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The future is NOW (class of 21).

SayWhat said:
That and every single fan base has fans that are far more obsessed with their team than any writer in America. I'm sure there are some sports obsessed nut jobs out there who are writers covering a team, but most people who dream up being a journalist, a journalist for a sports team isn't their dream job. Then you throw in message boards where collective knowledge is spread, it's like a hive mind that forms.

It's just a job to most writers. I know I used to know everything about every one of our players. Who recruited them, what high school, what camps they attended, stats, saw every video posted, etc. I've got kids, family, a job, and there's a bit of time for this team, but nowhere near where it was. I watched more highlights and game film in one year in my 20's than the past 10 years combined. Not just our guys, but those we recruited and went elsewhere.

All in all, if one is expecting a writer to know as much as the diehards, then they're expecting too much. Their information is for the casual fan. You don't visit message boards, then you won't have heard what they're saying beforehand. We aren't the target audience by and large even though they do offer some new takes and information here and there.
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I hear what you're saying. Yet somehow D$ has figured it out. And that kid over at Sun-Sentinel that went on to become the Bruins reporter, Matt Porter, would go to the camps and do the extra journalism to be a pretty decent source and writer. So it's feasible. Maybe sports columns should be left to the younger, hungry, unencumbered journalists who then are moved to more commentary roles as they level up?

The media has been punch drunk for 20 years from reacting to the internet and social media. I think it's more about poor leadership and management hiring and maintaining the wrong staff in role than it is about fan expectations.
 
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SayWhat said:
That and every single fan base has fans that are far more obsessed with their team than any writer in America. I'm sure there are some sports obsessed nut jobs out there who are writers covering a team, but most people who dream up being a journalist, a journalist for a sports team isn't their dream job. Then you throw in message boards where collective knowledge is spread, it's like a hive mind that forms.

It's just a job to most writers. I know I used to know everything about every one of our players. Who recruited them, what high school, what camps they attended, stats, saw every video posted, etc. I've got kids, family, a job, and there's a bit of time for this team, but nowhere near where it was. I watched more highlights and game film in one year in my 20's than the past 10 years combined. Not just our guys, but those we recruited and went elsewhere.

All in all, if one is expecting a writer to know as much as the diehards, then they're expecting too much. Their information is for the casual fan. You don't visit message boards, then you won't have heard what they're saying beforehand. We aren't the target audience by and large even though they do offer some new takes and information here and there.
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Agreed, and I was just trying to address the issue of why they don't have the TIME to look at more data. You are absolutely correct on why most writers don't have the PASSION to look at more data, Miami is (largely) a pro-sports town and most of the sportswriters who cover UM did not, in fact, go to UM.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
It's better than 2 different players wearing the same number.

I'd like to see Miami revive 00, in honor of Jim Otto (and, yes, I know he wore # 50 at UM, and only wore # 00 in the NFL).
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I don't care for the 2 players wearing the same number either but this #0 thing I care even less for. It just strikes me as obnoxious so I don't like it. When I started to see it all over the nation last year I knew that it wouldn't be going away anytime soon. I'm not sure how to articulate what it is about it that rubs me the wrong way but it does.
 
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