ESPN Page 2 (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/051101)
I heard them talking about this on ESPN Radio and they tried to get Whitlock on but he refused. So I went to ESPN.com to dig it up and see what the fuss is about. Jason Whitlock is a guy who likes to interject race into situations where it shouldn't be, much like Steve A. does sometimes.
He calls Notre Dame racist for giving Weis a 10-year contract extension. What?!?!?!?
QuoteNow, Weis' new 10-year contract, reportedly worth between $30 million and $40 million ... that strikes me as racist. Because there's just no way Notre Dame, or any school for that matter, would do the same thing for a black coach
QuoteLet's call this exactly what it is: greed and stupidity. Just like Terrell Owens -- but with far less proof -- Weis and his advisors reached the conclusion that the Great Weis Hope outperformed his contract. So Weis and Notre Dame concocted an excuse for the South Bend skies to rain money, and the fawning, lazy, hypocritical media co-signed for it.
Maybe had Willingham tried push-ups and sit-ups in his driveway, he would still be Notre Dame's coach. Never mind. T.O. tried that.
This is ludicrous. The simple fact here is that Notre Dame locked him up because there were rumors out there about the $1.5M buyout clause that NFL teams were going to start sniffing around to try to lure him away.
Chris Fowler is on ESPN Radio now saying the same thing - that this is strictly a deal that keeps NFL teams away from Weis.
Whitlock is a boob.
I love people who play the race card for headlines and shock value. It's awesome.
I agree that Whitlock's a meatcicle. However, I will refrain from any further generalizations. Let's just say I have a lot of opinions about racism and the accepted forms of it in today's society, and it brings me too close to vomiting.
Ahahaha. Ridiculous.
Willingham is a joke of a coach. He had sufficient time to turn the program around and didn't get it done. Plus he didn't play ball with the alumni and you have to do that in the college ranks.
He's smug, he's arrogant and he's not a Golden Domer. That's why he got canned, not because of his skin pigment.
LMFAO...how in the hell did TO get into THAT article?
:-D :-D :-D
everyone is racist according to that fat douche.
QuoteNow, Weis' new 10-year contract, reportedly worth between $30 million and $40 million ... that strikes me as racist. Because there's just no way Notre Dame, or any school for that matter, would do the same thing for a black coach
To summarize: Notre Dame hasn't done anything racist... but they probably would! Therefore Notre Dame is racist.
Racists don't bother me as long as they don't act on their beliefs in harmful ways.
QuoteNotre Dame has beaten a mediocre Michigan team, a Dave Wannstedt-coached Pittsburgh team that is .500 only because the Big East is terrible, the third- or fourth-best team in the Mountain West Conference (BYU), a bad Purdue squad, and a Washington club with one victory (vs. Idaho). Please don't tell the CIA I told you this -- this information is classified top secret -- but the combined record of Weis' victims is 17-24.
QuoteIn case you've forgotten, in 2002, Tyrone ran up an 8-0 record against Maryland, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Air Force and Florida State. Six of those teams -- all but Stanford and Michigan State -- played in bowl games that year. The combined record, including bowl games, for those eight clubs was 60-43.
You gotta admit... it's wierd that Ty wasn't given an extension this early in his tenure despite being better. I mean, if ND was looking for a savior, Ty looked every bit of it then as Weis does now.
Quote from: EagleFeva on November 03, 2005, 08:11:47 AM
QuoteNotre Dame has beaten a mediocre Michigan team, a Dave Wannstedt-coached Pittsburgh team that is .500 only because the Big East is terrible, the third- or fourth-best team in the Mountain West Conference (BYU), a bad Purdue squad, and a Washington club with one victory (vs. Idaho). Please don't tell the CIA I told you this -- this information is classified top secret -- but the combined record of Weis' victims is 17-24.
QuoteIn case you've forgotten, in 2002, Tyrone ran up an 8-0 record against Maryland, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Air Force and Florida State. Six of those teams -- all but Stanford and Michigan State -- played in bowl games that year. The combined record, including bowl games, for those eight clubs was 60-43.
You gotta admit... it's wierd that Ty wasn't given an extension this early in his tenure despite being better. I mean, if ND was looking for a savior, Ty looked every bit of it then as Weis does now.
Weis DOES have a few Super Bowl rings and ND did come very close to beating a team who haven't lost in like 30 or something games.
Quote from: EagleFeva on November 03, 2005, 08:11:47 AM
You gotta admit... it's wierd that Ty wasn't given an extension this early in his tenure despite being better. I mean, if ND was looking for a savior, Ty looked every bit of it then as Weis does now.
The situations could not be more different. Charlie Weis not only has turned a mediocre team (talent wise) into a team that has a chance to beat anyone in the country (including the 2-time national champs), but he is 100% guaranteed to be a hot commodity for professional teams looking for a coach. This extension was a preemptive strike against him leaving to coach the Saints, or whatever other pro team will no doubt be creaming themselves over him in the offseason.
Willingham took a talented team and recruited TERRIBLY and in turn that team got worse and worse year by year. Do you think Charlie Weis is having any trouble getting top recruits after the ridiculous display the team has put on this year? It's possible that Weis will fizzle like Willingham did, but you're talking about a coach that wasn't really that successful, and people are bitching because ND didn't extend him? Looks like pretty good foresight to me.
Ty Willingham is simply not as good a football coach as is Charlie Weis. No one can prove otherwise with a straight face.
Quote from: EagleFeva on November 03, 2005, 08:11:47 AM
QuoteNotre Dame has beaten a mediocre Michigan team, a Dave Wannstedt-coached Pittsburgh team that is .500 only because the Big East is terrible, the third- or fourth-best team in the Mountain West Conference (BYU), a bad Purdue squad, and a Washington club with one victory (vs. Idaho). Please don't tell the CIA I told you this -- this information is classified top secret -- but the combined record of Weis' victims is 17-24.
QuoteIn case you've forgotten, in 2002, Tyrone ran up an 8-0 record against Maryland, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Air Force and Florida State. Six of those teams -- all but Stanford and Michigan State -- played in bowl games that year. The combined record, including bowl games, for those eight clubs was 60-43.
You gotta admit... it's wierd that Ty wasn't given an extension this early in his tenure despite being better. I mean, if ND was looking for a savior, Ty looked every bit of it then as Weis does now.
Apples/oranges. Weis was a proven commodity in the NFL and would have had teams banging down his door in a few months. Conversely, no one that I know of was banging down Willingham's door for any reason.
Notre Dame had to sew him up. If not, it was back to square one for them. Again.
Whitlock is an idiot. thats all.
so notre dame is racist yet they hired a black coach????...thats more than all but three of the division one schools in the country can say...
someone is racist but it aint notre dame
Rumors are getting stronger that Larry Johnson, Sr. may be the next head coach at PSU. I would be pleasantly surprised, because it would allow Bradley to keep his focus on the defense and Galen Hall on the offense.
Quote from: FFatPatt on November 03, 2005, 10:24:39 AM
Rumors are getting stronger that Larry Johnson, Sr. may be the next head coach at PSU. I would be pleasantly surprised, because it would allow Bradley to keep his focus on the defense and Galen Hall on the offense.
i know that he is their best recruiter, that would be a surprise because all you ever hear about is Bradley.
if paterno is allowed to handpick the next coach...and i cant imagine he wont have that power...then it will definitely be bradley
Larry Johnson, Sr. would be an outstanding pick. I like this 'news.'
I still think Bradley is the frontrunner, but I think Larry Johnson is definitely the top "dark horse" candidate.
No pun intended.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/15608294.htm
Freedom to speak has price
JASON WHITLOCK
The Kansas City Star
Good news for those of you complaining that I spend too much time taping ESPN television shows.
The World Wide Leader dumped me Monday afternoon because of critical comments I made about Mike Lupica and Scoop Jackson in a blog interview that ran on Friday. You can read the interview at www.thebiglead.com.
Lupica, of course, is a sports columnist for the New York Daily News and a longtime panelist on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters." Jackson is the infamous ESPN.com sports columnist who bragged in a recent column about telling black kids they had a better chance of being NBA players than sportswriters.
James Cohen, an executive at the network, called me Monday and asked me whether the comments attributed to me in the interview were true. When I said "yes," he informed me that I could no longer appear on ESPN television shows and that my November appearances on "Pardon the Interruption" would be canceled.
I wasn't surprised. ESPN, a terrific network, has always been hypersensitive to criticism, especially when it comes from its independent-contract employees. Over the six years I've worked for ESPN, I've received complaining phone calls from its executives almost every time I've written a critical word about the network.
I take being a journalist/columnist very seriously. To me, being a contract employee for ESPN did not mean I'd surrendered my right to blast the World Wide Leader in Sports for making the awful TV show "Playmakers," employing as expert analysts clownish buffoons with drug problems such as Rush Limbaugh and Michael Irvin, and publishing the gangsta-posturing rantings of a poor writer.
ESPN is a powerful newsmaker in the sports world. As a sports journalist/columnist, I thought it would be wrong to ignore obvious topics just because I drew an occasional check from ESPN.
I'm not stepping on any high horse. It wouldn't hold me.
The fact is I can't be happy unless I'm true to myself. I like to criticize and analyze. Every coach, teacher or boss I've ever had would tell you that. My parents would tell you that. Every woman who has ever tolerated my company for more than six months would tell you that.
I guess ESPN thought I would get the message and pipe down. I can't pipe down about things I'm passionate about.
So, in the blog interview, I answered the questions that were asked about my departure from ESPN.com Page 2 to AOL Sports (two weeks ago I told my editor at Page 2 that I was moving my once-a-week Internet column to AOL Sports) and a run-in I had with Mike Lupica on "The Sports Reporters" in August.
I told the blog that part of the reason I was leaving Page 2 was because I was uncomfortable with Page 2's relationship with Scoop Jackson. Much of his writing is childish, anti-white and a caricature of a negative black stereotype. I didn't say it in the blog interview, but it's my belief that it is irresponsible for the World Wide Leader to publish much of what Scoop writes. Over the last year, I've shared these opinions with ESPN executives countless times. I said nothing in the blog interview that I hadn't said privately.
I told the blog that Lupica and Joe Valerio, the producer of "The Sports Reporters," had become disenchanted with me because I would not join in the crusade to portray Barry Bonds as the baseball anti-Christ. I'm not a Bonds fan and don't think all that much of his recent accomplishments. But a life spent competing in sports and writing about sports has made me uninterested in pretending that Bonds is the real villain in the steroids mess. And I have zero tolerance for when people try to censor my ability to state fair opinions.
You might read this and think that I think I've been treated unfairly by ESPN. I don't.
This was inevitable. ESPN does not tolerate criticism. Sportswriters far more distinguished than yours truly — Tony Kornheiser, John Feinstein and T.J. Simers — have been banned/suspended for comments perceived to be detrimental to the World Wide Leader.
I'm sure my move from ESPN .com to AOL Sports was viewed as an act of disloyalty by some within the network.
It wasn't. It was just the act of a guy who values his ability to think, act and speak independently more than he does seeing his face on ESPN.
Whitlock isn't a very good writer anyway, but I did like that he lumped Rush Limbaugh and Michael Irvin together.