Drew Sharp: "Dantonio wrong to dress Winston so soon after jail"

Submitted by gater on
What?!?! A little late, but thanks for coming to the party guys. "Winston was reinstated by the football program for the start of preseason camp. He served his time and satisfied his academic requirements. But that doesn’t mean he should enjoy the privilege — it’s not a right — of playing major college football as quickly as Saturday. Coach Mark Dantonio’s decision to dress him for the season opener against Montana State is dead wrong." http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090901/COL08/90901087… Edit: updated with octal9's "printer friendly" ad free link.
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Geaux_Blue

September 1st, 2009 at 11:15 PM ^

because he still misses the boat, while remaining hypocritical. "the UM circus has distracted people" (don't look at my article where i said UM will fire RR with a WMU loss) "from understanding the horror at MSU!" guy screwed up, served time and got put into practices. should Dantonio taken a bs Div I-AA game as a chance to say "screw up and you won't start, no matter how long ago it was"? yes. did he? no. is it the end of the fricking world and chaos and insanity will rampage as a result? no. Sharp looked for the next school to make look bad while he looks morally upright in his never-ending circle of damning everyone in the world without the last name Sharp. also the irony of him slamming Dantonio about the hockey-fight issue when he declared originally that it was Cousins? gold.

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jcgary

September 1st, 2009 at 10:18 PM ^

I guess they have to do some damage control and look fair and balanced. Not that I had anything to do with it but I had sent an email to Paul Anger the editor at the Freep on Sunday telling him my displeasure. He emailed me back this morning explaining a few things and I emailed him back about Rosenburg's coverage of the Feagin dismissal and how the Freep barely said anything about the State player being reinstated right out of jail. Again I don't think I influenced it but I find it ironic.

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Geaux_Blue

September 1st, 2009 at 11:19 PM ^

not even. drew sharp once wrote he stopped being a sports fan years ago. by tanking on both schools in revolving cycles while pointing out the tigers are spoiled, the lions will always suck and the red wings can't clinch, it's a misery cycle that people will contest with optimism naturally. debate = readership = results. valenti based a radio show on this math formula.

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Brodie

September 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 AM ^

Head, meet nail. Sharp pisses people off because: 1) He hates sports 2) It makes him memorable 3) It sells copy He hates sports because he was probably a retard who expected covering athletes was "GOLLY GEE I GET TO COVER THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS AND ALL THOSE HEROIC ATHLETES I ADORE" and discovered that George Brett likes to talk about how he shits himself twice a year. Covering sports with all that access isn't fun. Most professional athletes are shitty people. Sitting in a press box and hammering out an article as you watch a game is not fun. People who cover sports like that usually end up hating them. However, until recently, they didn't decide to make that hate the primary feature of their work. As Around the Horn has taken off, though, it's become en vogue. And Sharp is all too happy to make his disdain for sports known... UM sucks, State sucks, the Tigers suck, the Red Wings suck, the Pistons suck, Tiger Woods sucks. Oakland U made the NCAA tournament? Well why are they hiking their tuition rates when they're making that kind of coin on the basketball team? They suck. Your friends tell you "Hey, Drew Sharp says RichRod gangbangs newborn puppies and then gives them super AIDS" and you say "the fuck" and go buy the Freep to read it. Then you buy it the next day to see what he's saying now. So there is no motive for an editor to say "dude wtf".

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mtzlblk

September 1st, 2009 at 11:11 PM ^

Agree with everyone here that it is so late and such a minor rebuke as to be meaningless. Not to mention is does certainly smack of a desperate last minute attempt to retain some credibility in the wake of the PracticeGate fiasco starting to unravel and backfire. Nice try. Furthermore, where is the scathing indictment of Dantonio's character? Where is the mention/tie-in of any tiny little slight or infraction ala '..this latest fiasco comes in the wake of all the disconent surrounding Mark Dantonio when he left Cincinnati under a cloud of suspicion and his controversial and low-brow personal remarks directed at a specific UM player. One has to question if Dantonio will be able to survice at MSU....' Oh wait, that's right, Mark Dantonio was allowed to change jobs without being made to run a guantlet. Mark can make direct, personal attacks toward a player without having his character called into question. Now he can essentially fail to punish in any way a player that assaulted and caused serious bodily injury to another MSU athlete who served jail time and will now step directly from jail onto the playing field to start in their first game? Am I missing something? Where is the outrage? Where is the questioning of Dantonio's character and the resolve of the athletic administration at MSU? The fact that they wrote such a tiny blurb about it is almost worse than writing nothing at all.

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jblaze

September 2nd, 2009 at 7:38 AM ^

I read this article by way of a cut & paste, because I refuse to click on Freep.com articles. From what I saw, the author puts in a few jabs at Michigan by saying that Michigan used to own the PSL league, but now MSU does. They also bring up the Feagin issue (because it is SO related, huh?). They seriously have an axe to grind, so let them. At the end of the day (probably end of the year) the Freep will be gone, but Michigan will be going strong.

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