Buddy Martin has sources at UCLA?
Certainly a
highly dubious claim on the face of it. Maybe he schmoozed up a storm, over 120 mi. closer to
Baja California, when a Galenless Gator football team embarrassed itself versus
UCLA in the 1989
Holiday Bowl. Altho' that's nearly 30 years ago now.
It's been a lonnng time since Fred Pancoast was out there. As a nominal step up from being head coach at
Georgia Tech, albeit in the shadow of Bobby Dodd. Pancoast ended his head-coaching tenure at
UCLA by being fired. There was no ESPN back then to provide a soft landing.
He also just acknowledged on Twitter that his reporting on Kelly’s 49ers buyout being the reason for a delay was “theoretical.”
Sooo, we need to accept a new sportswriting practice: Making a big splash by publishing mere
guesses on a mostly reputable sports Web-site, then retract it only where
twits hang out?
Heeey! Whatever happened to just
not publishing
guesses as if they're facts when you have
no proof!? What the hey-ell!? Haven't we
already got enough clueless writers stirring the pot with guesses, hoping that readers will remember their by-lines appearing
first over the
eventually correct scenario, confident that those same readers will forget the multiple times their by-lines appeared over
factually wrong scenarios for the
same coaching search? Great way for Buddy to discredit whatever he writes from here on out!
