Not Really CC: SF media is as bad as Michigan's media
Below is an article discussing the possibility of Harbaugh leaving Stanford for Michigan. I am NOT posting it for a coaching change ("CC") discussion - the article contains NO information, just opinion from some San Fransisco Examiner writer.
I am posting it because I think that the inaccuracies are hysterical:
1. Our AD is named David Barron. I hope that this Barron dude is more decisive than Brandon. (/s)
2. This Barron, our AD, was a former Michigan QB.
3. RR had a top 10 recruiting class.
4. We were widely expected to contend to win the B10 this year. Really? By whom? We didn't even start the season ranked.
Just thought that this was entertaining. If their current gigs don't work out, Sharp, Henning, Rosenberg and company could probably get jobs at the SF Examiner - their lack of interest in the facts would fit in great there.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/college/2010/11/michigan-fans-anxious-lure-away-harbaugh
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:19 AM ^
I hear they like LSD in San Fran.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:37 AM ^
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 AM ^
You kids and your LSD. Crazy.
I prefer to stay in the sky with all the seagulls.
CA-KAW, CA-KAW.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 AM ^
Wow, at least the spelled Jim Harbaugh and Rich Rodriguez right. That's about the only accurate piece of material in there. Good lord.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:24 AM ^
That our current QB is actually a super hero who is made from pure dilithium and runs so fast that his shoes untie themselves...
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:25 AM ^
What does that even mean?"At football-crazed Ann Arbor, Harbaugh is the prodigal son, while embattled coach Rich Rodriguez plays Judas at what is likely his last supper".
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:29 AM ^
Ha - I forgot to include that one.
If you are going to make a literary or historical reference, it would be a good idea to know what you are referring to.
While I am no biblical scholar, apparently (if the Judas comparison is what was intended), he is implying that RR has been trusted by the fanbase and he is secretly selling us out behind our backs.
Um, like RR or not, I don't think that can be further from the truth. If anything, the fanbase has been a Judas to Rich.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:33 AM ^
It's like the guy is trying to include a couple of biblical cliches just for good measure. The story of the prodigal son and the betrayal of Jesus have no connection whatsoever.
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:53 PM ^
Is RR both Judas and Jesus in that metaphor? Judas was obviously there, but it wasn't his own last supper, he presumably had a couple more.
I don't know whether journalistic ignorance (SF) or malfeasance (Freep) is less bad, but this article is sure making a case for malfeasance.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:29 AM ^
Wow that makes no sense at all.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
If you read the Examiner closely, you'll find Biblical citations abound. I think the editors give bonuses for each one. The assumption being that the Bible is the only other publication the masses should be reading.
December 2nd, 2010 at 1:06 PM ^
You must be mistaken. The MSM has informed me that only armed rednecks in flyover country would ever do such a thing.
/s
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:38 AM ^
I started laughing uncontrollably when I read that. I don't even know where they were going with that one.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:26 AM ^
The AP style is even bad! Who is this guy?!
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:26 AM ^
Wow that article is bad and has many innacuraccies. I am not sure why the writer refers to RR as Judas. Judas took the silver and then betrayed, I don't see how RR has betrayed the Michigan athletic department. Maybe we didn't get the instant results, but RR has in no way betrayed Michigan football. I hope this writer isn't a paid staff member, then again look at the Freep offers.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 AM ^
"...throughout the second half, thousands of fans chanted, “Jim Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh” as the Wolverines lost to the arch rival Buckeyes for a seventh straight time Saturday."
Really? At the horseshoe/toilet seat? Can anybody confirm that?
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:31 AM ^
I just called by friend who went to the OSU game. Apparently, there were chants of Jim Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh.
But, the chants were not from the Michigan section (which he said was the smallest he had ever seen at the 'Shoe, by the way). It was from the OSU fans mocking Michigan.
That's a pretty key distinction.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:50 AM ^
I was at The Game and sat in the heart of the OSU student section (35B). There were no chants for Jim Harbaugh.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:04 AM ^
I didn't hear it on TV, so it is possible that to the extent that there were chants, they weren't stadium wide or loud enough to overtake the roar of the OSU tudent section. My friend wasn't in the student section - he is (gulp) an OSU alum, and sat in one of the sections that at our stadium would be reserved for those of blue hair.
In all likelihood, these "chants" were just isolated groups of OSU asshats, and if you were in a section close enough to hear it, you did.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 AM ^
Did we write the comments or were those from SF readers who clearly feel the same way about this guy?
Oregon might have my favorite comment:
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:36 AM ^
Also the Examiner isn't really a real newspaper. It's a free tabloid like that shit they give you on the metro in DC.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:41 AM ^
They give away The Onion for free in the DC metro, and that's a much higher-quality news source than the Examiner, if this article is any indication...
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:46 AM ^
I f we harnessed the power of M Go Blog, by all agreeing on what we know.......and we do know RichRod is not getting fired.......we may need a new DC, but no way Brandon is going to give up on the RR offense with the seeds that hve been planted........and focus on sending out a positive spin.
Let us be the counterpoint to idiots like this. With a few pre-NFL linebacker types, that 2012 schedule that opens with Alabama could be a national title run.......not a rebuilding year.
But we know recruits come to this famous site if they are seriously considering Michigan......as they do with any school they are seriously considering.
so when you see moronic stuff like this article out there, decide if we are part of the problem or part of the solution.
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:08 PM ^
Do you read this blog? Have you seen the division amongst the fanbase? Are you listening to what DB is saying as plain as day?
If yes to any of these, how can you say "we do know RichRod is not getting fired." Nobody knows this. DB has been about as close to the vest on this decision - if one has been made - as any AD I have ever heard of.
If you know this for sure, you might want to let Brian know so that he can post something on the front page. Oh, and when you do, please make sure to give him your source for this knowledge that the rest of us don't have.
Seriously, I don't mean to be an ass, but this type of inane post is just annoying. If it were so clear, why wouldn't DB have just come out and said something and put an end to all of this speculation.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:05 AM ^
a member of the media. That is just some chod who wrote an op-ed for a the site.
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<br>It is still laughably bad, but at least he is not a member of the media.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:19 AM ^
The Examiner is written for people who move their lips when they read. It's given away free -- serious -- and usually ends up lining the floors of Muni stations. It's one of the last Hearst papers, still funded by a trust set up by the Hearst fortune, to mislead and incite the masses in perpetuity.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:29 AM ^
and incite? They all do warp facts to fit their agenda just as partisans in the Keep RR- Fire RR debate do.
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:10 PM ^
Most of the stuff they try to stir up is far less weighty than the Michigan coaching situation. A typical article will bash MUNI, SF"s public transportation authority, suggesting it be scuttled, etc.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 AM ^
The writer does sports updates for the liberal talk radio station here. This article is meant to be a cliff note of the entire saga from an outsider perspective. It should be taken as seriously as a post in the Onion.
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:22 PM ^
Well, that explains several of the problems I've had in the past.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:38 AM ^
Maybe he was looking at his past career as CEO of Dominoes and got him mixed up with his competitor, Red Baron. Honest mistake I think. I hear he is even interviewing for AD jobs as well.
December 2nd, 2010 at 2:48 PM ^
ICanHasCheezburger has located the source of the pizza-box image:
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:00 PM ^
Give these guys a break. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:27 PM ^
concurs with your sentiment
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:45 PM ^
that kind of stuff is the rule rather than the exception.
outside of the NYT, Washington Post, L.A. Times (mostly anyway) and possibly the WSJ, there just don't seem to be any papers that are run with any kind of integrity or standards.