American Blog on ESPN

[JoeKidd]

So every couple of days I check the ESPN American Athletic Conference Blog to see if they are covering anything newsworthy on us and our other conference members and every couple of days I am disappointed to see only links to the B1G, ACC, Etc. You think they could find something to write-up on our conference or teams....is there an ESPN writer assigned to the AAC beat I wonder?

Also who is responsible for adding links to each teams Clubhouse site, can we be pro-active and submit links on news stories to post there?

[NewAgeMustange]

while we're on it ESPN Dallas is also horrible about covering SMU, I learn more from PonyFans then from official SMU and sportsblogs out there.

[Big12Mustang]

Let's have another American team pound a P5 team in the Access bowl, and another one win the basketball national championship and you will see how ESPN will have a blog the next day

[malonish]

I click on the American blog and all I see are ACC and B10 stories. Waste of time.

[Big12Mustang]

I click on the American blog and all I see are ACC and B10 stories. Waste of time.

Louisville and Rutgers

[malonish]

I click on the American blog and all I see are ACC and B10 stories. Waste of time.

Louisville and Rutgers

Upon further inspection(time wasting) it is still a waste.

[blackoutpony]

When the Big East switched to the American, ESPN canned the BE blog and switched AA over to the ACC blog and Fortuna exclusively to Norte Dame.

All the BE/AAC fans revolted and had the "Occupy Stanford" thing going on for awhile. Basically all the AAC folks bombarded and hung out on the exclusive Stanford blog they had to track Andrew Lucks path to the draft. For some reason, ESPN kept that blog around after.

Eventually ESPN sorta played nice and created the American blog, however there has never been a writer assigned to it. There is no original content, no lunchtime links, evaluations or anything special that all the P5 blogs have. It's basically an aggregation of any generic story that ESPN writes and is dumped in there. It's just an algorithm that does it which is why ACC and B1G (Louisville and Rutgers) content keeps showing up there. They pay attention to it so little they won't even update their algorithm.

How hard would it be to have an intern post some links for relevant stories to drive web traffic and make them $$$??? I actually sent them several emails volunteering since that would literally take 10 minutes a day to do. They didn't respond.... Pretty crap media partner if you ask me.