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Originally Posted by Carmen Ohio

I suppose you need to be a member to see the content. What's the gist of what he said?

Since it's not a pay site I'm assuming I can paste it right in.

Originally Posted by Buckeyeinsideinfo

On the air today Colin addressed the ESPN versus Ohio State drama that has been unfolding for months. After the show he spoke further about this subject with BII: "I understand that people at ESPN have to do their jobs, I just thought they went overboard in the beginning. If OSU were the vortex of sin in College Athletics, why did the NCAA spend a year there and only find one thing." He continued: "College Athletics inherently has things that aren't perfect, but I judge a school by asking ‘are they trying to do it the right way.' I think Ohio State Football, in an imperfect system, is trying to do their best." Colin concluded this subject by saying: "ESPN chose to talk to people with an axe to grind against the University. And it's funny, the people that ripped me in emails for my show today were almost all Michigan fans." Cowherd also said that fellow ESPN personality Kirk Herstreit: "Has always been very gracious to me with his time. What I respect about him is that he really does his homework. He truly cares about what he says on the air." Colin also talked about the position Kirk was in throughout the entire Ohio State story: "His (Herbie) stance was, let's wait to see how this plays out. He got caught between ESPN, Ohio State and the NCAA. Don't blame a guy at a company for what the company does. Essentially, I work for Disney and it would not be right to blame me if you got over charged at Disney World."

<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Colin concluded by saying: "The Ohio State-Miami (2002 National Championship) game is one of my personal five greatest sports moments. Lake Placid and Ali-Foreman are probably one-two, then Ohio State-Miami and the San Diego-Miami playoff game. Oh, and the '97 Arizona State-Ohio State Rose Bowl would be up there too. People forget how good of a college player Jake Plummer was. There were a lot of great plays in that game."