Today's GBMW garbage: Mike Cox

Huh. Good to know, thanks.

Actually, I think the WLA may be winning if you have to make the "although very poorly written and very possibly inaccurate or illegally attained" disclaimer.

...it is a blog that actually delivers original info. (although very poorly written and very possibly inaccurate...

Stuff that is made up (or based on wild speculation) is very often original.

I mean, there's MichiganSportsCenter, VarsityBlue, MgoBlog, RBUAS, etc. The WLA doesn't actually try to provide news. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not (I'm looking at you dex), sometimes it's MSPaint gone haywire. It's not everyone's idea of humor, nor is it intended to be. It's free, pick and choose what you'd like to read, and if you don't like it, make fun or it or skip it. The only time WLA bitches about GBMW is for exactly what you said "(although very poorly written and very possibly inaccurate or illegally attained)".

We at WLA may be assholes, but we have integrity (excluding dex).

Love the Drake

The Drake! Aren't we a baller? Yeah, probably around then.

I think he's saying that, regardless of who uncovered the info, Turner's failure shouldn't have been reported.

It's like if someone took my medical information from a doctor's office...and then posted it on the internet. You would hope that the proprietor of a blog would have more of a sense of responsibility than that.

mejunglechop:

I apologize for quoting from memory - in my full piece, I quoted the entire paragraph verbatim. What they said was:

The only real problem we see is he has been out of football for several years along with "family issues" towards the football program or the university in general. If anybody was in earshot of this family member during the spring scrimmage will know what we are talking about.

The first thing, whatever - that's valid concern. The thing about "family issues towards the football program or the University" implies that he hates the team or the school possibly because of his brother's drunkening. Now, this may be true, or it may not be true. But, if they're going to write it, they should provide some evidence for it. Citing an eavesdropped conversation from someone they won't reveal who said something they won't repeat isn't "backup". Especially when every indication is that he quit the hoops team because Beilein and he didn't want to play the same way - not because of a grudge about how the U handled his brother's DUI.

Again: if they have news, or information, that Grady hates the football team or the University, print it. Seriously. But provide us with the fucking information - that's what has value. Cladestinely spying on a comment by someone close to Grady's family and then posting your interpretation of it, without the actual info or context on the web is gossip-mongering, and it's not "inside information" - it's being a tittering 12-year old.

FINALLY, finally, excusing the gossiping about private records, Grady's "family issues" with the football team, and a potential conflict between RR and Martin as "criticism" is bullshit. It's not "criticism". "Crtiticism is "Grady is too small", "Turner can't tackle", or "RR made a shitty choice of a Defensive Coordinator". This is unsubstantiated gossip, gotten through their own imagination (what I think the RR/BM thing is), or eavesdropping on other people.