Oklahoma State coach Gundy blasts Oklahoman columnist

Gundy's and idiot:

By going off like that, he gets a much bigger megaphone than she could ever dream of having with her column. Probably a bigger megaphone than he bargained for. Because of that, now everyone who pays attention to college football thinks Reid is a pussy and Gundy is an idiot. Before, only people who read the Oklahoman (might or might not have) thought that.

His over-the-top reaction solidified the foundation of her column.

 

Dr, I respect your opinion, but I have been around D-I football long enough to know that undermining students is a tough way to make a career. They are not professionals.

A state review committee also said Va Tech fucked up. I have never said a negative word about the students of Va Tech, and I have never made a comment about the relationship between a mother and her son. That falls under the "insensitive" umbrella for me.

This is a very subjective business, though. As John Wooden once said, "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."

Differences in opinions is what makes this a great message board.

 

Getting back to the original point of the thread....

Gundy's tirade was ridiculous, so was the applause when he was done (I hope none of that was from media members). The comments by some of the fans on Carlson's blog are scary, because they're a bunch of fanboys and fangirls who need to take a serious look at their lives if they take college sports that seriously.

 

I did not realize it would have struck such a nerve when I typed it.

I apologize for that, but I still feel Va Tech's administration was given a little too much of a free pass.

 

The people on my beat's message board have a big thread going applauding Gundy for finally "giving it to the vultures" and "standing up to those hacks!", etc., etc., etc., etc.

People are fucking idiots.

 

I'm still trying to figure out how, exactly, one person feeds another chicken. . .

Anyhow, it was a shitty column. I cringe when athletes, coaches and fans invoke the "well, you never played the game," mantra on journalists. But in this instance, the column displays a basic lack of understanding of who athletes are and what they do.

Carlson writes, "Then, there have been the injuries. No doubt some of Reid's ailments have been severe, including an injured shoulder that required surgery and forced him to redshirt. Other times, though, Reid has been nicked in games and sat it out instead of gutting it out."

Sorry, but you can't write that. I have no problem if she had attributed it to the coaching staff or the training staff. But it's impossible for a columnist to sit in the press box and determine which athletes are "gutting it out," and which ones aren't. In my opinion, that's irresponsible and unprofessional. Our job is to figure out which "rumors and rumblings" are fact, and which ones aren't. Not to write, "If you listen to the rumors and rumblings. . ."

Otherwise, I think the column's chief flaw is that it's horribly constructed. It's not so much a problem of material - apart from the injury stuff - it's that the way it's packaged comes across as, "Neener, neener, neener, Bobby Reid's mom feeds him chicken, so he's a pussy."

That said, the coach's reaction is obviously over the top. Say your piece. Say it professionally, and get on with life.

 

NFL columnists do it all the time when they question a player's "injuries."

 

Like Westbrook's knee today and Mannings shoulder last week?

But once again, those are pros.