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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4684488, member: 44"] [ATTACH type="full"]89314[/ATTACH] Note that he never gives any explanation of the affiliation of these two sources" not even a fairly benign sources within the big 12. They are just "sources" are they other journalists? Are they coaches from the big east? We don't know as our Boston College friend never gives any description of whether or not they're "credible sources" a phrase that is commonly used, but conspicuously absent here. That's usually a pretty good indicator that we wouldn't find them particularly credible. No too that, though he's given no indication that he's talked to them directly, DeMauro expresses an opinion of what the athletic directors believe. If you read him carefully he tells us that they are not, in fact, the decision maker. Instead, he says that the university presidents will rely upon the athletic directors in making [I]their[/I] determination. What's his basis for that belief? We don't know, it is unsourced. It could just be his opinion and likely, that's all it is. Now keep in mind that other reporters have said that Yormark is given very considerable difference by the University presidents who are the actual decision makers, not the athletic directors. There's been a lot of reporting that Yormark is very high on us and wants to establish a presence on the East Coast and in particular in the New York metro area. There's no other university that gives him a better opportunity than we do and in fact we are the best opportunity to do so by a wide margin. If you read the DeMauro's column carefully it becomes clear from what he says and does not say that this is, at best, a questionably sourced opinion piece by him. He's doing what he does, taking pot shots at Connecticut athletics, in the hopes that he'll get clicks from it. Let's not indulge that. [/QUOTE]

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