SEC media and the double standard

[JayFarrar]

During SEC media days, the writers made a big deal of what coach didn't vote for Tim Tebow. Made it a daily question of all the coaches. Eventually Steve Spurrier apologized, said it was a screwup by the SID staff and had his vote changed.
Yet in the media voting, three didn't vote for Tebow.
Two voted for Ole Miss's Jevon Snead, while one voted for Arkansas and former Michigan QB Ryan Mallett, who doesn't even have the piggies starting job locked down yet.
So, and I ask seriously, why hasn't someone hunted down the media members who didn't vote for Tebow and write a story about who did what and why?
Or has someone?
Are the media ballots secret?
Can the collective wisdom of the SportsJournalists.com nation figure out who voted how?

And I know that the fate of the world doesn't revolve around this, but it does seem like it is a double standard to hold the coaches to this extreme level of scrutiny, but when it is a media member, the collective pack leaves it alone.

 

[OnTheRiver]

I can't figure out what more Tebow would have to do to get all the votes. I mean ... ****, Snead? Mallett?

 

[BTExpress]

How can you have a PREseason All-Anything team anyway?

They haven't played the ****ing games, What are you voting on?

 

[JackReacher]

How many media members voted?
How many coaches voted?

Much easier to find one out of 11 coaches than three out of 4,582,987 members of the media.

 

[Armchair_QB]

How many media members voted?
How many coaches voted?

Much easier to find one out of 11 coaches than three out of 4,582,987 members of the media.

Really? Just ask the guy who collected the votes. He can tell you.

 

[HejiraHenry]

How many media members voted?
How many coaches voted?

Much easier to find one out of 11 coaches than three out of 4,582,987 members of the media.

Really? Just ask the guy who collected the votes. He can tell you.

I would expect a somewhat, um, higher level of expertise from the coaches.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I understand this one.

From what I've read, everybody thought it was Kiffin who didn't vote for Tebow since he's been so vocal with his hatred for Florida.

I don't think anybody even imagined it would be Spurrier, which is even a better story.

A couple homer writers not voting for Tebow: Not news.

The coach who brought the UF program to prominence not voting for Tebow: News.

 

[BTExpress]

I don't think anybody even imagined it would be Spurrier, which is even a better story.

Except that it wasn't Spurrier. Just someone that filled out the ballot for him.

Which makes the entire concept of a coaches' vote a joke anyway.

Next question: Did ANY coaches actually fill out their own ballots?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Nice of Spurrier to throw his SID staff under the bus, BTW. His name was on the freakin' ballot. Own it, Steve.

As for the writers' vote, I see the double standard, but mizzou's right. It's not news. A couple of homers in MS voted for Snead. A homer in Arky voted for Ryan Mallet. Happens every year.

 

[JackReacher]

I understand this one.

From what I've read, everybody thought it was Kiffin who didn't vote for Tebow since he's been so vocal with his hatred for Florida.

I don't think anybody even imagined it would be Spurrier, which is even a better story.

A couple homer writers not voting for Tebow: Not news.

The coach who brought the UF program to prominence not voting for Tebow: News.

Oh. I said it was Spurrier from the get-go. I'll definitely take credit for that one. It's even on one of the 836 Tebow threads somewhere. :)

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Nice of Spurrier to throw his SID staff under the bus, BTW. His name was on the freakin' ballot. Own it, Steve.

As for the writers' vote, I see the double standard, but mizzou's right. It's not news. A couple of homers in MS voted for Snead. A homer in Arky voted for Ryan Mallet. Happens every year.

Sure it's news. Not national, but damn sure local.
If I'm a UF beat writer/columnist, while everybody in Gator Nation is bsuting Superior's chops, I'd be tracking down the three ink-stained (though probably radio) homers who didn't vote for Jesus Tebow and ask them why. It'd be my Sunday column.
Honestly, I'd expect better from sports writers, even the Homers (i.e. radio) and UF haters. I'd also expect them to have a better knowledge of the SEC - you know, their beat - than Superior and the rest of the SEC coaches who vote for preseason space filler.

PS I think FoxSports or somebody had a column by someone who pointed out the media members who snubbed Tebow.

 

[zebracoy]

A couple homer writers not voting for Tebow: Not news.

