Guerin Emig on Pastner rumors

I agree 100%. Certainly not trying to besmirch posters like Chewy. Hell I would love. Chewy update right now
 
Just saw this tweet.
@chewy75 I know who OU's new coach is, but I don't want seniorsooner to find out.
 
seniorsooner said:
Your definition of "journalist" must differ from mine. I don't recall anyone that I would consider a "journalist" saying Bob was "gone" or Capel would "definitely" be back. Perhaps you should narrow your definition and eliminate lazy halfwits like those you listen to on the Sports Urinal.
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Cool.....so you get to define who is a "journalist"..so I get to define who is a message board poster. My definition is anyone who has provided reliable information about OU before the news media reported it.

I win.

Or you can go with an objective test. I propose this one:

Who reported that Capel would get fired first. Emig or a message board poster?

Or lets go for some futures. Who do you think will report, with certainty, who the next OU basketball coach is? Emig or a message board poster?
 
oukimber said:
Cool.....so you get to define who is a "journalist"..so I get to define who is a message board poster. My definition is anyone who has provided reliable information about OU before the news media reported it.

I win.

Or you can go with an objective test. I propose this one:

Who reported that Capel would get fired first. Emig or a message board poster?

Or lets go for some futures. Who do you think will report, with certainty, who the next OU basketball coach is? Emig or a message board poster?
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Who reported that OU won't fire Capel first, message boards or the press? Message boards report everything first because they report everything. You will have one thread with contradictory reports so no matter what someone will get it right.
 
Anybody got that video of Trammel ripping on message board after the whole Darth Husker episode? It should be in this thread. Aren't message boards scum of the internet anyway?
 
MNsooner said:
Message boards report everything first because they report everything. You will have one thread with contradictory reports so no matter what someone will get it right.
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You can honestly sit there and say that journalists dont do the same thing?
 
oukimber said:
You can honestly sit there and say that journalists dont do the same thing?
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I am just saying that doing it faster doesn't mean doing it better. I think journalists are more cautious in their reporting because it is their livelihood rather than their hobby. I think that journalists have editors which make things slower, but probably more accurate. We can go back and forth on this, but the fact is 90% of message board reports are garbage and maybe only 70% of print articles are and I am supposed to prefer message board reports because they get their garbage out faster (obviously pulled those numbers out of the air)? My point is that journalists have more checks and more incentive to make sure their stories are true. There is a reason the articles coming out now say nothing. It is because the journalists have to write stories, but have no information. So, they write opinion pieces that make no claims they could get nailed down for. Twitter rumors just throw names out there until one hits. Just because one pellet hits the target doesn't mean your shotgun is accurate.
 
MNsooner said:
I am just saying that doing it faster doesn't mean doing it better.
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I never said it was. What I said was that every big OU story that has come out in the last 5-7 years has been reported on a message board before it was reported by media. I realize I'm taking some liberties by saying "every", but its almost a consensus.

My other point is this: If you spend more than a minute on a message board, you can tell the morons from the posters with knowledge. I dont disagree that most message board posts are not based on any fact at all. But when you learn to separate the good from the bad, I'd say you have a better chance of getting reliable information from the MB than you do from the media.

Think about it honestly. I dont know how much time you spend on the MB's, but where do you first hear the breaking information? I know that I heard about Capel being fired here first, I know that I heard about Wilson going to Indiana on a MB first, I know that I heard about Broyles and Lewis staying in school on a MB first.........

Funny thing is, most of the posts that get a lot of play...but are eventually wrong, start with a quote from a media source.
 
Just to add to my point...I think that OU conforms more to this than most schools. I think that the OU athletics program gives very little information to the media. I think that there are MB posters out there that are closer to the program / athletes, and get better info.

Again, its all about separating the opinion based posters from the ones with actual knowledge.
 
Tony said:
I'm trying to remember the last time a sports journalist lost his job for getting a story wrong. I can't really remember any. Is that because sports journalists are never wrong, or that the accountability that comes with their job is severely overblown?
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The last time OU had a coaching search, Berry Tramel bracketed the top 64 candidates, but Jeff Capel wasn't in the bracket...
 
To be honest, this has turned into a circus. Sure the future coach could have been mentioned on here already and may be reported before the media, what is the count on incorrect coaches?

Very few people have an idea what's going on, and its getting lost amongst all this nonsense. Probably going to take an OUHoops.com hiatus until a coach is hired, will probably know just as soon compared to if I was trolling this board.
 
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