Whitlock loves Coach Hoke, trolls Ohio State
while killing time at work this morning, I was reading Whitlock's latest NFL truths column. At the end of the column, he went on a tangent about Bill Snyder and the job he is doing at K-State this year. He then Proceeds to mention other coaches who he feels are at the top of the heap, and could succeed at any level. He includes Brady Hoke on the list (I'm sure we all already knew Whitclock is unabashedly in the tank for Coach, but I still found this amusing):
Snyder is as good as Lombardi, Belichick, Bear Bryant, Saban, Noll and Brady Hoke. (Eat it, Ohio Buckeyes and Urban Meyer.) I don’t have any doubt that Snyder could win at the highest level in the NFL, at Alabama, Michigan, Florida, LSU and Ohio. I’m not sure Lombardi, Belichick, Bryant, Saban, Noll and Meyer could win consistently at Kansas State. (Hoke could win anywhere they lace ‘em up.)link
October 24th, 2012 at 11:01 AM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 11:02 AM ^
He should rename his column to "The Daily Racism"
October 24th, 2012 at 12:31 PM ^
his current column. The current piece really pushes beyond hackneyed conventional thinking about race, encourages Black athletes not to isolate themselves from the truth by hiding behind too many admirers, etcetera. He has often annoyed me in the past, but maybe he is maturing.
Most of the conversation about race that is out there is either knee-jerk liberal or knee-jerk conservative, for a lot of reasons. People who can get beyond that can do us all a service.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:46 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 11:09 AM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 11:10 AM ^
we are discussing the best way to catch Muskie?
October 24th, 2012 at 11:18 AM ^
a new state record was set last month!
October 24th, 2012 at 11:45 AM ^
Lake Bellaire, located very close to the previous record holder Torch lake.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:19 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 12:22 PM ^
Where did you snag a 6lb Largemouth at?
October 24th, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 11:22 AM ^
Anyone else find it kind of unprofessional for a journalist to use the phrase "Eat it" in a nationally published column? I hate OSU and Urban Meyer, too, and it would not be unprofessional for me to use a phrase like that in the comments section of a blog, but a professional journalist doing something like that?
As far as his opinion on Bill Snyder, I concur 100%. That guy is a freakin miracle worker. He does more with less than any coach in CFB. They probably should just name whatever hardware they hand out to the Coach of the Year after Snyder.
Btw...Eat it, Ohio State Buckeyes and Urban Meyer.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:36 AM ^
Whitlock used to write for the AA News and may have a "Worst State Ever" shirt (XXXL) in his closet.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:38 AM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 3:13 PM ^
Do you really expect Whitlock to be professional?
Whitlock is an entertainer. He knows it. He has carved out a nice little career. It doesn't make him an actual journalist, though. He is a lot more enjoyable if you don't expect journalistic standards out of him.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:36 AM ^
I'm so tempted to extending the Drew Sharp/Ace Williams rule to Jason Whitlock.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
I think Whitlock is great. Does he put race into some columns yes, but if you read them he also calls out a lof of others for using race. Such as his latest with Cam Newton. He is a huge Hoke fan since his time a Ball State. Whitlock probably is one of the few sports writers that calls it like it is.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:10 PM ^
I know this is an opinion thing... but in this case, your opinion is objectively wrong.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:36 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 12:00 PM ^
Meh. Still hate Whitlock, no matter how much he may like Hoke.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:00 PM ^
meyer was very successful at bowling green and utah which got him the job at florida and then ohio. its not like he just started out as tebows head coach...
Also this isnt trolling at all, this is just some biased writer taking shots.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:14 PM ^
But it's a shot at Ohio. Wooooooh!!1
October 24th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
He is actually racist. He should have been fired for what he wrote about Jeremy Lin. On top of that, his writing is amateurish and often nonsensical.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:00 PM ^
his writing is amateurish and often nonsensical.Most of your bombastic, polarizing journalists are. They compensate for their lack of insight and writing/broadcasting skill by being controversial. You need look no further locally than Drew Sharpe or Mike Valenti for excellent examples of this.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:54 PM ^
Amazing, you found one article in which a half-wit manages to use a term a bossy sixth-grader would use to describe our rivals and it warrants a post? Hell, you might as well start posting the opinions of every idiot out there on the internet, because I'd trust them a heck of a lot more than I would that lard ass Whitlock. Besides being an incessant race-baiter who doesn't come close to practicing what he preaches, the man has very rarely impressed me with his commentary.
In short: I'd rather sit next to Skip Bayless on an international flight than read any of Whitlock's musings.
~Herm
October 24th, 2012 at 1:21 PM ^
I disagree that he is a race baiter. He brings up race when it is needed. He has written many articles criticizing people for claiming racism when it is not (Vince Young and Cam Newton). He dislikes how Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson try to infuse racism to any criticism of a minority. I think it is hard to claim he is RACIST as one post claims. He claims the best football player of all time is John Elway, last time I checked he is white and if he was racist he would not be picking a white QB as the best of all time. If anything people do not like him because he challenges many people in their own thoughts.
