Opposing Viewpoints

So here's the flip side to that little piece of journalism that Broadway posted. Jason Whitlock is an idiot. He's a fat idiot who flips the race card like a light switch, and a sensationalist who takes small pieces of mistruth, mixes and matches them with skewed facts and revisionist history, and writes a hot-button story that gets people talking, but really has no basis in truth or fact. He's like a good action movie. A couple of car chases, a quick flash of tits, some cool guns, a bad ass actor, and saving the day at the end. It's fun to follow, but it'll never be mistaken for great cinema.

The way I see it, Whitlock made a few mistakes. Comparing 8-0 to 5-2 is stupid if you don't compare the way that they got there. No offensive touchdowns until game 3, smoke and mirrors, and some stellar defensive play. I'll be the first to admit I was on the Ty bandwagon, and also was extremely upset when they fired him, but you don't offer extensions for past work, you offer them for what you see future value to be. Let's not be so quick to dismiss the failures of the Weis regime. Being down 17 and coming back to tie it. Taking it to the No.1 rated team until there's 7 seconds left. And let's slow down before we go blow Buddy Tevens for an alledgedly close game versus Stanford. Leinart was out all night banging the Palo Alto chapter of the Matt Leinart fan club, and Reggie Bush had his eyes on some Asian hottie from Stanford all game. Also, let's not look at the schedule now and see it as some cakewalk, that's revisionist propoganda. The same people who say this are the ones who saw ND going 1-5 or 0-6 to start the season. It's interesting to note that after ND beat teams, they plummeted. If you provide a blueprint (see Purdue, Michigan, and Pitt) for beating teams, it's simple to replicated a proven formula.

Finally, the biggest difference in Ty and Charlie is the regime they are saddled with at ND. Long gone is Monk Malloy, a man who never understood PR or the value of positive buzz. He guided the ND ship through the Kim Dunbar fiasco without saying a word. He let Joe Moore's age discrimination suit be handled in the media's glaring light, and he even threw his own school under the bus after they removed Ty after three years. Mind you, we could've used a little positive spin back in the day. Is it such a big deal that a 25 year-old townie wanted to bang a couple black guys on the football team? But because she dropped 20 bucks to go to a luncheon to scope out her men, she became a booster. Why didn't we hear that back then? Because Monk is a douche.
So in walks Father Jenkins and we find a man who's actually heard of the internet, someone who occasionally smiles, and a person who doesn't have the personality of a planters wart and the public persona of clymidia. And what happens when a story is produced (fabricated actually, by a Michigan grad, posing as a reporter for the NFL network)? Why Notre Dame makes the biggest college football news of the week, without playing a minute that week. Gone are the days of waiting around and getting kicked in the media. Gone are the days where we let coaches and recruiters paint the picture they want because ND sits idly and says nothing. So they extend Charlie, give him the money that perceives him as the best coach in the country, and create a news story better than any rumor can start.

But as for Whitlock, he's still a big fat bitch who writes about as well as Bob Sansevere on the girls high school hockey tournament.