ESPN Says Louisiana-Monroe has joined the SEC!

[tcgathens]

This is one of those "oops" type mistakes I have posted over on "Eye on Sports Media" (http://sportsontheair.blogspot.com/2008/01/espn-unilaterally-adds-cupcake-to.html). Have fun with it!

Eye On Sports Media would like to be able to say we saw this one on our own. But know, credit goes to some anonymous soul over on SportsJournalists.com. It seems maybe the computers at ESPN that generate the college basketball standings got confused since Louisiana-Monroe beat the Crimson Tide in football this year. So it is only logical that they MUST be in the SEC West...read more (http://sportsontheair.blogspot.com/2008/01/espn-unilaterally-adds-cupcake-to.html)

[SeanVol]

Lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TigerEyes1914]

Bad news for Bama! LOL :laugh:

[nellanaesp]

HAHA It's still up there!!!
http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncb/standings

[gatorunvrsty]

Man, that's bad. It's not even in the category of acceptable errors if your business is nothing but sports. Little wonder they're constantly getting bashed by true, vigilant, and informed sports fans.

[shanksta13]

Yeah, I saw this about a week ago on ESPN and actually did a double take just to make sure ULM hadn't actually joined the conference. :laugh:

[M2J]

Oh Damn... Now we need to move to the Big East:brick:

[crawfish]

It was reported earlier that an UL-Monroe grad working at ESPN made the "error"! lol