Vice sports goes full bananas

[Jeeperaf]

"If it bleeds it leads."

Thats the core principle of today's "journalism". Entice the readers with an implied headline to get the click thru, if nothing more than out of curiosity.

What's next? "The Secret Mark Richt Doesn't Want You To Know..."

and then its an article about practice being cancelled due to lightning.

Yawn.

 

[Gatorhater]

Wait, so we accidentally hired a bad boy as HC? More blind luck.

 

[Peter Ariz]

This is a series they've been doing with other programs too. They aren't going after Richt at all.

 

[plantcity3]

Richt's wife is the "Water Engineer". All bases are covered....

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[DTP]

Didn't know effeminate hipsters with cats cared about sports.

 

[holdnorth]

This is a series they've been doing with other programs too. They aren't going after Richt at all.[/QUOTE

So your saying pointing out possible NCAA violations in bold print was sarcasm?

 

[caneaddict]

dude just dropped a mil for the IPF, we are private, he can expense satterfields asss lube

 

[Peter Ariz]

This is a series they've been doing with other programs too. They aren't going after Richt at all.

So your saying pointing out possible NCAA violations in bold print was sarcasm?

There's no NCAA violations there. The whole point of the series is just to show that college coaches have so much power that they can spend on whatever they want and it's not an issue. Other coaches have spent on more ridiculous stuff...remember the story about Sarkisian spending all the money at bars?

Sarkisian, 3 other Washington coaches bought 8 shots and 5 beers before noon - LA Times

 

[Tad Footeball]

This is a series they've been doing with other programs too. They aren't going after Richt at all.

So your saying pointing out possible NCAA violations in bold print was sarcasm?

There's no NCAA violations there. The whole point of the series is just to show that college coaches have so much power that they can spend on whatever they want and it's not an issue. Other coaches have spent on more ridiculous stuff...remember the story about Sarkisian spending all the money at bars?

Sarkisian, 3 other Washington coaches bought 8 shots and 5 beers before noon - LA Times

The real actual point here is that they're just trying to be creative while still attacking sports under the guise of being a sports website. The only points they get here are for deviating from concussion and race talk although this still falls in the attack college sports' money/power structure column which isn't that original. Oh well, beats articles by lady sportswriters complaining about how they're treated so poorly....I guess.

 

[The Franchise]

This is what you get from an obscure station that no one sees run by people who live in $4k per month apartments in Brooklyn that their dads pay for while they churn their own butter and grow vegetables on their communal roof.

 

[Canedude08]

It's not an attack piece -

It's a FOIA exercise / content creation campaign. It's a pretty smart way to drum up excitement and peddle click-bait. I guarantee there will be plenty of folks posting Saban, Miles, and Jimbo links to the same series.

The problem with the campaign is that they don't note simple things about the expense reports, IE the fact that nothing these people are paying for is against the rules, and the expense accounts usually aren't paid for by the school. Booster/Alumni associations are covering these accounts in most cases, so the narrative these people are trying to going with is complete B.S. It's typical SJW journalism, where they use FOIA requests to shoehorn a narrative that fits their SJW sensibilities.

 

[StPeteCane]

Didn't UGA just spend like 80k on bs for Ludacris to do a 15 minute performance?

 

[Tad Footeball]

I'd like to see Vice's expense reports. Many people are saying that Shane Smith goes to Southeast Asia a lot and it's not always work related.

 

[CaneVR]

It's not an attack piece -

It's a FOIA exercise / content creation campaign. It's a pretty smart way to drum up excitement and peddle click-bait. I guarantee there will be plenty of folks posting Saban, Miles, and Jimbo links to the same series.

Anonymous folks... is it just me or was there no author attached?

This guy is head coach of an SEC football team and they are giving him heat for a $100 per diem on a weekend trip? That's less than a Deloitte accountant out of undergrad. Corporate execs in Miami spent $100 on a weekday breakfast at the Doral.

 

[CaneVR]

I'd like to see Vice's expense reports. Many people are saying that Shane Smith goes to Southeast Asia a lot and it's not always work related.

A lot of business gets done at the four floors of whores. Never been, but heard from colleagues who stopped by on work travel.

 

[Torocane]

Sounds like a Georgia problem.
Don't live there so zero f##ks given

 

[3G Cane]

at vice sports.

There's an analogy here but its not coming to me right meow.

 

[deleted5896]

It's not an attack piece -

It's a FOIA exercise / content creation campaign. It's a pretty smart way to drum up excitement and peddle click-bait. I guarantee there will be plenty of folks posting Saban, Miles, and Jimbo links to the same series.

The problem with the campaign is that they don't note simple things about the expense reports, IE the fact that nothing these people are paying for is against the rules, and the expense accounts usually aren't paid for by the school. Booster/Alumni associations are covering these accounts in most cases, so the narrative these people are trying to going with is complete B.S. It's typical SJW journalism, where they use FOIA requests to shoehorn a narrative that fits their SJW sensibilities.

What is SJW? Social Justice Warrior (credit: Urban Dictionary)? Not really sure what that has to do with this article.

It's important to distinguish between public and private institutions in this context, because clearly the target subjects are state-funded college-football programs. When you have a high-profile and profitable state-run business (much of the proceeds are nontaxable btw), there is room for misappropriation and malfeasance. What's wrong with an informed public and examining the movement of funds from the public coffers? Sounds pretty fiscally conservative to me...

Just because we live in an age of ultra sensitivity doesn't mean that every piece or series by a journalist is a hack job or an attack piece.

 

[83dawg]

After reading it I think it makes Richt look good.

Yep.

The UGA fans I know all think it was silly to pull his records, unless they wanted the most boring job ever reading through them.

I mean, of all the Power 5 coaches out there, Richt is the least likely to have anything odd in his expense reports. I thought both the catering for a huge gathering and the dog statues were a pretty good deal.

And as for K-Richt, as y'all well know and as they mentioned on the App State broadcast, on game days she runs the sports drink station on the sideline and is a bona fide member of the sideline game day crew (not to mention that she is a nurse and could be helpful in an emergency serious player injury situation).

So a per diem for her is normal for bowl games.