That's pretty much it. You've got two guys in Mississippi and a third in Arkansas. That's who didn't vote for Tebow.

Nice of Spurrier to throw his SID staff under the bus, BTW. His name was on the freakin' ballot. Own it, Steve.

True, but it was his director of football operations - essentially a pseudo-assistant coach. So he's not even throwing the sports information folks under the bus, he's doing that to someone who does plenty of other favors for him.

 

[spnited]

Nice of Spurrier to throw his SID staff under the bus, BTW. His name was on the freakin' ballot. Own it, Steve.

As for the writers' vote, I see the double standard, but mizzou's right. It's not news. A couple of homers in MS voted for Snead. A homer in Arky voted for Ryan Mallet. Happens every year.

Sure it's news. Not national, but damn sure local.
If I'm a UF beat writer/columnist, while everybody in Gator Nation is bsuting Superior's chops, I'd be tracking down the three ink-stained (though probably radio) homers who didn't vote for Jesus Tebow and ask them why. It'd be my Sunday column.
Honestly, I'd expect better from sports writers, even the Homers (i.e. radio) and UF haters. I'd also expect them to have a better knowledge of the SEC - you know, their beat - than Superior and the rest of the SEC coaches who vote for preseason space filler.

PS I think FoxSports or somebody had a column by someone who pointed out the media members who snubbed Tebow.

You go get them Orville. We're all waiting breathlessly to find out who those three evil writers were who left Tim ****ing Tebow off a useless preseason ballot.
And we wonder why people are sick of the Tebow hype and the SEC fanbois posing as writers.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

At best it's a note.

 

[FuturaBold]

How does the SEC handle the media vote? I covered the ACC media days a few times, and they pretty much handed ballots out to anyone who was there, without regards to how many each outlet received. The post-season teams were voted on only by a select group of writers ...

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Nice of Spurrier to throw his SID staff under the bus, BTW. His name was on the freakin' ballot. Own it, Steve.

As for the writers' vote, I see the double standard, but mizzou's right. It's not news. A couple of homers in MS voted for Snead. A homer in Arky voted for Ryan Mallet. Happens every year.

Sure it's news. Not national, but damn sure local.
If I'm a UF beat writer/columnist, while everybody in Gator Nation is bsuting Superior's chops, I'd be tracking down the three ink-stained (though probably radio) homers who didn't vote for Jesus Tebow and ask them why. It'd be my Sunday column.
Honestly, I'd expect better from sports writers, even the Homers (i.e. radio) and UF haters. I'd also expect them to have a better knowledge of the SEC - you know, their beat - than Superior and the rest of the SEC coaches who vote for preseason space filler.

PS I think FoxSports or somebody had a column by someone who pointed out the media members who snubbed Tebow.

You go get them Orville. We're all waiting breathlessly to find out who those three evil writers were who left Tim ****ing Tebow off a useless preseason ballot.
And we wonder why people are sick of the Tebow hype and the SEC fanbois posing as writers.

Hell just froze over. Spnited and I agree. Somebody got that road sign pic handy?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

A couple homer writers not voting for Tebow: Not news.

That's pretty much it. You've got two guys in Mississippi and a third in Arkansas. That's who didn't vote for Tebow.

Nice of Spurrier to throw his SID staff under the bus, BTW. His name was on the freakin' ballot. Own it, Steve.

True, but it was his director of football operations - essentially a pseudo-assistant coach. So he's not even throwing the sports information folks under the bus, he's doing that to someone who does plenty of other favors for him.

OK, so he threw his DOFO under the bus. His name is still on the ballot.

 

[JayFarrar]

My understanding was that 64 media members voted.
And I couched this whole thing in it really isn't that important but I was wondering ...

The point was is it a double standard in terms of coverage and I'd think that the answer is yes.

Back to the annual tradition of spnited bashing the SEC, nothing new here. I look forward to his "why Doc Blanchard is the best running back I've ever seen play" story.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Spurrier has worked with Speronis dating back to his time at Florida. If you're the SID or the person who gets blamed in all this by the HBC, you just grin and take your lumps. Any writer with a clue knows the truth.

 

[spnited]

Tebow may claim to be a virgin but he gets a lot of BJs from JayFarrar and friends.