Star Tribune's Rayno adds her own story to Teague scandal

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bigtenchamps1899 said:
Dear ****ing lord. Are you reading my words? Never did I say that Teague was not in a more powerful position than rayno. That is, in fact, the definition of sexual harassment. In fact what I said was that rayno had a very prominent outlet to expose this crime and instead chose to suppress it for the sake of her own job. These are her own words. Then, when someone with a much smaller outlet available to expose this monsters crimes comes forward, rayno writes a piece about how she ignored these same crimes years before and I am supposed to applaud her strength?

N.B. I am very supportive of the woman with the most to lose, the woman who came out and said enough. I also think that Teague is a criminal and a bastard -- I have been clear on these points. I just don't think that rayno is brave for waiting until the coast is clear and Teague has been pilloried.
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Yet you think that you know all of the implications that could occur had she come forward first. As a journalist who covers the Gophers......yes that may have backfired.
 

bigtenchamps1899 and Killme, thanks for outing yourselves as losers.
 




Teague had to have done things to potential donors to turn them off. Then word got out. This explains why the fundraising has stalled. I only know one person who knows Teague personally and his opinion was very negative.
 

some of these guys get in a position of power where everyone is deferential to them and people seem interested in everything they say, including women in social situations, and the suddenly either think they are fabulously interesting or they consciously think they can get away with it. The guys I know who got this way (still short of actually harassing women) were guys who got to the top of the ladder and it was the first time in their life women paid a lot of attention to them. The suddenly think they are the most interesting man in the world.
No woman deserves this bs, but Rayno gets no journalistic plaudits from me for bravely telling her story after he is exposed. In fact the Star and Trib should be embarrassed they helped this go on.
 

wait!what? said:
like it or not - we have only heard her side.
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Those texts from The Colonel or AKA "Mega-Tongue" are letting us hear from the other side. Or you think maybe she sent them to herself?
 





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There's a bit of apples-and-oranges here. While Ms. Rayno covered the team, she was not under the direct employ of the University and wouldn't have been covered by the U's sexual harassment policy, putting her at a much higher risk with the revelations. Further, if she would have blown the whistle, the inevitable reaction from the jockocracy would have been "Why were you drinking with the AD alone in a bar?" and she would have been portrayed as a floozy.

Fellas, there are women sportswriters these days. Treat them like the professionals they are. End of story.
 



joshvanklomp said:
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Funny he thinks two-three outlandish posters qualify as "several" but doesn't include the fact that dozens of people are setting the two "jackasses" straight. Care to respond Pat, since you are obviously reading this?
 

Kuato Lives! said:
Pretty sure that PA's jock sniffing qualifies as sexual harassment and/or assault.
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Thank goodness he's on the radio. The verbal fellatio he performs daily on his guests would be NC-17 if witnessed live.
 

Gopherocious said:
Funny he thinks two-three outlandish posters qualify as "several" but doesn't include the fact that dozens of people are setting the two "jackasses" straight. Care to respond Pat, since you are obviously reading this?
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Apparently 3 people out of how many thousands of Gopherhole readers is "several" for Pat. And like you say, not to mention plenty of people setting them straight.
 

Gopherocious said:
Funny he thinks two-three outlandish posters qualify as "several" but doesn't include the fact that dozens of people are setting the two "jackasses" straight. Care to respond Pat, since you are obviously reading this?
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Exactly. There are 2-3 people taking a stupid stance, and everyone else ripping them. Sorry Pat, dead wrong on this.

Go Gophers!!
 

Sweeping generalizations are par for course for Pat.

I wonder what culpability the Strib HR department has in this case. Should they be responsible for reporting it to the Strib editors (if they didn't already know) so they can put her on a different (and equal) beat? Beat writers shuffle all of the time within a newspaper (Kent Youngblood, Joe Christensen, Phil Miller, etc). Someone at the Strib knew and they continued to send her into a harassing environment? That seems awkward to me. She may have asked/pleaded to stay on the same beat for many different reasons but is it her choice in that case? Doesn't an employer have the obligation to protect their employees? I know that could potentially diminish the likelihood of future whistle-blowers if they wanted to maintain the same assignment at a job but does the employee protection trump that? A reassignment to another equal beat (I know she has a history in baseball for example) could have saved her career without having to endure further sexual harassment or the public victim-shaming of going rogue before other victims were known.
 

BleedGopher said:
Exactly. There are 2-3 people taking a stupid stance, and everyone else ripping them. Sorry Pat, dead wrong on this.

Go Gophers!!
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Not to mention he has been following sports his whole life, does he think we are unique? Every message board/fanbase of every major sport has a few clueless trolls.
 

The positive side of all this is the creation of a fantastic new nickname - Mega Tongue. I'm almost certain that will be my fantasy football team name this season.
 

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If you read his later responses, PA did eventually get it. He had not actually read the article.
 

BleedGopher said:
Exactly. There are 2-3 people taking a stupid stance, and everyone else ripping them. Sorry Pat, dead wrong on this.

Go Gophers!!
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Whether he said should have said "several" or "a few" is nitpicking. However, Nadine can certainly be proud of the majority of the posters on this site, who aggressively defended Amelia Rayno.
 

Here is a response form a non-tweeter. Feel free to use if desired.

@1500ESPN_Reusse You must be really proud to continue to work with a colleague who publicly ridiculed someone with epilepsy. Way to take a stand.
 

gopherinorlando said:
Ms Rayno was put in an impossible situation not of her own choosing. Her deciding to handle it how she did should not open her to any criticism from anyone. It's easy for those of us with nothing at stake to say she would have been fine because of the evidence, she had the power of the paper behind her, or other victims would have been saved. But in reality, none of us know how it would have turned out, even with 20/20 hind-sight, and that is unfair and too much to lay at her feet. She did the best she could, made the decision she thought was right, and went about her job as professionally as possible. Kudos to her for that, and also for being willing to reopen that wound and add her name and story to this guys list of issues and offenses .
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Couldn't say it better myself. I'm sure if she could do it over again, she'd do it differently. It's always easier looking outside in, or in hindsight.

Teague is the wrong-doer and it's shame there was a delay, but she obviously thought it was only her that was being harassed.
 

Gopherocious said:
Funny he thinks two-three outlandish posters qualify as "several" but doesn't include the fact that dozens of people are setting the two "jackasses" straight. Care to respond Pat, since you are obviously reading this?
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Patrick would certainly recognize a jackass when he sees one,since he's looked in the mirror how many thousand times in his sixty-plus years ?
 

Good response by GopherLady:

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Go Gophers!!
 

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