ESPN has played the Mike Gundy tirade as often as they possibly can. Hey, it’s filler so that they don’t need any more original programming; as if showing SportsCenter 15 times a day wasn’t enough. I swear I’ve seen it a hundred times (and you can too). I like what Gundy did — his stock with the entire team is through the roof now. The article in question began like this:
Bobby Reid stood near the team charters last Friday night, using his cell phone, eating his boxed meal.
It would’ve been normal post-game activity but for one thing.
His mother was feeding him chicken.
Which brings us to the quarterback switch-a-roo at Oklahoma State.
The first thought that ran through my head with this was the similarity to Pat Bostick’s situation. A member of the media (ESPN Radio’s Mark Madden) made a comment about a player that delves into his personal life (about the supposed “panic attacks”). Just sayin’.
The game this week is on ESPNU. Pitt would rather be on a “national” channel that a large majority of their fans don’t even get rather than be an ABC/ESPN Regional game that most fans can actually watch. Fans always come first to the Pitt athletic department, no question. Maybe I’ll go to a restaurant and watch the game. Maybe I’ll listen to Hillgrove and Fralic on the radio. Perhaps I’ll actually enjoy my Saturday night and not even watch/listen instead of Pitt ruining another beautiful weekend night for me.
Virginia is 3-1, including a tight win over Georgia Tech last week. In SI’s power rankings, they come in at 43 (with Pitt at 78). Virginia sophomore QB Jameel Sewell has picked it up in the last few games after playing horrendously in the opener, a loss against Wyoming. Since that ugly game, he’s completed 64.3 percent of his passes for 333 yards and three touchdowns.
More importantly, Sewell has contributed in three wins for the Cavaliers (3-1, 3-0 ACC), which includes the most recent victory, a 28-23 decision over Georgia Tech. Against the Yellow Jackets’ vaunted blitz-happy defense, Sewell passed for a 177 yards and guided the team on two lengthy touchdown drives.
The Pitt defense’s ability to get into Sewell’s head early and throw him off for the entire game is a possibility, and a key to a Panthers victory. Too bad he’ll have all day to throw like every other QB we’ve faced this year. For now, we’re 7-point underdogs.
that being said, id pay good money to see wanny punch smizik in the face.
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Okay, yeah… but he appeared a lunatic for ranting nearly 4 min.
Good statement for a good cause, but that’s why you hire an agent or publicist.
I was simply lost by the guy’s tirade and, resultantly, forgot whatever the point he’d sought to make/ address.
Now, it’d be understandable supposing OKst. got throttled for naught. But if you can’t keep a cool head (esp. after a big W; Texas Tech.;#30 USA Today Poll, week 2), then no one’s going to follow your argument about “kids†and/or values.
Yeah, it was too bad.
What Gundy did was a VERY honorable and respectable thing to do. He stuck up for one of his players whom he felt was unfairly criticized, and in my book, that’s the right thing to do.
So I put on ESPN this morning and they’re making a mockery of the guy.
So this is modern, conformist society people. You do the right thing, you speak out against something you feel is wrong, you stick up for your people….
….and for your efforts you get humiliated in the media, thus discouraging others that might someday to go speak out against something they disagree with or others that might go and defend one of their people from doing so.
Instead of ESPN applauding this guy for doing what was absolutely the right thing, they try to make him out to be some lunatic because he got loud and fought for what he thought was right.
So there’s your lesson kids. When you see something wrong or want to stick up for your friends, just forget and keep quiet because if you do get angry about it you’ll just be made to look like a buffoon by a bunch of media hacks that have no testicles.