Doug Gottlieb Would Prefer Syracuse Fans Not Pop Off, Stop Balding

But Davis is just flat out better than Fab. He’s better in every aspect of the game. Now, Davis was a top guard prospect before he grew 8 inches and became a center. And Fab has only been playing ball for like 5 years. So it’s natural and even expected for Davis to be a better player. But he IS better.

But even if he picked SU to win the national championship, I still would not waste a second of my day listing to him. I may not a huge fan of Barkley or Shaq or some of those anaylists but at least they accomplished a lot in their careers and I respect their opinions. Hey Devo played some college ball, let’s give him a mic? He does this BS just like Cowherd sometimes to get a reaction and I seriously do not care to waste my time nor do I like or respect DG opinions on any matter. If he told me that there was a sniper outside the building waiting for me, I would rather take the bullet than listen to his advice.

Let me say this, I do not hate all things ESPN, I think they do some very good things for sports. However when they give guys like him, Bayless, Cowherd and my least favorite ever Steven A Smith airtime that they use to be obnoxious, I prefer not to tolerate them on a regular basis and focus my attention elsewhere. I stopped watching Sportcenter and ESPNNews because they had to add their “expert analysist” opinion into every detail and frankly, I don’t give a rat’s damn what people like them think. I respect many who work for ESPN and some of what they bring to sports fan but I don’t have to support behavior designed to elicit a response and most of it is in a negative matter. Life is too short to spend a breathe more than these posts on these “experts”

hahahaa I had to laugh at that one. I pictured Gottleib leading a balding army of trolls out of their parents basements to steal credit cards.

ESPN stands for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Regardless of what they may think or how they try to present themselves, ESPN is not a sports news operation (Maybe ESPN News is, but I don’t watch enough of it to say). Most of the talking heads at the Worldwide Leader are not reporters. They’re former players and coaches hired to offer their opinions. Opinions only matter when viewers feel strongly about them. So, Dick Vitale is loud, boisterous ACC slurper, Gottlieb is the Syracuse hater and so on. Everyone has their role. Everyone has their job and nowhere in there does that job require them to provide objective analysis.

I think many fans believe they have seen enough to know that if this team gets hot, they could beat even Kentucky. That is not a shot at Kentucky at all because they have a very good team but when everyone is on, and hopefully that will be soon enough, this SU team can compete with and beat anyone. I don’t think all SU fans hate criticism of the team from outside the community, I just think sometimes they get tired of only the negatives getting attention. There are some like Bilas who have given this team a lot of credit but there are others who have also gone out of their way to point at their weaknesses and simply dismiss this SU team and DG is one of them. We know they are not rebounding well lately or for that matter shooting well compared to earlier this season but that does not mean that is all we need to talk about…or especially their road/away schedule that is getting old and tired. You can point out negatives but if you harp on them all day long, you come off as a hater and I think that is why many SU fans are unhappy more than anything. Yes we have fans who take everything personal but so does every other fan base. I dare you to tell a Carolina fan why Duke is so much better than them or dismiss Carolina the way some of these people dismiss Syracuse…SOME of them, not all.