re: Is the 30 for 30 series going to grow tiresome?

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There's starting to be a predictable over-emphasis on New York City and shameless ratings grabs/revisionist history like Miami, Fab Five and USC.

I loved most of the originals but I pick and choose now. It's already no longer complete appointment television.

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This is pretty much how I feel as well. Some are either fanboy pet projects (the U, Four Days in October) or a revisionist reclamation project driven by the athlete in question (the Boz, Marinovich Project, Fab Five, Trojan War).

Also, it's amazing to me that despite ESPN's rich history with the sport, their college football-focused 30 for 30 docs have been almost comprehensively weak. Roll Tide/War Eagle, Pony Excess, Ghosts of Ole Miss, Trojan War, Brian and the Boz, and both U's were all either terribly done or extremely myopic.

The U acted as if Miami happened in a vacuum while completely ignoring the simultaneous (and similar) rises of FSU and Florida in the late 80s and early 90s.

Trojan War painted USC to be this unbeatable dynasty when they in fact won 1 National Championship and played in a horror show of a conference.

Brian and the Boz was such a transparent reclamation project, and everything from Bosworth's acting and fake crying to the scenes in the storage shed was absurd. It was like a bad movie on cable.

I will forever maintain that Roll Tide/War Eagle is the worst sports documentary I've ever seen, and I'm an Arkansas fan and thus have no dog in the proverbial Iron Bowl fight. Wright Thompson took a century-old blood rivalry with legendary coaches, players and games and dumbed it down to Finebaum, Updyke and Cam Newton.