Heard Rick Cleveland for the first time...

[CochiseCowbell]

...today via the out of bounds app. I've read his work a good bit, but just realized I'd never heard him speak. Great segment!

If the above is ignorant, I'm not a MS native.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

He is not a State or Om Alum.

So he does not generally have that agenda...no longer at ClarionLedger...so....

USM.....

 

[KurtRambis4]

Funny thing is, he used

to get cussed by all on here on the reg, unfortunately (at the time) we didn't realize how good we had it.

To have Hamburglar in the position that Rick once held is not only a joke, but a travesty. Hamburglar is a clown, hack, and overall bad at his job.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Eh. Kellenburger is inexperienced. I wouldn't have expected him to be the CL sports editor until he had at least ten more years of experience and covered multiple universities in the state (especially since he was an in-house hire).

The CL really needed an outside hire for this spot to keep people from thinking oh he's a State guy or an Ole Miss guy...

Edit to add: Five more years of experience really is what would be expected.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

What? No. That excuse for a writer & journalist is an abomination to the aforementioned occupations. He sullies both professions by being a *****, paid by UM, sacrificing his integrity for his pimps. No wonder Freeze liked him.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Which is why he really needed to be the beat writer for a second university. His CL beat experience is with just one university.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Ok

You can say he wasn't ready for the editor role. I think that's basically what I said. You cannot refute him being a hack, though.

 

[patdog]

Even a first year sportswriter knows the difference between being an honest journalist and being in bed with one of the schools you're covering.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Maybe so. I don't know his background pre-CL which is why I say Inexperienced. He really needed exposure to different perspectives and he didn't have it. What we don't know for sure though if this was something dictated to him from above.

My best guess is that with a lot of the institutional knowledge in the CL of the in state sports gone and journalism positions being downsized that there weren't any experienced folks who would be offered the job especially since Gannett was letting them go.

 

[msu84grad]

He's a Golden Eagle... his dad was the SID at Hattiesburg for many, many years... was on the same level as Mr Hartley was at MSU... his brother Bobby was the outdoors editor at the C-L for many years...

 

[OneParticularHarbor]

Rick bleeds black and gold

But he bleeds it outside the confines of his job in a low key way.

Inside that, he's pretty much neutral and very much old school. He's a great guy to have a drink or three with.

The press box at Roberts Stadium is named the "Ace Cleveland Press Box", BTW.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

What? No. That excuse for a writer & journalist is an abomination to the aforementioned occupations. He sullies both professions by being a *****, paid by UM, sacrificing his integrity for his pimps. No wonder Freeze liked him.

He sullies the third profession too

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I'll agree with that - his writing before he became editor wasn't memorable and I was shocked when the CL made him a columnist.