[NU Sports] Another "Class Act Coach" Comment

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

I think every year there is a glaring weakness exhibited by one position.  That position always gets a little extra attention from the crowd.  If for example our wide receivers had dropped multiple balls during the bowl game any comment by RW regarding a prospect with soft/sure hands would have gotten some clapping.

I thought the clapping was short and within good taste.  RW "incited" the audience a bit by saying during the video that Demos choose to kick off the ground his senior year, which prepares him for college rules.  A young reporter(Daily/WNUR?) asked a question about Demos and that is where RW initially defended Howells.  That defense talked about the Iowa game and his 9/10 within 40 yards.

-- cherron604 at aol.com wrote:
- For anyone who was at the announcement - who exactly interpreted the crowd noise during the Demos video to be "jeering directed against Joel Howells" ?  Could it have been jeering directed at a coaching staff that has ignored the kicking position for a long time ?  Or was it even jeering at all ?   When did the brilliant Randy Walker or Rick Morrissey get degrees or specialized training in interpreting (or even recognizing) "sarcastic cheering" ?
 
- We need an eyewitness to try and describe the cheering, and unless comments were made specifically targetting Howells, who can say who or what the targets of the allegedly "sarcastic cheers" were ?  From what I have read, the only individual to implicitly or explicitly connect Joel Howells to any of this was RW himself, not anybody in the crowd that he later belittled.
 
Unless any of the "sarcastic cheering" was explicitly targetted at Joel Howells BY NAME (indeed, the video was supposed to have been of Demos, and no video of Howells was shown, to my knowledge) then no one can state WITH CERTAINTY that such cheering was directed at anybody other than the people in the room (i.e. the coaches) or the individuals on the screen (i.e. the new recruit).   Since the latter makes no sense, any sarcasm "sensed" in the room (by that master of sensing sarcasm, RW) must have been directed at the coaching staff.  Since sarcasm involves tone and nuance, it by definition cannot be directed at anyone not able to sense that tone or nuance, can it ?
 
And while we are on this topic, why didn't any of the high-priced staff on Central St figure out that this circumstance might have lead to uncomfortable "sarcasm", and maybe spared the audience the videos of the kicker, which probably did not add much substance to the announcement anyway.  (or perhaps save the media (and the world) from the uncomfortable prospect of RW speaking off the cuff)



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