Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Piling on!
So that you will be completely up to date. Wally Hall wrote an uncharacteristically harsh column about Coach Nutt last week. In response, the millionaire head football coach called into a radio program co-hosted by Hall. Then, of course, John Brummett just had to add his sparkling analysis.
My old pal Justice Jim Johnson would say that this situation is just like watching cats fighting. The casual observer can not tell if they are fighting, or making more cats.
Wally played something of a rhetorical trick on everybody with a column that does not explicitly blame Nutt for a litany of alleged shortcomings. Nutt, in retaliation, ambushed Hall on the radio. I know a little about how the game is played, and the Nutt call was scripted at the very top. Whether that is Broyles or Lindsey you decide.
It is clear that the University expects media to be 100% docile and compliant. All of this was too delicious for old Brummett to just pass over. As a lifelong print journalist, part of his job is to make all electronic folks look like fools, which is not difficult. I wonder how all of this would have played out if Arkansas had a loosing season?
(Broadcast February 14, 2007)
My old pal Justice Jim Johnson would say that this situation is just like watching cats fighting. The casual observer can not tell if they are fighting, or making more cats.
Wally played something of a rhetorical trick on everybody with a column that does not explicitly blame Nutt for a litany of alleged shortcomings. Nutt, in retaliation, ambushed Hall on the radio. I know a little about how the game is played, and the Nutt call was scripted at the very top. Whether that is Broyles or Lindsey you decide.
It is clear that the University expects media to be 100% docile and compliant. All of this was too delicious for old Brummett to just pass over. As a lifelong print journalist, part of his job is to make all electronic folks look like fools, which is not difficult. I wonder how all of this would have played out if Arkansas had a loosing season?
(Broadcast February 14, 2007)
