I was just about to post the same thing but considering my earlier post about treatment of the sooners in the ok media I think the fact that she tried to make getting fed by your mother some dishonorable act is what got him fired up.
Dude, don't be so hard on yourself, you may become a man one day, and hopefully develop a sense of humor and realize why this thread title is funny coming from me.
Good for him. That article was really, really harsh. I have no problem with booing poor performances on the field, but ripping into a kid like she did REALLY crosses the line.
i think so. i don't think it matters. he's an amateur athlete...and a college student. it's one thing to criticize play on the field. quite another to write personal stuff. i just don't see any place for that.
Apparently the paper is very anti OSU and very pro OU. I can see how it would be very frustrating. I hear they usually collect all the papers in the hotels that they stay at so nobody reads the garbage.
The paper is owned by the gaylord family who also happens to have their name plastered all over OU (including having the stadium named after them) So yes, there is most definitely a bias in that paper.
I still don't see what the big deal is. Chicken isn't THAT difficult a food to eat, even for a college football player. Perhaps if it were something complicated to eat like ramen noodles or lima beans, he might need his mommy's help, but come on, it's freaking chicken! Hell, you can eat a drumstick with one hand.
I've never understood why some consider college athletes to be "off limits" to the media in terms of negative reporting, particularly those that are 21 years old and up. Bobby Reid is old enough to die in Iraq. He's old enough to drink. He's a legally defined adult in every society in the world. Is he technically getting paid? No, but he's getting a free college education simply because he can throw a ball, while thousands of other more intelligent folks are paying out their asses. Meanwhile, Oklahoma State has no problems making tons of money off Reid and their team, marketing them like a professional business. So, given all that, where the hell does Gundy get the right to hide between the veil of "amateur"? Bobby Reid is a grown man. As for going "personal," which some of her critics have argued was her mistake, how many threads have we had here about random things that Vince Young/Matt Schaub/insert QB here have done to show their "leadership"? When you're a quarterback -- particularly when you're of legal age and at a Division I, BCS school with national title aspirations -- you're held to a different standard. Don't like it? Don't get in. But your character can be correlated at times to leadership, which is the perceived job of a quarterback by many people. As a result, it may show up in the newspaper. If I'm the parent of a star recruit, I'm hoping my kid stays away from a man who looks like a deranged, uneducated lunatic. More than anything else, how the hell does he get off ranting like that for a column he admittedly didn't read? And to this day -- three days later -- he still hasn't raised a valid criticism of any point that's actually in the article. The column isn't great by any means, but Gundy looks like a complete buffoon. I've lost a lot of respect for both him and the Oklahoma State fans taking up for him through this.
Oh give me a break. Were you completely mature at 21? In fact, have you ever been in a high profile athletic position at a Division I school. I doubt it. So you have no idea what the kid is going through... and saying that he could die in Iraq makes him an adult is stupid. Do you honestly think that the 18-21 year olds fighting for us overseas are completely mature? No they absolutely are not. They can follow orders, most of them, and do the best they can... just like this kid. So do you blame them when the war takes longer than it should... no you don't, you freaking blame the morons that put them in that position. Just like Gundy said, blame the coach not the kid. Also, there is no correlation between maturity and age. Some 21 year olds can handle the pressure of a high profile position and the media that bash them. Hell, some 30 year olds can't handle it either. Just because they can or can't take the heat it doesn't make the media personally attacking and bashing their character right. It's all sensationalism to sell papers, and the fact that it is allowed to go on, says a lot about the nature of the media in general. If it were strictly saying what they did right and wrong that would be one thing... but this article did not do that. It basically said that the kid was a wuss, had no drive and is a lazy mama's boy. If it were strictly facts about his game performance then there wouldn't be a discussion at all.
when she talked about his mom feeding him she crossed the line. it has nothing to do with football, leadership or otherwise.
