re: WBB : ESPN + LHN = Bristol West?

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I don't really follow women's basketball but this doesn't make any sense since ESPN runs the SECN

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You should follow it more then. ESPN may run the SECN but last night the #2 Gamecocks curb stomped ACC rival Clemson while the whole time the SECN announcers talked about Duke and how great they were and what games Duke had coming up. A few days before that ESPN, via the SECN, was at Rupp in front of a crowd of 22,000 as lower ranked Kentucky beat higher ranked Baylor by 10 points but to listen to the broadcast it was all about Baylor.

Both games were SECN games but both went out of their way to tout non SEC schools. With the LHN now in the ESPN family don't be surprised if TAMU recruiting takes a hit at the expense of tu. ESPN already did it with Uconn and UT and have done the same for UNC and Duke over USC and UK the past 5 years or so. ESPN about blew a gasket when the top UNC player transferred to USC and word was a late ESPN push shifted a UK probable to Duke last year.

Here is my WBB post on the recruiting board for this year LINK

Here are headlines from last few days on ESPN. Note non SEC show where they are ranked, but the SEC ones are not included...
Wilson scores 18 to power S. Carolina's rout
No. 7 Duke anchored by Johnson triple-double
Loyd, No. 3 Irish top No. 15 Michigan State
Kentucky rallies from 14 down to beat Baylor
Top center Brown latest to commit to Baylor

Imagine it the SEC schools had had the same promotion?
Wilson scores 18 to power No. 2 South Carolina's rout
No. 10 Kentucky rallies from 14 down to beat No. 9 Baylor

Here was another thread on the Rant LINK

Look, I love the SEC and I really love TAMU WBB as a valued addition to the franchise and all the history there. ESPN seems quite content at this point to wipe all that away by promoting lesser WBB conferences and helping drive recruits to those conferences. Like it or not, kids today are drawn to where media tells them so if the SEC and TAMU are going to keep up with the recruiting battles they need to get reasonable exposure from ESPN. 5 years from now and the mouse via ESPN will have brainwashed folks to forget SEC WBB.