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This has NOTHING to do with the PJ Star....ISU got crushed by a ranked oponent...we got beat in an EQUALLY embarassing..nah a MORE embarassing fashion by DII Quincy and EIU
I find this statement absurd-
Yes Bradley was embarrassed by a weaker opponent. Wow, I guess that has never happened before. You forgot to mention that 2 of Bradley's key players were out or hurting.
ISU was at full strength- they lost to a marginal Top 25 team, certainly not a superpower. There is simply no way anyone should lose by 31 points on their home floor, and for 40 minutes, never even put up a fight, nor make a run, nor even try to make an adjustment that might slow the slaughter.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you really believe that if it was Bradley that lost last night to UNLV by 31 points on their home court, that the articles and columns in today's PJ Star wouldn't be slanted a little differently, than you are just as biased or oblivious.
Again, who cares? If you hate the PJ Star so much and think it's so awful,..
I don't hate the PJ Star, I like the funnies and need something to get the fire started in the fireplace....
but I call a spade a spade.....and I am not the only one who sees the local coverage of BU as so incessantly negative.....
...as pointed out in that link, it is negative when Bradley wins by 40 points!
Missouri Brave---A great post, very well written, and 100% correct!
I'm getting weary of the PJS and KW haters and pseudo journalists who don't have any kind of well grounded journalistic background or experience and can offer nothing other than emotional anti PJS rants and a rose colored glasses-head-in-the-sand view of the deteriorating and very mediocre Bradley BB program the past several years, WITH OR WITHOUT THE RECENT RASH OF PLAYER INJURIES.
wizard- usually I agree with your insight. But if we shouldn't be allowed to criticize the PJS because we do not have training and background in journalism, then those journalists have no right to criticize the Bradley team or coaches, since I happen to know they have never played or coached college basketball.
One doesn't have to be a chicken to tell when an egg is rotten.
I don't think the titles or stories have that much bias. As for Reynold's story, he quotes Les as saying the team had to eat humble pie after that loss. He was just tying the headline into a piece of the article. If Les never said that, then yes, it would be a bit biased, but since that's how the head coach himself described the loss, it's an accurate headline.
As for Wessler, he did rip the team, but can anyone actually name positives from losing to a team that will be 300+ in the RPI at home? Playing and losing to UNLV at least will boost ISU's usually dismal SOS.
so finally break the ice....we have someone who admits they are negative towards Bradley --
now all we need is a consensus that haven't been similarly negative towards ISU and we'll have agreement......
As for Reynold's story, he quotes Les as saying the team had to eat humble pie after that loss. He was just tying the headline into a piece of the article.
Please do not use facts. It hurts the irrational black-helicopter crowd.
Don't you know everyone is out to get BU??
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
OK, so someone finally does admit there is a completely different standard for covering these 2 teams.
Why wouldn't there be? One is in the same city as said paper, with an obvious connection as they have a beat writer following the team. The other team is 40 miles away and is covered by the PJS as needed. Who cares anyway?
1. Reynolds and Wessler don't write the headlines. Reporters/columnists never do. That is left to the copy editor who edits the story for publication. This will really get the conspiracy theorists on the board fired up - there is an unnamed, anonymous individual on the PJS copy desk with a clear anti-BU/pro-ISU agenda! (note sarcasm)
2. Tornado your link doesn't go to a PJS story or column. You're ranting vs Wessler in your post but, as noted earlier, Wessler is a columnist who is supposed to state his OPINIONS. He doesn't have to show a modicum of fairness if he doesn't want to.
Let's talk about some hoops, not some perceived witch hunt that doesn't exist, shall we?
Please do not use facts. It hurts the irrational black-helicopter crowd.
Don't you know everyone is out to get BU??
I don't know how those guys get any work done...they spend 24 hours a day constructing paranoid theories about how everyone in the world is out to get BU...the PJS hates BU, the NCAA hates BU, the internet hates BU, the universe hates BU, and on and on and on...so much time spent wasted on something that is so meaningless. Exhausting.
Please do not use facts. It hurts the irrational black-helicopter crowd.
Don't you know everyone is out to get BU??
Now I see, it must be that Tim Jankovich did not have a single negative quote to say about his team last night since the only quotes seem to exonerate his players. Journalists never slant their articles, they only report the facts that are agreed on by everyone.
Again, I would like to know what you think, if it had been Bradley who lost by 31 pointas at home last night, and played as poorly with the coaches having no clue how to counter the slaughter, would the articles today have had the same headlines and read exactly the same, with no negativity?
Da Coach, please give me a break. No one could possibly look at last night's ISU article and come away feeling positive about that team in any way. Puh-leeze.
Now I see, it must be that Tim Jankovich did not have a single negative quote to say about his team last night since the only quotes seem to exonerate his players. Journalists never slant their articles, they only report the facts that are agreed on by everyone.
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