Jeff Moss story is out...
Moss' "article" is about the PeruBall game/drill played at Exposure U. There were allegedly some injuries that took place, due to an absence of pads worn by the players, per the game's rules. He's comparing it to Morris' concussion debacle. Personally, the only thing I find "disgusting" about it is this: (If you are a parent of a child who was injured during the Exposure U. camp please contact me at [email protected].)
August 12th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
It's a football camp where pads are NEVER worn and where these type of games (Harbaugh calls it Peruball, but other camps call them Air Force games, pretty much all 2 hand touch).
This guy Moss obviously as never participated in a football camp and probably never even played the game of football - ever. Moss should be embarrased as hell right now.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:00 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^
He has an editor?!?!?!??? His editor must work at the local dump because this piece is pure garbage!!
August 12th, 2015 at 11:17 AM ^
Is this guy a millennial???
Reading through this fees like it was written in a mad lib generator where you have to see how many dramatic words you can use.
Even if this guy truly is breaking a story where kids were being subjected to danger, comparing a game of freeze tag to the likes of tossing chickens in a chicken factory isn't a way to get your point across.
Poor guy.... All he proven is he's a shitty journalist
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August 12th, 2015 at 11:40 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^
This reads like a right wing conspiracy blog.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:12 AM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
He always has been.
However, he has been one of the very best sources for Detroit Sports News since he started doing this crap in 03/04 (I started reading him after he broke the Rick Carlisle firing right before the Larry Brown hire). Yes, he is mean. Yes, he makes a big deal out of things that aren't (this article).
But I read him because he is almost always accurate with the information. He is well connected, it is his analysis that is bad. The fact that he is offensive and rude to everyone does not make his info wrong.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
"The fact that he is offensive and rude to everyone does not make his info wrong."
But it might make him the spiritual follow on to Sharp.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^
Like when he said Gores was selling the Pistons to Ilitch and then threw personal insults at him after he was proven wrong. His source for Michigan football has been Gregg Henson and now he does a podcast with him. The thing about Henson, he gets his insider info from Art Regner (it was Art that had the Brady Hoke story first), but Art will not report stuff until they are 100% confirmed, unlike Moss and Henson. There's a reason why they have been blacklisted from Detroit sports radio.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:33 PM ^
If you have to conclude your article with this line;
If you are a parent of a child who was injured during the Exposure U. camp please contact me at [email protected]
then youR information is already suspect. Can you imagine if an actual journalist posted something like this in their article? They'd be on the street immediately. "If anyone reading this Watergate story has actually heard any portion of President Nixon's tapes, please contact Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein".
August 12th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
Most glaring error:
"Our sources said that after the first day there were several bloody lips, banged-up noses and turf burns."
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"was told that bad weather during the first two days of the camp led to the cancellation of “PeruBall” but that it occurred on the third day."
"so they told the coach that because the first two days were cancelled, a championship on the last day wouldn’t be fair because some groups didn’t have a chance to face-off against each other."
How can there be major injuries on the 'first day' if it only occurred on one day?
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How many days is he claiming injuries took place? Did all injuries take place only during this event? Multiple concussions, a dislocated shoulder, bloody noses, broken vertebrae, etc., all occurred during one day of an end-of-day activity? That doesn't seem to be hard to build as the lead... "15 injuries in 45 minutes of game play - why didn't it get stopped sooner?"
Moss is desperate to make himself heard and is willing to jump on any salacious story in hopes of becoming a name. He's been right in the past because he feeds off of people with axes to grind. Playing a game of telephone with zero facts and then calling someone autistic? This could easily end any sort of sway he had.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
This story will have the legs of a Flounder.
Moving on.
Kickoff in 22 days!
August 12th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
I do wonder though if Brian is going to respond to the article at all? He has referenced Jeff Moss previously. The Drew Sharp sleeping pic is a tweet from Moss that Brian embedded in the latest Unverified Voracity. Brian did refer to Moss on a few occassions during the coaching search.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:20 PM ^
Whatever Brian's relationship with Moss was prior, he'd probably do well to cut it off at this point and have it go the Ace Williams route. The article is definitely THAT level of awful. Worse, even.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
We kinda make fun of Moss all the time but like that he usually picks targets who are deserving. Moss likes to be an infuriating dipshit, but when he's an infuriating dipshit toward Valenti or Foster or Sharp it's funny. This article was actually way below his typical standards, which are not very high. I think he saw an opportunity to draw a line in the Harbaugh craze, capitalizing on the same Drew Sharpitude he regularly rips Sharp on.
Seriously nobody takes him seriously.
August 12th, 2015 at 3:29 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^
All he does is insult people on twitter. Karma is a bitch and sooner or later Moss we'll get his.
August 12th, 2015 at 5:49 PM ^
Eh, I doubt it. His "real" career isn't really impacted by anything he does. He'll continue to do what he does, swing at everything and ocassionally hit a HR. The rest of the time we'll complain that his swings look ridiculous. Accept it, and this stuff is a lot easier.
For the record, as long as you're not a media member Moss is actually a pretty nice guy. I'm not a fan of the way he handles his reporting, but I'm separating that out.
August 12th, 2015 at 5:53 PM ^
If you're really comparing who has "broken" more stuff I think you're not reading mgoblog very well.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
It is not like he burned a picture of Jim on national TV.
Welcome to reality TV / journalism. Now more importantly predictions of RG vs Tom Brady?
August 12th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
It is not like he burned a picture of Jim on national TV.
Welcome to reality TV / journalism. Now more importantly predictions of RG vs Tom Brady?
August 12th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
It is not like he burned a picture of Jim on national TV.
Welcome to reality TV / journalism. Now more importantly predictions of RG vs Tom Brady?
August 12th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
It is not like he burned a picture of Jim on national TV.
Welcome to reality TV / journalism. Now more importantly predictions of RG vs Tom Brady?
August 12th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
It is not like he burned a picture of Jim on national TV.
Welcome to reality TV / journalism. Now more importantly predictions of RG vs Tom Brady?
August 12th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
Is there any link between stretching time and bloody lips, banged-up noses and turf burns?
August 13th, 2015 at 11:27 AM ^
Yes. According to Jeff Moss, they all fall under the definition of "serious injuries".
August 12th, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
Love how this became a whole lot of nothing. Good job Moss!
August 12th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
Did anyone else find this article hard to read?
My biggest issue isn't the huge reach he makes in trying to stir up a controversy because I think most people with a bit of intelligence can see through it. My issue is how poorly written it is. It reads like an article in a HS paper. Poor sentence structure and clunky to get through. I'm not a writer so if I think it sounded poorly written it's usually not because I'm a literary snob. I'm not going to rehash all the other issues with journalism and sources that are in that article. I'm just curious if anyone else read that and thought "man, that was tough to get through" based on the writing style.
August 12th, 2015 at 4:12 PM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 4:23 PM ^
This is the same @sshole that did this...
He'll do anything for some publicity.