Twitter War may be brewing: McCready vs Locke

[2PLO4SHO]

Thought some would get a kick out of this.

Neal McCready (http://twitter.com/nealmccready) lettin' his twitter followers know he's NOT happy with what Brad Locke (http://twitter.com/bradlocke) tweeted about Jevan Snead several times on Saturday.

whatever...

 

[Afro Dawg]

1) I can't imagine a more boring human being to follow on Twitter than Brad Locke.

2) McCready makes a good point about Veazey destroying Locke on a daily basis.

3) But it is weird that McCready chides Locke for acting like a fan while at the same time acting like a child because someone is disparaging the Rebels' former QB.

 

[jakldawg]

people ***** when one is too impartial (or "always negative") to the school, and people complain when the other shows the slightest touch of homerism.

 

[dawgatUSM]

He's become obsessed with the guy... All Locke did was make a couple of swipes at Snead... It is, after all, his own personal twitter account. Veazey talks more about the Golf and what he's doing with "ballerina" than he does State crap on twitter. He's made 8 tweets about Brad Locke in two hours... Obsessed much?

 

[Faustdog]

but McCready is a guy that couldn't keep his legit media job and went to work for an Ole Miss fan site. He's far from having the credibility to crow about someone being "irrelevant."

 

[JohnDawg]

a twitter fight? what a *****.

 

[Afro Dawg]

nt

 

[dawgstudent]

graduated from Ole Miss and grew up there.

 

[Goatdawg]

nm

 

[ScoobaDawg]

How Locke went out of his way to talk to Snead at sec media days..in a very awkward conversation.. asking him about msu's upcoming season..their offense..and other msu stuff trying to
give himself a reason to talk to the holy snead that was going to lead UM to a National Championship.

 

[Hanmudog]

Locke is probably the most negative of any beat writer not named HamptonI can remember for MSU. He has taken 100 times more shots at MSU than anyone for Ole Miss. A homer he is not.

 

[Chickamauga]

This is a recurring complaint among both of our fan bases.

Hampton, for instance, arouses more persecution-complex-fueled hatred on Ole Miss boards than even Rick "HIS DAD WAS THE HEAD GolDEn BUZzARD!!!1!1" Cleveland.

Isn't it plausible that Hampton, Locke and other reporters are perceived as negative because neither of our schools offers them many opportunities to cover exceptionally "positive" athletic achievements?

 

[dawgstudent]

when opinion pieces are written. Unfortunately, Locke has to do both and has written some unreal opinion pieces.

 

[RebelBruiser]

For me, Locke fits in the same category with those fans. I think it's pitiful for anyone to delight in the failure of a player to be drafted, regardless of where their allegiance lies.

At the point of the draft, you have guys who are simply trying to get a job, and unless they've done something that offends you personally, I don't see why anyone would take enjoyment in things going poorly for a player.

If McReady was tweeting "Ha Ha Look at Dixon falling all the way to the 6th round", I'd think he was a loser too.

I can almost see getting a little bit of enjoyment over seeing a guy fail if he did something that directly hurt your team and rip your heart out. For example, I reserve the right to delight in the failures of Bryce Drew, much like MSU fans can reserve the right to delight in the failures of John Wall in the future, since her personally ripped your hearts out. I can also see Memphis fans pulling for Mario Chalmers to fail. In most cases though, it's weak to be kicking a guy when he's down, especially coming from a beat writer.

ETA: I forgot to add that I think McReady was being a douche for getting in a tweet war over it. I could see him making one comment directed at Locke, calling him out for being a d-bag, but 7 or 8 comments or however many McReady made is unnecessary and obsessive.

 

[Goatdawg]

For a guy who doesn't care about recruiting, you sure reserved the right to wish death and destruction on that poor guy.

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[Goatdawg]

in douchiness, no matter what Ole Miss guys try to say to take up for him. He did an interview on Bill King's show couple of weeks ago and was asked about their 2009 season. Commented on some things, then went on to how they beat themselves, yada yada, "of course we should never lose to State...." etc etc. Just another homer.

