https://twitter.com/ESPNRobertSmith/status/663200688877477888
tweet by Robert Smith:
Gotta feel good for those
#Nebraska kids after all their close losses. Way to go big Red!
mind you, this is the same idiot who screamed bloody murder that Duke got shafted and wanted Miami to forfeit their win. he's getting blasted on Twitter for being a hypocrite lol
This is disturbing. Yes disturbing and on a few levels. This whole anti UM bias is to the point of being pathological. The entire thing is bizarre, irrational and completely severed from reality. The fact that dozens and dozens of media personalities chose to embrace something so blatantly dishonest and destructive is frankly beyond my ability to comprehend. What makes this deranged phenomenon even more perplexing is the fact that the vast majority of these people are fully grown and well educated adults. These are professionals that make their living watching, analyzing and discussing sports.
I would have a very difficult time trying to articulate just how overwhelming it is for me to sit here and process how all of these well educated professional adults could consciously chose to take part in such blatantly immature, hypocritical and malicious nonsense. Isn't it about time that this insanity was confronted? I don't have the words to sufficiently describe how appalling and despicable I find this behavior to be. For how much longer are we just going to sit idly by while these self righteous montebanks continue to deficate on all of the hard work these young men put in everyday? For how much longer are we going to sit here and allow these spineless jackals to maliciously slander these kids that proudly represent the University of Miami? These young men have never done anything to any of these media hacks to deserve the onslaught of vile hatred continuously levelled at them yet the attacks persist.
It's about **** time that someone with some intestinal fortitude called these people out for the vicious hate mongers that they are! Isn't it about **** time that someone asked what it is that they are so scared of? Why are they so terrified of confident and talented black athletes playing football with passion and enthusiasm at the highest levels? They seem to be fine with it as long as said African American athletes do so at an establishment institution like Alabama, Notre Dame, or Ohio St. How is it possible that no one has challenged the media's lazy and dishonest stereotyping of these young men that represent the University of Miami? Is it because the good ol boy network of traditional college football still resent the fact that a bunch of outspoken, brash and uber talented inner city kids at a small private school in Miami had a blast running roughshod of the sacred cows of college football? Is this our punishment for running train on their cookie cutter establishment? When exactly did golf etiquette begin to inbue the fabric of college football? When did it become so important to make doubly sure that no ones feelings get hurt? I'm guessing it was probably around the same time that a bunch of hungry and talented inner city kids from South Florida decided to crash the establishment party without an invitation and radically redifine the landscape of modern era college football. Here's to doing it again!
Great post, but I wholehartedly disagree with the premise of this statement: "I would have a very difficult time trying to articulate just how overwhelming it is for me to sit here and process how all of these well educated professional adults could consciously chose to take part in such blatantly immature, hypocritical and malicious nonsense."
Sorry, I'm a 'Cane Fan only and I admire all the alums and all they have accomplished, especially those in my own family, but being "well-educated" doesn't mean these people aren't STUPID. I come from the "E" side of the US military and have seen some of the stupidest things done in the military by the most over-educated of "Gentleman Officer." The 'Canes critic's education ("Street Wise" persona Wilbon went to a Catholic Prep school, and then on to private Northwestern) is secondary to keeping "the narrative" in a nice tidy box with a bow on top and the ability keep the money coming in without a lot of effort, i.e., they can keep in the echo chamber, repeat what each other says, and not have to a lot of research on the topics they "cover." Does ESPiN have an early Saturday show rehashing all the stupidity they said on Gameday the previous week? Nope. They are in the business of making you believe THEY are right and if you disagree, YOU are wrong.
Go back to '70s college football. It was a nice tidy package with interest mainly in the Midwest, South and West (after area schools such as Fordham and Army declined, the Northeast turned to the NFL) and the characters and concepts they could easily manage: Bear Bryant, Bo and Woody, The Irish, USC Running Backs, Nebraska vs. Oklahoma, "3 yards and a cloud of dust" etc. But it was BORING and not growing beyond it's niche (turning on the TV one Saturday as a child in the early 70s, I asked my New Yorker Dad who was playing; "it's college, " he replied, "its where players in the NFL come from" and he told me to go do my chores, something never enforced on an NFL Sunday). The NFL was getting exciting throughout the 70's and was getting more and more of the attention. College football desperately needed a change agent, a disruptive force to energize the competion with passing and speed, bring in showmanship for marketing purposes and turn on a whole new generation of fans...That Team was The MIAMI HURRICANES and college football has never been the same.
As we all know, disruptive change always creates market losers. How many pay phones to you see? Typing pools? Miami turned the narrative on its head: Private schools were for the privileged elite to be groomed, not for bringing in minority athletes to compete for (GASP!) football titles, especially in the East. Big Publics in the aforementioned parts of the country had dealt with ND and USC being good because they "followed the rules," but Miami? Didn't they know their place and their "betters?!?"
A whole slew of the college football disenfranchised (of which I include myself) now had a team that reflected what they were about, not what pinky in the air school or big state U was about. Yes friends, Miami may have not sold out the OB, but the fanbase was huge and enjoyed the establishment teams getting beat; the problem was, Miami couldn't eliminate these outmoded teams like pay phones, they just made them mad and revenge minded. Miami brought a BILLION dollars into college football by starting the revolution and making it watchable, heck as enjoyable as the NFL, but was repayed by the old line powers with sabatoge. The media, scared of losing their precious access, became witting accomplices and ten years ago, the ground work they laid, bore fruit for them. It is do or die for the original revolutionaries and no matter what media person appers to be on Miami's side, know that they owe their continued employment just as long as they keep up the "'Canes are Evil" narrative, no matter how untrue or how much it is a diservice to OUR teams student-athletes. Yeah, Student Athletes, these young people DO graduate and are a **** of a lot smarter with one degree then these "well-educated" blowhards whose whole livelihood depends on being on the teat of the people who enforce the narrative.
Oh, BTW it's fair if you negged me earlier if you don't like politics on a sports board, but if you did because you like an
establishment person like Hillary who will lie to the family of person in a flag drapped coffin at Dover AFB about who killed them, well you got problems...Remember WHY Obama beat her like a drum in 2008 and remember her lying is worse than Trump's hair, and Fiorina's smile, but those topics are being covered instead. The 'Canes prove the media IS biased, do you think it only happens in sports reporting?
