Impressive Dan Wetzel column on Knight and ESPN...

[Alma]

Kevlar,

I don't fail to realize it.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I am sorry but Bob Knight gets this treatment when he pops a kid because he's Bob Knight. He's got nobody to blame but himself, and the fact that he's talking bullshirt about "lifting the kid's chin" proves he has learned nothing.
That said, picturing Bill Simmons as Marie Antoinette wil prevent me from being serious about anything for a long while. Thanks, Alma.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Mizzou,

My advice is: Stop hating ESPN.

That's impossible...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Mizzou,
Of course your point is valid. I disagree with a lot of what my paper does, but you're right, I won't quit over minor philosophies.
But, at some point, the machine gets too big for the factory. A lot of that comes out in George Solomon's critiques...
Then again, I get the sense he's writing that column for himself.

No one at ESPN gives half a shirt about what Solomon thinks about anything... He exists just so ESPN can pretend it cares about ethics and journalistic integrity...

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

To vaildiate Wetzel's point:
Has there been anything on Lloyd Carr's blowup?
I have not seen or read anything about it.
Anyone?

 

[SF_Express]

Isn't this type of column the job of a TV/media critic?

I'd rather see Wetzel take a position on Knight. Was he right, was he wrong?

I hate ESPN. Hate it. But I also hate all these columnists, local and national, using ESPN-bashing as their material.

That's not their job. Their job is to stand on issues, not on coverage of the issues.

Whatever else you think of this column, coverage of the issues IS an issue unto itself and completely fair game for Wetzel -- unless there's some kind of rule book for columnists that I'm not aware of (I hope not).

 

[Inky_Wretch]

To vaildiate Wetzel's point:
Has there been anything on Lloyd Carr's blowup?
I have not seen or read anything about it.
Anyone?

I've not seen it.

Why wouldn't ESPN show video of Carr blowing up during an interview? Because they don't want to pish him off?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

But if Bobby Knight raises his voice in a press conference, ESPN will have it on a loop that will run for the next decade...

 

[BYH]

You know what? Tough shirt.

You spend 40 years blowing your top and it's newsworthy when, guess what, you blow your top.

fork Knight. As Fenian points out, he's done OK getting into bed with the devil over the years, so I'm sure he's a big enough boy to handle being sensationalized the last few days.

 

[D-3 Fan]

BYH, I'm sure Knight doesn't need someone to remind him that. If that was the case, he would have thrown your ass in the trash with me.

Wetzel made good points. It's bullshirt and forking crazy for any coach to blow his top and most of America ignores it, unless if it's Knight.

Carr pulled that shirt before. Remember Todd Harris? Yeah, I thought so. If Knight get carted out on the floor, bring everyone else out. No immunity.

 

[goalmouth]

Nothing deadens readers' emotions quite like a sports columnist writing about other people's emotions.

Except eye-glazing media navel-gazing.

 

[Tom Petty]

I read it earlier today and it's spot-on correct.

and i call bullshirt.

what would happen if i slapped or choked somebody on my staff who i "perceived" wasn't paying attention to me while i was speaking to them on deadline, much less screaming at them?

i'd be fired and probably charged with assault.

once again: bullshirt. bobby knight is nothing more than a high school bully who's pissed off at the world because he was born with a tiny deck. i live for the day one of his players knocks him on his ass and begins kicking his forking teeth out while Knight flails like an old woman on the hardwood.

just sayin'.