Exception: Erin Andrews
Posted on 09/26/2007 11:10:10 AM PDT by JZelle
Mike Gundy is the sniffling, whiny face of the Oklahoma State football program.
His intellectually inept diatribe against a Daily Oklahoman columnist is wrong on so many levels that you wonder whether he is mentally fit to be a coach.
Here is the thing: Gundy could be correct in his assessment that three-fourths of the facts in Jenni Carlson's column were inaccurate. And Gundy clearly felt compelled to defend the quarterback who was the object of Carlson's story.
But you do not go about it in the unhinged manner that he did. You do not refer to the 21-year-old quarterback as "a kid" or respond as a parent who is being protective of his child.
News flash, coach: Your quarterback is not "a kid," and he is not your child. He is a grown man who could be dodging bullets in Iraq.
If he is criticized because of his physical and mental failings as a quarterback, so be it. He will face far harsher truths in the decades ahead, and if he has any inner strength about him at all, he will deal with them and move forward.
In our hypersensitive, grievance-filled culture today, we seem to have forgotten the benefit of developing thick skin.
Gundy certainly has forgotten that.
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Funny. I thought it was the columnist who was out of line. Why is a columnist using the newspaper to make a personal attack on a college football player?
BULL. I agree with the coach totally. When a reporter makes up facts to support the assertion that an amature athlete is a coward and a wimp they should be called out on it in the harshest terms. The dems repreatedlt call the 21 year old soldiers in Iraq our “kids” and I understand the context and don’t disagree with it. This QB was out there trying his best and by all accounts is a good KID. He certainly doesn’t deserve to have his manhood attacked by a reporter using false quotes. Good job, coach.
The reporter is certainly more self-aware than most.
Not surprising that a memeber of the press, protects another member of the press.
Personally I liked Gundy’s rant. A sports journalist is no different than a news journalist, always looking to make a reputation on the destruction of another individual. Anything to get to the next level, in this case to the pros.
It is refreshing to see a coach stick up for his players.
The skank reporter I can do without.
UH?
Women sports reporters.
Never a good idea.
“ours is often an intellectually dishonest industry...”
if duelling still existed there wouldn’t be too much of that. (”intellectually dishonest”...euphemism for lying, engaging in duplicity, finding an excuse for adolescence, and towing the party line.”
Personally, I liked the fact a coach was defending a football player not for something they did off or on the field, but against quite a few libelous claims that the reporter has to this day failed to back up with cooroboration.
Good for the coach. I’ve seen his ‘rant’ a couple of times now, and heard the rather lame ‘rebuttal’ such as it is by the woman in question.
Exactly.
Exception: Erin Andrews
I think the reporter is upset she isn’t covering something ‘important’ and is angry at being relegated to covering college football.
Hahahaha!
Right, just like the N&O did for those swaggering lacrosse players.
Yes, that was the result of his anger gaining control of his mouth, no denying it.
But the reporter has yet to offer up any cooroboration of her reporting.
Maybe.
But Gundy comes off as a loser and Reid comes off as a pansy.
Coach is a jerk, at least his rant was.....however well-intended. I’d be hiding if I was the 21 y/o QB and the coach put on such a performance on my behalf.....and I’m reasonably sure this QB is....
At 21, it’s time to take your smacks or defend against them yourself, with or without your team-mates.....if not at 21, then when?
I think the coach over-reacted.
I don’t mind him calling the QB a kid, he is a kid, and the coach is a surrogate father in many cases.
But there is no denying, the coach’s tirade put the heat right on the reporter.
Columnist Carlson Made a Mistake
"Why anyone in the media would choose to defend a column that is basically a message-board attack on a 21-year-old kid speaks to the insecurity of our profession."
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