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

[David Strong]

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> Can we at least agree that Bo handled this better than Steve Spurrier?
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> http://www.wistv.com/story/15666835/spurrier-publicly-excludes-critical-columnist-from-press-conference
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> Spurrier today refused to hold his weekly press conference as long as Ron
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OK...I am not trying to be argumentative.  This is just my impressions and
opinon of the video of the Spurrier press conference that is referenced
above.  And I guess I have to say that Spurrier handled the situation way,
way, way better than Pelini.  Night and day.  Spurrier talked like an adult,
explained himself like an adult, took the actions he wanted and gave his
reasons for them like an adult.  To be sure....a smug, pompous adult all
right, but he's Steve Spurrier, that's who he is...that's what he does. So
yeah I'd have to say that his handling was quite a bit better than BP's, but
they were both kind of hard to watch in their different ways. There is just
something not quite right with publicly retaliating against a media person
because you didn't like what they wrote or said.  Must be a better way. If
he felt he absolutely had to do something... If Spurrier had just asked the
guy to leave, would have been more ok with me rather than having everyone
jump around.  Same with Bo.  If he had stood up in his weekly presser, *not
the post-game*, and said DC has to leave, I don't like what he wrote, I'd
have been much more ok with that than the way he acted Saturday night.
Maybe there is some reason that the head coach is not allowed to do that.  I
don't know about that.

But back to Chatelain and Pelini, you wrote that "both men were wrong", on
that we can definitely agree.

Dave