Is Steve Politi a RU football fan or not?

[Extra Point]

I assume he is a fan, but he is jumping the gun calling for the coachs to be fired before all the dust settles. Makes me think he is not a fan. Maybe he has a personal dislike of RU football management and he lets that bias leak into his editorials? Two players are charged with serious crimes not the entire team.

 

[RUboston]

It is obvious he has a dislike for the team and the school. He goes out of his way to emphasize the negative, no matter how small. All he writes is fire Rice, fire Pernetti, fire Barchi, fire Herman, fire Flood. Then fire their replacements. He's ecstatic this has happened.

 

[RU4Real]

I can't for the life of me imagine what would make anyone assume that Steve Politi is "a fan of Rutgers football".

He has no reason to be.

He is a fan of penis head care products. That's it.

 

[TheRacRU]

I always assumed he was not a fan but just covered the team as a job.

 

[Ole Cabbagehead]

Wow. The bar keeps getting raised.


No. Steve politi is not a Ritgers fan. He's an asshole who looks like a penis who is gonna have a nice chuckle when he sees this thread.

 

[j10oreo]

He's like the Al Sharpton of NJ.com. He's calling for jobs after every incident. Lacks objectivity and thinks acts of several troubled students over the past couple months outweighs all the good Flood has done over the past several years. He's not a fan, he's just looking for the next provocative headline that he can milk to death.

 

[mikemarc1]

I don't think any newspaper writer should be a "fan" of the team they cover. Just my opinion.

 

[RUforester72]

I assume he is a fan, but he is jumping the gun calling for the coachs to be fired before all the dust settles. Makes me think he is not a fan. Maybe he has a personal dislike of RU football management and he lets that bias leak into his editorials? Two players are charged with serious crimes not the entire team.

Are you kidding me???????

 

[Section118]

Any reporter who calls for a coach to be fired because his players off the field actions is a complete f'n moron. If that were the case then reporters would have called for Saban, Meyer, Malzhan, Richt, Kelly, Strong etc to be fired. You deal with the players once the legal system is shown and then you release them off the team. If you fired the coach there would be new coaches every year. Politi must be new to big time football because he sure has absolutely no idea on how to report on it. He jumped the gun and wrote a stupid piece which I'm sure he's already regretting considering how ignorant it is.

 

[RUich]

the same question was often raised about Tom Lucci when he was a SL reporter. The fact that he was also an alum caused a lot of consternation when he wrote something negative.
In answer to this charge, he would simply say that it was not his job to be a fan, but to write about what was happening.
All that said, Tom would say good things when good things happened.
The real question is does Politi do the same thing?

 

[RutgersRaRa]

I assume he is a fan, but he is jumping the gun calling for the coachs to be fired before all the dust settles. Makes me think he is not a fan. Maybe he has a personal dislike of RU football management and he lets that bias leak into his editorials? Two players are charged with serious crimes not the entire team.

No offense, but this post made me want to take painkillers.

 

[RUboston]

Lucci would write about how bad the team was when it was really bad. His negative stuff was usually about poor play on the field and poor coaching - and Rutgers deserved it. He didn't engage in the negative political stuff and look for sensational "news" or call for heads to roll every time something bad happened.

 

[DHajekRC84]

Somebody wearing something that said Rutgers on it took his blanket, or lolly pop, or something. Perhaps the coach of whatever checkers or tiddlywinks team he was trying out for was a Rutgers person and cut him.

 

[SAE96]

Remember how upset this tool was when Julie said it would be great if the SL went out of business? Now, however, he has no problem calling for people to be fired before any investigation is concluded. This guy is a total hypocrite.

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i..._if_the_star-ledger_went_out_of_business.html

"Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame."

 

[derleider]

I don't think any newspaper writer should be a "fan" of the team they cover. Just my opinion.

I disagree. Its sports. Its not the real world. While, due to the large financial impact, its nice to have SOME objective non-fan reporters to make sure that people arnet misusing all of that money, its not a huge deal to have some of the people reporting on a team actually liking the team. After all - their primary reason for existing isnt to undercover dirt, or offer critical reviews of the team - but to give the fans information and insights and information.

 

[DANTHEMAN]

he is trying to make a case...and doing a terrible job of it.

 

[newell138]

his twitter feed is like a 16 year old girls

 

[RU4Real]

Politi is a racist. Somebody should call him out on it.

 

[S.B. Crumb]

Is OP serious with this question?

 

[RU4Real]

What I don't get is...

This is New Jersey, right?

Now, I'm not sayin' anything bad is gonna happen to Politi, ya know? I mean, God forbid, right?

I'm just sayin'...

 

[FanuSanu52]

I don't think any newspaper writer should be a "fan" of the team they cover. Just my opinion.

They probably shouldn't be an irresponsible, half-truth-spreading impotent man-penis, either.

 

[RU_87]

I assume he is a fan, but he is jumping the gun calling for the coachs to be fired before all the dust settles. Makes me think he is not a fan. Maybe he has a personal dislike of RU football management and he lets that bias leak into his editorials? Two players are charged with serious crimes not the entire team.

