Mainstream media, bloggers join in filling the bucket o' hate
by Joel Hollingsworth on Sep 16, 2009 9:00 AM EDT
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PrintIt comes as no surprise to anyone that the Vols and Lane Kiffin are getting an awful lot of national media attention this week in advance of the Florida game. CBS's Gregg Doyel busts out the hate stick:
So we know that, when he's good and pissed off, Meyer has a cruel streak. That's good, because this game against Tennessee calls for cruelty. Kiffin needs it.
And that's just the beginning for Doyel. In an effort to be balanced, CBS tasks Mike Freeman with defending Kiffin, but the result is something along the lines of Yeah, he's a jerk, but the SEC needs a jerk.
All of this is tattered papers from a stale file that grew quickly from December to February but has been gathering dust for six months. Kiffin's actually done nothing but heap praise on the Gators lately.
But the stuff in the file is so much more entertaining! Hey, Tim Tebow, what do you think about Lane Kiffin calling Urban Meyer a cheater? Hey, Matt Patchan, do you remember when you called Lane Kiffin a bozo? That was funny. Hey, Urban Meyer, do you find it odd that Lane Kiffin is saying bad things about you when you and his dad are practically friends?
Of course, everyone knows what's going on here. We're all just building drama for the game. Heck, we'll be doing it ourselves in this very space at 10:00 (albeit in a tad more lighthearted manner) with the Record of Wrongs. See ya then!
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lol
busts out the hate stick
hilarious
Tennessee WILL beat Georgia on the way to 9+ wins in '09!!!
Eric Berry For Heisman!!!
Sub Kiffin for Calipari, and the same thing is happening at UK
As UK fans say, embrace the hate. If they dont’ hate you, you don’t matter.
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
case in point
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
I like the way he is standing
up for Crompton and taking the heat for the INT. And I didn’t know our O-line was so beat up. Hopefully we can run the ball and the clock on Fla. I think thats the only way we come of the swamp alive !
Phil,GO VOLS !!!
Agreed, if you want actual proof that Lane has a good coach mentality you don't have to look much further than the way hes handled the media post-UCLA
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
Member of the Committee to Keep Keith Bulluck.
Eric Berry for Heisman!!
by Pride of the Southland on Sep 16, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Two things
1. What did you expect to happen this week?
2. Expecting Mike Freeman to do a good job at just about anything is asking a bit much.
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Has anyone got a picture of moldy bread?
That’d be the perfect pictorial equivalent for what’s being written about here.
It was fresh – hot out of the oven 6+ months ago. Now it’s just stale, pulled off the shelf and unfit for human consumption.
It's even better when:
a) Kiffin apologized for the cheater comment.
b) The ‘Rocky Top’ quip at his opening presser was a bit of humor that Mike Hamilton put him up to. Immediately after saying it, he even addressed Meyer specifically with an ’it’s a joke; cool?’ comment.
Giving him a hard time for the stuff at the booster meeting is understandable, as it was the wrong thing to say, but they have to take the other one out of context.
He was practically laughing when he said it too
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
Member of the Committee to Keep Keith Bulluck.
Eric Berry for Heisman!!
by Pride of the Southland on Sep 16, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions
How dare Kiffin try to fire up the fan base
after the apathy among the Vol faithful had become so prevalent. Florida is the big boy in the both the SEC and the nation. They don’t have to worry about the Vols (for now).
I was surprised at the comments Kiffin made but one cannot argue against the results in recruiting. #10 last year and currently sitting at #3 or #4, depending on which website you prefer.
Is Kiffin supposed to fawn over Meyer and the Gators like the rest of the national media?
Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.
by pound the rock on Sep 16, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Que the new wave soundtrack
So this is all just like an 80’s high school movie. The established bullies/jocks/cool guys don’t like that the new guy listens to punk and drives a Beetle and oh yeah just stole his girlfriend. Sure some beat downs are coming the new guy’s way, MFing safes are going to be dropped, Tebow will be told to sweep the legs, yeah yeah we get it. But eventually new guy won’t swerve playing tractor chicken, he’ll bust out that crane kick Miyagi taught him (we all know who Miyagi is) he’ll get the girl in the back seat of the Beetle and the whole town will dance again for the first time in years
At least that’s how General Neyland’s Army is hoping this movie ends.
This is also why the hators are hating, cause they are starting to realize that all this time, they’ve been cheering for Cobra Kai
by 757 vol fan on Sep 16, 2009 10:39 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Cobra Kai, Nice.
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
by Getoffmyvols on Sep 16, 2009 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Gregg Doyel's a moron
So only guys who have won national championships (or who are wrongly credited for inventing trendy new offenses) are allowed to talk smack?
He must have hated Steve Spurrier prior to 1996.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
All of CBS's writers are morons.
I can’t think of one that I read and do not say, “This guy’s a blanking dumb-blank.” But admittedly I don’t read much on that site.
Never Again. Retire #8 NOW!
by wvvol on Sep 16, 2009 1:05 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Being defended by Freeman is just as bad, if not worse.
What a tool.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 16, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
She said, "Tool"
Heh.
Sept. 20 Headline: "Eric Berry furthers Heisman campaign. Collects 2 INTs, one for TD and takes Tim Tebow out of game in 3rd quarter."
ERIC BERRY 4 HEISMAN
"Just don't call me -- a 1992 Florida graduate -- a UF homer."- Doyel
Can’t you just see Doyel writing this piece, furiously typing as the venom boiled up inside of him. I bet his editor had to work overtime to decipher the stream of consciousness drivel spilled across the page.
He admits to “abject hatred” of someone he has never met. How CBS can consider this acceptable journalism is beyond my comprehension.
Get some perspective, Doyel.
Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.
That's why I stick to beat reporters.
Opinion journalists are intrinsically no different than bloggers. Their advantages (face to face access to beat reporters and corporate resources) are external to the writer. There are plenty of bloggers I never read because I don’t like their stuff, and I treat op-journos the same.
But the beat reporter is media’s most valuable (and perhaps only valuable) asset. And Doyel is not one of them.
by David Hooper on Sep 16, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd like to nominate some reporters to get beat.
And Doyel is one of them.
Never Again. Retire #8 NOW!
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