The incident did not happen

[615dawg]

Clinton Yates, the journalist who broke the story was just interviewed on Finebaum. Complete made up BS. No one was even removed from the stadium. Also, Tracy Rocker is one of the black parents. I dont think he needs Yates to protect him every couple of innings. In fact, right now he is back tracking on Twitter with the "Mississippi State fans want to meet Kumar Rocker"



Yates stated:

1. He regularly covers Vanderbilt's baseball team and, at every game, "he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay."

2. Before the game, he went to "check on" the Vandy parents. He could "immediately see that it was a very hostile environment because they were outnumbered by MS State fans." There was "a lot of chirping coming from MS State fans to the Vandy parents." Yates stated that he "could tell that the environment could easily escalate into something dangerous for the Vandy parents." Yates leaves the Vandy section and goes back to his seat.

3. Yates stated that he returned to the Vandy section in the second inning (obviously after Vandy scored 7 runs). Yates said at this point, he heard MS State fans saying "completely inappropriate things" and "vitriol" at the Vandy parents. Asked to give an example, Yates said MS State fans were yelling at Vandy parents that their "kids should earn their scholarships like every other team." Yates goes back to his seat and does not return during the game.

4. After the game, so-and-so said to Yates, did you hear what happened? Yates asked what. The guy apparently told Yates that a bunch of MS State fans called the Vandy parents the N-word. Yates said, you mean the fans in [Section __]? "Yes, those fans."

Finebaum then asked Yates if any fans were kicked out of the stadium. Yates said no, but some were "moved around." Yates said that "this isn't the time for me to give you specifics as to what happened. But it happened. There is no reason to believe that it didn't happen based on the environment that I saw."

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

And so Cohen told PF

off the record, we don't know what took place, we are looking into it.

 

[tatedog]

It seems like a certain program that has gotten bad publicity and national hate is deflecting.

 

[Shmuley]

If true that this Yates piece of **** fabricated this ****, what a god-awful, contemptuous, f*ckwad he is.

 

[Nunya.sixpack]

"kids should earn their scholarships like every other team"


This is vitriol? Wrong? Why does Rocker need funding help?

 

[Hump4Hoops]

The description of his relationship with the Vandy parents is... wierd.

They are adults, and this is a baseball game. What on earth are you so worried about that you have to continually go check on their wellbeing? Why is that your job?

His example of "vitriol" are weak as hell. I'll say that to any Vandy parent's face right now.

I sincerely hope he is not the lone source of info on this story.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Finebaum then asked Yates if any fans were kicked out of the stadium. Yates said no, but some were "moved around." Yates said that "this isn't the time for me to give you specifics as to what happened. But it happened. There is no reason to believe that it didn't happen based on the environment that I saw."

In other words he doesn’t know anything.

 

[3000lbchicken]

wait, he's a reporter, and didn't interview the parents to verify this? His literal job.

 

[Len2003]

Why is checking on the Vandy parents? That's weird.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

It reads like someone who doesn't know anything about sports rvialries.

Should State fans be offering to share their popcorn with the Vandy parents, and clapping along with the whistler?

 

[Dawg1976]

I'm just now hearing about this and turned on PF. Some Vandy fan said it did happen. It's being discussed and will make us look bad whether it happened or not.

 

[turkish]

They are adults, and this is a baseball game. What on earth are you so worried about that you have to continually go check on their wellbeing? Why is that your job?

His example of "vitriol" are weak as hell. I'll say that to any Vandy parent's face right now.

I sincerely hope he is not the lone source of info on this story.

So you hope this embarrassment to MSU is true?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

The part about how he checks with the parents just screams of someone looking for a story.

 

[tatedog]

wait, he's a reporter, and didn't interview the parents to verify this? His literal job.

I can assure you he sees his job as to stir **** up, not get facts.

 

[patdog]

Yates said that "this isn't the time for me to give you specifics as to what happened. But it happened. There is no reason to believe that it didn't happen based on the environment that I saw."

OK, this is complete ******** here. If he has specifics, I can guarantee you Paul had time to hear it.

 

[BossDawg78]

I'm just now hearing about this and turned on PF. Some Vandy fan said it did happen. It's being discussed and will make us look bad whether it happened or not.

