Edsall Not Contacted

[Duluthguy]

Pioneer Press is reporting that Edsall claims he has not even been contacted about the Gopher job. Gee, could the report about Edsall being high on the list be wrong? What's next, someone claiming Fedora has visited when his AD says he hasn't even been contacted?

 

[Rosemountian]

The Twin Cities sportmedia is a joke. They have no standards on what to report and when to report it.

I could have gotten better reporting on what is actually going on from talking to a friend who works in the admissions dept.

 

[harrys ghost]

Pioneer Press is reporting that Edsall claims he has not even been contacted about the Gopher job. Gee, could the report about Edsall being high on the list be wrong? What's next, someone claiming Fedora has visited when his AD says he hasn't even been contacted?

Looks like they may be plugging the "leaks" in the AD pretty soon.

 

[50PoundHead]

The Twin Cities sportmedia is a joke. They have no standards on what to report and when to report it.

I could have gotten better reporting on what is actually going on from talking to a friend who works in the admissions dept.

Not to defend our local scribes, but is it any different in any other market?

 

[GVBadger]

Any coach that was contacted and possibly interested but did not get the job was never contacted. It is the way things work.

 

[Rosemountian]

Not to defend our local scribes, but is it any different in any other market?

Probably not, but I didn't say anything about other markets.
Just because the sportsmedia is a joke in another market, it doesn't take away from the fact that the media is a joke in ours.


I wish there was a seperation between bloggers and media members. But to be honest, newsmedia is becoming nothing more than bloggers with higher salaries.

 

[FrothyGopher]

Any coach that was contacted and possibly interested but did not get the job was never contacted. It is the way things work.

Yep.

The whole thing is pretty fun, actually. The Fedora situation was great: Joe Schmidt tweeted there was a 95% chance he was/had been in town and a half dozen other columnists/bloggers ran with it. Then we find out it was all false. All within the course of an hour. The miracle of more lax journalistic standards within the social media space.

With that said, I've upped my glue sniffing ten-fold in the last 48 hours to deal with the stress of waiting.

 

[sugarriver]

He may have said he has not been contacted by the university. That doesn't mean he hasn't been contacted by the search firm.

 

[ncgo4]

The first purpose of a consultant is to provide deniability. Good post Sugar!

 

[Brick House]

I have no knowlegde of anything, including the coaching search, but it seems to me that Edsall may be the guy. His season is not over, so they can not announce it. I know when Maturi was getting ideas for TCF stadium, he toured the UConn stadium, as it was recently built, about the same size and he said the schools are compreble. Maybe they hit if off. Edsall is rumored to be a candidate for the Miami job. Yes I know how rumors go. He has turned UConn into a winner and if they win this week go to a BSC bowl. I think he would be a solid choice, but not an exciting choice. Not sure how i feel about this.

any thoughts?

 

[Doogie]

Pioneer Press is reporting that Edsall claims he has not even been contacted about the Gopher job. Gee, could the report about Edsall being high on the list be wrong? What's next, someone claiming Fedora has visited when his AD says he hasn't even been contacted?

You would expect Edsall to admit on-the-record that he's been contacted? Hoke was limited after Maturi & Mona were spotted in San Diego by Tafoya.

 

[50PoundHead]

Probably not, but I didn't say anything about other markets.
Just because the sportsmedia is a joke in another market, it doesn't take away from the fact that the media is a joke in ours.


I wish there was a seperation between bloggers and media members. But to be honest, newsmedia is becoming nothing more than bloggers with higher salaries.

I was trained as a journalist in the IBM Selectric II era although I didn't pursue journalism as a career. In those days, you had to trek off to some god-forsaken pit and work on a weekly paper doing everything from selling quarter-page ads to the local feed store to taking grip-and-grin shots at the Knights of Columbus' annual Booya and I found an opportunity that allowed me to avoid that fate.

Anyway, things are greatly different now. The use of social media is prevalent and it allows for a lot more speculation and exchange of opinion, which can cloud what is actually happening. On top of that, all this buzz has created a system where the large media institutions are in direct competition with more mobile upstarts. I really had to laugh at the exchange between Barreiro and Brackin yesterday, because those guys are clearly dinosaurs in this era and they are as frustrated as the rest of us with all of the things flying back and forth. The media--especially as it pertains to sports--is now more discussion than digestion and we all have to get used to that and become better consumers. In other words, consider the source far more than you used to.

I don't see this as much different than the "will he/won't he" regarding Favre last summer. It's just that it's gone on longer.

 

[ruralgopher]

I hope that Joel Maturi holds a press conference that announces the hiring of our coach adn the firing of about 8 people who leak info. Then says something along the lines of, 'who's a non-commital weenie now, #@!$%@'!