I have to say that I am completely torn in regards to Cowherd. Sometimes I listen to him on the way home, and for every brilliant thing that he says, he will inevitably say five more things that are completely asinine and will piss you off. To say he doesn't roll with popular opinion is just absurd. He just picks and chooses his spots to play devil's advocate. Otherwise, he sides with POPULATION.

I know that part of his "charm" is the fact that he is honest and tells it the way it really is, at least the way it really is in his opinion. I am a HUGE fan of Los Angeles sports teams, and even I don't think it's fair the way he dumps on Ohio State and other small market teams. He talks a lot of smack about Ohio State and the Big-10, he dogs Notre Dame on a regular basis and he has NO LOVE for your team if it's not located in a top 5 media market. I.E. Chicago, NYC, Boston, Los Angeles, or one of the Texas 3(Dallas, Houston, San Antonio).

I don't mean to be rude on a blog board but since people seem to respect honesty, I will drop some of my own. Colin Cowherd is a whore for ratings. He will say ANYTHING just to spin people up. At the same time he will kiss the ass of the big media markets because if you keep the big cities happy, you in turn keep many fans. ESPN could really care less as long as his ratings are high. Cowherd has the formula down to a science. If you keep Los Angeles, NY, Boston and Texas happy, you are going to lock down millions of listeners. He could care less if any of the other stations he is broadcast on like him or not. Whore for the ratings, nothing more and nothing less.

And if you formulate all of your sports opinions based strictly on what any of the ESPN talk show hosts tell you, then you are buying into a system that wants you to have no opinion of your own. I respect a guy more if he tells me that Kobe Bryant suck and gives HIS reasons why he thinks so, more than I respect a guy like Colin Cowherd who force feeds us the reasons that HE thinks Kobe is the greatest ever. Chances are when Colin spits out statistics and knowledge, he didn't even do his own research. Some college radio intern did all the ground work.

Cowherd, Tirico, Rome, Steven A. Smith, and even Brent Musburger are all flapping heads and yap runners! None with any real life sports experience other than a lifetime spent talking about the achievements of others. Best sportscasters and hosts: Mike Wilbon, Hubie Brown, Doug Collins, Kirk Heirstreit, Bobby Knight, Chick Hern, Harry Carry, and Keith Jackson.