Recently the local paper, The Mountain Press had an editorial, Protecting the Quarterback.
They wrote about the ranting done by the coach of Oklahoma State University’s football team. The coach was upset over a column in the newspaper critical of his second-string quarterback. The column suggested the quarterback had a bad attitude……. Then they wrote “It’s hard to know how far to go in critiquing and analyzing college athletes. They’re amateurs for sure but……”
They wrote about the ranting done by the coach of Oklahoma State University’s football team. The coach was upset over a column in the newspaper critical of his second-string quarterback. The column suggested the quarterback had a bad attitude……. Then they wrote “It’s hard to know how far to go in critiquing and analyzing college athletes. They’re amateurs for sure but……”
Later in the same edition there was an article attributed to The Associated Press under a headline Vols’ Lincoln tunes out distractions. In the article the author wrote about Fulmer’s Boot Camp where “Some of it can’t be put into print, most of it can’t. It’s been everything from trying to distract you. Standing behind you talking, yelling at you while you’re doing it. Get hit in the head with things, having to run stadiums if you miss something or you get a kick blocked.” I’m not an expert in writing in the English language but I believe The Associated Press’s sentence structure would not be looked upon favorably by an English teacher.
Now back to your editorial ……..college sports are a multimillion dollar business, and people fork over hundreds, thousands, of dollars to get good seats to support the team.
Now let’s think for a minute. Is Coach Fulmer a sadist? Is he the only football coach who abuses players in attempts to get them to do better and maybe even their best?
Do you suppose Oklahoma State University’s Coach Gundy just did not like someone criticizing his player? A woman criticize him? Football is a man’s sport. Coach Gundy has charged that reporter Carlson’s article is 3/4ths errors but refuses to identify the errors. Do you suppose Coach Gundy may have been upset over his defense allowing a school record 718 yards or that they helped the opposition’s quarterback rack up the fourth-highest passing total in major college football history, which in turn dropped his team to 116th in the nation in pass defense? Only three teams have worse marks.
Maybe Coach Gundy was distracted and a reporter asked him the wrong question at the wrong time. This is not the first time Gundy has overreacted. Maybe it is because his program lives in a huge shadow in its own state (ever hear of Oklahoma?) and is an afterthought in the national conversation. Maybe Coach Gundy just wants his super-secret, sacrosanct program to be accountable to no one.
Now back to your editorial ……..college sports are a multimillion dollar business, and people fork over hundreds, thousands, of dollars to get good seats to support the team.
Now let’s think for a minute. Is Coach Fulmer a sadist? Is he the only football coach who abuses players in attempts to get them to do better and maybe even their best?
Do you suppose Oklahoma State University’s Coach Gundy just did not like someone criticizing his player? A woman criticize him? Football is a man’s sport. Coach Gundy has charged that reporter Carlson’s article is 3/4ths errors but refuses to identify the errors. Do you suppose Coach Gundy may have been upset over his defense allowing a school record 718 yards or that they helped the opposition’s quarterback rack up the fourth-highest passing total in major college football history, which in turn dropped his team to 116th in the nation in pass defense? Only three teams have worse marks.
Maybe Coach Gundy was distracted and a reporter asked him the wrong question at the wrong time. This is not the first time Gundy has overreacted. Maybe it is because his program lives in a huge shadow in its own state (ever hear of Oklahoma?) and is an afterthought in the national conversation. Maybe Coach Gundy just wants his super-secret, sacrosanct program to be accountable to no one.
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