[Husker] Of liars, cheats and other major college coaches

[Aaron Wolfson]

Nice pun, too! ;)

Aaron


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I get the feeling the author spent almost as much time researching and
> writing that article that I spent reading it.  A very cynical
> half-summarization of the entire situation filled with gross inaccuracies.
> (Lawrence Phillips was the "star" of the Fiesta Bowl???)
> >
> > Articles like that feed outrage amongst people who don't know anything
> more (like probably most readers of the "Chicago Reader"), but are easily
> dismissed by people more familiar with the situation.  (Wow, he got that
> wrong, and that wrong, and boy, that's wrong too.  Jeesh, this guy has no
> idea what he's talking about...)
> >
> > Mike Jaixen
>
> This type of thing just bothers me. This is just sloppy.  I'm not sure
> about how much research went into this piece (he alludes to things I
> didn't know and hadn't seen anywhere in print), but I did notice how
> easily negative quotes and attributions skipped from person to person
> like a stone across still water.  While discussing Cook's arraignment,
> he mentions that Tom Osborne attended.  He doesn't say what Osborne
> said, but does throw in a statement by Cook's attorney from two years
> earlier who had another player as a client.  What exactly do the two
> have in common?  If he's implying that this lawyer only does Nebraska
> athlete cases, then its likely this is the poorest lawyer in Lincoln.
> Is he implying that Cook didn't deserve to have a lawyer?  I just
> don't get what his point is here.
>
> Later in the column, he asserts that its not a good idea to get
> between Tom Osborne and his coaches (which is again an assertion not
> backed by any facts), then drags up Pelini's dissatisfaction with the
> questions following the Wisconsin game.  Now, Pelini's handling of the
> media aside, what exactly does that have to do with Cook?  Did
> reporters ask John Cook difficult questions, or did Osborne prevent
> either Cook from speaking with the press?  Again, I'm somewhat
> confused as to the point of this.  Yeah, Pelini can be an ass, but
> they didn't ask Pelini about Cook, did they?
>
> I guess I'm wondering where the indictment of the legal system that
> allowed a young lady to go into a diversion program rather than spend
> hard time, if that's his problem with what happened with Cook.  Tom
> Osborne or John Cook didn't pass sentence on her, the court system
> did.  The court seemed fine with the diversion, despite the other
> things the author brings up in the article as supposedly factors
> overlooked by the court.  And really, the basis for contending that
> everyone but the local media just couldn't understand what happened
> here is based on a commenter to an article, Ricky from River City?
> And this "In the classroom, the university's journalism students
> marveled at the ethical ironies, but the morning papers didn't touch
> them."  Do I read this correctly that he attended a journalism class
> at Nebraska recently?  I'm really confused.
>
> Look, there's plenty wrong with how we treat athletes, coaches and
> sports programs.  We elevate them to almost impossible heights and
> then seem surprised when they turn out to be human, or less than.  And
> there's no doubt that each and every one of them is no more than
> human, just as those who write articles for papers and blogs and the
> like.  I think all we ask of either is to be honest with us.  This
> piece seems less than honest.
>
> This article is like making soup with rotten vegetables.  Is it the
> soup's fault that it tastes bad, or the cook?  Seems to me that the
> cook that prepared this piece ONLY looked for the bad vegetables.  It
> left a bad taste in my mouth, and I'll think twice before coming to
> his kitchen again.
>
> Nick (sorry for the food metaphor, it must be close to lunch).
> --
> “You can lead a horse to prune juice, but you can't make him drink it.
> Nor would you want to.”
> Space Ghost
>
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