Even Rivals.com has our backs on this practice thing...
http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=982287
(free content/not paywall pilfering thank you)
August 31st, 2009 at 10:46 AM ^
Awesome.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:48 AM ^
Fantastic article.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:48 AM ^
That's my favorite so far
August 31st, 2009 at 10:49 AM ^
Seeing that rivals has our back, numerous parents of players have voiced their opinions on this matter, does anyone else think that RichRod/UM may get some sympathy for this? Maybe not sympthy, but maybe some leeway? This may be a blessing in disguise.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:49 AM ^
The athlete-students are used to working out to excess and yet Barwis has taken them to a level they didn't know could exist.
Give that man a raise! Now!
Those who stay will be champions! And kick some ass.
So why are you readers all runnin scared, circling the wagons, being silly homers and wondering if maybe we should change?
Screw that. Stand up. Get tough and ballsy like Barwis and say this is what makes champions, bitch. Urban Meyer knows it. Rich Rod knows it.
Go blue!
August 31st, 2009 at 11:16 AM ^
I echo the "Those who stay..." line, but with my twist -- one I revealed in an earlier post.
After all of this practice hyperbole has passed, it will become even more apparent that:
THOSE WHO STAY WILL BEAT UP CHAMPIONS!
August 31st, 2009 at 10:50 AM ^
Seriously, great article. The fact that it's from Jonathan Chait makes it even better.
TNR FTW.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:51 AM ^
Too many BOOMs today... gotta refrain before I annoy the whole MGoBoard.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:51 AM ^
Great because Chait is a preeminent journalist and author. His voice matters much more than Rivals (not that Rivals doesn't matter). He can actually pull journalist rank on Rosenberg, which, unfortunately, none of us can.
He cuts Rosenberg down to size and makes him look small. Which is not hard to do, but it is great to see someone of stature make the case.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:55 AM ^
When I first saw this I assumed some guy who covers nothing but U of M had written it. When I saw who had in fact written it, I was thrilled. I hope this gets referred to in the national mainstream media (I know, that's a bit like saying that I hope Santa brings me a model train).
August 31st, 2009 at 11:05 AM ^
I dunno, I think I could walk past the Ann Arbor News building, sneeze and accidentally crap my pants, and have about the same basic journalistic integrity and credentials as Rosenberg.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:53 AM ^
This sounds fitting:
"It's as if he set out to expose an epidemic of rape, and came back with an article mainly describing the conjugal relations of happily married couples."
August 31st, 2009 at 10:54 AM ^
Seeing that rivals has our back, numerous parents of players have voiced their opinions on this matter, and other journalists.Does anyone else think that RichRod/UM may get some sympathy for this? Maybe not sympthy, but maybe some leeway for all the shit that he has taken, that has been unwarranted. I thought it may bring out some of these sports reporters saying, "get off of his back" and/or "enough is enough".
August 31st, 2009 at 11:06 AM ^
Great riposte.
It should be noted that Chait is a Wolverine. Of course, so is Rosenberg, so whatever.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:35 AM ^
Rosenberg may have a diploma that says "University of Michigan" on it, but he's no Wolverine.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:09 AM ^
"Rosenberg filled his article with quotes from Michigan players describing how hard they work. It's meaningless. It's as if he set out to expose an epidemic of rape, and came back with an article mainly describing the conjugal relations of happily married couples."
August 31st, 2009 at 11:27 AM ^
Classic. I hope he gets fired.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:14 PM ^
What an ironic twist of fate that would be.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:32 AM ^
Brilliant. He's basically taken all of the things we've all said were wrong with the article and said it way better than any one of us could have.
Anyone who has a Yahoo account should click the "Buzz Up" link at the bottom too.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:38 AM ^
Um, dude, please just make a pretense of fairness and accuracy: the Rivals article isn't by Rivals; it's by a writer for...Wolverine.com.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^
Um, dude, learn to read. Chait is the senior editor of The New Republic, not a writer for Wolverine.com
Keep posting, I want to see if you can reach the negative levels of some of the other infamous people who forget the first rule of holes.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:40 AM ^
A small issue...
"We have to trust that he interviewed the sources fairly, and didn't solicit answers that confirmed his prejudices."
On the local TV interview, didn't Rosenberg pretty much come right out and say that he interviewed these guys without telling them what the piece was about?
August 31st, 2009 at 11:43 AM ^
They said what they said, clearly. Doesn't matter how the question was asked, as long as the reply was on-point re the issue now at hand. You're making a false argument.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:02 PM ^
Alright, seriously, you do work at the Freep don't you?
August 31st, 2009 at 12:03 PM ^
Someone needs to brush up on journalism 101. Or reading and comprehension. The only thing that is "clear" is that you will be negbanged into submission.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:07 PM ^
That's a load of crap. When you ask a player this question:
"How much do you work out?"
It becomes TOTALLY different based on your premise. He told them either the truth:
I'm trying to disparage your coach.
OR A Lie:
I'm trying to show how hard you guys work.
One of them plays the ego and gets a kid to exaggerate and enlarge. The other does not.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:06 PM ^
responsible for the liar Scott Beuchamp, the so called Baghdad diarist (fabulist), who made up negative stories about our our troops in Iraq.
Maybe that makes Chait uniquely qualified to write about this in the "it takes one to know one vain."
August 31st, 2009 at 12:30 PM ^
After all that has happened, what could he have possibly made up... they raped Iragi detainees, my bad, they raped their spouses and children.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:17 AM ^
I am not sure what you mean by "after all that has happened" but nothing that has happened in Iraq supports Beuchamps fables which he himself admitted he made up.
The leftwing New Republic so eager to discredit our troops because they did not agree with the Iraq war found anyone who was willing to say something bad about them whether it was true or not. Chait and his co-editors behaved shamefully throughout the whole process by launching into ad hominem tirades and refusing to recant the stories even after Beuchamp himself admitted he was lying -- in short they were even worse than Rosenberg.
I am not here to make political arguments, only to note the irony of Jon Chait of the New Republic being the voice of journalistic integrity.
August 31st, 2009 at 1:31 PM ^
otherwise I can't see why he'd be interested in this.