Anyways that is off topic of the original thread. GO BLUE!!!!
October 24th, 2012 at 1:42 PM ^
I just used "Search" and typed "Jason / Whitlock / Racism" and in two minutes:
"A black defensive back outsmarted a beloved white quarterback.I know. That's a truth many of you can't handle. It makes you uncomfortable."
" The media and the public overreact to whatever crimes/unfairness befall an attractive white woman (Natalee Holloway). Jordan, Ali and Magic all managed to play on their black wives without receiving much criticism. Shaquille O'Neal just finished off the remaining credible pieces of his marriage to a black woman by allegedly having an ongoing affair with Gilbert Arenas' fiancee. No one cares. But this brown-skinned golfer is facing ruin because he cheated on his white wife."
"Look, we can tiptoe around it, ignore the big beautiful elephant in the room, or we can embrace the fact that Sunday's AFC Championship contest is soaked in the white-black racial component that has driven American sports passion at least since Jack Johnson whipped James J. Jeffries"
"Brady leads an offense built in his image. In a league that is predominantly black, Brady directs a high-flying offense that is predominantly white and relies on a deep cast of white playmakers. Lewis leads a defense built in his brash image. Nine of the 11 Ravens defenders are African-American."
"Some lucky lady in NYC is gonna feel a couple inches of pain tonight."
"The NCAA needs to be blown up. It pimps mostly black basketball and football players to provide welfare to sports played by mostly white athletes. In exchange, the football and basketball players get a half-baked shot at an education they're not prepared for upon arrival and a long-shot audition for pro scouts."
Really?
~Herm
October 24th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^
but much of this country sure isn't, and there's plenty of meat in those quotes you served up:
#1 - media commentary on smarts and gritty mc grittyness is generally directed at white athletes. Black athletes tend to be 'athletic'. There's a reason for this meme, and it has to do not with the guys on the field but with the watching audience.
#2 - This is spot-on. Tiger took a beating (figuratively and literally!) when infidelity by other professional athletes in same-race couples gets little or no mention. That doesn't make you wonder a bit about our society's comfort-level with mixed marriages?
#3 - Over the top comparison. A Whitlock eye-roller, at least without context.
#4 - I can't personally get behind this one, but maybe he was going somewhere useful with this.
#5 - Weird and inappropriate comment, but is it racial?
#6 - And you don't find the NCAA's approach to regulating the major sports exploitative of the athletes, the majority of whom are black? I'm not sure that minor sports are mostly white, but if I had to guess I'd say yes... and of course those sports are underwritten by football revenues. I tend to see this more as a class thing than a race thing, but I don't fault Whitlock for raising this.
Sure, Whitlock gets it wrong sometimes, but if this is the best you can do, then the guy's doing something right.
October 24th, 2012 at 3:12 PM ^
I'm not saying the man is an out-and-out racist, I'm saying that he seems to see race as an issue in everything and everything as an issue of race. I mean, would any of you actually be taken aback if he were to write a serious commentary about the lack of black drivers in NASCAR and chalk it up to a vast conspiracy that the majority of Americans have some deep-seeded racial hatred?
In my opinion, the first way to ending racism is to avoid constantly making race the primary issue in every and all debates. Think about the last time you filled out a survey about anything... the second or third question is "What race are you?" WHY IN THE GODDAMN HELL DOES IT MATTER WHAT RACE I AM WHEN I'M FILLING OUT A SURVEY ABOUT BLOCKBUSTER?! I get angry when institutions and individuals lament the "inherently racist nature of society" and then are the first ones to make differentiations BETWEEN races.
Make up your mind, either there are differences or there aren't. I tend to believe there aren't these vast differences that would necessitate grouping people based on the amount of melanin in their skin or where their grandparents originated. But hell, that's just me. So all these "progressives" can continue to establish difference while (hopefully the rest, but probably only the vast majority) realize by ourselves that we don't need some damn loud mouth on television or fancy-named "non-profit" run by old LSD-crippled hippies to tell us what to think. Don't be ignorant fools, talk to people, and decide for yourself.
~Herm
October 24th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
I agree that Whitlock pushes the race issue, but I do believe that issues of race are deeper than just the "melanin" of someone's skin. This isn't the time or place for a conversation, but I am in a bi-racial relationship (wife) and I can tell you that it is better to acknowledge differences than to try and pretend everyone's the same. This is a sensitive issue and the main problem with the topic is that people are overly sensitive about their own biases and are unwilling to acknowledge it. That's all I can say without drifting into ban hammer waters....
October 24th, 2012 at 6:50 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 7:49 PM ^
#5 was an Asian penis joke. That is what actually stoked my hatred of Whitlock. Then I went to his twitter page, which just made me think he was arrogant.
October 24th, 2012 at 9:13 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 2:01 PM ^
Mighty fine trolling
October 24th, 2012 at 8:21 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 10:34 PM ^
I laughed.