Lincoln Riley Cancels Media Availability After Student Reporter Observes Practice With Binoculars
Not sure how I would feel if a student run paper for a school I root for got a scoop like this and published it. That said, a big part of me is happy that young journalists have the guts to do it.
October 13th, 2021 at 7:24 PM ^
I mean if you were that worried about this wouldn’t you have thought to block that point of view from being able to see in?
this is similar to the stadium bridge being able to see the u of m practice field. If harbaugh wanted something a secret I’m sure they’d block that point of view
October 13th, 2021 at 8:02 PM ^
Harbaugh has them practice the secret stuff in the Glick
October 13th, 2021 at 9:07 PM ^
It would be fantastic if this was all a false flag operation, and Spencer is actually starting.
October 13th, 2021 at 8:04 PM ^
I guess if a guy cares nothing about the football program he covers he would do this to get a scoop, but at what cost?
you think he will be popular on campus now?
October 13th, 2021 at 8:18 PM ^
What are you talking about?
A student journalist is now supposed to be the head coach's Graham Couch? Get a life.
I would say that he or she was quite resourceful. This was a public building.
And Riley is a Scott Frost level baby. Oklahoma has an indoor facility that they brag about all the time that they could use if it was that important. Riley is just using this as an excuse.
October 13th, 2021 at 11:34 PM ^
It will be nice when TCU runs that team on the weekend.
October 13th, 2021 at 11:42 PM ^
A resourceful student reporter was found by an unnamed janitor in the bathroom with the head stuck in the toilet. -- student newspaper reports.
Seriously though, it is not a big deal. I am not sure if there is any secret about OU. They just practice offense anyway and in B12 nobody plays defense. So, why would he care who sees what. Nobody is going to be able to stop them.
October 14th, 2021 at 8:17 AM ^
True Journalism is dying, media is all hot takes, lists, or clickbait articles. Its a dying industry, unless people have the guts to run this shit.
October 14th, 2021 at 10:49 AM ^
"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising."
October 15th, 2021 at 12:42 AM ^
Found Adam Schefter’s study buddy from Journalism Ethics 101…..
October 14th, 2021 at 8:30 AM ^
This isn't about hiding things from opponents, it's about protecting his team (read: QBs) from damage. He's got a kettle of smoking oil on a gas stove because he pulled Rattler in the middle of a nationally known, popular rivalry game, and the entire nation watched the backup direct a fantastic comeback win. He's trying to manage hurt feelings and maintain team unity in his QB room, and (probably) across the entire team. And now the hometown school paper is spraying water into that kettle with this 'investigative' reporting. In that story, Rattler's dad is already talking about transfer ('we'll see what happens after Jan 10th') - so this was a tough situation that now is a full-fledged kitchen fire.
However... This is not the way to handle a tough situation. I don't blame him for not allowing the QBs to talk to reporters after the game. But you deal with hard things straight on - and Riley should have led by example in the aftermath. He should have addressed it with an open kimono (not that anyone wants to see that). Should have let the backup have his day in front of the cameras because he earned it (maybe some PR coaching beforehand). Should sit down with Rattler and his family and discuss what happened and why. Should sit down with his team and discuss what happened and why.
Maybe he's done these things privately? I'd like to think he's smart enough to do so. But he is not being a good leader in front of the media, here - he's shutting down and hoping it all goes away (which leads me to doubt the other things have actually happened). Newsflash - it's not going to go away until its addressed head-on. Someone turned the stove knob the wrong way - now that gas is flowing at full pressure and oil is splattering all over the kitchen...
October 14th, 2021 at 10:54 AM ^
Gee...and I'm worried about climate change and what Iran might do when they get nukes. Silly me.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:48 PM ^
Riley killed his QB1, then instead of defending his position or EITHER of his QB's, he lit QB1 and QB2 on fire and said: "no more questions".
Bold move, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.
October 13th, 2021 at 7:28 PM ^
Shutting down all controlled media channels is totally the correct way to get a handle on the situation. /s
October 13th, 2021 at 9:49 PM ^
Rig for dive!
Dive! Dive! Dive!
October 15th, 2021 at 8:01 PM ^
Ah yes, Baghdad Psaki
October 13th, 2021 at 7:30 PM ^
Next Lincoln will lock the team in a room until January 11th to properly keep the QB1 secret safe.
October 13th, 2021 at 7:53 PM ^
But will he Red Lock it?
October 13th, 2021 at 7:35 PM ^
Shoot down all drones!!
October 13th, 2021 at 8:31 PM ^
tbh, we should just do that on general principle
October 14th, 2021 at 12:10 AM ^
Government drones aka birds?
October 14th, 2021 at 8:39 AM ^
Birds aren't real. If it flies it spies.
