Here is Saturday's game story. Written under duress. As my good friend from the Hartford Courant Shawn Courchense says: "Nothing is more fun than watching a JI writer on Friday night."
How true. It's one thing to write on deadline. It's another to do it only maybe 5 times year under that type of constraint. I hate deadline, but I hit it with a story I liked (though flawed). Then I got home and wrote for Scout's site. I stayed up through the third quarter of the UConn replay.
Okay, no more Taylor talk on the blog until Edsall comments tommorrow. I will not think about it.
Pittsburgh knocks off Cincinnati. Syracuse wins. I don't get this college football season. USF, BC in the top 5. Kentucky top 10. UConn 6-1. Miami and Fla St.? Nothing. Notre Dame? Don't ask.
Next thing you know the Rockies are going to win the World Series.
2 comments:
John --
I really enjoy your blog, despite the fact that you reference Shawn "Gearhead" C. as your friend. Shawn's blog entry regarding Larry Taylor's "abuse" of the fair catch rule / referee interpretation and that it will lead to certain disability, dismemberment or death in the future was shallow. News for Shawn, who obviously knows very little about football, every play of the game has potential for career-ending injury/disability. On top of that, I'm guessing most every player already understands this when they step "between the lines". Your good friend Shawn should stick to counting cars that drive in circles and tailgating with his dozen or so "non-Uconn" football fans that provide him a great pulse of why Uconn football will never be big time. By the way, although you would never read it in the Courant sports section or its blog, the atmosphere at the Rent was great on Friday, probably the best fan participation to date. As someone that has been to every game at the Rent and most every non-MAC road venues over the last 4 years, even I was suprised by the # of fans that were in the stadium, the noise that was made by the majority of these fans and the fact that very few of them left when Uconn lost the fumble to go down by 10 early in the fourth quarter. Not a bad start to building a more rabid fan base if I do say so myself, not that we would ever want to put a journalist in the position of having to report this, lest they appear that they are "promoting" the hometown team. Monday morning TO DO list - (1) cancel Courant subscription (there is no real sports news there anyways), (2) look into possible JI subscription, (3) write letter to Larry Taylor asking him to behave himself for fear of potential bodily harm towards him in the future, (4) write letter to HCRE, asking him to make sure that he readily admits to any and all "breaks that go in his team's favor" in the future and how this will help all Courant journalists and Uconn football fans sleep at night....NOT! John, keep up the good work, you have the best Uconn blog going!
Shawn is a good guy and a good reporter. I have known him for almost 7 years.
I don't really have issue with his blog post about Taylor's dangerous play. I am still not convinced it was intentionally deceptive, but if it is, he does have a point.
My point is the anger should be on the officials who blew the call. What is UConn supposed to do? Not run the play? Give up. Maybe forfeit the game?
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