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"ESPN chose to talk to people with an axe to grind against the University
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I like Dan Patrick, but I was listening to him on 1460 today and he spoke to how the OSU fans needed to let this go and "move on". He mentioned that ESPN would not have run with this story on MCs word alone. He also conceded that, if mistakes were made, you had to put it in the same context as the recent Newsweek fiasco - it happens.
OSU fans have been trying to move on for over two years, but ESPN wont let them.
ESPN based their reports - particularly those during that horrid football game where they went on and on at every break in the action - on a carefully selected subset of formoer OSU players. Countless more had stepped forward and said that this was totally uncharateristic of JT and OSU. Time after time ESPN called for Geiger to be fired and JT to quit. Not once did they preface that with "despite the outpouring of support from former players....". I was quite disappointed that Patrick was completely unable to in any way see the bias of his own organization.
To compare sports events to real world life and death issues is always a bad idea, but if I were going to compare the ESPN-OSU episode to any 'real world' news event it would be the CBS National Guard story. I don't doubt that something funny did happen with Bush and the guard, but CBS compromised themselves to move an agenda. ESPN did precisely the same. Something funny may have happened at OSU. But in no way did it merit the attention or the vitriol it received.
And still they will not quit.