OT: Chantel Jennings to Pac-12
Chantel Jennings - formerly of Wolverine Nation, who recently seemed to be pseudo-covering the Big Ten in addition to Michigan athletics - recently tweeted that she will be moving west to cover the Pac-12 for ESPN. Seems like a step forward in her career. Good for her.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^
February 12th, 2014 at 5:18 PM ^
Cake eating guy has a name and it's Tom VanHaaren and he's more beloved by the MGoBoard than most of us could ever hope to be. In fact, people still call out his name and ask to be held by him during their darkest MGoHours. So, please, show a little respect.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^
And some respect for Chantel as well. A Michigan grad and charged with covering the team that we love. AND keeping some of you jackasses happy in the process because you're not happy with her performance. Ease up and have some class.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:23 PM ^
i would rather play 7 minutes of heaven with tom
/nohomo
February 12th, 2014 at 10:17 PM ^
February 12th, 2014 at 6:55 PM ^
OK, I will follow you and just take the "Leaders and best".
February 12th, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^
Been looking for a good reason to unfollow her on twitter for a while now - this is a win-win.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:25 PM ^
I followed and then somewhat-promptly unfollowed her 3 or 4 times by now. After not following her for a couple months, I see a RT or something that reminds me that she might have some useful information. After a couple days, I'd realize my mistake and unfollow her -- baiting tweets and ledes, rudimentary analysis, and a refusal to interact with her followers. One of the reasons people like Brian, Ace, BiSB, and Meinke are such good twitter follows are the interactions and back-and-forth quips that you can watch from afar.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:28 PM ^
I agree. She seems like a very good person, but having her as ESPN's beat writer for Michigan sports always felt... unsatisfying.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
Covering the Big Ten to covering the PAC 12...is considered a step up?
Ummmm, okayyyyy.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:41 PM ^
Pseudo-covering the Big Ten. Her responsibilities seemed to grow gradually, but I think she was still employed to be Michigan-centric. I assume that covering the Pac-12 means that she will cover the Pac-12. Either way, she thought enough of the position to take it...so I think it's safe to say it's a step forward.
February 12th, 2014 at 6:33 PM ^
Maybe the journalism market on the West Coast provides more opportunities than the Midwest does. Probably wouldn't hurt to start networking and getting references in that neck of the woods in case one didn't want to stay with sports his or her entire life.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^
I think he means covering just Michigan vs the whole Pac 12.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
Makes sense. My comment was more of a slam on the PAC-12...I see what you guys are saying now though.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:59 PM ^
I don't know all the internal politics but I believe ESPN's purpose in getting Chantel and TomVH when they did was they wanted to start up a competitive web community to us and Rivals and Scout. That never really materialized but they'd gotten such great personnel they couldn't just let them go, so Tom was moved to just generalized recruiting and Chantel hung around with ranging responsibilities hovering around Michigan and environs. I believe this means they're actually going to have a defined role for her now.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:17 PM ^
Really wasn't a fan of her articles or quite frankly, listening to her audio coverage of the team. Best of luck though.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:19 PM ^
She's good looking.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:21 PM ^
hopefully she can make up more fake QB controversies there.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:28 PM ^
February 12th, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
agreed
February 12th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
She works for ESPN. That's what they do there.
I mean, look what happened to Rick Reilly.
February 12th, 2014 at 8:44 PM ^
When you put it that way....holy crap....what happened to him?
February 12th, 2014 at 9:14 PM ^
February 13th, 2014 at 7:12 AM ^
February 12th, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
I believe we're getting $ and a draft pick to be named later.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
That's lame. We don't need the $$$ and we're trying to win now, so the draft pick isn't good either.
I was hoping we'd get a least ONE O-Lineman for her...
February 12th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
I am the worst person ever.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
Best of luck to Chantel. I enjoyed her work.
February 12th, 2014 at 8:19 PM ^
February 12th, 2014 at 5:52 PM ^
I was thinking that Chantel sounds like a girls name? He must be one tough dude or he's a kicker. Then I thought well ok he's going to the pack 12 but what school? Man who's posting this shit nowadays. Sorry Chantel no offence good luck out west and spead the love for UM. Go Blue!!!
February 12th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
I will always remember her for her pieces on Stu and Zack she wrote for the Daily.
https://www.michigandaily.com/content/two-hoosiers-whisper?page=0,0
You could tell from her writing that she felt the same way that we did about them. Admiration and pride and kind of a greatfullness all mixed together. She knew she was watching something special, and she conveyed it well. She will be missed.
And I was kind of hoping her and Ace would get together. Their babies would be smart AND beautiful.
February 12th, 2014 at 6:03 PM ^
Ace approves!
February 12th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
Her voice irritates me.
February 12th, 2014 at 6:03 PM ^
I'll bid her good luck as a fellow alumnus, but I was never a big fan of her writing/posts. The "quarterback controversy" was the last straw for me.
Peace.
February 12th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
Good luck, but nothing of value was lost.
February 12th, 2014 at 6:43 PM ^
I liked Chantel. Best of luck to her.
February 12th, 2014 at 7:16 PM ^
Because she's the sports journalist the Big Ten deserved, but not the one it needed right now.
February 12th, 2014 at 6:59 PM ^
I don't know how many 25 year old, good-looking ESPN journalists will blatantly flirt with him on Twitter now
February 12th, 2014 at 7:01 PM ^
Now THIS I have to see.
February 12th, 2014 at 7:35 PM ^
February 12th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^
And surprise, surprise, after the season is over a new opportunity opened up for her. As someone posted above, headlines that generate clicks are what ESPN wants.
February 12th, 2014 at 9:22 PM ^
For as much as people bitch and complain about journalists and the media, they are all generally clueless about how it works. And it just pisses me off.
February 12th, 2014 at 7:54 PM ^
Bad for us. Rittenberg and Bennett are the worst. Her work may have not been the best, but her Michigan coverage far surpassed her peers on the ESPN Big Ten blog. And this will probably mean a decrease in Michigan coverage at ESPN.
February 12th, 2014 at 8:53 PM ^
that winning will equate to coverage
February 12th, 2014 at 8:59 PM ^
How does her bf Bieber feel about this?
February 12th, 2014 at 11:30 PM ^
February 13th, 2014 at 1:22 AM ^
Great opportunity for her. Best of luck Chantel.
February 13th, 2014 at 2:03 AM ^
I liked her because she is cute for a Michigan grad. At State she'd be middle of the pack. Reporting was okay. Best of luck Chantel!
February 13th, 2014 at 7:42 AM ^
It must be great to be a woman in sports journalism.
Every time you do something, you get a bunch of guys commenting on how you look.
February 13th, 2014 at 8:35 AM ^
Her stories lately have been entirely fluff, hearsay, and generally completely factually wrong. I'm not opposed to her going somewhere else.