Bacon on WTKA
He's standing by his soon to be published book, which featured comments about Silas Redd's travels to USC.
"No retraction," John said. He has checked his notes, reflective of interviews with Penn State players. He had multiple sources. The sources all volunteered the information. He was not making a goal of investigating USC.
He invited a lawsuit if any of the parties felt defamed.
A podcast should be available later today. I'll post a link when one becomes available.
You can preorder the book by going through his website to the Amazon portal:
Edit: podcast link HERE.
August 23rd, 2013 at 4:46 PM ^
I've been agreeing with you.
Just like with the Purdue game you referred to elsewhere, if Bacon looked at the DVR of that game and the PSU game, he would know that his account doesn't line up with events as they played out. I suspect that he did not do this.
Was Bacon actually at the PSU game and in the locker room at half time, or was his account derived from later interviews of players, coaches, etc, and collated 2 or 3 years later? I do not recall from the book, but I think the latter.
I doubt that this has been fabrication as some have asserted, but rather poor vetting and sourcing, some of which may have occurred more than a year after the games.
Which I also think is the case of the Penn State/Redd/Snoop Dogg/USC stuff. Why would anyone take the word of a couple of players reporting on events (regarding an ex-teamate who abandoned them) that took place 4,000 miles away?
August 23rd, 2013 at 4:58 PM ^
Yes. And act as if the warrantless statement of jilted team-mates need no corroboration, then looking moon-eyed at people questioning this and going "why would they lie?".
I think he's utterly disingenuous. He is either an outright liar, or, as you suggest, mindlessly passing along 2nd-hand testimony without bothering to verify it.
August 23rd, 2013 at 7:59 PM ^
I haven't followed the discrepancies of the book Three and Out as closely as you have, and certainly some of the errors can be attributed to poor fact-checking (in the case of scores), trying to resolve differing accounts into one readable one, etc.
Regarding the Penn State half time situation discussed above, I highly doubt he witnessed this first hand, so he very well may be just reporting RR's or some other coach's version without checking to see if it is consistent with the game tape.
But this Penn State/Redd/USC/Snoop Dogg thing raised a red flag for me when it was reported and became a much bigger thing when he said that he had no reason to doubt the players truthfulness. Regardless of how truthful these players are, they could not have first-hand knowledge of the events in LA.
In short, when Bacon said today on radio that he had no reason to doubt the players, he displayed all the concern for the veracity of the facts of a Hollywood gossip columnist.
And that is quite an interesting approach for an author promoting a book with the subtitle "The Fight for the Soul of College Football."
August 23rd, 2013 at 4:34 PM ^
As we say in research science.
That looks like some pretty good data.
August 23rd, 2013 at 4:04 PM ^
got wrong not fabricate. you are like people calling Obama a liar for getting the details wrong for climate science.
August 23rd, 2013 at 4:25 PM ^
How did he "get it wrong"?
He says Threet cried in his locker because he got benched. Threet demonstrably never got benched.
How does he get that wrong? Did he confuse games?
If he did confuse games, is that supposed to bolster my confidence in his reporting?
You're acting like people who claim climate change isn't true despite the mountain of evidence staring them in the goddam face.
August 23rd, 2013 at 4:59 PM ^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hUyybiCRTnQ#t=…
3rd Q, Threet passing, the announcers talking about taking another shot at his elbow
August 23rd, 2013 at 5:25 PM ^
And remember - Bacon explicitly states that Threet's tears and his ouster (which didn't happen then) were not due to injury.