OriginalCanesCanesCanes
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These kind of stories -- called "reconstructs" -- are done almost every day by the best newspapers. You counter sour grapes by getting multiple sources on both sides of an issue.
And let's say a sour grapes player says there was a team meeting and so and so happened. Now you know there was a meeting. Start digging. Confirm that there was a meeting. Get 4, 5 people to detail the meeting. You leverage what a source said to get others to talk.
It's not easy. It takes time. It takes hustle. It takes the ability to get people to open things up. But in a screwed up situation, people are more likely to talk.
Question; Can you remember a single in depth media reconstruct about Miami football in the last 10 years? And I don't mean a few paragraphs from a single anonymous source. I can't.
You're right, it can be done. The question is, will it be done? Because to do it fairly you have to be very thorough and interview a lot of people. Do you see any journalist in Miami, or so-called journalist, willing to do this? Therefore, it's never going to happen.
And to answer your question there hasn't even been a decent in-depth article about Miami football in eons. I mean an actual in-depth review of Miami football, with intelligent in-depth analysis.
So a reconstruct? It's almost laughable. Will never happen. We literally have the laziest most superficial writers ever to exist in the history of sports. Their efforts are akin to the sports section of a small high school newspaper. I don't know how they even get a paid a full-time salary.
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