Getting fired 101: Simulating rape on your equipment manager

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

UCF's baseball coach fired after holding down team equipment manager and acting like he was shoving a baseball bat up his ass.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/college/knights/orl-ucfcoach0308may03,0,1516793.story

 

[BYH]

I'd like to know what you have to do to NOT get hired at Central Florida.

 

[forever_town]

Too bad that didn't happen to that one San Francisco 49er who did much the same thing to the trainer...

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

That athletic program is going to some strange lengths to get the Sentinel to notice it.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

That athletic program is going to some strange lengths to get the Sentinel to notice it.

I'd love to be in the meeting w/ the AD when he proposes the new media campaign.
"Well, we need to beef up our exposure. Get me O'Leary and Bergman."

 

[imjustagirl]

I'll bet the equipment manager simulated asking for it.

 

[Pancamo]

Another Lynn Hoppes exclusive.

 

[BYH]

I'll bet the equipment manager simulated asking for it.

I'll admit it: I laughed.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Another Lynn Hoppes exclusive.

No kidding. What an absolute leech that guy is.

I wouldn't use that exact term . . . .

But it is interesting how the sports editor's name is found on so many of their breaking stories. Not the most common occurrence at large newspapers that make a business of breaking news.

 

[Moderator1]

Or maybe they are short-staffed like a lot of places and the boss jumps in and helps when help is needed? A lot of you guys gripe that your SE doesn't do much of anything. Here's one that does some stuff.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

That's another way of looking at it, Moddy.

If I read the Sentinel regularly, I would have a better idea of what the situation really is.

 

[Moderator1]

I don't see the paper or Web site every day so I don't know for sure.

I have managed a short staff and I know there are times it is a pain to get everything covered, let alone deal with breaking stuff. There isn't someone sitting on GA you can call and say, "You're up."
For instance, if something breaks in Richmond this weekend, they're up against it big. All available hands are covering the flying circus that is NASCAR. So sometimes an SE, instead of asking where his extra person is, has to say, "I'm that extra person." For my years as a writer, I had the resources and know-how to help. Lynn, I'm sure, is in the same position.

Two viewpoints, neither of us wrong. We're just looking at it from different sides.

 

[Bubbler]

I don't see the paper or Web site every day so I don't know for sure.

I have managed a short staff and I know there are times it is a pain to get everything covered, let alone deal with breaking stuff. There isn't someone sitting on GA you can call and say, "You're up."
For instance, if something breaks in Richmond this weekend, they're up against it big. All available hands are covering the flying circus that is NASCAR. So sometimes an SE, instead of asking where his extra person is, has to say, "I'm that extra person." For my years as a writer, I had the resources and know-how to help. Lynn, I'm sure, is in the same position.

Two viewpoints, neither of us wrong. We're just looking at it from different sides.

Those who don't have staffing responsibilities should heed what Moddy wrote here. Bravo.

 

[forever_town]

Moddy's absolutely right.

At my shop, I don't have the option to sit on my rotund posterior and let a ****load of GAs and other peeps do stuff. I often end up writing the crime briefs and writing about Congressional hearings and sentencing dates.

In the end, an editor's responsibility is to get the paper out. Even if that means writing stories yourself. I haven't worked a day with Lynn Hoppes, so I have no idea if that's a case of "it's a big story, I'm doing it so I can win an award" or "everyone else is tied up, so I'll pitch in."

 

[Zoom Zoom Zoom]

Been an editor, rewritten A1 stories, never hogged part of the byline.
I'll pay $5 for every byline Hoppes "shared'' that wasn't on A1.
Meanwhile, WTF?
"Rhyce, in an exclusive interview with the Sentinel, referred all questions to his attorney..."
Some exclusive interview!

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

I think this new poster has an axe to Grind, Grind, Grind.

Moddy and forever_town's points are well taken. But I would be shocked if the Orlando Sentinel had a shortage of energetic bucks who would jump all over an investigative story. Orlando isn't exactly a coverage area with a million things going on, which is part of why we laud that newspaper so much here: its great, aggressive work even in a middle-tier sports town.

 

[Zoom Zoom Zoom]

Bullseye!
And, no PR, my axe doesn't need grinding, though I may be a "new" poster.
Just hate to see Mickey Mouse journalism.

 

[dooley_womack1]

ZZZ, shouldn't you have a Mazda?

 

[Zoom Zoom Zoom]

ZZZ, shouldn't you have a Mazda?

Yeah, but they weren't exporting them when I got that damn Datsun 1000. I did have a Mazda RX3 that I inherited, but never photographed before the seals were shot. It was a fun car, a "sleeper" that surprized a bunch of Beemers even though its MPG sucked.
Back then, my pride was a '70 El Camino with a 400CI small-block, bored out .030 over, a 3/4 race cam, line-lock button, 3000 stall converter on the auto tranny, a 456 rear end, Centerlines with Mickey Thompsons on the rear and VW tires on the front, adjustable rear air shocks, a 400-watt stereo with six humongous speakers behind the seats and A Six Pack of ZZTOP. Took every 'Vette in town at the Stop-Light Showdowns. Also got stopped by every cop in town -- like waving a red flag at a bull.

 

[Lynn_Hoppes]

Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing.