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Did anyone else email Dez asking why when he grades the team each week,he doesn't grade the coaching staff? I did yesterday but didn't get a response
 
UC990411 said:
Did anyone else email Dez asking why when he grades the team each week,he doesn't grade the coaching staff? I did yesterday but didn't get a response
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Sean Mulcahy from SNY did - F
 
whaler11 said:
Des is a Syracuse fan. I'd prefer he drop the church and Obama stuff from his twitter feed. Following him on Twitter was so brutal I had to stop.

If Silver reads this far get the SNY blog to have separate RSS feeds for football and women's basketball - I'm already sick of it.
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I agree, he's a sports beat writer who's starting to sound like a whiny Hollywood actress with his tweets. As soon as you start tweeting about your political preferences you split your followers directly in half... And much like those Hollywood actresses, does Dez actually think anyone cares what he thinks about that stuff? Stick to asking these inept coaches some tougher questions.
 
You would think that after several years of being a "public figure" that Des would have adjusted his style to accommodate the online / interactive nature of his job but he obviously has not yet. In today's age, anyone with a twitter account of e-mail address thinks that they have the right to call you whatever they want with no fear of reprisal. To be a public figure in that kind of environment just plain sucks and you need to have a decently thick skin and learn to ignore the stuff that should not even be responded to.

My brother is a professor and writer for a foreign policy magazine. You should see the vitriol he receives in his twitter account and elsewhere from anonymous posters. It's kind of disturbing but he has learned to shrug it off and keep doing his job and writing his pieces.

That is what Des needs to do and I would also agree that the chats should probably stop and Des should stop responding to comments on his blog. Both are invitations for conflict with his readers which is something that Des cannot seem to avoid.
 
One other thing. I wish the Courant (and other employers) clearly distinguish between a reporter's Twitter feed for professional purposes and personal purposes. ESPN already does this with their Big East blog and with others. That way, we can avoid the religious tweets and political tweets that we have no interest in and just stick with football.
 
jbdphi said:
One other thing. I wish the Courant (and other employers) clearly distinguish between a reporter's Twitter feed for professional purposes and personal purposes. ESPN already does this with their Big East blog and with others. That way, we can avoid the religious tweets and political tweets that we have no interest in and just stick with football.
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Agree 100 percent jb.
 
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Blue whale said:
I agree, he's a sports beat writer who's starting to sound like a whiny Hollywood actress with his tweets. As soon as you start tweeting about your political preferences you split your followers directly in half... And much like those Hollywood actresses, does Dez actually think anyone cares what he thinks about that stuff? Stick to asking these inept coaches some tougher questions.
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And I'm not saying that as someone on either side of the political debate. His political tweets are just pathetic.
 
Sorry for those who cant get to article...I'll cut and paste a few lines..below is the headline of his article. This is todays paper

Daigneault: Predictable offense disturbing

First-down runs are almost a guarantee. Second-down runs are pretty good bets, too. On third down the Huskies are forced to pass and might convert some of the time. When defenses can safely load up against the run and take their chances with the pass, that is a sure sign things need to change.
The predictability has made quarterback Chandler Whitmer look worse than he is. Yes, the amount of interceptions he has thrown is alarming. He doesn't always make the best decisions. But he's also under tons of pressure most days and the Huskies have played from behind so much that Whitmer feels the need to make plays on his own.

UConn displays offensive urgency only when it is necessary. Showing urgency when nobody expects it would certainly shake things up a bit. Don't bet on that happening.

Even when the Huskies catch defenses off guard, something seems to go wrong. UConn had first-and-goal at the 7-yard line Saturday while facing a 6-0 deficit. Two straight running plays from McCombs put the ball at the 2 for third down.

Scott McCummings was actually called upon to throw the ball out of the Wildcat, an extreme rarity, and had Martin Hyppolite alone in the end zone. McCummings threw the ball a split-second too late and Hyppolite caught it out of bounds.

The Huskies settled for a field goal.

On the opening drive of the game, tight end Ryan Griffin was alone down the middle. Whitmer overthrew him on what looked to be a sure touchdown. Those things are killers and they are things the Huskies can't afford to do when they meander 90 percent of the game with an offense that nearly broadcasts everything it is going to do.

If the Huskies find some imagination in the offense, they might put themselves in a decent position. If they continue to make the opposing defensive coordinator's game planning an easy task, they will continue on this up-and-down track.
 
jbdphi said:
One other thing. I wish the Courant (and other employers) clearly distinguish between a reporter's Twitter feed for professional purposes and personal purposes. ESPN already does this with their Big East blog and with others. That way, we can avoid the religious tweets and political tweets that we have no interest in and just stick with football.
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His bio is - Husband, Father and Too Blessed To Be Stressed. Bats right. Votes left. UConn football Beat Writer, Hartford Courant. My opinions are ...my opinions

He also lists the Courant UConn Football website address below his bio.

I guess he needs to have multiple twitter accounts if I hear what you are saying? There is a lot of gray areas btwn personal and professional in these venues. I'm not in the media but the industry clearly is evolving. Seems people want info delivered in multiple mediums (chats, twitter, blogs, Facebook, web pages) but want clear and distinct separation. It's not so black and white anymore and clearly not simple.
 
huskymedic said:
His bio is - Husband, Father and Too Blessed To Be Stressed. Bats right. Votes left. UConn football Beat Writer, Hartford Courant. My opinions are ...my opinions

He also lists the Courant UConn Football website address below his bio.

I guess he needs to have multiple twitter accounts if I hear what you are saying? There is a lot of gray areas btwn personal and professional in these venues. I'm not in the media but the industry clearly is evolving. Seems people want info delivered in multiple mediums (chats, twitter, blogs, Facebook, web pages) but want clear and distinct separation. It's not so black and white anymore and clearly not simple.
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Yeah he hardly seemed stressed today.

Yes, he should have a personal twitter feed for the God and Obama crap and keep the football feed to UConn.

No one is following his football stuff because of his church and political stuff but there are people not following his football stuff because of the church and political stuff. Pretty simple business for his employers.
 
I don't know... I'm following 100+ people on twitter, so everything gets buried really fast. Annoying stuff is less annoying if you don't see it all the time, I guess.
 
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whaler11 said:
Yeah he hardly seemed stressed today.

Yes, he should have a personal twitter feed for the God and Obama crap and keep the football feed to UConn.

No one is following his football stuff because of his church and political stuff but there are people not following his football stuff because of the church and political stuff. Pretty simple business for his employers.
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To JBDPHI's point - there should be a formal separation if he's getting directly compensated for doing a Twitter feed, but Des is not the only one mixing business w/pleasure so to say... Erin Andrews is a good example of work/play co-mingled. Then you also have to deal w/ all the re-tweets of others opinions. The whole world is a mess (non- political statement).
 
Cody- I actually felt the same exact way with the way he responded to people last year. He does talk like hes better then everyone. He has the information that us fans want to know. But when you ask him you get a smart ass remark, or a run around answer. Ive met Dez a couple times in person hes a great guy. Big smile on his face and laughing. But on the blog it seems like he gets really annoyed with having to answer questions. No one is trying to tell him how to do his job, but as fans I think we should have answers to why the offensive line is so terrible? Or why GDL is terrible at play calling? Or how against Western Mich i believe 9 out of our first 10 1st down play calls were a running play? 90% of the time, yeah i think the D knows what is coming on the next first down.
 
Are people really attacking Dez's politics now? If you don't like the guy's blog, don't read it.

This thread should have ended at Fishy's post.
 
Nan, I think the issue is mixing in the political-religious stuff on one's professional twitter. Id suspect most are following Desmond for his insight on UConn football, not for his political or religious views. A lot of media folks have separate personal social media accounts.
 
The issue was actually Dez's responses to a guy posting comments in his blog. Somehow the thread morphed into Everything That's Ever Bothered Me About Dez.

I find it humorous that the Courant is being pasted for not being tough enough on PP. Usually Boneyarders are up in arms over the Courant's harsh articles on UConn.
 
HuskyNan said:
Are people really attacking Dez's politics now? If you don't like the guy's blog, don't read it.

This thread should have ended at Fishy's post.
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I'm just attacking his bad attitude towards the fans.
 
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what happend to the poll? It was at 50/50 last night. 50% thought Des could do what ever he liked. 50% thought he was treating readers with disrespect
 
CodyJ. said:
what happend to the poll? It was at 50/50 last night. 50% thought Des could do what ever he liked. 50% thought he was treating readers with disrespect
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How would you feel if I started a poll titled "Is CodyJ a a loser?"?
 
whaler11 said:
Des is a Syracuse fan. I'd prefer he drop the church and Obama stuff from his twitter feed. Following him on Twitter was so brutal I had to stop.

If Silver reads this far get the SNY blog to have separate RSS feeds for football and women's basketball - I'm already sick of it.
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I think DC was the guy who went out and bought all of the surplus Obama Coffee Table Books and Coffee Mugs from Barnes & Noble in '08.
 
Buffett10 said:
Cody- I actually felt the same exact way with the way he responded to people last year. He does talk like hes better then everyone. He has the information that us fans want to know. But when you ask him you get a smart ass remark, or a run around answer. Ive met Dez a couple times in person hes a great guy. Big smile on his face and laughing. But on the blog it seems like he gets really annoyed with having to answer questions. No one is trying to tell him how to do his job, but as fans I think we should have answers to why the offensive line is so terrible? Or why GDL is terrible at play calling? Or how against Western Mich i believe 9 out of our first 10 1st down play calls were a running play? 90% of the time, yeah i think the D knows what is coming on the next first down.
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Actually, people ARE telling him how to do his job. Read the blog, people are commenting on there telling him "you NEED to ask Coach P.."
 
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Nothing frustrates me more than sports writers talking about their poltics. There used to be a time where you couldnt guess what political affiliation people were. What does he stand to gain besides alienating a good portion of his readers and putting the thoughts in people's heads that he's approaching sports situations with a certain political slant.

I really enjoy sites like Hardballtalk which are run by NBC Sports but it's absolutely ruined by the head writer there who goes above and beyond to try to inject his political beliefs into stories. A lot of people like myself who are political go to sports as an escape. His employer has a vested interest in him not using his professional Twitter feed for such purposes. I know when I was in the military I was not able to participate in political rallies in uniform so as not to give the perception that all people in that uniform believe what I am attending.

My suspicions are that since his employer largely agrees with his views they are not making much of an effort to shut them down.
 
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