I can certainly see where he's coming from.
I see where the rest of you are coming from, too. I think most of you want as much objection to Croom in the public forum as possible to mount a firing/resignation. Believe me, it feels familiar. And I agree with you guys over Futaba that lauding Croom and his staff and marching to the "hold steady, believe in the staff, character, etc." beat would be much worse for the program. But that's because my personal opinion is that if I was a MSU fan I'd want Croom gone yesterday.
Locke is new on the job, a UM alum (which I know matters to you guys) and not likely to make many in-roads with the staff after writing this. I don't disagree with Brad or think the writing is bad, but I've never liked the TDJ's format of having beat writers write op-ed pieces on the teams they're assign to report on.
Kyle, who yes is my friend from college, is a reporter. He does not nor I doubt would take the chance to write a column like this. He works his *** off to stay connected within and around the administration, the AD's offices and the various staffs and rosters. Writing something like this would not serve Kyle's agenda (Kyle's agenda is to provide the best information possible and beat everyone to it).
Brad's column is 100 percent rabble-rousing. It's an op-ed piece. One I suppose I agree with (I'm not privy to MSU as a fan or reporter, so I'm not in the loop), but one that isn't reporting. At the CL, Rusty is the sports editor and he writes op-eds. Rick writes op-eds. Kyle and David Brandt do not. They do the reporting.
My only stance is that one should probably be separate from the other. But if I'm Futaba, a frustrated fan who reads the TDJ, I might be pissed about this too. Brad's strong insertion of his opinion it was did it, I promise you. In the finals grafs he declares everything with personal pronouns. He put himself right there at the gates of the castle calling out the king, except he's not one of the villagers.
I see where the rest of you are coming from, too. I think most of you want as much objection to Croom in the public forum as possible to mount a firing/resignation. Believe me, it feels familiar. And I agree with you guys over Futaba that lauding Croom and his staff and marching to the "hold steady, believe in the staff, character, etc." beat would be much worse for the program. But that's because my personal opinion is that if I was a MSU fan I'd want Croom gone yesterday.
Locke is new on the job, a UM alum (which I know matters to you guys) and not likely to make many in-roads with the staff after writing this. I don't disagree with Brad or think the writing is bad, but I've never liked the TDJ's format of having beat writers write op-ed pieces on the teams they're assign to report on.
Kyle, who yes is my friend from college, is a reporter. He does not nor I doubt would take the chance to write a column like this. He works his *** off to stay connected within and around the administration, the AD's offices and the various staffs and rosters. Writing something like this would not serve Kyle's agenda (Kyle's agenda is to provide the best information possible and beat everyone to it).
Brad's column is 100 percent rabble-rousing. It's an op-ed piece. One I suppose I agree with (I'm not privy to MSU as a fan or reporter, so I'm not in the loop), but one that isn't reporting. At the CL, Rusty is the sports editor and he writes op-eds. Rick writes op-eds. Kyle and David Brandt do not. They do the reporting.
My only stance is that one should probably be separate from the other. But if I'm Futaba, a frustrated fan who reads the TDJ, I might be pissed about this too. Brad's strong insertion of his opinion it was did it, I promise you. In the finals grafs he declares everything with personal pronouns. He put himself right there at the gates of the castle calling out the king, except he's not one of the villagers.