Of course one of the four Vandy fans will jump on the pile. I think deep down most people know this is just made up ******** from one disgruntled dude who was intimidated by all the State fans.

NONETHELESS, it ensures a Vandy victory. (More reverse jinx, even though it's not gonna work this time)

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Vandy is not happy with the NCS talk,

and the best way to get away from that, is to Change the Subject.

The Race card IS used daily.

 

[jakldawg]

You mean to tell me there were Vandy parents in the stands that didn't have an ESPN camera pointed at them the entire game?

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Let me reword it.

I would hope that the story would not have gone this far with this yahoo as the only source. I was expecting that he had corroboration from parents. If he does not, that is shocking.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

They had all the cameras pointed at Vandy parents, just not the microphones.

We know where those all went.












TWEET TWEET TWEET

 

[WilCoDawg]

Obviously that is new way of saying the n-word.***

 

[campshelbydog842003]

Clinton Yates, the journalist who broke the story was just interviewed on Finebaum. Complete made up BS. No one was even removed from the stadium. Also, Tracy Rocker is one of the black parents. I dont think he needs Yates to protect him every couple of innings. In fact, right now he is back tracking on Twitter with the "Mississippi State fans want to meet Kumar Rocker"



Yates stated:

1. He regularly covers Vanderbilt's baseball team and, at every game, "he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay."

2. Before the game, he went to "check on" the Vandy parents. He could "immediately see that it was a very hostile environment because they were outnumbered by MS State fans." There was "a lot of chirping coming from MS State fans to the Vandy parents." Yates stated that he "could tell that the environment could easily escalate into something dangerous for the Vandy parents." Yates leaves the Vandy section and goes back to his seat.

3. Yates stated that he returned to the Vandy section in the second inning (obviously after Vandy scored 7 runs). Yates said at this point, he heard MS State fans saying "completely inappropriate things" and "vitriol" at the Vandy parents. Asked to give an example, Yates said MS State fans were yelling at Vandy parents that their "kids should earn their scholarships like every other team." Yates goes back to his seat and does not return during the game.

4. After the game, so-and-so said to Yates, did you hear what happened? Yates asked what. The guy apparently told Yates that a bunch of MS State fans called the Vandy parents the N-word. Yates said, you mean the fans in [Section __]? "Yes, those fans."

Finebaum then asked Yates if any fans were kicked out of the stadium. Yates said no, but some were "moved around." Yates said that "this isn't the time for me to give you specifics as to what happened. But it happened. There is no reason to believe that it didn't happen based on the environment that I saw."

Until people start having severe consequences for crying wolf on a thing that can literally ruin someone’s life we as a society will keep having these issues. Same with the me too movement. This type of ******** made up garbage detracts from the people who have actually been the victims of racism. If this is the ******** that the Vandy AD is basing her outrage over she needs to be heavily reprimanded and possibly fired for putting that crap out. If she has facts she needs to put them on the table. The he said she said 3rd and 4th party ******** that was just aired on Finebaum in no way deserves to get our fanbase drug through the mud. Come out with what you have or STFU.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

If true that this Yates piece of **** fabricated this ****, what a god-awful, contemptuous, f*ckwad he is.

What do we think about the AD of an esteemed American Academic Institution, that has no Athletic Department mind you, who oh so professionally took this publicly to Twitter based solely on the tweets of said 'god-awful, contemptuous, f*ckwad' instead of contacting TD Ameritrade Security or John Cohen or the NCAA?

 

[J-Dawg]

Clarion Ledger took no time running out a tweet about it. Go figure.

 

[oxfordrebel22]

If Cohen put that statement out without verifying that it was true, that’s a bad move. And I’m not saying that as an Ole Miss fan, I’m saying it as someone who has also been lumped in with stupid, often make believe, crap like this, and it gets old. If it happened and Cohen knows that, I commend him for addressing it publicly. If it didn’t, and that comes out, his statement is an unnecessary poor reflection on an MSU fan base that, by and large, doesn’t deserve it.

 

[aTotal360]

You're genuinely shocked it could/would go this far without corroboration? Where in the 17 have you been for the past 5 years?

