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Auston Barnes will also not likely be starting when the season starts ..that story will be breaking shortly ..
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Not good.
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let's just hope it's a case of mistaken identityComment
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When will Coach Les get his guys under control? It's ridiculous.Comment
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There is a story in the PJ Star now about this situation.............Comment
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WOW......not a good way to start the new season!Comment
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Oh that darn PJStar. What are they doing trying to get Geno run out of town. Oh well think I'll go play golf.Comment
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don't worry - unlike the last time they covered a similar player arrest and plastered it on the front page daily for two weeks - this time it's just a short blurb a couple days after the arrest and then forgotten...it's already old newsComment
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More than a week since the Auston Barnes arrest and no further details whatsoever - the story hasn't just fallen to the back pages - it's gone silent..
which is better than the alternative......
Anyone who doesn't spot the difference between the way this assault & arrest is being covered compared to the last one BU had...
Note - that THIS case, so far a week into this case, that after a couple days delay, there was one and only one small column in the PJS and silence since..
When an extremely similar situation occurred in 2008, there were long, daily attack columns on the front page of the sports section - then after a week,
Kirk Wessler posted his infamous "Renegade program" column and tied Ruffin's arrest together with a few other isolated issues (an underage drinking citation a full year earlier and a player dismissed for allegedly failing a drug test FOUR years earlier!)
...and he summed it all up with the presumption that people all over the nation were seeing Bradley as a "renegade program"...
This coverage of Ruffin in sensationalized, daily, OJ-Simpson-like tabloid fashion with wild incredible speculation and allegations went on for weeks...
Nice to see our coverage is a bit more fair this time around.Comment
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Would you feel better if there were long daily attacks from PJS?Originally posted by tornado View PostComment
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I think T just wishes the coverage would have been the same back then.Originally posted by lefty View PostWhat part of illegal don't you understand?Comment
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Surely you can see the other differences in the situation. Ruffin was a local star on a good team mid season. Barnes might be the best returning player but it is for a bad team that he had only been around for one year for and during the offseason.
I never read the Ruffin articles so I don't know how unfairly the program was painted then but just the circumstances being different account for a certain amount of difference in coverage.Gotta stop feeding the trolls.
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no, I think it is a fair point of discussion that the coverage back then was way over the top, unfairly biased...
..it is 180 degrees the opposite now...
but as I clearly said but got ignored - it is more fair now and this is better than the alternativeComment
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