Comments on: SEC Headlines – 1/29/13

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:24:07 +0000

@Tracer Round

If you read this site — rather just visit it — you’ll know that every single day in headlines we find particular angles or quotes from stories that we find interesting and then link to them. Our headlines are not meant to be simple summaries what you’ll find behind Door #2. In some cases we do that. But often, we pick out what we find to be most interesting and then let you read the rest of the story for yourself. Every single day.

As for the piece you refer to, here’s the start of the article:

“When Kentucky takes the floor tonight at Tad Smith Coliseum, it will not do so as the traveling juggernaut and national championship contender there to entertain the local masses. Instead, Kentucky will just be a team trying to get a win that might help its struggling NCAA Tournament resume. Down is up. Left is right. And Kentucky is the underdog against No. 16 Ole Miss, which has won nine straight games.

We’re playing one of the hottest teams in the country and when you watch them on tape — man, they’re men,’ Kentucky coach John Calipari said. ‘They’re physical. Everyone has accepted how they’re going to play.’”

So we pointed out that high-and-mighty Kentucky enters tonight’s game looking up at Ole Miss in the SEC standings. Kentucky is the hunter, Ole MIss the hunted. That’s not usually the case in UK-UM basketball games. And to us — and specifically to me today since I was doing our headlines — that was the most interesting part of the story.

John

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:17:43 +0000

@Fayettechill14

Anytime something negative is written about Arkansas — even a line in passing — you’re here to complain.

But in this case, I guess you didn’t read our story when Bielema whined about Meyer in the first place:

http://www.mrsec.com/2012/02/meyer-takes-sec-methods-to-big-ten-bielema-ticked/

And we also mentioned it when rumors of Bielema’s Arkansas hiring first surfaced:

http://www.mrsec.com/2012/12/report-bielema-to-arkansas/

But then again, I once lived in Ohio just as I now live in Tennessee. Therefore, I must also be a big Ohio State fan and — just as obviously — I must also hate Wisconsin. Thus I must have double-hate for Bielema!

Seriously the single most annoying feature of a site like this is having to deal with those fans — and it’s actually a small number, thank goodness — who think anything negative written about their school must come from some biased fan of another school. Those people typically also ignore anything positive written about their own school. Of course, that’s when a few other folks jump in to say, “Ah, ha! I always knew you were a fan of School X.”

I live in Tennessee. I grew up in Kentucky. I have also lived in North Carolina and Ohio. And I could give a damn who wins or does not win in the SEC. Either way, people read and watch and listen. I just cover the schools.

But if you don’t believe this site to be objective, go find one of the others written by anonymous chaps who are fans. Good stuff.

As for this one, I’d have written the exact same line had Bielema swiped a commitment from Cal Tech. The point is the same… when it happened to him, he cried. When he does it to someone else, it’s fine. Just another reason — unlike you — I don’t fall in love with a guy just because he enters the SEC and puts a plastic pig on his head.

John

By: Fayettechill14

Fayettechill14 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:52:00 +0000

“(It was less than a year ago that he whined about Urban Meyer’s tactics at Ohio State.)”

I don’t think you’ve ever mentioned this on this site before. Please elaborate. Sorry we stole a Tennessee commit.

By: Tracer Round

Tracer Round — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:22:32 +0000

“Tonight, Kentucky will be the hunter and Ole Miss the hunted when the Wildcats visit Oxford.”
You sure you read this article, or did you just visit this site?