VOL_Lyfe
8-track guy in a digital world
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So you're tired of every news story ever? Off record is how most stories get told.
Not true.
Do something really old-fashioned: buy a newspaper, and read the whole thing.
If it's a major national paper, like NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Herald-Tribune, Wall Street Journal, etc., it will have scores of stories; probably 100-200, all told. Even more if you pick the Sunday edition.
And I'll bet you money that less than five of those 100-200 stories will have even a single anonymous source.
Self-respecting journalists, true journalists, and major newspapers with reputations to consider, really do not like anonymous sources. Because each time they use one, they put a small bit of their credibility up for questioning.
Sure, they can have a story or two with an anonymous source, now and then. Especially if the article includes several other sources who are named and authoritative.
For all that Woodward and Bernstein leaned on Deep Throat for their Watergate coverage, they were also developing and using hosts of other corroborating and related sources, by name. Precisely to offset the doubts that come with using an anonymous informant.
So...no. Anonymous sources are NOT the regular way of things in the world of journalism, not even these days. You might not know it by the shoddy work done from time to time in on-line blogs, but those aren't real journalists, either. They're shock jocks with access to a laptop and a web page who get paid by the click.
Being elusive is quite difficult when 90% of play calls are straight up the gut into a collapsing line that got no movement off the snap(unless you count backwards)Would generally agree with you, certainly from the mental side. But I do think he ran with really good physicality the majority of the time....I just think he wasnt near the athlete and runner I thought we were getting. Said it before, but I really did think we were getting Eric Dickerson 2.0, a guy who could run with power but who was also elusive and who was a threat to break off a run and score from anywhere on the field at any time. As it turns out, he could run with some power, but he wasnt very elusive and he could not score from anywhere on the field at any time. Thought we were getting a legit elite 5 star player....instead got a pretty good 3.0-3.5 star or so player.
Would generally agree with you, certainly from the mental side. But I do think he ran with really good physicality the majority of the time....I just think he wasnt near the athlete and runner I thought we were getting. Said it before, but I really did think we were getting Eric Dickerson 2.0, a guy who could run with power but who was also elusive and who was a threat to break off a run and score from anywhere on the field at any time. As it turns out, he could run with some power, but he wasnt very elusive and he could not score from anywhere on the field at any time. Thought we were getting a legit elite 5 star player....instead got a pretty good 3.0-3.5 star or so player.
Ok, let's guess who the referenced coach might be. My money would have been on Muschamp if they had not mentioned USCe's players. I'd have to assume it was someone they played against last year who doesn't have a new coach this season. I'm guessing Orgeron.