October 13th, 2021 at 7:36 PM ^
Did he honestly believe that information was not going to get out somehow in this day and age? Even if the student paper hadn't done that, someone on the team was going to leak it to another student, family member, or friend, and it would have ended up on a message board or social media. See Roman Wilson injury last week for example.
October 13th, 2021 at 7:44 PM ^
Lincoln Riley conveniently uses the opportunity to ban all media. Dealing with the media (and not treating them all as children) is part of his job. Weasel move.
October 13th, 2021 at 8:06 PM ^
Everyone around here was up in arms when the freep published articles that hurt Michigan football.
different when it’s someone else’s program
October 13th, 2021 at 8:08 PM ^
Please. False equivalence.
Have anything else to share?
October 13th, 2021 at 8:30 PM ^
Go ahead, explain how reporting on a program breaking practice rules is evil, while reporting a player practicing with the ones is righteous.
October 13th, 2021 at 8:44 PM ^
He's a troll.
Above he was arguing that the student was a traitor. Now he or she is a hero.
October 13th, 2021 at 9:32 PM ^
If we really need to litigate this a decade later, the issue with the Free Press article was their fundamental inability or unwillingness to understand the actual practice rules. The concept of "countable hours" was essential to understand the rules Michigan was breaking. Instead of correctly reporting how much Michigan went over (which came out in the NCAA report) they reported Michigan was more than doubling the allowable hours which they would have known was wrong if they understood what hours were countable. To my knowledge Rosenberg and Snyder never acknowledged this fundamental mistake.
Long story short, Michigan people are mad about the freep thing not because they reported that Michigan did something wrong but because they got it factually wrong in a way that was very negative for Michigan.
October 14th, 2021 at 8:56 AM ^
October 13th, 2021 at 10:19 PM ^
OMG, that is like comparing apples to donkey testicles!
October 14th, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
I've heard that if you reach up and move them(donkey balls) to the side you can tell what time it is. This is from a Mexican paper so I don't know if it's been verified.
October 14th, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
I've heard that if you reach up and move them(donkey balls) to the side you can tell what time it is. This is from a Mexican paper so I don't know if it's been verified.
October 14th, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
Sorry for the double post. This did not need to be said twice.
October 13th, 2021 at 10:55 PM ^
Know what you’re talking about.
October 13th, 2021 at 11:36 PM ^
@Marcus Brooks
That's an embarrassingly bad take. Walk it back.
October 13th, 2021 at 7:45 PM ^
I have this image of Lincoln Riley turning to an assistant and shouting, "STARKER! THIS IS KAOS! WE DO NOT REVEAL OUR QB DEPTH CHART HERE!"
October 13th, 2021 at 8:11 PM ^
A glaring fail for the counter sniper team.
October 13th, 2021 at 8:46 PM ^
Everyone knows it's Williams from here on out.
Poor damn Rattler though. Went from Heisman hopeful and high first-round pick to benched in half a season.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:45 AM ^
Hope he doesn't go full Tate Martell after this. Tate, for those wondering, is currently the 4th string qb for the 0-5 UNLV Running Rebels football program.
October 14th, 2021 at 8:21 AM ^
From what I have seen and read, Tate has natural talent but isnt willing to put in the effort. He's probably received whatever he wanted his whole life with very little effort. When hes not willing to put in the work, 4th string on UNLV is what you get. Him transferring so many times is case and point....hes stomping his feet because hes not getting his way.
October 14th, 2021 at 1:54 PM ^
I remember a Tate that was a lot like that.
October 14th, 2021 at 10:53 AM ^
Lions can still draft Rattler. They'll think they got great value at the #2 overall pick.
October 13th, 2021 at 8:57 PM ^
Lincoln Riley sucks for stuff like this. It's a public building, the kid didn't break any rules and got a scoop. If you want to have a true closed practice, go inside where you can block all eyeballs from being there. Plus there are 100+ teams and staffers at practice at any point. You don't think one of them might tell a roommate or parent who was getting first team reps?
This also isn't his first high profile screw up with getting mad at students for existing on campus. Everyone remember last year when he had the university put a film the windows of dorms that overlooked the practice field so the students couldn't see out of them?
October 13th, 2021 at 10:02 PM ^
That really happened? And no one scraped the film off to record every single practice and put them on YouTube? Fuck is wrong with kids today?
October 13th, 2021 at 10:40 PM ^
I believe the students affected were compensated with free season tickets, so at least they got something out of it.
October 13th, 2021 at 11:01 PM ^
Yeah they were given free tickets. But their student tickets cost like $200. I think I would rather use my window in my dorm room.
October 13th, 2021 at 11:03 PM ^
Yep. This story has a picture of them I would be pissed. They did it right before move in so there were really no other options for the kids.