Wayne Madkin: Not happy with Mr. Marcello

[lanceharbor7]

From our friend Wayne's FaceBook:

Did an article with the Clarion Ledger a couple of days ago with this beat writer about Relf. What do I get... Mis quotes and unsolicited jabs.. Sometimes I wish these pencil pushers could dress for one game in the S.E.C. and play the position I played for at least one series. 3 consecutive Bowl games and 29 wins you would think you would get a little more respect from your home team.


I didn't think it was slanted at all, I thought it a good article, but what do I know? The comments on Mr. Madkins' FB, however, were terrible, booger-eating BS.

 

[lanceharbor7]

From our friend Wayne's FaceBook:

Did an article with the Clarion Ledger a couple of days ago with this beat writer about Relf. What do I get... Mis quotes and unsolicited jabs.. Sometimes I wish these pencil pushers could dress for one game in the S.E.C. and play the position I played for at least one series. 3 consecutive Bowl games and 29 wins you would think you would get a little more respect from your home team.


I didn't think it was slanted at all, I thought it a good article, but what do I know? The comments on Mr. Madkins' FB, however, were terrible, booger-eating BS.

 

[GTAdawg]

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[biguglyjoe]

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Madkin related well with Relf. More importantly, they understood each
other. Madkin set several passing records and won 29 games at MSU from
1998-2001, but he was always under the microscope. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Madkin was
serviceable but threw interceptions as often as he did touchdowns.</span>

"Look around college football and the quarterbacks who start as
freshmen," said former MSU coach Jackie Sherrill, who coached Madkin.
"How many of them by the time they're seniors are better than they were
as freshmen?"<span class="pp"></span>Sherrill did not have that
luxury in 1998, when then-junior Matt Wyatt struggled - "one of the weak
spots on the team was quarterback and that was all me," Wyatt admits.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The problem was that Madkin was inconsistent, and the only year he threw
for more touchdowns than interceptions was his first season as a
redshirt freshman in 1998.</span>

I guess those are the shots he's talking about.

 

[FlabLoser]

B-Lo is a snide *******.<div>
</div><div>I un-followed him on facebook just yesterday after he posted "I've been watching football videos from last year and I'd forgotten how fast KJ and Chris White were". Sounds innocent enough on the surface, but considering the source and his body of work, I took it as a negative. I'm just tired of his smartass ****.</div><div>
</div><div>I recall another twitter that said Stricklin had tweeted that there had been progress on installing ribbon boards. B-Lo's response was "One board equals progress? OK"</div><div>
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[MSUArrowCS]

Maybe he could have mentioned the actual stats so that terms like "serviceable" didn't seem as subjective, but those two bolded statements both appear to be observations and not just "jabs".

 

[FlabLoser]

No attention at all to how many games Madkin won as a starter, or his standing in MSU career records lists, bowl games he went to or anything else.<div>
</div><div>B-Lo is a cynical, ironically uninformed, idiot. He knows little about Wayne Madkin. He simply interviewed the man, pulled out a stat sheet, and found something to be cynical about.</div>

 

[hatfieldms]

Really?

 

[FlabLoser]

I know - its more about his body of work and my resentment towards his comments.<div>
</div><div>On opening day eve, he chooses to tweet about the talent we don't have.</div>

 

[hatfieldms]

He isn't even saying we don't have talent.


I can understand not liking the guy, but you are really reaching here

 

[smellmyfinger]

When DS removed 2HD's blog link he really seemed to wake up.
These hacks are motivated by paper circulation and hits on their sites, remove a link from a site like this and the message will resonate. I wouldn't read the articles these guys write if the link wasn't sitting right at the top of the page and I'd venture to guess many others feel the same way.

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

but the two articles in the CL today were both pretty good. Granted, he wrote one and "contributed" to the other, but both were good articles that cast MSU in a fair, positive light (especially the one about the attitude change at MSU).

That said, these articles are the exception, not the rule with B-Lo.

 

[studentdawg87]

This shouldn't surprise anyone.

 

[GoToHellOleMiss.sixpack]

B-Lo is not a cheerleader. As a beat writer he sometimes tries too hard not to be a cheerleader so he comes off as a dick.

I would prefer that he just give us the facts....no opinions and no editorializing.....but that's just me.

 

[wk80]

Almost like saying "I forgot how good looking my ex-girlfriend was". </p>

 

[FlabLoser]

geneku

 

[Dental Dawg]

Although I can not bring facts to this thread, he has repeatedly taken shots at MSU. My wife is an Ole Miss grad. I will from time to time hand her the paper and get her opinion on a Marcello article. She agrees with me that he takes shots at MSU. I'm sure he's trying to sell papers. I personally get tired of it.

