The Roots of Ohio State's Problems, Part Three: The ESPN Agenda

In Part Two of my ongoing series on the problems revolving around the Ohio State football program, I touched on the Big Ten not helping Ohio State's cause when it comes to the national perspective on the program. This morning, I want to touch on another aspect/entity that leads the way in criticism of the Ohio State Buckeye football program. Finding that problem is quite easy and something any sports fan is quite familiar with...none other than the "worldwide leader in sports," ESPN. ESPN has led the way in criticism of Ohio State football and has done so particularly harshly for about the last three to five years now. Some of the quotes from ESPN analysts have been borderline astonishing. The "Luckeyes" slant is largely credited to ESPN's 1st and 10 personality Skip Bayless. Tom Luginbill, one of the talking heads of ESPN's college recruiting division, summed up Ohio State's 2009 recruiting class by saying, "while Ohio State's recruiting class this year was impressive on paper, unlike LSU ... (link)