 

[J-Dawg]

Live on ESPN now

 

[Junction John]

Where were all the MSU racists when Brayland Skinner scored the winning run Saturday night?? I was sitting right there, didn't hear one negative comment about that young man. Nothing but praise, and lots of it. I hugged and high fived the man sitting in front of me when he scored, and that guy is a different race than me. But he had a State shirt on and neither one of us cared a damn lick. It was pure joy and celebration.

I don't doubt that the MSU fans around the parents said negative things... because I sure was... but those negative things had to do with the ******** scholarship situation, not the color of the players. People hear what they want to hear. Especially douches like this reporter who are just begging for anything controversial that will drive clicks.

 

[engie]

If Cohen put that statement out without verifying that it was true, that’s a bad move. And I’m not saying that as an Ole Miss fan, I’m saying it as someone who has also been lumped in with stupid, often make believe, crap like this, and it gets old. If it happened and Cohen knows that, I commend him for addressing it publicly. If it didn’t, and that comes out, his statement is an unnecessary poor reflection on an MSU fan base that, by and large, doesn’t deserve it.

He went full stupid on Leach’s innocuous Twitter joke and brought it back to the news cycle after it was a forgotten topic, so at this point I’m not sure he can be trusted to make the right decision on “difficult” PR…

 

[missouridawg]

If true that this Yates piece of **** fabricated this ****, what a god-awful, contemptuous, f*ckwad he is.

If I recall correctly, Yates has spent the better part of this spring following around college baseball in the south. I remember him being at a random Tulane series earlier this year. It’s almost like he’s been fishing for the story all year, never found it, ran out of time, and took this opportunity to not waste his entire spring.

 

[Phil Wenneck.sixpack]

That’s exactly what I tried to tell these losers but they’re too busy stroking

Cohen to see the forest thru the trees. Cohen is a PC moron. See the Leach tweet fiasco. Now downvote away.

 

[Go Budaw]

He went full stupid on Leach’s innocuous Twitter joke and brought it back to the news cycle after it was a forgotten topic, so at this point I’m not sure he can be trusted to make the right decision on “difficult” PR…

In today’s day and age with various forms of social media and technology, there’s so many ways to quickly get a message out and say something. It’s become a lost art to just stand pat and not say anything when nothing really needs to be said.

 

[BossDawg78]

Live on ESPN now

It's sad that as many times the media and "reporters" have cried wolf on racism claims it still gets this far. Nothing like a good ol' 3rd hand claim of racism to get the nutjobs on your ***.

 

[was21]

Even if it did happen, anybody with any sense would know that it has nothing to do with Mississippi State University as an institution or otherwise...at best or worst just a bunch of drunks

 

[Clark Griswold.sixpack]

It seems like a certain program that has gotten bad publicity and national hate is deflecting.

This. Works like a charm.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

Should State fans be offering to share their popcorn with the Vandy parents, and clapping along with the whistler?

You tell me. Maybe you should “be better.”

Demanding proof is or claiming conspiracy is a bad look. In a crowd of 20k sports fans from Mississippi - or any state, really - the odds of there being one drunk racist college student are high. It's 17ed up, and it sounds like he was dealt with. Anyone with a brain knows that's not who we are, but it's enough of a story from a reporter's point of view, espeically considering the game wasn't anything to talk about.

Stupid to argue it, just trust that it was dealt with and move on. To anyone in attendance, it's up to us to police one another in situations like that.

There's dozens of reasons to hate Vandy, but race is not, and will never be one of them. Be better.

 

[BossDawg78]

If true that this Yates piece of **** fabricated this ****, what a god-awful, contemptuous, f*ckwad he is.

And unfortunately he's gonna get away with it.

 

[o_tacodawg]

I got a ton of built up anger. I’d smack the whites off his teeth.

*keyboard warrior has entered the chat*

 

[muddawgs]

We sat in the section next to vandy. Nobody was removed or shuffled around. It’s complete ********. After the first inning no state fans weren talking **** because we were getting out *** beat. It was a pretty cordial game after that. We sat by the 17ing Whistler, so if anyone was going to cause an altercation they would have beat his ***.

 

[Chesusdog]

As suspected, this is Jussie Smollet 2.0.