Yes - it's growing....the wool I mean...

[dawgstudent]

http://hailstatebeat.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/dak-prescott-the-secs-newest-star-takes-the-big-stage/

 

[jakldawg]

Don't shoot the messenger...

"Wet blankets! Get your wet blankets here!!"

from the same guy that went all "hall monitor" when somebody applauded Mullen yesterday.

 

[ArcherSPS]

Why did Kellenburger write that? Stick to the team ya cover ya bum

 

[KurtRambis4]

Jesus.

What a douche. That'll teach those MissISSippPI state BullfraUDS!111!

 

[coach66]

It was cogent to the team he covers, just go check Nafoom. I do think

he has a lot left to prove on the field but on a personal level you have to like and respect the hell out of Dak. Even most Rebels I know think he's a good dude.

 

[HD6]

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point. Never mind that a Heisman candidate in othis state might, I don't know, generate clicks and subscriptions to the Clarion Ledger, there is no point in Kellenberger writing this article. If Bonner had written, I wouldn't like it, but at least he's covering his own beat.

 

[Longtime Lurker]

The Indian's appear to have been appeased......"We found out his favorite color is silver, he has some Native-American ancestry, his preferred activities outside of football are shopping and eating,..."

 

[ronpolk]

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point. Never mind that a Heisman candidate in othis state might, I don't know, generate clicks and subscriptions to the Clarion Ledger, there is no point in Kellenberger writing this article. If Bonner had written, I wouldn't like it, but at least he's covering his own beat.

This was pretty much my thoughts when I read this. The article was just not needed. It provides nothing new. Honestly just comes across as pissed that he's getting attention and I can't understand why he would even care if Dak is getting attention.

 

[maroonmania]

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point. Never mind that a Heisman candidate in othis state might, I don't know, generate clicks and subscriptions to the Clarion Ledger, there is no point in Kellenberger writing this article. If Bonner had written, I wouldn't like it, but at least he's covering his own beat.

Could you even imagine a Birmingham beat writer for either school being allowed to write an article poo-pooing they hype that an AL or Aub player was getting. It does show the CL bias against MSU but its ridiculous that any MS paper allowed space to be used for something like that relative to any instate player.

 

[patdog]

Does anyone else see the irony of a UM sunshine-pumper bitching about someone else being hyped before he's "earned it on the field?"

 

[Xenomorph]

Part of me will be sad when the Clarion Ledger is gone because it reminds me of growing up in my house with my parents and the Sunday sports section after a weekend of football. But there's another part of me that won't care in the least.

 

[DerHntr]

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point. Never mind that a Heisman candidate in othis state might, I don't know, generate clicks and subscriptions to the Clarion Ledger, there is no point in Kellenberger writing this article. If Bonner had written, I wouldn't like it, but at least he's covering his own beat.

The good fight should end. That piece of garbage should have never made it in the paper.

Question: are other boards campaigning for Dak for Heisman? I know we have been pretty timid about that here.

I'll admit that it is premature to put him on a watch list but this is exactly how these reporters, papers,and websites make money. What an idiot.

 

[AHSDawg]

I love how that douche points out his TD/INT ratio. He had 3 in the damn USC game 2 days before his mother dies. He throws 1 more at A&M the next week after his mother dies. He throws 3 in the other 7 games of his season but why would I expect an Ole Miss beat writer to know that?

 

[jakldawg]

I guess crowing about crooootin' doesn't count as premature hype.

 

[kired]

I consider the clarion ledger and bleacher report to about equal when it comes to sports reporting.

I will not read articles / slideshows from either.

 

[FlotownDawg]

I also love how he wrote that Dak almost threw an interception in the Egg Bowl, like that was the biggest thing he took from that game. Sure he came in cold in the fourth quarter after having not played in two weeks and having a nerve injury in his arm that was thought to keep him out the rest of the season. Sure he had almost 150 total yards just in the fourth quarter and OT and led the team to a comeback win to earn bowl eligibility, but damn it, he ALMOST threw an interception. Give me a break.

 

[bbqbully]

Wonder if Kellenberger would have written the same thing if it were Wallace getting the Heisman love instead of Prescott?

