ESPN Holly Rowe shoves reporter to get interview with brady Hoke

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

As pointed out, ESPN pays for the right to get first crack at the coaches after the game. I don't have any problem with that. I also don't have a problem with a reporter who is on a tight deadline, leaning in to grab a couple quotes.

I'm guessing I'm not the only person on this board who has had to file a running gamer and call in some quotes to the desk as you run off to the press conference.

Rowe did nothing wrong. She was getting the first crack that her network pays for, and can you imagine what would have happened if she didn't get Hoke first or God forbid, missed him altogether?

I also agree that the Michigan or Bowl PR staff is first and foremost to blame for this. Every college game I've ever covered clears the way for the person from ESPN or CBS or whomever to get the first interview with the coach.

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

My favorite "shove" story ...

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/04/27/sports/simpson.html

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

Didn't Joe Namath try something simliar already?

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

Yeah, we are. The bar's been lowered for so long . . . such mealy-mouthed crap. Utter waste of airtime, not to mention oxygen. It's not journalism . . . it's an extension of the commercial presentation. And there we are.

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

Football's not basketball. It's absolutely impossible to keep people off the field if they're already on the sidelines when the game ends.

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

I doubt that Joe would have hit on Holley.

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

So who was the other reporter?

 

Re: ESPN Holly Rowe shoves Angelique Chengelis to get interview with brady Hoke

What would Heather Cox do?

 

Shit, go cover a NASCAR race. You need the fourth-place finisher? You can stand there in a huddle around him for five minutes while the ESPN/Fox/TNT reporter stands next to him, waiting for the live throw. No questions in that time, just in case it goes live. So you're waiting for an interview you have to wait out. It's AWESOME.

 

Hoke would have thrown the other reporter out of the way in that case.

 

Can't say I pay too much attention to the on-field interviews because it is slow-pitch softball most of the time, but Mack Brown before the Holiday Bowl with Jenn Brown, I think, was actually interesting. Couple legit questions with what seemed to be a couple thought out answers.

 

I bet you buy Playboy for the stories.