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CBS has a vested interest in college basketball, a la The Tournanent.
If a call was put in the ears of the on air talent, it came directly from CBS, IMO.
The ACC wouldn’t have to lift a finger. I can think of hundreds of million reasons why CBS would not appreciate the submarining of a product.
Roo-I watched the beatdown and heard Anthony’s comments on Saint ORW-yelled a few expletives and muted the sound at that point until near the end of the game-only difference with Soviet Russia is that he would be off to the Gulug that afternoon for the original comments.
OK….I had to have my PC sterilized and wore a hazmat suit….but I did it.
If you go to the public forums in both PackPride and InsideCarolina….then you get some comments. Approximately 1:43 when the score was 64 – 52, Marv and Greg came out of a break. UNC was on the ropes and they started their little “ad lib” session. The tone of those remarks was very “ANTI” UNC and Coach Williams. Again, SAD was one of the words that I picked up. I have yet to find a video of the game. But, the banter went on from one break to the other.
When they came back from commercial, that was when the apologies started and the Mea Culpa’s.
Cowdog, YES….I fully agree that CBS has a major vested interest and that someone realized that Marv and Greg had stepped over the PC line. However, I do not think that the Executive Producer (Staff) at CBS is really that smart or that all knowing.
If you go here…..this is a description of the “ACC Media Monitoring Facility”
http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/77604/saturday-with-swofford-inside-acc-ops-center
I used to work at WRAL and there was a “HOT LINE” next to the “producer” that was responsible for the ON AIR signal in the Master Control Room. It was a direct dial phone and it rang and a “strobe” flashed underneath the Main On Air signal monitor.
That number was only distributed to a few select folks….Fred Fletcher (CEO of Capital Broadcasting), Jesse Helms (VP at that time) and about 5 other folks who were high ranking WRAL execs. When it rang….you answered….or you were fired….this is Circa 1964…I will not go into detail about how a private porn video viewing in the VTR area was accidentally “aired” for 10 seconds and the phone rang and it was Fred and the tumult afterwards cost some jobs….but it was in place locally then.
Whether there is a Light Blue hot line next to John Swofford’s chair or whether he had CBS Master Control on his cell phone speed dial is pure speculation. But, I sincerely believe that the ACC HQ does have a direct line to the production control room (the remote set-up) and that any “objectionable” comments or info can be immediately refuted and “handled”. UNC probably does get preferential treatment….DUH….even Larry the Hat says that John pulls for UNC.
However, the ACC HQ, is a business also and it has vested interests in maintaining the value of it’s product.
Marv and Greg reversed their field so quickly and had some MANY “facts” that were seemingly no available to them in the first segment that one has to speculate that the ACC guru’s were spouting them so that the producer was pouring them into Marv and Greg’s head.
After my little “time stamp” and comments searches last night, I now know that I was NOT hallucinating….and it probably happened as I speculated.
There appears to be no early fallout this AM….so folks that watched UNC get thumped are focusing more on Coach’s Bull $hit comment on LIVE Radio rather than how he was convicted in one segment and exonerated and give a “hero medal” in the other.
This appears to have little traction….but it does show the interworkings of the ACC….
I saw the game and heard the comments and was waiting for someone on here to talk about them. Before the break, one of the announcers says something about how he wants to comment on the situation. I was waiting for him to also get a few jabs in, but when they came back, he just wanted to talk about what a hero Roy is. They also seemed to imply (or maybe it was stated directly) that the program had suffered enough and taken steps to deal with the problem – people had been fired, recruits had been lost. So, let’s not act like nothing has been done about it. Thus, the UNC angle was “fairly” presented. It was such a joke. Forget that multiple championships were won (ACC and national) during all of this crap. A few people have been fired and they’ve lost recruits. Let’s not react too harshly.
It was no wonder that Roy had to kneel down. He probably collapsed under the weight of all the praise being heaped on him. These coaches that have to maneuver their teams through scandals are heroes and saints. The guy doesn’t get enough credit; certainly not enough blame... speaking of some SAD guys…
there’s plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth over at Idiot Central…
not so much over the loss to Calipari’s semi pro team… which most expected…
but over the reality of the impact of the FIVE year scandal…
and the still uncertain litigious future …Comments like…
“Time for Roy to go..”
“Roy can’t recruit against the Elite schools (Dook, Kentucky, Kansas) because his kids have to go to class…”
“We can’t get the players we used to get… ”
“Larry Drew II was right… and we should have paid more attention to that…”etc, etc, etc…
Speaks volumes…
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!I am so glad that I read this thread. I was tied up on Saturday and didn’t get to see/hear any of this. None of this surprises me in the least.
I’m just wondering how we can petition the N&O to start investigating Wofford for any kind of violations. I mean, they beat us, they have to be paying their players. Am I right?
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