ESPNs Hard Hitting Article On Hobbs At The Tailgate...

[tico brown]

Theyve been silent on the UNC story but they will NEVER miss a chance on dragging Rutgers through the ground. At least 95% of the people in the comments have said that ESPN are morons for running this story.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-tailgate-party-event-shut-down?ex_cid=espnfb

 

[e5fdny]

 

[Knight Shift]

That article is not what anyone would call "hard hitting." It's barely an article. It's neutral and takes no stance. A quick review of the comments seems most can't understand what the big deal is.
Rutgers is unnecessarily making a big deal out of this

RUTGERS-Revolutionizing making mountains out of molehills for 250 years.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

That article is not what anyone would call "hard hitting." It's barely an article. It's neutral and takes no stance. A quick review of the comments seems most can't understand what the big deal is.
Rutgers is unnecessarily making a big deal out of this

RUTGERS-Revolutionizing making mountains out of molehills for 250 years.

This is a keeper. Well done.

 

[ScarletRunner]

I agree that this article will get zero traction, and there are no legs to this story ("Beer Incident"... absurd).

But it serves as further evidence that when it comes to Rutgers, ESPN and other media outlets are going to take anything that can be even remotely seen as negative, and throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

 

[shields]

And Carolina how many years of academic fraud?

 

[rurichdog]

NJ Advance Media and that smirking clownshoe Sargeant. They wrote the original article.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

I am glad that the comments was so pro us, even by people who are not Rutgers fans. It just goes to show you that most people couldn't care less.

 

[satnom]

ESPN get off Rutgers balls. Mike and Mike on radio saying it's a non story yet theyre talking about it.

GO RU

 

[Ole Cabbagehead]

Sometimes I think these message boards are the schools own worst enemy with stuff like this. Everyone here works themselves into a froth over every tiny thing. Star Ledger/nj.com writers pick it up from here. We all freak out driving tons of traffic to their spammy website, so they perpetuate the story to keep the clicks coming, then naitonal media picks up on what seems to be a big week long story in the NY metro.

People really need to learn how to ignore the noise.

 

[RUinPinehurst]

UNC's recent rogues gallery of ADs: Swofford, Baddour, Cunningham...

Swofford was at the helm during the creation of the UNC scandal, and is now, of course, the ACC commissioner. Baddour "retired" amidst the FB plagiarism/agent scandal, was AD during the scandal years, and is now collecting an annual pension of $281k from the state. Cunningham came in to pick up the pieces, and obfuscate, deny, deflect all scandal accusations, even after the Wainstein Report, continuing on with the now infamous UNC response to the NCAA's ANOA.

Further, reports over the last two weeks had "Bubba" accepting the AD job at Florida, only to backtrack now and turn down that job. The Ram's Club (UNC BOG and BOT) just could not let him slip from their grasp of influence. Got to keep him close. Real Close. Because he's doing such a fine AD job? Yeah. That's it.

Speaking of AD... flip the letters and you get DA, as in Jim Woodall, the Orange County DA and two-time UNC grad, who refused to press fraud charges against the two AFAM staffers at the supposed "core" of the UNC scandal; he did this as a reward for their cooperation with Ken Wainstein as he prepared his "report" on the scandal. And that very report UNC now says is inadmissible to the NCAA as its interviews were invalid, per the NCAA's own rules. Further, UNC is stating that since academics and academic fraud are not the purview of the NCAA, they have no authority to impose any punishment against UNC.

Dan Kane posted the fourth part of his four-part "Carolina's Blind Side" investigative series yesterday in the N&O. Note the connectivity between all points in the UNC the power base including Dicky B's family and the NC courts. Read it here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/special-reports/carolinas-blind-side/article102701612.html

 

[RUinPinehurst]

What Hobbs did by sipping a beer before underage undergrads is an outrage? Compared to the UNC AD saga, Hobbs actions are a tempest in a Solo cup.

 

[RUboston]

That article is not what anyone would call "hard hitting." It's barely an article. It's neutral and takes no stance. A quick review of the comments seems most can't understand what the big deal is.
Rutgers is unnecessarily making a big deal out of this

RUTGERS-Revolutionizing making mountains out of molehills for 250 years.

Exactly. Rutgers continues to walk around with a "kick me" sign affixed to its back.

 

[Steve91562]

The article is such a ludicrous, not-story that the typical reaction, as exemplified by the comments from fans across the country, is one more sympathy for RU, in the sense that Hobbs did nothing wrong and ESPN is trying to make something out of nothing. Sound familiar.

 

[Steve91562]

I agree that this article will get zero traction, and there are no legs to this story ("Beer Incident"... absurd).

But it serves as further evidence that when it comes to Rutgers, ESPN and other media outlets are going to take anything that can be even remotely seen as negative, and throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

This time I think it backfired on them. The typical reaction, from other fans, has been that ESPN is 'full of c#$p.'

 

[mildone]

Everyone here works themselves into a froth over every tiny thing.

That's what she said.

 

[mildone]

The comments under the story are pretty funny. Other than some self-righteous assholes, the consensus is that it's a total non-story and people think it's ridiculous that an AD can't sip a beer w/students.

 

[MV9000]

That is very pathetic. ESPN the TMZ of the sports world. Started with the hiring of non contributors like Sarina Morales who focus on fashion/non stories within sports. Wish their was another viable option for sports news with some good input from respected journalists and atheltes. FS1 sucks, ESPN sucks.