I'd say it's not just Politi, but NJ Media in general. The NJ Media pendulum is closer to the National Enquirer style of reporting rather than true Journalism. The media needs to stop acting like Judge & Jury...they should just be reporting the facts and let the discovery process determine what was wrong. If Rutgers (or the NCAA, IF it's an NCAA matter) doesn't react appropriately (when the findings are finalized) then by all means voice that in the media by presenting examples of similar issues and appropriate punishment. The country (and in NJ even more-so) has gone overboard with letting the media interrupt Legal Due Process. What happened to our beliefs of innocent until proven guilty. Now, I don't personally believe they are innocent...but I also really don't know any of the facts on what happened. The last I'm going to do is trust that Politi knows best. Yes, the kids were caught doing something...but the right thing is report the arrest, report the investigation, let the investigation play out and then if guilty allow the University to take appropriate action (forced to part ways or whatever; make a statement that they didn't represent the Universities values, etc; implement an independent 3rd party to review the system and provide suggestions for improvements / steps to try to prevent these issues, etc.). This approach by Politi and the NJ Media is sensationalism.

A good University President and AD would've stepped in to make an announcement but keep it open-ended to allow the process to complete. We already know that Barchi disavows any need to be involved and Herman follows his lead and doesn't say a thing. That's why in NJ, we eat our own....leadership allows it and cowers, while hiding in the back room. This university and even this athletic program has done some good things, to be proud of that should not be left to letting someone just tear it down at their will to sensationalize and sell newspapers. It's the Rutgers leadership that allows for that to happen. Got to wonder how much they really care.

 

[RM60]

The OP is clearly joking.

 

[Extra Point]

Because of his bias maybe he should be reassigned to some other sports editorials and put someone else on Rutgers. I never pay attention too closely to sports commentators but one calling for people to be fired before finding out all of the facts is pretty bad. I think the NJ commentator should be a fan of the team because the team is not pro and it is the New Jersey school.

 

[JPhoboken]

Remember how upset this tool was when Julie said it would be great if the SL went out of business? Now, however, he has no problem calling for people to be fired before any investigation is concluded. This guy is a total hypocrite.

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i..._if_the_star-ledger_went_out_of_business.html

"Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame."

Many people, including you and I have brought this up today. Politi is the biggest hypocrite there is.

 

[RUScrew85]

What I don't get is...

This is New Jersey, right?

Now, I'm not sayin' anything bad is gonna happen to Politi, ya know? I mean, God forbid, right?

I'm just sayin'...

Should have taken my shot in Nebraska. I could have ended him.

 

[Armor and Sword]

He has raised an army of minions to do his bidding!

 

[RUsojo]

You would think your local paper would write an article like "Recent Player Arrests Uncharacteristic of Rutgers Program Known For Off Field Success"

 

[RUinPinehurst]

Politi is a UNC grad. And he is burdened by that in light of his school's scandal, which is the greatest in the history of the NCAA. This is significant.

With the two-decades plus of scandal that institution has brought on itself, well, I'm sure that is a contributing factor here, in his coverage of Rutgers. UNC was caught and shamed and will soon have to pay for their cheating via NCAA sanctions and vacated wins. Politi is smarting over this. Rutgers gives him an outlet.

Many UNC alum proclaim "all schools do it." And by that they mean "cheat." Sure, we do, as Politi is highlighting with Rutgers. See what trouble Rutgers is in? Told you so.

With that, it's easy to see how a UNC grad in a position as a journalist maybe motivated by their scandal to act out of their frustration.

 

[NorthernKnight]

I assume he is a fan, but he is jumping the gun calling for the coachs to be fired before all the dust settles. Makes me think he is not a fan. Maybe he has a personal dislike of RU football management and he lets that bias leak into his editorials? Two players are charged with serious crimes not the entire team.

This may be the dumbest post I ever saw. "I assume Steve Politi is a fan" definitely goes into the hall of fame for ignorance.

 

[MozRU]

College football is amazing of making you feel good with stats, awards and 100 bowls to pat your resume.From the absolute throttle Flood took in the ACC, sub par results last year in conference play to the embarrassment in recruiting, I think the guy is tired of covering a clown show. If you were a writer for Rutgers football are you beating your chest among your writer peers?

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

He is not a fan. He never has been and he never will be.

The end.

 

[CERU00]

This may be the dumbest post I ever saw. "I assume Steve Politi is a fan" definitely goes into the hall of fame for ignorance.

I'm afraid so. How could ANYONE have that thought?

 

[RUMBA-JK]

Politi is a UNC grad. And he is burdened by that in light of his school's scandal, which is the greatest in the history of the NCAA. This is significant.

With the two-decades plus of scandal that institution has brought on itself, well, I'm sure that is a contributing factor here, in his coverage of Rutgers. UNC was caught and shamed and will soon have to pay for their cheating via NCAA sanctions and vacated wins. Politi is smarting over this. Rutgers gives him an outlet.

Many UNC alum proclaim "all schools do it." And by that they mean "cheat." Sure, we do, as Politi is highlighting with Rutgers. See what trouble Rutgers is in? Told you so.

With that, it's easy to see how a UNC grad in a position as a journalist maybe motivated by their scandal to act out of their frustration.

He is sloppy & less than genuinely forthcoming (not bright enough to be cleverly dishonest) - possibly the mildest way to put it - just lazy in the pursuit of enough facts to create a complete picture - mixed with an obnoxious attitude .... and has been this way since his days as a staffer on the "Daily Tar Heel"

 

[willisneverrana43]

I assume he is a fan, but he is jumping the gun calling for the coachs to be fired before all the dust settles. Makes me think he is not a fan. Maybe he has a personal dislike of RU football management and he lets that bias leak into his editorials? Two players are charged with serious crimes not the entire team.

Are these serious questions? You understand that he is a columnist and part of the media, not a season ticket holder.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Do NOT click on any of this stuff on nj.com

He is measured by the amount of clicks he gets.

 

[ag67]

It is my belief that he was taking the same courses all those UNC athletes were taking, only he wasn't scoring in the same manner some of them were.[eyeroll]