 

[JohnDawg]

nm</p>

 

[dawgstudent]

I can almost see getting a little bit of enjoyment over seeing a guy
fail if he did something that directly hurt your team and rip your heart
out. For example, I reserve the right to delight in the failures of
Bryce Drew, much like MSU fans can reserve the right to delight in the
failures of John Wall in the future, since her personally ripped your
hearts out. I can also see Memphis fans pulling for Mario Chalmers to
fail. In most cases though, it's weak to be kicking a guy when he's
down, especially coming from a beat writer.

Elliot was committed to UM at one time I believe. He ripped Bruiser's heart out. I guess that's why he thought it was ok to laugh at Elliot's injury.

 

[Chickamauga]

He did an interview on Bill King's show couple of weeks ago and was
asked about their 2009 season. Commented on some things, then went on
to how they beat themselves, yada yada, "of course we should never lose
to State...." etc etc. Just another homer.

McCready's quote was: "Was Ole Miss ever going to win the SEC last year? No, because Alabama was significantly better than Ole Miss and most everyone else in the league. But, they beat LSU. And they should not have lost to State. And they lost some games that they should not have lost. But, at the end of the day, they probably should have been a team that went 9-3 or 10-2 in the regular season, not 8-4. So, yeah, they underachieved a little."

It's around the 1:00 mark.

Clearly, he was saying that Ole Miss should not have lost to State <span style="font-style: italic;">last year</span>, not that Ole Miss should "never" lose to State.

 

[Goatdawg]

Shouldn't have lost a 2 touchdown decision is pretty bad.

ETA: I also love how they shouldn't have lost a couple of games, but the games they won? Oh, they were just supposed to win those too. It never goes both ways - the mark of a homer. They could have easily lost the LSU game. And since McCready thinks 14 point margin of loss games are games they should have won, let's add the Arkansas game in there too as a game they should have lost.

 

[dawgstudent]

on Nafoom....

http://nafoom.yuku.com/sreply/225440

<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="post-title">This is why I used to loathe McCready</span>
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He's great at what he does, and I think just his being on staff at
Rivals points to a necessary change in the way "internet media" is both
staffed, credentialed and received. Also, Rivals/RebelSportsNet/Whatever
they're named is now in a position to push Chuck and company, and the
product of that is everyone stepping it up. We benefit as readers.

The
last time I was in the pressbox (football vs LSU) he torched
some young kid from a paper I won't mention for giving a running
commentary. It was driving all of us nuts and Neal was totally in-bounds
to do so. Now if that kid stays in the business, he'll shut the
%#%+ up when he's supposed to.

But this is just ##@+$@* stupid.
Neal spent years ripping various people in and around Ole Miss when he
was in Mobile, a town that could give two ***** about the Rebels anyway.
Chastising Locke - an OM journalism grad just like Neal, just like
myself, Gannon, Veazey, etc. - for commenting on Ole Miss is hypocrisy.

And
to that end, Neal trashing Locke's record as a reporter "versus" Kyle
is the same perceived caliber of "class" that Neal alleged Brad showed
in trashing Snead. I checked Brad's Twitter and it's astonishingly weak
in comparison to the Bleacher Reports of the world. I was expecting
something really awful for Neal to jump him in such a manner.

And
frankly, I agree with Locke. I'll even steal his "dumpster fire" line
this week when I write my piece for the Town. The Snead situation is a
disaster, and now he (in terms of his pro career) and Ole Miss will both
pay for a monumentally bad decision made by people who spat in the wind
of overwhelmingly contrarian logic.

Maybe Neal has a solid
relationship with Snead and Jaylon. This happens in the course of being a
reporter. I argued against Rick Cleveland during the Eli Draft
Incident, but Rick and Archie are decades long friends.

But
using the argument that it's not fair to criticize young men who aren't
professionals is horseshit. Tebow endured a ##@+$@* pile of **** unlike
any other and he survived. It's routine in this million dollar era of
the college game. Shut up and deal with it, seriously, because if you
harbor any idea that you might be NFL caliber, you'll deal with far
worse up there.

FYI - The "one Saturday not getting picked" was a
funny line from a Twitter friend of mine that made multiple rounds. It
wasn't Brad's. It's no different than the daily fodder of the sports
blogsphere, it just happens to be an Ole Miss guy.