What is ESPN Insider talking about?
I generally don't ask about "premium" content, but I have to know WTF they're talking about on the ESPN Insider page. All I can see is the headline that says "More violations at Michigan?" and the summary that says "Administrators have enough to fire Rodriguez."
I assume this is nothing but a rehash of the NCAA letter of inquiry and things we already know, but has anyone with ESPN Insider seen the article in question?
October 27th, 2009 at 5:37 PM ^
They don't understand what they're talking about and they're purposely sensationalizing to generate traffic. Unfortunately, they rely heavily on this article...
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091027/SPORTS0201/910270337/1004/SPORT…
...which also purposely sensationalizes to generate traffic.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:41 PM ^
cause i dont like bullshit cause if it really was enough to fire richrod it would be headlining ESPN right now
October 27th, 2009 at 5:40 PM ^
that's about what i thought it would be. thanks for your input
October 27th, 2009 at 5:40 PM ^
have this from yahoo: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-michigan-ncaa&prov=a…
check out the comments at the bottom......
October 27th, 2009 at 5:58 PM ^
This snippet was completely useless. I sincerely doubt that Rodriguez has done anything wrong in terms of NCAA violations, but how does Rodriguez saying that he's cooperating with the NCAA investigation count as being newsworthy. Whenever the NCAA investigates someone, the coach and the university will say they're cooperating *cough* USC *cough* Memphis *cough* FSU until the NCAA took away wins *cough*.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:56 PM ^
Holy. Shit.
Those commenters make our trolls look like a collection of Rhodes Scholars.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:41 PM ^
So who gives a shit what the fuck they say. You're just wasting you're time going to that site.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:11 PM ^
and one thing only - SCORES. Well, their piece on Mealer was really nice too, so I guess that makes two but the rest is sensationalist crapola.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:44 PM ^
I'm sure they could get rid of RR on a technicality somehow, but that's true about just about anyone in just about any job.
I'm more concerned about RR getting fed up with the circus that's been going on around here and peacing out.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:49 PM ^
Once upon a time my TV was almost always stuck on ESPN.
Nowadays, unless there's a game on, I hardly even flinch as I scroll past on my channel guide.
Same goes for espn.com.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:48 PM ^
OK, that's pretty much what I expected -- some stupid spin on everything that was already known.
That's about as useful as last week's ESPN Insider article saying Denard Robinson would replace Tate on some series. Who knew?
October 27th, 2009 at 7:18 PM ^
In the Scounts Inc preview for the PSU game they actually said that RR was leaning toward starting D-Rob over Tate, yet provided absolutely zero reason for it. Just mentioned it in passing as if 1) it would even be plausible, or 2) it would just be accepted as fact by the reader with no reasoning whatsoever.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:56 PM ^
with all this witch hunt crap against RR? Besides the obvious sensationalizing to sell papers, I firmly believe that there is a faction (read Freep) that want him to fail because they don't want to see the UM footbal program back on top. They are afraid of RR.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:12 PM ^
You just correctly answered your own question.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:59 PM ^
I dont know about you guys but,I feel like, I can't read other websites or listen to really anything other than WTKA, in regards to Michigan football. All I tend to get is a bunch of uninformed bullshit that always ends up being so off base that its only purpose is to get traffic from idiotic people (not callin you guys stupid for researching it). Those people in turn have idiotic preconceived notions and then make more idiotic statements. Thank you for MgoBlog.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:10 PM ^
Once you've been educated by mgoblog any other coverage of Michigan is unnecessary.
It is wonderful that Brian has done such a good job with Michigan stuff that he is the go-to source but it is sad that no other outlet has anything useful to add. You'd think there would be enough going-on to have multiple informative and highly-reasoned sources of Michigan news and opinion, but no.
October 27th, 2009 at 7:16 PM ^
I've had this conversation a few places. My obsession of combing the internet for anything Michigan-football related has subsided considerably. If there are interesting blockquotes in the stories Brian will post them. Otherwise, it's not worth my time to read the sensationalist stuff. It's all centralized here and I applaud Brian for that. A thousand cocktails to him!
As an afterthough, though, I have been very impressed with AnnArbor.com, Mike Rothstein especially. What he writes and covers is so much more worthwhile than anything the Freep or even the DetNews does.
October 27th, 2009 at 7:41 PM ^
I thought it was just the trolls who are fans of MSU and OSU who fear RR, but I think you are correct that a lot of the MSM wants to see RR fail at UM. This would be another "man bites dog" story of which they are all so fond. It's like they are searching really hard for another elite program to have a massive fail that they are praying UM is the next one so they have something "interesting" to write about.
I really wish it was like the old days, when writers got off their lazy asses and found good stories instead of either waiting for them to be dropped into their laps or trying to use the power of the press to create them.
And the lazy fucks wonder why their jobs are disappearing.....
October 27th, 2009 at 8:16 PM ^
This kid has been a huge disappointment. You would think with all his former teammates from Cass on the team with him that they would all look out for one another. Why can't Boubocar act like the rest of his cass tech teammates on the team.