Golden Nuggets for 11.26.08
by GopherNation
on Nov 26, 2008 8:21 AM CST
in Golden Nuggets
This is late again, only premieum subscribers get the early edition. There of course are not subscriptions, but for the right price we might be able to e-mail you somehting a little earlier.
Ed Note #2 - As a result of the close loss on Saturday night the guys over at BHGP have won our little blogger bet. As a result they get a post on TDG for the day. Be careful what links you click and despite being Iowa fans they are good guys and try not to get too riled up over what may appear on this fine blog.
Lets kick things off this morning with a few choice words from Gopher hockey coach, Don Lucia as he talked about some of the biggest changes he has seen over career.
"The biggest change in my ten years at Minnesota is the exposure. Gopher games on TV, pre & post game shows & talk radio. "
"The internet has probably had the biggest impact, because it is a sounding board for people. They want the instant gratification. Maybe they think they understand what is going on and they really don't."
"The internet is a way for people to get together and say how great our program is or how bad our program is. I always say its never as great as you think our program is or as bad as you think it is."
"I think you need to not get caught up with what people say on a talk radio show. Not what somebody's saying in a newspaper. Not what somebody's saying on a blog."
So let me get this straight. Talk Radio = good. Internet = bad. I'm willing to bet that your average TDG reader who cares about Gopher hockey knows more about it than anyone who is currently employed at KFAN or WCCO. I know very little about Gopher hockey but give me 60 min and a laptop and I'm certain I can talke more coherently about it than Chad Hartman.
- In a mix of radio and blogging excellence, I represented TDG on the award winning CFB Weekly and their podcast. It is quick and if you are only interested in TDG's portion it comes at about the 32 min mark.
- Alabama's blog, Roll Bama Roll discusses exactly what I was thinking. Bob Stoops thinks that a playoff would end the jockeying for position by coaching staffs interested getting the Big 12 South bid. The problem is, even with a playoff only one or two Big 12 teams gets into this mythical playoff. And even if you eliminate Texas Tech then Tex/OK will still be politicking for seeding and which team gets into the B12 Championship game.
- Charlie Walters is throwing poo against the wall again (sometime his speculation will stick). Maybe Glen Mason will end up at Syaracuse and face the Gophers to start the season in 2009. Maybe.
- Lew's Blues has some interesting Tennessee coaching speculation and editorial. There is nothing about Brewster but he nicely ties in Kentucky's search to replace Tubby.
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I see nowhere where Lucia stated that talk radio was good and the Internet was bad. Not from what you posted in your column. His point, I believe, was that there is added exposure due to talk radio, but that no matter what the medium, as a coach he has to take measures to be sure not to get caught up in armchair analysis.
Given what the State of Minnesota pays Lucia to coach college hockey, I would hope he doesn’t coach based on what he hears on TV or talk shows.
by JG2112 on Nov 26, 2008 9:39 AM CST 0 recs
you right
failed post on my part. I read it too quickly and missed the “not” in “I think you need to not get caught up with what people say on a talk radio show.”
sorry, I did this really fast this morning.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
by GopherNation on
Nov 26, 2008 10:51 AM CST
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Hartman
You should set your “bar of radio competence” a little higher than with Chad “Legacy” Hartman. His attempt to be the “liberal Barreiro” is more than nauseating. It’s unlistenable and I’m certain you could do a better job given your work here.
by JG2112 on Nov 26, 2008 9:41 AM CST 0 recs
MN Sport coverage in general
Is astonishingly pathetic. I’ve lived in other cities and it is so unbelievably bad in the Twin Cities given that this is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country.
Sometimes, just like why you go see the freakshows at the circus, I watch that god-awful Sports Wrap show that is on channel 23 or 45 or whatever just-slightly-above-public-access channel it is on. Mike Max hosts with Dark Starr, Reusse, and Sid Hartman. The sad thing is, those guys really are the faces of MN sports coverage and we all know they are terrible. That show is fun to watch because of how much of a trainwreck it is.
KFAN is no exception. For one, half the time I listen to it, they aren’t even talking about sports, but some tangential topic that deserved no more than 10 seconds that they turn into 10 minutes. The morning show is unlistenable.
The entire sports reporting scene needs fresh faces and youth. These old curmudgeons just don’t know what they are doing anymore.
by rencito on Nov 26, 2008 4:01 PM CST 0 recs
Furthermore...
I know that the show Around the Horn on ESPN is very polarizing. Some love it, some hate it. I actually have come to love it more than PTI…but that is only because Kornheiser isn’t there half the time anymore.
Anyways, I always wonder why they don’t have anyone from the Twin Cities on the show. They have someone from Denver—a similarly sized market. But then I think, well, who from the Twin Cities is competent enough to even be on that show. I can’t think of anyone that wouldn’t be a total trainwreck.
by rencito on Nov 26, 2008 4:05 PM CST 0 recs
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