Those aren't surprising comments from him. I agree that Ike's tirade got too much media attention. Out of one side of their mouth, ESPN was denouncing Ike as bad for the sport, but out the other side of their mouth they couldn't stop the airing the tirade all throughout the classic coverage and keeping in the face of the viewing public. So ESPN is as much to blame for how this event has been percieved by the public as Ike was for getting out of line. I think that's exactly why, when asked on the 2nd day of the classic by Tommy Sanders about the contraversy, Denny Brauer, who had apparently had enough of the talk about it, said in no uncertain terms that we should stop talking about it. He refused to talk about it anymore and wanted to get back to the classic coverage. But as we all saw, ESPN wouldn't let it go. So if ESPN who owns BASS thought is was so bad for the sport, they should have stopped talking about it after the initial DQ. But did they? No. Why? It got them more viewers. I agree with Ray Scott for the most part, although I think he's being a little too hard on Ike. But I wish ESPN would have had the class to put this story to rest after the DQ and move on to better coverage. But as we all saw, the coverage stunk. Ok, enough of my tirade. Hey, maybe ESPN will air these comments over and over and over and over and over and over and over again...