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Message: [QUOTE="Stern, post: 1994511, member: 527"] McPherson lost due to there not being a thousands sports talk radio stations, 6 different ESPN stations and about 10 other 24/7 all sports cable stations on top of a hundred regional sports channels. 1987 was a different world, every college football game wasn't on TV and there weren't hundreds of breakdown and analysis shows throughout the course of the week. Notre Dame always is the #1 team that will get the most coverage in college football every year and that helped Brown. Most voters probably never saw McPherson play, couldn't pick him out of a police lineup, and knew next to nothing about Syracuse football. Transport that 1987 season to the "modern era" we live in now and McPherson wins every time. But in that era in that 1987 "world" with the lack of coverage its not surprising Brown won. [/QUOTE]