Conspiracy Theory

Submitted by wildbackdunesman on

Rosenberg would have seen that UofM was looking into the time sheets back in May...and may have seen this an an opportunity to cast doubt on Rodriguez with a hack job on the same issue.

Without the Freep article, the time sheets really isn't anything of serious note, but with the Freep article it is more damaging. Rosenberg investigated the issue hard core and still had to be deceitful in his article multiple times.

blueloosh

November 17th, 2009 at 6:27 PM ^

Your conspiracy theory: Rosenberg's big August Pulitzer attempt was actually just a ploy to make an eventual timesheet story look worse than it really was?

I like this one more: http://www.moonmovie.com/faq.htm

[EDIT: or are you saying he only decided to research and write a story about practice time violations because he found out there were no sheets, and knew alleged violations could not be disproved--either way I sort of prefer the moon one]

blueloosh

November 17th, 2009 at 6:38 PM ^

Rosenberg's article was full of distortions. Agreed.

What is the conspiracy? You're suggesting he found out about the timesheets in May, became suspicious, looked into the issue, and after some players described practices that seemed too long wrote an article attacking Rodriguez based on a misreading of NCAA rules? I think you have it exactly right.

I don't think it is quite up there with Loose Change in terms of dramatic value. I suggest reworking the theory to somehow involve Les Miles or Ypsilanti.

wildbackdunesman

November 17th, 2009 at 6:35 PM ^

I have no idea if he did or didn't. I just think its possible that he saw there were no time sheets in May and then went looking into...didn't find much...so he misled 2 freshman, got some anonymous quotes from former players that left angry, couldn't remember how many of the players he interviewed were still on the team, didn't actually describe the rules or non-countable hours and there you go....and then with the no time sheets UofM investigation it backs him up a bit and leaves his claims more valid and harder to distort...I could be way off base.