 

[00Dawg]

would be what the misquotes were. Nothing ticks an interviewee off worse than getting what they said wrong.
My second would be if Marcello saw very much of Mr. Madkin back in the day. Was he even paying attention to Mississippi State sports back then? If he did, he'd know that Wayne rarely had any receivers with talentto throw to (Prentiss and Love being the tops), was more than serviceable during his junior year when he was healthy and had experience, and even if you just have to find a reason to dog him, still easily makes the list of Top 5 QBs in school history.

 

[weblow]

I know that everyone on here has had some type of conspiracy about damn near every beat writer we have had at some point during their coverage. I think half of you are insane. The guys job is not to pump sunshine and only report the fantastic things going on at state. His job is to report the facts about our teams. Has he written a few articles that bothered me? Sure but so did Veazey and he was one of the best beat writers we have had in a long time.

I like Madkin but what did he report that was untrue? As far as those of you that think his tweet about speed was an insult, wash your pussies and quit complaining like menopausal women.

I am sorry your feelings got hurt but ****, some of you are whine more than my 2 year old.

 

[FlabLoser]

I like Madkin but what did he report that was untrue?

None of it was untrue and all of it was tasteless.

He may have well have written "Dan Mullen is a nice man, but he wasn't nice enough to stay married to his first wife".

 

[AndyMSU]

What Wayne Madkin Facebook page are you looking at? I just took a glance through it and there is nothing to what you say. His last post was a long, long time ago....

 

[weblow]

I like Madkin but what did he report that was untrue?

None of it was untrue and all of it was tasteless.

He may have well have written "Dan Mullen is a nice man, but he wasn't nice enough to stay married to his first wife".

He wrote an article that was true and basically said the same thing that most of us said at the time Madkin played. I look back and have a lot of respect for Madkin but there were times that I prayed we wouldn't play him.

I think you have lost your mind Flab. Your example of saying that about Mullen is no where in the same ballpark as saying what he did about Madkin playing college football.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

But Marcello seems to go out of his way to put in some snide comments. The comments didn't even flow with the the paragraphs before them. Sure Veazy would write unflattering stuff about MSU, but most of it was about events going on at the time. If it was the end of the 1999 season and these facts were mentioned, nobody would think anything of it.<div>
</div><div>Before you say that not mentioning Madkin's TD-INT ratio would constitute sunshine pumping, need I remind you it's been almost a decade since Wayne Madkin put on the uniform.</div>

 

[onewoof]

Marchello started out with pointing out that W's were the biggest stat<div>
</div><div>And to defend Madkin here, he should have ended with that point again to give Madkin a little more respect.</div>

 

[FlabLoser]

I like Madkin but what did he report that was untrue?

None of it was untrue and all of it was tasteless.

He may have well have written "Dan Mullen is a nice man, but he wasn't nice enough to stay married to his first wife".

He wrote an article that was true and basically said the same thing that most of us said at the time Madkin played. I look back and have a lot of respect for Madkin but there were times that I prayed we wouldn't play him.

I think you have lost your mind Flab. Your example of saying that about Mullen is no where in the same ballpark as saying what he did about Madkin playing college football.

Note in the same ballpark? The ballpark of truth?

 

[FlabLoser]

But Marcello seems to go out of his way to put in some snide comments. The comments didn't even flow with the the paragraphs before them. Sure Veazy would write unflattering stuff about MSU, but most of it was about events going on at the time. If it was the end of the 1999 season and these facts were mentioned, nobody would think anything of it.<div>
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I agree and it was just like Veazey's obsession with ending every Anthony Dixon article with "Antony Dixon was arrested on (insert date here) for driving under the influence". It was completely tangential to the rest of the article and completely un-newsworthy months after the news had broken.

 

[idog]

Then don't read Marcello's ****. that's what it is. go elsewhere. there are other writers that deserve the clicks - "B Lo" is not one of them.

 

[o_GuitarDawg]

While I think the article was fine, he could have given Madkin a little bit more love. While Madkinwasserviceable he threw quite a few interceptions, but he also made some big plays that Marcello neglected to mention. It seemed that Brandon Marcello wrote the article as a bitter state fan from the late Sherrill era, angry at Wayne for throwing a few picks that have stuck with him through the years. <div>
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</div><div>I like Marcello as a writer but he paints his pretty pictures with mud, and in trying to be unbiased he ALMOST comes off as cynical, only reporting the negative (or the not-so-positive, rather). </div><div>
</div><div>Maybe he doesn't see things the way others do. It is possible that he doesn't want to be a beat writer for state his entire life so he keeps it casual when reporting, not getting too Maron and Whit in his writings.</div><div>
</div><div>Or perhaps he just doesn't want to feed into an already wooly crowd of excited fans, so he keeps the reminder that we do have holes to fill and we do need to figure some things out before we hang an SEC WEST banner somewhere in the pre-season.</div></div><div>
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