last year that played just a couple days ago but played in order to get on national TV and get embarrassed. How did they get on TV? Well they lied to ESPN saying that they had Division 1 players on the team. Full context for this story https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/08/espn-img-academy-bishop-sycamore-high-school-football (Many sites have pointed out that ESPN can claim they were duped but it is also very obvious they did no research into the matter but feigning ignorance allows them to throw the company that arranged it under the bus) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoae Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: Full context for this story https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/08/espn-img-academy-bishop-sycamore-high-school-football (Many sites have pointed out that ESPN can claim they were duped but it is also very obvious they did no research into the matter but feigning ignorance allows them to throw the company that arranged it under the bus) ESPN is probably not blameless here and is definitely doing damage control, but they're the least guilty party. The school - Bishop Sycamore - put out an inaccurate (to put it nicely) press release touting their D1 prospects. Press release even mentions players who don't attend the school. Bishop Sycamore duped Paragon Marketing into making the game. Paragon Marketing put the game together and sold the broadcast rights to ESPN. It's embarrassing, and no doubt someone at ESPN should have spent five minutes on Google to verify the school before the contract was signed, but I don't necessarily expect network execs to be familiar with every high school football program in America. Paragon Marketing has worked with ESPN before. I'm guessing the network didn't think they needed to verify who was who. School is mostly to blame here. Paragon and ESPN also didn't know that the school played another game on Friday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 A school that doesn't exist playing a wholly-owned subsidiary of a talent agency that only exists to exploit unpaid teenagers is a nice microcosm of where "amateur" sports are in this country. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Awful Announcing does a DEEP dive into all of this fiasco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Zimbra said: A school that doesn't exist playing a wholly-owned subsidiary of a talent agency that only exists to exploit unpaid teenagers is a nice microcosm of where "amateur" sports are in this country. Ain't that the truth. The real question is which school is more fake? IMG or (har har) BS? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert C Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Not football related, but ties in with how gross kids sports have become. Found out tonight that one of the players from the team I coached this spring got scouted/recruited to be part of a select team. It was a T-ball team. He's five. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 A couple of power schools in the area (Dematha in MD and St Francis in Baltimore) have Bishop Sycamore on their schedule so folks are wondering how long it will be before those games are cancelled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Holy god how is this possibly getting worse! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 Well given those team are top 20 level and benefit from winning 50-0 in games, I doubt they would remove them from the schedule unless Bishop is forced to disband as a team/school/whatever they are called Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 14 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Holy god how is this possibly getting worse! Awful Announcing has a story after talking to the parent of a former player https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/what-it-was-like-being-a-parent-of-a-bishop-sycamore-player.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, hammerva said: Well given those team are top 20 level and benefit from winning 50-0 in games, I doubt they would remove them from the schedule unless Bishop is forced to disband as a team/school/whatever they are called Having Bishop Sycamore on your schedule right now is far too toxic to keep the game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Least shocking twist in this story... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 5 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Least shocking twist in this story... The richest part about "truly held religious beliefs," is that there has never been a bishop named Sycamore. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 3 hours ago, RIPPA said: Having Bishop Sycamore on your schedule right now is far too toxic to keep the game And to follow up here - in that Wash Post article I posted, DeMatha says they will not play Bishop Sycamore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 Just to ensure that it isn't just the NFL who have anti-vaxxers issues https://awfulannouncing.com/league-networks/john-smoltz-and-al-leiter-reportedly-barred-from-mlb-network-studio-work-after-refusing-vaccine.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoae Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 I like both guys, but if that's the attitude they're going to take, just fire them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 I was betting first Bristol talent to refuse the jab was sage steele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 On 8/31/2021 at 10:34 AM, RIPPA said: Least shocking twist in this story... I mean, I know the old saying goes that "there's no such thing as bad publicity," but seriously. . .come on, guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Apparently the leadership of said fake school fired the HC of fake football team 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Apparently one of the people replacing Kellerman on First Take is.... Tim Tebow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoae Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Honestly, the rotating guest hosts/contributors idea has my interest, at least as a gimmick. Curious to see if it has legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 17 hours ago, Eoae said: Honestly, the rotating guest hosts/contributors idea has my interest, at least as a gimmick. Curious to see if it has legs. Worked for Jeopardy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Apparently, Kevin Hart is already setting up a Docudrama about the Bishop Sycamore story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 3 hours ago, Raziel said: Apparently, Kevin Hart is already setting up a Docudrama about the Bishop Sycamore story. What are the odds the villain will be Disney/ESPN the giant corporations that insists on finding a way to turn children's sports into big $$$$$ and who regularly pay Kevin one or two boatloads of cash? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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