[Husker] Coach vs. Media (was News Conference)

[Rod Wellman]

Well said David!

Rod W.
Sioux City, Ia.


On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:26 AM, David Strong wrote:

> **Warning...this post is kind of long and just my own opinion and probably
> not worth reading.  All other opinions respected.**
> 
> I followed this for a while until it is now just worn out.  It seemed there
> was plenty of blame to go around.  I thought the original article by Dirk
> Chatelain was pretty chippy.  He took some shots and the whole tone of the
> article was negative and condescending towards Pelini.  Even when he was
> slamming TM, it seemed like it was just to get to Pelini.  The article
> seemed to be written by a guy with an agenda.  OK, big deal, who cares?
> Pelini's behavior in the presser was once again that of a petulant
> 6-year-old.  "What do you think?" "What do you think?"  "I'm done with
> you."  "Maybe someone can ask a question worth answering".  I next expected
> him to bust out with "I know you are but what am I"  All of this in front of
> the national press on a national stage after the best win of his head
> coaching career.  Just when I was starting to think his bumbling with the
> press was somewhat endearing, I am reminded how immature he is.  It's not
> endearing and it's not a positive.  Yeah, yeah, I know, he has his player's
> back.  Negative newspaper articles have been around forever.  Now TM is
> starting to act like BP in his pressers.  TM needs a better role model for
> this.
> 
> It is interesting to watch the knee-jerk backlash against the press.  Like
> they are an evil organization not to be trusted.  I love reading all the
> articles, and listening to podcasts, listening to sports radio, and watching
> "college football live" and "gameday". and all the other things that come
> under the heading of press or media.  Some is good, some is bad, some I
> agree with, some I don't.
> 
> It's also interesting to watch the knee-jerk backlash against anyone who
> critiques the coach or players.  Look, we are fans and proud of it.  No need
> to write the word fans with quotes around it like it's some kind of badge of
> shame.  We praise the good things and criticize the bad things.  We agree
> with some things, disagree with others.  This is sport, it is the nature of
> sport.  It is ok to do so.  We are fans of the sport.  And if you criticize
> a player's or coach's performance, you are not "attacking him", or "turning
> on him" or "throwing him under the bus".  But there is a difference in
> saying "TM has trouble holding onto the ball, is an erratic passer, has an
> awkward throwing motion, and sometimes makes bad decisions"  compared to "TM
> has stone hands, throws like a 5 year old girl, and is stupid."  A good
> example is Rob Zatechka's latest blog post.  Here's the good, here's the
> bad, here's what I like, here's what I don't.  It not personal, it's sport.
> 
> The OSU game?  I felt like everyone else.  I was pretty down when it was
> 27-6 and the team had shown exactly zero on both side of the ball.  It felt
> bad, like we couldn't even represent here in our new conference, like our qb
> wasn't very good, like we were exposed now that we played better
> competition.  etc. etc.  (I wasn't readly to boo though.  I have never booed
> a Nebraska player for anything.  Many groans though!)  Then when the game
> turned around I was happy and excited and celebrated after a great win.  I
> was happy and glad for Taylor to have led us to the win and cheered for
> him.  Is there something wrong with all that?  I am a fan...maybe I should
> put quotes around that word.
> 
> Whew!  Got that off my chest.  If you read this far, probably now thinking
> that you can't get those few moments of your life back.  You were warned!
> 
> Wear red, be LOUD
> 
> Dave
> 
> Agreed.  I'd be much more interested to know what Lee thinks Bo needs to
>> say.  Clearly the questions he gets don't seem to get to the nuts and bolts
>> of the offense or defense, what worked, what didn't, etc.  But I'm not so
>> "red-colored-glasses" here to think that Bo would actually answer any of
>> those either.
>> 
>> Its interesting that almost every media guy who's sat down with Bo and had
>> a conversation with him seems to say that he's a great guy and a good
>> communicator.  It seems the guys shouting questions at him after a game seem
>> to have a problem.  Connection?  Someone commenting on Barfnecht's article
>> mentioned that most have already written their piece and are just asking
>> questions to get a suitable quote to attribute to the coach.  Bo doesn't
>> oblige.
>> 
>> I don't get the animosity between these two groups, I don't know what the
>> media wants, I don't know why Bo is so obstinant about answering inane
>> questions, and I don't know where anyone goes from here.  Calling Dr. Tom??
>> 
>> Nick
>> --
>> "If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
>> Anatole France
>> 
>> 
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