havgrizfan said:
Not that I need to respond to Growler because he did NOTHING to back up his claim that there have been ARTICLES written, but I'll do it anyway. First, as I stated before, all I asked for was for him to support his claim that "articles even being written by the national sports media about the off-field problems with Montana colleges". His words not mine. No actual articles have been on ESPN.COM. Posts on the ticker ARE NOT ARTICLES. And neither is the huffington post. I'm well aware of how popular the huff post and many blogs like it are and how much they are read. And I read the entire COLUMN about the Griz that was posted there. That's the difference. Growler claims legitimate articles are being written about the University of Montana football team by NATIONAL sports media, and all I'm doing is refuting that. An OPINION blog is NOT a news article, no matter how many people read it. Is it a powerful medium? perhaps. But it's still an opinion column/blog, just like ones that have appeared on deadspin, TMZ and one written by Pat Forde of ESPN. That was my whole point. As far as I know, ESPN.COM, Sports Illustrated, the USA Today, The New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Sporting News, the Chicago Tribune or the Miami Herald to name a few have yet to print an actual story chronicling the troubles at UM, and my decision to point that out and refute Growler's claim to the contrary has no bearing on how I personally feel about UM football player's recent legal problems.
You are trying way too hard to discredit my post, and, when you do that, it is very obvious that you are spinning your argument by focusing on minutia and technicalities rather that addressing the major point of my post, which is that frequent transgressions of our football players are creating a poor image of our football programs at UM and MSU. Since you don't freakin get it, i'll try to dumb-it down for you.
The national media, which includes TV, talk radio, as well as print, picked up on the continued criminal problems of both Montana universities, and either wrote about it, discussed it in a TV segment, or discussed it in live radio sports talk. This unwanted negative publicity caused considerable negative focus on our two state schools, created a thug-program image of us in areas of the country where they know nothing about our programs, and caused several of my friends from back East to phone me the ask what is going on with Montana's football team? Now, if you don't believe that the continued actions by athletes at these two schools have cast a negative light on our state, and its two football programs, you are truly beyond reason, in denial, and drinking Kool-Aid laced with confectioners 10X!
Now, spin this!
You must have majored in drama at UM, right? 
