Kellenburger Goes Full Homer

[Lou3000]

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...berger-ncaa-determined-get-ole-miss/89337138/

Says the NCAA is out to get Ole Miss and calls for the University to revisit its policy on being compliant with the NCAA.

Is this a Nafoom post or a CL article?

 

[ronpolk]

Wow... There is not much else to say about that.

 

[Xenomorph]

In fairness, he has to write that. He's not a real journalist..

..he works at the pleasure of people aligned with Ole Miss. He can take that stance or be out of a job. Pretty simple math.

 

[DerHntr]

how can he write this:

"At some point Ole Miss will have to reconsider its stance towards the NCAA, which has always been one of absolute respect and deference."

And this in the same article:

"Those Laremy Tunsil text messages made the NCAA look bad — you spent how long investigating one program, and you could not find the star offensive tackle texting a staff member to ask for cash? Even with his (now former) stepfather willing to sit down for how many interviews with you?"

Which is it: do they show absolute respect or do they not tell the truth?

This guy is a complete joke.

 

[Xenomorph]

Cause he's a dude with bills to pay and needs himself a jobby job.

 

[121Josey]

He's gone simply delusional.

 

[KurtRambis4]

So he's suggesting

they should withhold info and lie? Yeah that should work out fine, Who Atemyburger.

 

[kendrickjohnson]

This is egregious. He hasn't been trying to hide his slant for a while, but he is more and more shameless with each one.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

At this point, the last person I would want to be is HK. His salary:distress ratio has to be the worst of anyone involved. At least Freeze has millions in the bank.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

You know the kid in high school who was a complete douche but you just tolerated him because trying to educate someone who has zero introspection and self awareness is more painful than letting them live the delusion of grandeur?

The bears genuinely think that the NCAA is specifically targeting their program to take them down. Down from what exactly? Cheating like mad to win recruits and still underachieve with them? Successfully missing Atlanta forever so far? Managing to drop from a top ten hype ranking often with inexplicable losses to Memphis and the like on a late season melt?

I like the two-fold perception of self-importance that would convince a UM fan that A) we are important enough to just randomly target and B) we've been successful enough to need "taking down". They live in such rare air that it's awesome!

 

[coach66]

He should just fall on his sword and put himself and that rag out of it's misery

nm

 

[TBone.sixpack]

That Sam guy is a 17ing liar too. Sell outs

 

[Maroonandwhite]

So his understanding is that this is nothing more than a vast NCAA conspiracy against Ole Miss. Just a dragnet with the hopes of taking down this poor, innocent, southern, bastion of higher learning. He is begging for Ole Miss to get on the offense. How? Are they going to get into a PR war with the governing authority of the association that they operate under? Perhaps OM will lead a secession movement from the NCAA. The south will rise again! I say bring it.

 

[johnson86-1]

how can he write this:

"At some point Ole Miss will have to reconsider its stance towards the NCAA, which has always been one of absolute respect and deference."

And this in the same article:

"Those Laremy Tunsil text messages made the NCAA look bad — you spent how long investigating one program, and you could not find the star offensive tackle texting a staff member to ask for cash? Even with his (now former) stepfather willing to sit down for how many interviews with you?"

Which is it: do they show absolute respect or do they not tell the truth?

This guy is a complete joke.

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. It's not that the NCAA didn't find the Laremy Tunsil text messages because UM wasn't being cooperative, it was because the NCAA was just incompetent and now it's embarrassed. How in the world did they spend all that time investigating and not come across private text messages between Tunsil and UM athletic department officials. I mean Tunsil's step dad told them shady stuff was going on. Why didn't they just demand that the cell phones of anybody with the athletic department be turned over. If they had, the UM employees in question absolutely would have just handed them over without deleting any incriminating texts. Or they could have asked Tunsil himself. I mean, sure, he's being sued by his stepdad, but other than that, why wouldn't Tunsil voluntarily provide his phone and text message history to NCAA investigators? I'm sure all they had to do was ask him politely. But those idiots at the NCAA were just incompetent and now they're embarrassed and taking it out on poor ole um.

 

[Dawgzilla]

That's an irresponsible and unprofessional editorial. He starts with the presumption that UMiss is operating a clean program and has been fully cooperative with the NCAA so far, and concludes that the NCAA is obviously just out to get them. I expect to read that tripe on Nafoom, but not from an actual sports editor.

 

[Drebin]

Falling on his sword could get messy. That's a lotta gravy to clean up. FEMA is already stretched thin right now.

 

[CoolDawg]

This is perhaps the most embarrassing sports column to have ever appeared in the pages of the Clarion-Ledger. It is sad that someone so lacking in ability works at a newspaper that once had some great sports writers and columnists. Kellenburger is a disgrace to the journalism profession. Although it would be no violation of NCAA rules, I really wonder if perhaps the athletic department at Ole Miss, or some OM booster, is making under the table payments to him in exchange for him being a cheerleader for OM.