Golden Nuggets 06.11.09

by GopherNation on Jun 11, 2009 3:00 AM CDT in Golden Nuggets Comment 10 comments

It is the offseason so I'm taking the liberty to go a little off-topic and I'm going to comment on Anthony's commentary over at The Daily Norseman. The ESPN / SI / Yahoo / anybody else and their coverage of the Brett Favre saga has progressed PAST ridiculous. Here is a quick recap of the coverage by the main stream media we go to for information...

Rich Schwartz of Yahoo! Sports reported in May that Favre would stay retired -- a report that was fishy at the time and has now been revealed as downright wrong. Shooter reported about a month ago that Favre was preparing to undergo surgery -- that report was directly contradicted less than 24 hours later by Ed Werder, and we still don't really know who was right. In early May, Zulgad and Scoggins reported that Childress had hopped on a flight to Hattiesburg to meet with Favre -- but that never happened. Peter King told us on Memorial Day that the Vikings wanted a decision from Favre before June 1st -- whoops, wrong again. And finally, Werder and Chris Mortensen reported on Monday that a deadline of this week had been imposed on Favre by Childress -- a report Chilly called "not even close."

People are just throwing crap against the wall and just HOPING they are right. And for WHAT? Do they want to be the first to report something accurate? Again, I turn to Anthony...

But really, does it matter who's first to the punch? Do you remember who broke the news of the Jared Allen trade, the Randy Moss trade, the firing of Mike Tice, the hiring of Brad Childress? I sure as hell don't. Would we really prefer a do-whatever-it-takes media climate in which reporters relentlessly push to be the first to break stories, or would we prefer a responsible sports media that values getting it right and building trust with its readers?

Anthony is absolutely right. Nobody cares who was first because even if ESPN reports is first, Yahoo!, CBSSports, Fox Sports and everybody else will also be reporting the same thing within minutes. If the mainstream media wants to hold themselves AS a higher standard than your typical blogger, then they really should hold themselves TO a higher standard in their reporting. This is their full-time job, do it accurately. I fully recognize that mistakes are made here at TDG (typos, lack of research into MLB draft rules, etc), but one should keep in mind that we are lucky to get an hour a day to post something of any substance. These guys have all day, please take the time to give us good information. ESPN is blatantly making up information and others are just plain guessing then masquarading it as fact.

I'm not intending to post on bloggers vs. main stream media. The intent here is to point out the idiocy of the reporting on Farvegeddon. Keep going to The Daily Norseman to get your daily Favre craziness.

This Bleacher Report report is going down his preseason top 50. He has the Gophers coming in at 39th and talks about the importance of Royston and Carufel at their respective positions.
SEANTREL HENDERSON NEWS! Notre Dame is not in his top ten which is pretty huge considering all highly ranked players out of Cretin go to Notre Dame. As of right now the key to landing Henderson might be that we have offered his buddy J.D. Pride (who the Gophers have offered).
SLAM magazine has published their final Fresh 75 list of the year. Royce White ends up 24th and Rodney Williams finished 41st.
Spring depth chart has been released Syracuse.

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A couple notes.....

(1) Syracuse’s defensive ends are TINY, 238 and 250 pounds? Maybe that’s what they want. I’d like to see Carufel and Wills on a sweep plant these guys in the turf. If we have a bruising tailback, he’d be able to run over those ends.

(2) Henderson has been highly ambiguous about his recruitment. He’s been to Michigan, he’s been to Minnesota, he’s been to Little Brother, and he’s liked all of them. He also has gone on the record as saying distance and the college’s style of football doesn’t matter to him. What does matter is the depth chart, the quarterback, and enjoying where he’s going.

When asked to list schools, Minnesota is the first he names. I think the recruitment will come down to Minnesota, USC, LSU and Michigan.

by JG2112 on Jun 11, 2009 6:45 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think you could take LSU out of that list

USC, Michigan and Minnesota come up the most often. And although those schools want him, I don’t think they will be willing to waste a scholarship on his buddy JD. We’ll be the only ones to offer him, Seantrel will verbally commit to us then on signing day if the big schools have a scholly they’ll offer and we’ll see what happens.

what you say here can, and will, be used against you

by GopherNation on Jun 11, 2009 8:55 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did I miss something here?

The Bleacher Report has Tramaine Brock on the roster.. did things with him get cleared up?

"If we got to we're going to crawl in this locker room. And on our back is going to be an axe..."

by buddylee853 on Jun 11, 2009 10:02 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't think so

probably just an error

what you say here can, and will, be used against you

by GopherNation on Jun 11, 2009 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Landing Seantrel

would be huge for this program! Please stay home Seantrel! It’s cool to play for the Gophers again!

by GreasyLlama on Jun 11, 2009 10:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

GN -

The JD Pride issue won’t hurt Michigan. They already have a top 10 spread QB for 2010 (Devin Gardner) and would probably not renew one of their fifth year pro-style QBs (David Cone) if it meant offering Pride and getting the package of Henderson and Pride.

In the 2009 class, they got Florida QB Denard Robinson (whose other final school was Florida) by also offering DB Adrian Witty. They took three guys from Pahokee High in Florida in 2009. They have no issue doing the package deal, even if one is just a raw recruit.

by JG2112 on Jun 11, 2009 11:30 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

but...

Witty was at least VERY fast (part of 4×100 state championship team in Florida). And a 2008 ACL tear may have slowed his recruiting. Pride is a lower tier prospect than Witty imo.

what you say here can, and will, be used against you

by GopherNation on Jun 11, 2009 1:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

One thing I've learned

is that many sports bloggers are far more reliable than the so called professionals. They tend to be more knowledgable about the teams they blog, and truly care about the topics they talk about, not just trying to throw out a column for the sake of filling up print space.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t know who broke the stories you mention, but I remember who broke the Lloyd Carr retirement story. And that he didn’t get credit from the mainstream media for it.
And Farvegeddon has gone on for 2 years too long.

by chitownhawkeye on Jun 11, 2009 7:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Henderson

Im banking on Tubby Smith helping in his recruiting. He is a very capable basketball player. And really wants to walk on to a hoops program. Word is that Tubby is more than happy to have him and Brewster and Tubby have collaborated on Bryant Allen out of Missouri who took his team to the MO state championship game(not sure if they won or not). He is under scholarship on the football team. A main reason Payton and Busch are not coming back to the hoops program.

by DallasGopher on Jun 12, 2009 6:43 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Also...

I would love nothing more than Henderson to commit to MN and watch him play against USC and win. It would be sweet. I would cross USC off the list…they are in potential trouble and may not see any bowl games about the time he will be in his 2nd or 3rd year due to NCAA sanctions…it may not happen but why take the chance…He will get his TV time by playing USC, Penn State, Michigan and OSU…maybe mix in TX and his exposure to NFL scouts is as good as any team if not better than most in the big 10.

by DallasGopher on Jun 12, 2009 6:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs