Henning: Take on Brandon / NCAA Issue
Lynn Henning has a pretty fair column up on detnews now about the future of the football program and the athletic department falling squarely on Brandon's shoulders. Nothing earth shattering, but pretty reasonable coverage I'd say.
But overall, hardly newsworthy.
Could the same article be written about many of our major rivals? I think not.
...this horribly wrong:
Basketball was different, at least under different people. It slipped up badly, and deceptively, during the Fab Five scandal of 20 years ago.
There was no "Fab Five scandal." I'm tired of lazy journalists who turn Chris Webber's misdeeds into guilt by associaton for Rose, Howard, King and Jackson.
That's a point I try to stay on top of. The other four are definitely unfairly lumped into it and Traylor and Bullock seem to slip our memories.
Exactly -- if they need a shorthand, it's the Ed Martin scandal.
Now it reads, "the Ed Martin scandal..."
MGoBlog gets action! (From the News, that is.)
in our business so much lately? Doesn't Lynn have something else he can do?
I'm good with Angelique Chengelis covering the maize and blue, I don't need Lynn's opinion.
His picture scares me.
I agree with the headline, but not entirely with the assessment. I don't think it was reasonable to compare this in any way to the Steve Fisher situation. I also wish one of the newspapers would actually do an analysis of past cases like Brian did with the compliance guy. IMO, it's a bit disingenuous to leave readership in the dark about past comparables.
Otherwise he wouldn't be talking like this.
"The school likely will cut its own scholarship quota, slap itself with probation, and make some personnel adjustments.
Stiff stuff, and maybe not enough to keep the NCAA from getting even tougher on Michigan when hearings are completed in August and final action is taken by NCAA enforcers."
This is a fairly good example of print news not evolving.
This is a 500 word "story" (seriously, 500 words? That took what, 30 minutes? And he got paid for this?) about nothing. There's no new information, there's no special insight. He spent 500 words and 30 minutes saying "The athletic director is responsible for the athletic department complying with NCAA regulations."
Um, thanks. I'm glad that was cleared up for me.
Hopefully next time he makes something that actually is accurate. How is this similiar to Steve Fisher?