TerryP
Staff
(Starting off with this quick thought: he's still carry a lot of anger about the responses he receives (yes, receives) about an article he wrote over 10 years ago concerning Alabama football. I've always found it fitting he landed covering the Black Bears after essentially getting "run oft." He gets a true WTF today for his use of an underscore in place of em dash.)
Now, back to Neal. It's a bit of a long read, folks. (Odd title as well, an editorial column sponsored by a Real Estate agent, hrrmpphh?)
His apology to Bama fans:
(I’d like to take this opportunity to once again apologize to the State of Alabama for my criticisms of the idiot fans in your Iron Bowl rivalry. You’re nuts, Alabama. Your football rivalry has led to the killing of famous trees and pranks involving statues, but you’re 100 percent sane compared to this circus here in the Magnolia State. Again, I was wrong. Please accept my most humble apologies. I’ll never make fun of you again — at least not without the context of saying some of the people involved in this mess over here long ago went full potato.)
His take on Bjork:
However, I’m going to get one thing off my chest here in the final 10 Weekend Thoughts before we all see the actual amended NOA and the responses to it:
I don’t see how anyone blames Ross Bjork for this. He didn’t hire any of the people involved. He didn’t come up with the initial plan of response. He could only look on with frustrated helplessness when the situation got rocked by some outside force. This situation was not of Bjork’s making, and frankly, I’m not sure what he could have done differently.
Perhaps the communication to alumni and ticket holders could have been improved. I wasn’t crazy about the “hostage video” in February. However, Bjork has been a professional throughout this crisis.
On the SEC Meetings:
6. The Southeastern Conference held its annual spring meetings last week in Destin, Florida. My primary takeaway: Damn, football coaches bitch a lot.
...from five paragraphs earlier in the column.
I was talking to another journalist on Sunday. He doesn’t cover college sports and he doesn’t live in this part of the country. We’re friends, and we were catching up on life. I was telling him I’d had a trip planned to Chicago for this upcoming weekend since the Major League Baseball schedule was released last year. The tickets for the Cubs and Fire games were purchased months ago. What were the chances, I was lamenting, that Ole Miss’ response would come down around the exact same time?
He's bitching about covering the news while bitching about football coaches bitching while making plans to see the Cubs play in the offseason...pretentious little fella, isn't he?
There's really nothing to read past his sixth item (other than grammatical errors, and those damn underscore symbols) ...
RebelGrove.com - McCready: 10 Weekend Thoughts presented by Harry Alexander
Now, back to Neal. It's a bit of a long read, folks. (Odd title as well, an editorial column sponsored by a Real Estate agent, hrrmpphh?)
His apology to Bama fans:
(I’d like to take this opportunity to once again apologize to the State of Alabama for my criticisms of the idiot fans in your Iron Bowl rivalry. You’re nuts, Alabama. Your football rivalry has led to the killing of famous trees and pranks involving statues, but you’re 100 percent sane compared to this circus here in the Magnolia State. Again, I was wrong. Please accept my most humble apologies. I’ll never make fun of you again — at least not without the context of saying some of the people involved in this mess over here long ago went full potato.)
His take on Bjork:
However, I’m going to get one thing off my chest here in the final 10 Weekend Thoughts before we all see the actual amended NOA and the responses to it:
I don’t see how anyone blames Ross Bjork for this. He didn’t hire any of the people involved. He didn’t come up with the initial plan of response. He could only look on with frustrated helplessness when the situation got rocked by some outside force. This situation was not of Bjork’s making, and frankly, I’m not sure what he could have done differently.
Perhaps the communication to alumni and ticket holders could have been improved. I wasn’t crazy about the “hostage video” in February. However, Bjork has been a professional throughout this crisis.
On the SEC Meetings:
6. The Southeastern Conference held its annual spring meetings last week in Destin, Florida. My primary takeaway: Damn, football coaches bitch a lot.
...from five paragraphs earlier in the column.
I was talking to another journalist on Sunday. He doesn’t cover college sports and he doesn’t live in this part of the country. We’re friends, and we were catching up on life. I was telling him I’d had a trip planned to Chicago for this upcoming weekend since the Major League Baseball schedule was released last year. The tickets for the Cubs and Fire games were purchased months ago. What were the chances, I was lamenting, that Ole Miss’ response would come down around the exact same time?
He's bitching about covering the news while bitching about football coaches bitching while making plans to see the Cubs play in the offseason...pretentious little fella, isn't he?
There's really nothing to read past his sixth item (other than grammatical errors, and those damn underscore symbols) ...
RebelGrove.com - McCready: 10 Weekend Thoughts presented by Harry Alexander