Plug Talk 9/26/17

[TheOriginalCane]

Remember, this is the same "fanbase" that have many people who adore Dan LeBatard, gush over him and his show...and you still have folks who give Canesport their business.
Disgusting.

Wait what's the issue with Lebatard?

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

 

[orange&green84]

Wait what's the issue with Lebatard?

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

So in short, LeBatard lacks ethics.

 

[Cribby]

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

So in short, LeBatard lacks ethics.

I've always been amazed at cane fans who are cool with Lebatard, dude is lower than Robinson. Absolute scum bag that earned his reputation by trashing his alma mater.

 

[AUcane]

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

So in short, LeBatard lacks ethics.

and is a shameless self-promoter. Sounds about right.

 

[orange&green84]

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

So in short, LeBatard lacks ethics.

I've always been amazed at cane fans who are cool with Lebatard, dude is lower than Robinson. Absolute scum bag that earned his reputation by trashing his alma mater.

Never been a fan of his. He doesn't do anything that I consider good for the status he holds. I don't even know how he has his own show, and why that show is still on.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Wait what's the issue with Lebatard?

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

So, the abridged version, is he's a filthy rat piece of shīt. He gets told things in confidence, as a friend, and later reveals them when he can personally profit from betraying the confidence his friends have in him.

It must be well known among Miami football alumni from that time, because I rarely see him interview anybody from that time if ever. Although I have to be honest, I avoid him and his show and pretty much never watch ESPN anymore

 

[paksat]

is franks or zaire starting to stand out?

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

So, the abridged version, is he's a filthy rat piece of shīt. He gets told things in confidence, as a friend, and later reveals them when he can personally profit from betraying the confidence his friends have in him.

It must be well known among Miami football alumni from that time, because I rarely see him interview anybody from that time if ever. Although I have to be honest, I avoid him and his show and pretty much never watch ESPN anymore

That's an excellent point. Michael Irvin isn't friends with LeBatard. None of those guys from that era are.

 

[RVACane]

is franks or zaire starting to stand out?

Neither. McSharkfukker benched Franks again, this time for Luke del Rio, who he yanked Franks for in the last game. Zaire was God-awful when he had his shot and a week ago Franks was the 2nd coming and now he's riding the pine. It really is a well-managed situation.

 

[Canefam]

is franks or zaire starting to stand out?

Neither. McSharkfukker benched Franks again, this time for Luke del Rio, who he yanked Franks for in the last game. Zaire was God-awful when he had his shot and a week ago Franks was the 2nd coming and now he's riding the pine. It really is a well-managed situation.

Totally expected... UF is where QB's going to die on the vine... You can add WR's and RB's to that list too!!!

 

[Paskudnyak]

Wait what's the issue with Lebatard?

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

You're overly sensitive.

 

[Zbrod95]

Aside from the fact that he's a Rat Snitch who contributed to the school getting heavy sanctions in the mid 1990s?

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

You're overly sensitive.

Why the *** are you still allowed to post here?

 

[Brooklyndee]

no Nay'quan Wright huh

Whatever happened to him anyway? Thought he was suppose to be that man.

He's been out this season so far with an injury(ankle I believe)

 

[Paskudnyak]

He was basically the previous Charles Robinson, except he did it to his own alma mater.


From Wiki-

Miami Herald
Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for its sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college's football team, breaking the Miami Hurricanes Football Team Pell Grant scandal.

I don't believe the pell grant scandal is attributable to LeBatard. Maybe other investigations in the early 90s. But if I recall correctly it was a Sun Sentinel writer.

OK, let's clarify. LeBatard was a classmate of mine (we literally had classes together) and he was the Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane, while I was an occasional writer for the newspaper. We both lived in Eaton Residential College at the same time, across the street from the football apartments (at the time). Dan, while talented, has always had a self-promotional streak that ignored the impact on others. He was suspended from The Miami Hurricane for a while because he (repeatedly) published Lou Holtz's personal phone number. He also got into trouble with his employers shortly after graduating.

What Dan did is as follows. Over the years, he became personally friendly with numerous football players. In turn, they confided information in Dan that he never published while writing for The Miami Hurricane. However, once Dan was working for The Herald and he wanted to raise his profile to a national level, he wrote about the various small stuff that he knew about from prior years, such as the players' connections with Uncle Luke, the small cash pots that accumulated for "big hits", and various minor infractions such as those.

THEN, in connection with THAT information, there was additional scrutiny and reporting by OTHER media sources, and we came to learn of the acts by Tony Russell (FAFs, Pell Grants), as well as some other institutional stuff (the UM Bookstore had a poor system for buying back books that allowed athletes to sell back books that the Athletic Department purchased and owned; also, there were miscalculations of the dollar amounts allowed for off-campus housing, thus giving athletes a bigger overage check than they should have had).

My problem with Dan LeBatard has ALWAYS been that (a) if he was so bothered by what he knew about former players, he should have either reported that information when he wrote for The Miami Hurricane, or at least IMMEDIATELY once he joined the Herald, and the delay in doing so was convenient for his career, particularly since his Esquire gig went to ****e; (b) he abused the confidence of his fellow students by giving the impression that what they told him was off the record, while he later went on to use that information; and (c) he never made any attempt to report what he knew PERSONALLY (and not as a journalist) to anyone at UM who could have taken corrective action while the athletes were still enrolled at UM, but only did so after everyone was gone, thus it is the very definition of "later" UM student-athletes paying the price for what "preceding" student-athletes did, but with absolutely no repercussions to the actual wrongdoers.

You're overly sensitive.

Why the *** are you still allowed to post here?

Settle down.