Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Media / Sports / Woods A Hero for Our Times: TV News Director Stands Up to Arrogant Flack, Wussy Reporters
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Dooley likely is now the highest paid public official in East Tennessee, if not the entire state. It is hard to imagine any other public agency announcing the multimillion-dollar hiring of an employee without immediately telling how much public money it is spending.
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I asked the same thing (in the exact same way) when I first saw this, Hargrove. And I got an answer: Heather Harrington with the Sports Animal radio show in Knoxville
Didn't she used to play something for the Vols? See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. These people are cheerleaders. They have no business in the business.
Not sure what the fuss is about. The Knoxville media has been the Big Orange cheerleader since I was a kid living up there (many a year ago). Hell, one of the newspaper's sports editors was fired once for writing sumthing negative about the Rocky Tops.
Ashley - the hilarity there is that right after The Onion did that story, our actual defensive coordinator left for Mississippi State, so maybe Our Lord and Savior can legit get that job now.
Bill Shory did what any journalist should have done. The "reporters" who were yelling for his head should be ashamed of themselves, although I doubt they are capable of the level of introspection which would rightfully trigger shame.
The person I really don't understand here is Bud Ford. Bud has been a part of UT sports information for decades. His blood runs deep Orange. By 10pm on the day of the resignation, he should have been OVER Lane Kiffin. He should have been thinking about the University's needs, and not Kiffin's desires. You can say his loyalties got confused, or you could conclude, based on the tape, that Bud is so accustomed to dictating to a complaisant press that his mouth simply ran away with him.
Either way, he made himself the bad guy, and by extension, he cast the University in a bad light as well. That's not what you get paid to do, Bud.
Mark is right on. I wondered the same thing when I first saw this clip. By the time this incident happened, Kiffin was no longer on UT's payroll. He wanted Ford to ditch the usual format of press conferences and let Kiffin dictate what got on camera. Ford is the one who still has to work with all these people, and it's not in his interest to get them mad at him. My conclusion is like yours: Ford figures that the media need him worse than he needs them, so they will bow to whatever he wants. But what a prick.
I thnk from an outsiders perspective. Kiffin's lack of integrity and commitment made UT a victim. But Ford's actions and demands of the media make it justified, as weasels exist and are produced in an overbearing administration who wish to rewrite the facts and dictate the news. Now Ford is having to answer for the drug and sex rummors about Kiffin with coeds, during Kiffins time with the Vol's any chance the truth will be told?
And is there any chance people of Tennesse will believe them, if it is? We need TMZ and hidden cameras now.
PS enjoy the sausage in the press box, limp pens! UT looks wonderful now.
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