Goodbye U of Oregon wrestling and don't let the door hit you on the way out

[pressmurphy]

I'm not going to blame the kid so much for the column. After all, it should have needed to have gone through at least two rounds of editing before it was released for publication. Where were the editors to challenge him on this piece of ****?

 

[Tom Petty]

Why don't some of you put your entirely fact-based, college-paper columns up on this site? Don't forget the mug shots, too - let's crush your ego while we burst your dreams.

I never wrote columns in college - too hard to back up what I would want to say. But anybody I know who did, at my school and at others, wrote nothing but emotion-driven opinion pieces anyway. I haven't looked recently, but I bet this isn't uncommon.

Either put up or shut up.

actually, jeb, i started writing columns at a daily when i was a freshman in college and was open to criticism from the masses from that point forward.

and if someone lays a turd like that while discussing d-i sports in a public forum, even a blogger or some dork from a fanboi site, i just might discuss it without even once giving a second thought about what you think.

 

[crimsonace]

This guy must've learned everything he knows about journalism from listening to sports talk radio blowhards and ESPN.

Dude ... wrestling is a niche sport.

Very, very, very few people follow it. But the people who like it REALLY like it.

And, the first rule of being a columnist (and I've read a few of these with the IndyCar-Champ Car unification) ... just because YOU don't like or care about or watch something, or your friends don't like or care about or watch something, doesn't mean nobody else does, either. That's a hornet's nest you don't want to step into.

And don't trash something out of hand simply because you don't care for it, or you've bought into the ESPN/groupthink mentality of "if everybody isn't doing it, it must not be cool."

I'm not much of a wrestling fan, but this was dumb.