 

[futaba.79]

it's been biased since the beginning of tme..............

it may have suffered through some occasional bouts of fairness and Rusty may have convinced you that it was neutral, but that has never ever been the case. It makes the occasional business decision to sell subscriptions and get clicks but don't doubt for a minute where it stands. Being from Vicksburg, I'm shocked that you fell for the ruse all these years.

 

[justinrsutton]

It just seems bad, doesn't it?

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point. Never mind that a Heisman candidate in othis state might, I don't know, generate clicks and subscriptions to the Clarion Ledger, there is no point in Kellenberger writing this article. If Bonner had written, I wouldn't like it, but at least he's covering his own beat.

Yeah, it just came across as bad. No quotes, all opinion really. He would have helped himself tremendously if he tossed in some odds on Dak winning or something. I get poking at the off-season hype that happens to a few players every summer, but this turned into just pissing in someone's cheerios.

 

[dawgstudent]

That's my problem with it. When did beat writers start writing opinion pieces?

 

[johnson86-1]

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point.

I don't think it's fair to say that Clarion Ledger is biased because of this article until you compare it to the article Kellenberg wrote about how Bo Wallace should have finished no better than 4th in the Conerly voting.

 

[Hanmudog]

Wonder if Kellenberger would have written the same thing if it were Wallace getting the Heisman love instead of Prescott?

He probably would have written about how Wallace ALMOST heroically and against all odds won the Egg Bowl last year and how he was taunted by that ruffian Nickoe Whitley afterwards...........oh and what great hair Wallace has.

 

[AlCoDog]

I also love how he wrote that Dak almost threw an interception in the Egg Bowl, like that was the biggest thing he took from that game. Sure he came in cold in the fourth quarter after having not played in two weeks and having a nerve injury in his arm that was thought to keep him out the rest of the season. Sure he had almost 150 total yards just in the fourth quarter and OT and led the team to a comeback win to earn bowl eligibility, but damn it, he ALMOST threw an interception. Give me a break.

No kidding. It's the stink spot in the middle of that **** sandwich of an article:

During the Egg Bowl comeback, he nearly threw an interception with six minutes remaining and made a couple of poor decisions and throws on run/pass read-options.

 

[AHSDawg]

Exactly. And it would have been bad enough writing it about an Auburn or Ala QB

But to write it about a player in MS actually get this kind of love is absurdly obvious as to his goal. It flies directly in the face of the typical article by a statewide newspaper (i.e. writing a piece about either MSU or TSUN going to Omaha and how good it is for both schools)

 

[HD6]

And he would have if it weren't for that near non-fumble.

 

[BertleTheTurtle]

+1

 

[dawgstudent]

 

[Faustdog]

You know, for years, I have tried to fight the Clarion Ledger isn't biased fight, but this might be the tipping point. Never mind that a Heisman candidate in othis state might, I don't know, generate clicks and subscriptions to the Clarion Ledger, there is no point in Kellenberger writing this article. If Bonner had written, I wouldn't like it, but at least he's covering his own beat.

Kellenberger really has been thinking about State lately. From this article to tweeting jabs at our athletic department, he should probably concentrate on Ole Miss a little more. If he did he may not miss things like the most famous athlete on campus being arrested with cocaine in his SUV only to be scooped by an out of state paper a month later.

 

[dogmatic]

Part of me will be sad when the Clarion Ledger is gone...

Have you seen a Sunday edition during college football season in the last year or two? It's already gone. I picked up a copy after we beat Tennessee in 2012 and there was almost nothing there, and I don't mean just about our game. Virtually nothing you couldn't have gotten out of a copy of USA Today about SEC football from the Friday before, and not much of that at that.
The Tennessee game was a night game and I live in Tupelo, so I thought maybe their press deadline didn't let them get the coverage in, but there was very little in their online coverage either. It's not like they took out the first string of Rick Cleveland and Rusty Hampton and replaced them with rookies, I mean they replaced them with nobody.

 

[Dawgfan61]

The Clarion Ledger is not biased when it comes to MSU. They use beat writers on us that have no vested interest in MSU, like Bonner or Veazey. However, when it comes to the Ole Miss beat, they may not always give them a cheerleader for Ole Miss, but in the case of Kellenberger they certainly did. I never see Kellenberger write a disparaging article about Ole Miss. Hell he still hasn't asked the AD at UM for the other 31 emails or so.