I know I'm going to get blasted for this but I'm going to say it anyway. I think we, as Ohio State fans, are the people most responsible for the anti-Buckeye slant among certain members of the media. Because of the way we view our football program, we take offense to any public statement that doesn't proclaim our program as God. Trev Alberts didn't have his anti-
OSU tag until the Miami prediction (who among you SERIOUSLY were confident we would win that game?). He got DESTROYED by
OSU fans calling him an idiot and saying we get no respect, etc. The truth is...if I heard so much crap from a teams fans, I would hope and pray each Saturday that they got beat so I could rub it back in their arrogant faces.
I'm not trying to say it is all our fan's fault, but lets face it...we don't help. The same thing has applied with Herbie. He gets blasted for making an honest (and reasonable) observation on the NC State game, and he is deemed a traitor! He carries a monkey of devoted fans opinions on his back every weekend because he is honest and tries to be objective.
I wholeheartedly agree that ESPN's article is crap and a product of Maurice being an idiot. But we really need to consider not writing every freaking media member that we feel we were slighted by...it really does make us look like whiners that are desperately seeking approval. We are just feeding the flame, and in times like these, where we need friends in the media...we only have people rooting for us to go down.