McGuff to Washington Article

[Michigan Muskie]

My partners over on the Pac-12 site published an article on two new coaches in the conference, one of them being McGuff. At 11 PM, they asked me to finish his segment. I ended up basically rewriting the whole damn article instead of watching Michigan in the Frozen Four for my own site....then I butchered that article, trying to write it at 11:47 PM under a midnight deadline.

But I digress....

Pac12 Sportswatch: Who's the New Guy? (http://bit.ly/fSGhHq)

[FLXFAN]

It's Stephen T. Badin...named after the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States...sorry the typo bugged me.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Coach McGuff for his time at Xavier. I wish he and his family the best of luck in Seattle. Not for nothing but being the winniest coach in Xavier history should stand for something. I think he did a fine job putting Xaiver on the map! I don't blame him for looking for a new challenge and taking the opportunity to better provide for his family...Most people can't say they wouldn't do the same things if given the opportunity. People take new jobs all the time for more pay and better opportunity...coaches shouldn't be different. My last comment to all the haters if you think you could do it better than I hope Mike Bobinski considers you for the job. I grew up around coaching my entire life and I can tell you I'm no more qualified to coach than most of you who think you can do it better.

It's time for everyone to move on...Women's basketball will continue at Xavier.

[Michigan Muskie]

It's Stephen T. Badin...named after the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States...sorry the typo bugged me.

Good catch. The original author had already written that part and I didn't notice the mistake.

[xuwin]

It's Stephen T. Badin...named after the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States...sorry the typo bugged me.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Coach McGuff for his time at Xavier. I wish he and his family the best of luck in Seattle. Not for nothing but being the winniest coach in Xavier history should stand for something. I think he did a fine job putting Xaiver on the map! I don't blame him for looking for a new challenge and taking the opportunity to better provide for his family...Most people can't say they wouldn't do the same things if given the opportunity. People take new jobs all the time for more pay and better opportunity...coaches shouldn't be different. My last comment to all the haters if you think you could do it better than I hope Mike Bobinski considers you for the job. I grew up around coaching my entire life and I can tell you I'm no more qualified to coach than most of you who think you can do it better.

It's time for everyone to move on...Women's basketball will continue at Xavier.

Hopefully your typo doesn't bug him. :D

[spongebob]

Interesting how the article is very "neutral" toward the new Utah coach, yet clearly biased against McGuff. After reading thru the rants on this board, it would seem as though the "accounts of those close to the Xavier program" amounts to nothing more than a summation of a few posters on this anonymous chat board, venting frustrations and criticizing, as they routinely do here, after a basketball coach, men's or womens, has decided to move on to a new challenge. I have no clue what the rules of journalism are, or its etiquitte, but that seems a little sleezy.

[XU-PA]

Interesting how the article is very "neutral" toward the new Utah coach, yet clearly biased against McGuff. After reading thru the rants on this board, it would seem as though the "accounts of those close to the Xavier program" amounts to nothing more than a summation of a few posters on this anonymous chat board, venting frustrations and criticizing, as they routinely do here, after a basketball coach, men's or womens, has decided to move on to a new challenge. I have no clue what the rules of journalism are, or its etiquitte, but that seems a little sleezy.


The new world of journalism, not a pretty place. I'm glad I no longer call myself a member of that profession, for reasons just like that.
Everyone dones it, CNN has entire segments, sport broadcasts cut away from game action to someone at the media table reading blog comments, it's just a joke. If you're going to write an op/ed piece call it that, news however, even if it's sports, is an entirely different deal, and unfortunately not very many people working in the field understand that.