OWH poll

[Norm Peterson]

I've got us on 20 - 25 wins myself. I see at least 10 Conference wins and a top half finish.

What's always puzzled me is the casual sports fan who LOVES the football team, but has NO interest in the basketball squad.

If you have 0 interest in the basketball program, why even bother responding to the poll at all? Knuckleheads. 

Holy crap that's optimistic, Handy!  Hope you're right.  We dance easily if that's the case.  I see the road being slightly more difficult (and when I say slightly I mean, like, a lot) but if that's what happens, I'll take it.

[uneblinstu]

There are a couple of road games that come immediately to mind that should be winnable: Northwestern, Penn State.  Iowa, Purdue, Illinois right after that.  But after watching how Miles teams battled on the road most of the time last year, I'm not writing off any of them.  I'll be very curious to see how they handle road tussles vs. Creighton and Cincinnati.  Those two could tell us a lot about this team.

[throwback]

McKeown is the biggest Husker homer around (well, excluding Sipple I guess).

 

If you don't like Sam, I suspect that you won't like anybody they could possibly hire. 

 

Besides, aren't just about all of the sports reporters for the OWH graduates of your university?  Pivovar may be the lone exception (he went to UNO) and Shatel (Mizzou) doesn't count as he doesn't do any reporting.  If you can't get the homer coverage you desire from your own alums, who do you expect to provide it?

 

Actually it's the opposite. Unless working for a university-sponsored outlet, media members are taught to be a little tougher on the home/alum team, just to ensure there's no appearance of homerism/favoritism. How that manifests itself is a little different in each person, but there's a concerted effort to separate the media person from any semblance of being a fan, especially in print media.

 

Portray an aura of objectivity in other words.

[Creighton Fan]

 

McKeown is the biggest Husker homer around (well, excluding Sipple I guess).

 

If you don't like Sam, I suspect that you won't like anybody they could possibly hire. 

 

Besides, aren't just about all of the sports reporters for the OWH graduates of your university?  Pivovar may be the lone exception (he went to UNO) and Shatel (Mizzou) doesn't count as he doesn't do any reporting.  If you can't get the homer coverage you desire from your own alums, who do you expect to provide it?

 

Actually it's the opposite. Unless working for a university-sponsored outlet, media members are taught to be a little tougher on the home/alum team, just to ensure there's no appearance of homerism/favoritism. How that manifests itself is a little different in each person, but there's a concerted effort to separate the media person from any semblance of being a fan, especially in print media.

 

Portray an aura of objectivity in other words.

 

 

Just so that I can be sure that I am following you, are you saying the media members are taught this by the University of Nebraska journalism department or the by OWH? 

[Norm Peterson]

I don't know what the University of Nebraska School of Journalism teaches, or the OWH for that matter.  But what passes for journalism in this state leaves a lot to be desired, IMO.  I frankly think the sports journalists (who the "real" journalists reportedly look down their noses at) do a better job than the non-sports reporters.  IMHO.

[Handy Johnson]

There are a couple of road games that come immediately to mind that should be winnable: Northwestern, Penn State.  Iowa, Purdue, Illinois right after that.  But after watching how Miles teams battled on the road most of the time last year, I'm not writing off any of them.  I'll be very curious to see how they handle road tussles vs. Creighton and Cincinnati.  Those two could tell us a lot about this team.

Agreed, the Bearcat and Bluejay games will be very telling. I'd like to think we'll get one of them.

[HuskerCager]

It's one thing to claim the World-Herald has created controversies within the Husker program.  It's quite another to say they have reported controversies.  I think the second sentence is more accurate.

[Huskerpapa]

It's one thing to claim the World-Herald has created controversies within the Husker program.  It's quite another to say they have reported controversies.  I think the second sentence is more accurate.

 

I do humbly state that at least on a couple of occasions, they actually created rather than reported on controversies. 

[Norm Peterson]

Don't know about the OWH, but the LJS abso-frickin-lutely has created (rather than simply reported on) controversies involving the athletic department.  I took John Mabry to task over this after he got his nose bent out of joint over being called out and criticized about it. 

 

When you go out of your way to call up "boosters of substance" and ask for their opinions about the program -- not as backup TO a story but rather AS the story -- and then print those unattributed, anonymous quotes, then you have CREATED news, not simply reported on it.

 

The firestorm that erupted as a direct result of that "story" has left lingering, damaging effects within Husker nation.

 

And, for any newsies who read this, the opinion of an anonymous donor is not news.  It's an opinion.  Of an anonymous donor.  Soliciting and then publishing unattributed opinions of donors is not reporting news, it's creating news. 

[hhcmatt]

You've had plenty of time, Cip

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bBWBG9r2o

[Tallbaby21]

What are these "newspapers" you speak of?

[jimmykc]

LJS sports=Fox News, OWH sports=CNBC, both will play to their audiences and will have their supporters while trying to make a buck.

[cipsucks]

You've had plenty of time, Cip

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bBWBG9r2o

 

I would never link a Don Henley video, Dimes.  Now, George Harrison, on the other hand......