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Did you guys see the Wall Street Journal this morning?

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RVACane said:
Ok. Lol yeah, that was the biggest joke about it. As was mentioned, they talked about our ****** season while “Florida’s season is thriving” and there’s a 1 game difference at the time of the article.
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Go Gata?
 
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RVACane said:
They’re trying to spin a bull**** story with a gator-Rashada-slant how the bad Miami Billionaire tried corrupting this kid with money but in the end he made a moral decision by forsaking greater riches.
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Wait, they used a photo of him posing in-front of the Lambo of the head of an an illegal fan collective... and they're being painted as the good guys?

Good lord.
 
I actually do have a WSJ sub and it is an excellent source of news. Even the sports section, while not as well-staffed as some other outlets, has some great long-form articles.

This article is just trash though. It was pretty clear the writer had no outside knowledge of the current situation at either school.
 
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Markets always correct themselves. This batch of recruits are lucky their procreators had a good night.

Sundays are looking better than ever.

Go Jets! lol
 
Are some of y’all shocked by this? Have you not seen the death of journalism the last decade or two ? It’s all agenda driven bs , from politics down to sports. Opinion pieces rather than actual unbiased reporting. I’m sure this writer has some connection to UF or a booster and this bs was pushed off to damage UM in recruiting while to building up UF. Just pushing a narrative to cover up what really happened.
 
Cribby said:
Are some of y’all shocked by this? Have you not seen the death of journalism the last decade or two ? It’s all agenda driven bs , from politics down to sports. Opinion pieces rather than actual unbiased reporting. I’m sure this writer has some connection to UF or a booster and this bs was pushed off to damage UM in recruiting while to building up UF. Just pushing a narrative to cover up what really happened.
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Modernized muckraking without any semblance of journalistic talent. That is media in a nutshell now. Reactionary and over opiniated twats with a biased view and a refusal to view any side but their own or whatever their agenda is in the moment. The more people that gravitate towards it, the less worth it has to me as far as I'm concerned.
 
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This article is just a cheap way to take away one of our main positives as a program, the article failed miserably.
 
its says... meanwhile Florida was thriving. LOL... were gonna end with the same record.
 
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Cribby said:
Are some of y’all shocked by this? Have you not seen the death of journalism the last decade or two ? It’s all agenda driven bs , from politics down to sports. Opinion pieces rather than actual unbiased reporting. I’m sure this writer has some connection to UF or a booster and this bs was pushed off to damage UM in recruiting while to building up UF. Just pushing a narrative to cover up what really happened.
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They just paraphrase press releases and info that's fed to them. The movie Network predicted this all 46 years ago. Tabloid would become mainstream and mainstream would become tabloid.
 
CaneBear0207 said:
www.wsj.com

A Top Recruit Was Lured to Miami With a Big Money Offer. Then the Hurricanes Started Losing.

Four-star recruit Jaden Rashada picked Miami for the lure of endorsement deals. He flipped to Florida in the middle of a mediocre season for the ’Canes.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
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I posted this (below) in the "Some Info on Jaden Rashada" thread. I also e-mailed the author of the article to explain all of the factual inaccuracies in her article. She has not yet responded to me.





First, that article is the biggest load of BULLCRAP ever. But it is proof-positive that the Journalism School at the University of Florida is paying dividends, as the Gaytors managed to plant that false story with a clueless reporter. We just have to be honest, the WSJ has no "sports reporters" on staff, they have no clue, they are trying to write a "financial" article about sports, and they are relying on "several people involved with Florida's collectives" as the source. In other words, multiple people with no independence and an obvious agenda telling the same lie so that the WSJ can count them as multiple sources, per journalistic "standards".

Second, and I have said this before, the Gaytors like to mislead the world about dollar amounts, and they like to play games with "Year 4" of an NIL deal. We have discussed this before, the original Gaytor offer was $10M, or $2.5M per year for 4 years while enrolled in school. Now the offer is $11M. I can tell you exactly when and where the extra $1M will be paid (hint: now, because the Gaytors have belatedly decided to pay recruits who are still in high school). However, Miami's offer was a smaller amount while in high school, and smaller annual amounts, but all years would be paid even if Rashada left early for the NFL (which is not what the Gaytors offered to do). As I have explained before, the combination of front-loading and payroll taxes put UM's original NIL offer ahead of the original Gaytors' offer ON A NET PRESENT VALUE BASIS, not a total cash POSSIBILITY basis.

Third, anyone who is gullible enough to believe that Jaden Rashada's dad will take LESS money than has already been guaranteed to him by LifeWallet, or accept vague dollar amounts that have not yet been specified, IS INSANE. It's just not happening. Not ever. Certain Gaytors can play plausible deniability games, but it's a load of bullsh!te.

Fourth, this bullcrap about "quarterback a team in rebuild mode when he could play for a more stable team in the powerful SEC instead" is one of the most insane things I've ever read. Has anyone actually WATCHED the Gaytors play? That ******* disastrous offense led by "OC Slingblade Billy" is in "rebuild mode" as well. The entire roster of QBs is disastrous, and they have whiffed on all their QB targets (for the next couple of years) until this Hail Mary play. The OL is not good, the WRs are not good, the TEs are not good. The absolute best players on the Gaytor offense have been transfers, and BY DEFINITION, that puts the Gaytors in rebuilding mode. "More stable team?" Both teams just fired their prior coaches 11 months ago.

Finally, notice the arful use of "true, but misleading" language in the WSJ article:

---"their initial discussions with Rashada never got as far as specific dollar amount" - SURE, that was the case SIX MONTHS AGO. But notice how the author (and/or the sources) want you to believe that this is STILL the case. So if the Gaytors have STILL not gotten to a specific dollar amount, how can they POSSIBLY say that Rashada will make less (or more) money in Hogtown than he would have in Miami? DON'T BE BAMBOOZLED BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LIES.

---"Rashada reconsidered, they said, because..." - Oh, so now the source for why a player reconsidered is...COLLECTIVE EMPLOYEES? Are you ******* kidding me? It's impossible to ask the recruit himself? You know, a DIRECT FIRST-PERSON SOURCE? So now we have regressed to a journalistic hellscape when employees of a university collective are the source for the mental state of another adult human being? What a joke.

This entire article reminds me of times when I've seen newspapers get so lazy about writing articles of their own, that they just print the press releases that were given to them.

Pathetic.
 
RVACane said:
Ok. Lol yeah, that was the biggest joke about it. As was mentioned, they talked about our ****** season while “Florida’s season is thriving” and there’s a 1 game difference at the time of the article.
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And after Game 11 (of 12), there is STILL a one-game difference between UM and UiF...
 
clg003 said:
its says... meanwhile Florida was thriving. LOL... were gonna end with the same record.
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Not saying they’re much better off than we are but they didn’t get blown out by a MTSU level team. If we’re being real with our selves, it’s not just a 1-game difference in record, it’s how and who we’ve lost to.
 
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