TEXAS RECRUITING PARTY STORY EARNS EVANS NAUGHTY SPANKING

The BEST they could do at UT was girls MAKING OUT? For. Fucking. Shame. You want a top prospect, double ended dildos long enough to span the Yangtze are the order of the day. Time to get big league, bitches.

The relevant public editor’s entry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/opinion/18pubed-web.html?pagewanted=2

And the original story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/sports/ncaafootball/26recruit.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Best line and potential catchphrase:
“I have never attended a party of this magnitude.”

Prolly bears mentioning that the NYT writer mainly covers OU which is part of what brought his treatment of UT into question.

better quote:

“submitting this document for a grade added credibility,” Abrams said — “maybe too much credibility.”

Evans also regrets reporting that McFarland plans to major in “puting out fireses” as indicated in an essay from the 1st grade. The NYT regrets any harm these errors might have caused.

Texas fans proving to be masters of the ad hominem attack.

Wow, that was one terrible article by the New York Times – pretty much the journalistic crap we’ve come to expect from them. I see your point, Orson, but at the same time the piece was incredibly one-sided and unsubstantiated – I can see why Texas fans would be pissed off. Journalists are always griping about blogs and how they have no true journalistic integrity and are not to be trusted. To be perfectly honest, this article seems like a post on a hard-core OU blog rather than a NYT article.

Free Drugs and Alcohol in the Big 12 for defensive prospects?

Well, I guess that explains the conference’s defensive prowess.

Shocked Dept:

Shocked! Shocked!

Cannot beleive the NY Times would publish biased, one-sided garbage without an ounce of journalistic integrity (in or outside the Op-Ed page).

The last time I was this shocked was when I was in Vegas and saw people gamblin’ ‘n drinkin’.

SKLM, your winnings, sir.

Texas fans are pissed because of Evans’ track record. He’s written tons of fluff pieces on OU, used to write for an OU blog, and did another article last year in the NYT painting Texas in a negative light (on Darrell Scott’s recruitment.) It’s not that someone talked shit about Texas, it’s that a piece that should have been on OU’s Rivals page was published in the New York Fucking Times.

then you tell us tales of “girls romancing each other” may just be the unverified, undocumented, and possibly fictitious ramblings of an over-recruited college athlete

Sticks fingers in ears… “LA! LA! LA! LA! I can’t hear you! I can’t hear you! LA! LA! LA!”

When EDSBS first covered the ‘girls was romancing each other" story y’all created a new taggy thing at the bottom of the story. Now you bring it up again but don’t use the taggy thingie. That doesn’t bother me — the lack of follow-up ’girls was romancing each other" stories, on the other hand … Definitely a daily or weekly feature even if you, like major newspapers, apparently just make it up.

Mac Brown: I love you. You… you complete me. And I just …….”
Jamarkus McFarland: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at “girls romancing each other” .

dear texas,

big boy programs have writers on staff at the nyt to fluff their teams and attack their rivals

too bad you’re not a big boy program

love,
Sooners

Maybe Carlos Slim is a Sooner or a TexasTech Yosemite Sams fan.

They needs them some “robber baron” lovin.

May Cthulhu strike down and eviscerate any who speak ill of Texas or Florida Universities. For on this site of satire they pronounce only truisms and never fall victim to the hypocrisy of not seeing the forest because of trees. A little known fact is that Mack Brown once appeared as a little girl/demon via Last Temptation of Christ and recruited Jesus to come down off the cross and play corner for UT in ’69.

Dear Oklahoma,

Big boy programs win bowl games. At least occasionally.

Love,

Everyone.

The addition of the “girls were also romancing each other” tag to our arsenal makes all of this worth it.

Orson, I hate both programs equally and I think you are way off. This is a pretty obvious hack job by an OU supporter.

1. gsgh

That sounds like a quote from Douglas Niedermyer, known asshole. This “girls were also romancing each other” sounds like it comes from The National Lampoon.

First, if McFarland really is a top student, his writing might just be the most damning indictment of the Texas public school system anyone could ever hope to produce.

Second, Evans probably should have gotten a quote from Texas, but so what? My entire experience with the University of Texas consists of PB’s impressions, a brief tour of the Texas Observatory and a stuffed horse wearing a Texas t-shirt (long story but has to do an Ella Fitzgerald song) but I bet I can come pretty close to the self-serving gobbledegook the university would trot out. No, the story isn’t objective, IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. This isn’t a hard-hitting expose on college recruiting. It’s a story describing the experiences of one particular kid. A kid who is obviously going to have a less-than-sparking opinion of Texas as he chose not to go there. If anybody should be embarrassed, it’s LSU — and McFarland’s English teachers.

