Jay Bilas takes NCAA to woodshed

Yeah, he really showed them...

 

So journalists covering a beat should not do so critically?

 

No, they should. But the blowing of him over this tantrum is ridiculous.

 

I have seen criticism on this thread that Bilas does not sufficiently love college sports enough to cover them, as he casts a critical eye on the governing organization.

 

Yes... and it's also been demonstrated before. I like Bilas, but he's hardly breaking new ground here. Beat writers and/or columnists pointed this bullshit out when The OSU players got in trouble for the jersey/ tattoo scandal and UGA beat writers or columnist did the same thing when AJ Green was suspended.
The isn't new. Only the latest.

 

I was working the local angle on the story - trying to figure out which players had search-engine entries. The obvious suspects were in there - Denard Robinson, Devin Gardner, Kirk Cousins, Leveon Bell, Matt Stafford - and then a few that weren't as obvious. Jeremy Gallon and Fitzgerald Toussaint both worked, for example.

But the best part? Searching for Tate Forcier brought up his Michigan jersey. Not sure that market exists any more.

 

Emmert just announced the NCAA would be ceasing the jersey sales immediately.

 

Which is dumb. Makes the operation look guiltier than I suspect it is. Unless the search engine is designed to be non-intuitive, and they manually built the names in (which I really doubt), I mean, hell, it'd be like suing Google.

 

Then you misread my criticism. I think Bilas rather loves college basketball, actually. He also loves being Jay Bilas, arrogant, stentorian scold. City councils know these folks well. So does anyone in daily contact with Newt Gingrich.

He won this round, I'll give him that much.

 

Schools can still sell jerseys, I believe. So this does nothing.

 

So I guess Jay will now turn his attention to ESPN.

http://www.espnshop.com/ESPN_Texas_A_And_M_Aggies_Jerseys/adidas_Texas_A_And_M_Aggies_Number_2_Replica_Football_Jersey_-_White

 

Do you not grasp the difference?