Ayegba will help a little but he's incredibly foul prone.

[hhcmatt]

Another backhanded compliment from Dirk

 

Contrived wonderment + STATISTICS!!!!! = things you'll find in every Dirk blog post

[AuroranHusker]

 

Another backhanded compliment from Dirk

 

Contrived wonderment + STATISTICS!!!!! = things you'll find in every Dirk blog post

 

 

And, lots o' clicks... which the employer wants desperately!

[lang]

I don't know, I'd say Dirk has done his share of gushing over NU and Miles the last few months.   I can't say I disagree with his statement actually.   But, obviously at one time Moses was pretty highly regarded and Coach didn't hide his enthusiasm and hopes for the big fella....so that's good enough for me.

[Hooper]

In fall fairness, Dirk wrote some stellar articles about Husker hoops last season. They were buried in an avalanche of Jays/Dougie pieces, but there were some gems there.

 

I happen to feel he's a very good writer in general, though he's very polarizing. 

 

He and Shatel do strike me as pretty fervent Jays fans though, and Shatel in particular has typically had a condescending view of Nebraska basketball. 

[HuskerActuary]

Dirk is pretty balanced between Nebraska and Creighton. Shatel, on the other hand... puke.

[colhusker]

Dirk is nothing more than a hack at a small market paper.  He material is not worthy of my bird cage.

[uneblinstu]

In fall fairness, Dirk wrote some stellar articles about Husker hoops last season. They were buried in an avalanche of Jays/Dougie pieces, but there were some gems there.

 

I happen to feel he's a very good writer in general, though he's very polarizing. 

 

He and Shatel do strike me as pretty fervent Jays fans though, and Shatel in particular has typically had a condescending view of Nebraska basketball. 

I'll confidently say that Dirk's not a "fan" of either team. He does strongly appreciate quality basketball, which the Jays have provided in spades the past decade and he's been on record often as saying he loved watching NU go on their run and is looking forward to seeing what they become over the next couple of years. 

[GATA]

Dirk is a quality writer and doesn't deserve a lot of the crap he gets from posters here.

[Huskerpapa]

It is all a matter of perspective GATA.  I do believe Dirk has talent.  Yet he is one of the new age writers/talking heads that seems to believe their role is to shake the bee hive.  Some like that writing/reporting style, others do not. 

[HuskerFever]

It is all a matter of perspective GATA.  I do believe Dirk has talent.  Yet he is one of the new age writers/talking heads that seems to believe their role is to shake the bee hive.  Some like that writing/reporting style, others do not. 

 

Haha, remember this?

 

[colhusker]

Dirk is a quality writer and doesn't deserve a lot of the crap he gets from posters here.

Dirk is that you?

[tcp]

it says much about the state of journalism when people get irritated that journalists aren't overtly propagandists for their own points of view. and this is just in sports, by far the least important application of the trade.

 

I'll take Chatelain's occasional grenade tosses--even when he's wrong--over the fawning, imbecilic stenography of the LJS any day.

[Nebrasketballer]

Dirk is a quality writer and doesn't deserve a lot of the crap he gets from posters here.

I would say that Dirk willingly brings on that reaction from readers. He is polarizing and that means more website hits. I think he has built up a healthy number of followers that agree with most of what he writes. I also think he has built up a healthy number of followers that will read everything that he writes, simply so they can hate on him. Either way, they are still reading what he writes, which means more website traffic. I would say more people that i know take Dirk more seriously than Sipple, because (unlike Sipple), Dirk's articles/blogs don't sound like they were hand-delivered to him by the coaching staff of the team he is writing about.