Worst SID ever?

I can GUARANTEE you that the man of which I am speaking makes more than enough money, and the only thing he was responsible for was football, making his hours more regular than most.

Then again he could make 18k and work 11pm-11am and he'd still be an asshole.

 

I'll give the guys at the small colleges with no resources the benefit of the doubt.

It's the ones at the big schools who make our lives difficult just for the sake of doing so or not returning phone calls who should be called out.

 

'Preciate the love!!

 

No, Jeff Nelson isn't a bad guy at all.

While fewer and fewer guys at the top schools are working both football and basketball (okay, almost none anymore), I dealt with an SID in football who was fantastic. I'd put him up against anyone. Two months later during basketball season he was nearly impossible to work with, although everyone knew it wasn't necessarily his fault because he had to deal with a difficult coach.

While it's nice when SIDs put media first, when it's all said and done it's the school that pays the SID's salary. With more and more young SIDs in the business it's made more difficult because it's tough for the younger SIDs to stand up against their ADs or coaches. It would be almost like a writer telling an editor he or she doesn't want to do something because he or she works for the paper's readers. Good luck with that.

 

And that's exactly why I didn't put a name with my post. Seemed really hypocritical for me to do so.

 

Agreed. The problem there comes from Paterno and the AD's office.

 

My dad went to MSU with Vista... sang the praises of both of them for years.

 

If you act like a decent human being and not as some sort of human barricade, you don't end up on this list. That said, I'll echo Mizzou in that the low-level guys don't deserve the heat. It's the guys who have the Associate AD titles and who act like assholes who deserve every inch of it. Those are the guys who make six-figures and who shit on guys making 25k.

 

Outing alert: Cadet has been possessed by the spirit of Jason Whitlock.

By this logic, we cannot write anything critical of other members of the media or the athletes and coaches we deal with.

Take all that away and this place could get pretty quiet.

 

i'll side with cadet on this one thing -- there are a lot of low-level folks (the guy doing field hockey for some school which doesn't prioritize it and are getting paid $22k a year to work 36 hours a week, sans benefits) who aren't anything approaching "public figures" who could get skewered on this thread for no reason, other than s/he didn't hook up the podunk times with a feature on suzie swashbuckler.

 

Bob Knight's SID (and I use that term loosely) at Texas Tech supposedly didn't know that reporters needed to talk to players and coaches after games. He was a friend of the family and his appointment to that position had nothing to do with qualifications.

Also in Texas, the UIL has no time for you if you don't work in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin or San Antonio. Which leaves every other paper in a large state getting treated like shit.