Dear Sooners,

If you call having one writer at the NYT as a fluffer proof of being a big boy program, it might be time to stop listening when Mommy tells you that you are small but perfectly formed, and it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

When you have an network of channels performing ass-to-mouth rotations for multiple seasons regardless of whether your team actually wins out, give us a call to compare notes.

regards,

the (insufferable) Trojan Family.

Doesn’t matter. Oklahoma will continue to lose to Texas. These hack job attack pieces are just an extension of the desperation in Norman to beat their rival, which, they can’t do.

The Sooners fooled the nation into putting them in the “title game”, but showed everyone what Texas already knew: They were the 2nd best team in the Big 12.

On the serious note, I find it unnerving that a mother is treating her son as a meal ticket, and she bases HER decision on where HER son should go, not where he wants to go…the question should be, if you were paying for this school and not playing football, where would you want to finish school, not based on who emailed your momma the most during the summer…no wonder this chick aint married…..I dont think LSU chicks were giving out lap dances, and I find it hard to believe Mack Brown endorses “drugs and drank to minors” and $20.00 meth-lesbo-hookers at the Motel 6, just for top recruits…..
If you are a recruit caught in these situations, my advice would be ,to ask yourself, “What would Lil’ Wayne do?” then roll with that….remember, weed aint drugs, meth is…….

Is this where we get to take free shots at the media? Sweet!

Here’s my favorite recent quote:

The reality is that the mainstream media are thoroughly corrupt – manifesting itself in a lack of both conscientiousness and honor – which leads to incompetence and duplicity. It deals in half-truths, the suppression of facts, the exaltation of evil and savaging of the sublime, and outright lies all the time.

-Selwyn Duke

Ted @5: Is it an ad hominem attack by Tx fans if the article is in fact ad hominem? Not to mention they went more after the content than the person, I think that was just for fun.

Shooo, all I got on my recruiting visit to Morgantown was a 40 of Colt 45, some weak West Virginia homegrown herb, and head from a fugly bitch wit bad teef.

coach GiggetypantsNutt says “if you ain’t renting the Batmobile to impress the potential signee you ain’t squat”

Your argument is inconsistent.
1. When reading this, remember that everyone is ignorant, selfish and dishonest
2. Do not get upset, readers will be smart enough to see it for what it is.

The problem is most of the public is either too lazy or too ignorant to realize this piece is biased. The average person knows very little of college football in general and UT in particular and will come away from this article in a “respected” newspaper thinking UT is morally corupt and OU is the paragon of virtue.
If you want to have want to be a biased opinion based form of the media, fine. But the NY Times claims to be something else, and then prints this crap.

Looking forward to that State of the Union address. The steak and hash browns deal sounds even better, though.

All I got from the article is that McFarland’s mom calls him “J-Mac,” which is at least 6 kinds of stupid. Oh, and Bob Stoops set the McFarland dinner table and watched “Beauty Shop,” moves in the same league as Nick Saban’s complimenting LeAnn Tuohey’s window treatments during an in-home visit with Michael Oher.

“It’s a story describing the experiences of one particular kid.”

Including experiences that may not have ever happened, and certainly that the reporter himself never witnessed.

These are the kinds of problems you run into when you care more about “narrative” and “storytelling” than you are at what used to be considered journalism.

Crabapple Buck @20:

I like to imagine Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock saying that whole paragraph quote.

I think the conspiratorial posts on here regarding OU and the NY Times being in league to sink the reputation of Mack Brown and Texas are in the very least amusing. ‘J-Mac’ and his mother have nothing nice to say about UT because he decided not to go there. If he did, the piece would have received all the criticism from the OU camp. It is a pretty interesting window into the recruiting process surrounding one high school kid. Nothing more.

@ 34…Read Thayer Evan’s bio and previous work and try to tell me that he would have written the same article had the situation been reversed. Not a chance in hell.

Just got through part VII of a ten part rebuttal, and as far as I can see, it thrust is pretty much, “Waaaahhhhhh! I like Texas. Don’t say bad stuff about them.”

The guy from Orangebloods wants witnesses to everything. Newsflash, d-nozzle, the recruit was the witness. It wasn’t the author just making a bunch of assertions. Rather, he got his information from his source, the recruit.

Secondly, he asks for specifics a few times. Be careful what you wish for. I remember reading a post on an aTm board about a Sooner QB who was getting paid extra cash for work he didn’t do. An outrageous slander, said I. Put up or shut up! Oops.

Except that there were other people on Orangebloods at that party, and all agree that nothing of the kind happened. He made up almost all of it.