Please, tell me how to do my job, Manhatter. You know everything, right? Please, fill me in.
Hmmm, I told you how to do your job? Nice exagerration there big guy. I like most of your stuff but I thought calling the parents to ask why they were benched was a bit of a reach. Forgive me for reading one of your pieces and forming an opinion...I guess if I don't tell you how to do your job then you can tell me what opinions I shouldn't form.
Seriously, what did you expect the parents to say? I didn't realize Prince needed a permission slip to bench a RG for failing to pass block, run block, false starts, etc. I like most of your stuff but thought that was a reach. Shame on me for having an opinion.
However if you talk to a a parent of a kid that just got benched there is the chance they say something like "Ron Prince doesn't know his asshole from his earhole".
So old man Clayton and old man Spexarth are now knowledgable confidants on the building of a football program? Umm, okay. Great quote from Bill Snyder...not good quote from old man spexarth and old man Clayton. None of us know whether Prince knows his asshole from a hole in the ground and neither do the parents of two benched starters.
Go talk to Prince and current starting players parents only. That way we can hear the rosy red (non)story we all want.
Wouldn't want you to uncover any smoke. It could reveal a fire of some sort. But nothing is wrong. If your intuition says otherwise than ignore it. So don't go digging.
Nobody wants rosey if the man demands thorns. If Prince is a disaster then I'll want him hung up by his balls in the press as much as the next KSU fan. But calling the parents of kids who were just demoted...sorry, I don't see it. And he wasn't going to unearth some big fire in week 5 of Prince's first season by interviewing the father of a kid who can't cut it on the OL. He's not out to get the kid...you don't see this happening w/ the other 4 OL. It's one position and they simply aren't cutting it right now. No explanation is necessary for why Prince is benching an OL who isn't cutting it.
Manhatter would be the voice of reason for the Iraqi Information Minister under Sadaam. It's a f'ing story that he didn't like because it potrays his university in a bad light. Nothing was factually wrong. Everyone had a field day when Nebraska was having players leave and talk to the media about 2 years ago, now that it's on the other foot all of a sudden we expect the local media to just sit on their hands. Everyone seems to fluff J-Mart when he's getting the Huggs scoop or when he calls parents to get the scoop on b-ball recruiting...but God forbid he cover and document what looks like the start of a larger weeding out process by the coaching staff. It's pathetic.
Yep, that is how it works. JMart writes stories for public consumption...people are free to provide feedback are they not? Like I said...I LOVE a lot of JMart's work. Hell, I'm one of these dipcraps who is using fake names to ask silly question on his Q&A because I love his personality. And while I will openly and gladly pump JMart for stuff he digs up for scoopage I will also voice things that rub the other way. Should it be any other way? If your boss/friend/spouse/child/coach/client/customer whatever likes something they will tell you and if they don't then they will let you know. Is that a big deal? JMart's a big guy..he can take it.
Hatter definately thinks he knows everything.
LMAO. Hatter has admitted to being wrong thousands of times and will do so many times more. Big deal. Not sure where you get that from...so what if I have a strong opinion and stand by it. If it's wrong then I'll own up to it..always do.
