Herbstreit rips U-M on radio

[BuckeyeNation27]

Who is taking offense?

"(Receiver Steve) Breaston can go back to whatever he's doing these days, if they could ever find a way to actually apply him in the offense. He's worthless in my mind, outside of returning a few punts. I'll say that, and he'll end up winning the game for them on Nov. 18. But he hasn't done anything since his freshman year."

He did say "if they could ever find a way to actually apply him in the offense", but he said he still is "worthless" and he "can go back to doing whatever he is doing these days."

Also, who knows waht he meant by saying "if they could ever find a way to actually apply him in the offense." He may be saying he is underutilized, but he could also be saying he can't do anything in the offense. Nobody knows.

Either way, the vast majority of what he said was just ripping into Breaston. Is it true? Yeah for the most part, but you can't say things like that when you have his type of job.

So as you claim, nobody knows what he meant. Better hurry up and pretend like what he said was horrible though!

His "type of job" is to give his opinion. He did. He's right. You can bold the parts that make him sound like an asshole out of context all you want...but that doesn't change the fact that there is a context to what he said and there are words that show he wasn't calling the kid completely worthless in all aspects of life.

Get over it.

 

[G-FORCE]

Listen guys,

If Herbstreit just had a job on a radio show in Columbus, there would be nothing wrong with what he said. However HE IS an employee of ESPN, and one of the faces of college football. When you are in that position, you have to be careful with everything you say.

Is this really that big a deal? No. Should he have any suspensions/fines against him, probably night. However, with the type of job he has, calling a college athlete "worthless" (yes even if it is just in football) is out of line. He knows he should not have said what he said.

Is it a double standard? Yes it is, but welcome to America.

Again, it's not that big of a deal, just my "unbiased" opinon.

 

[G-FORCE]

I beg to differ, Kirk Herbstriet accomplished that feat no more than a few hours ago...(happy gilmore reference)

And, he called him worthless the way he is playing football. It's true. My two best friends (scUMmers) agree. He didn't say Steve was worthless as a human being, did he? Now that would have been funny.

Sometimes it isn't always if he is right or wrong. I know we all hate being "politically correct", but when you are in his line of work that is what you have to be.

If he had said Breaston has been "ineffective" this wouldn't be a story. Sometimes you can't be blunt and call a COLLEGE football player "worthless" (and I know he was only talking about football).

The fact that he is a Buckeye and was talking about a Michigan player magnifies the situation. He should know he needs to watch what he says.

 

[BUCKYLE]

eh....fuck michigan, they are all worthless. Some, more than others.

 

[BB73]

Sometimes it isn't always if he is right or wrong. I know we all hate being "politically correct", but when you are in his line of work that is what you have to be.

If he had said Breaston has been "ineffective" this wouldn't be a story. Sometimes you can't be blunt and call a COLLEGE football player "worthless" (and I know he was only talking about football).

The fact that he is a Buckeye and was talking about a Michigan player magnifies the situation. He should know he needs to watch what he says.

You've made your point. Not everyone will agree. If they don't, there's no need for you to repeat yourself.

 

[Saw31]

This can't possibly be this important...

 

[BrutusBobcat]

G-Force, do you actually watch ESPN? This isn't C-SPAN we're talking about. "Careful" isn't exactly a word in their journalistic lexicon.

Herbie was right on. Breaston is worthless in their offense, as in, he produces nothing of value. Kind of like your QB and WRs at NIU. :tongue2:

 

[G-FORCE]

G-Force, do you actually watch ESPN? This isn't C-SPAN we're talking about. "Careful" isn't exactly a word in their journalistic lexicon.

Herbie was right on. Breaston is worthless in their offense, as in, he produces nothing of value. Kind of like your QB and WRs at NIU. :tongue2:

And defense.

 

[BUCKYLE]

1:Sometimes it isn't always if he is right or wrong. I know we all hate being "politically correct", but when you are in his line of work that is what you have to be.

2: If he had said Breaston has been "ineffective" this wouldn't be a story. Sometimes you can't be blunt and call a COLLEGE football player "worthless" (and I know he was only talking about football).

3:The fact that he is a Buckeye and was talking about a Michigan player magnifies the situation. He should know he needs to watch what he says.

1:worth‧less 
?adjective without worth; of no use, importance, or value; good-for-nothing: a worthless wide reciever: see also Steve Breaston




2:, counterproductive, inconsequential, ineffective, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, meaningless, mediocre, miserable, no-good*, poor, unessential, unimportant, unproductive, unprofitable, unusable, useless, valueless, I ask you, wich of these thesarus words do not apply to steve breaston, save his freshman year?

3.The fact that you claim Herbies comments "magnified" the situation shows how little you know about THE GAME. Everything in the next three weeks said by anyone, past, present, future would somehow magnify this game. That's why it is THE GREATEST RIVALRY IN SPORTS.

 

[G-FORCE]

1:worth‧less 
?adjective without worth; of no use, importance, or value; good-for-nothing: a worthless wide reciever: see also Steve Breaston




2:, counterproductive, inconsequential, ineffective, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, meaningless, mediocre, miserable, no-good*, poor, unessential, unimportant, unproductive, unprofitable, unusable, useless, valueless, I ask you, wich of these thesarus words do not apply to steve breaston, save his freshman year?

3.The fact that you claim Herbies comments "magnified" the situation shows how little you know about THE GAME. Everything in the next three weeks said by anyone, past, present, future would somehow magnify this game. That's why it is THE GREATEST RIVALRY IN SPORTS.

I never said his comments magnified the situation, I said the situation of him being a Buckeye and Breaston being a Wolverine magnified his comments.

And if by now you haven't picked up that it's not what he said but how he said it, you need to read more carefully.

 

[BUCKYLE]

I never said his comments magnified the situation, I said the situation of him being a Buckeye and Breaston being a Wolverine magnified his comments.

My fault. Sorry about that. I'm just saying when Herbie comes home to do the radio programm, He isn't "Mr. Unbiased". He is a homer. If it takes a scUMmer those comments to motivate themselves, it's gonna be a long day for a team of worthlessness.

But you never showed me how his comments were in any way unfactual. The definitions pretty much describe Breaston over the last couple years, including this one.

 

[G-FORCE]

My fault. Sorry about that. I'm just saying when Herbie comes home to do the radio programm, He isn't "Mr. Unbiased". He is a homer. If it takes a scUMmer those comments to motivate themselves, it's gonna be a long day for a team of worthlessness.

But you never showed me how his comments were in any way unfactual. The definitions pretty much describe Breaston over the last couple years, including this one.

I think we should just agree to disagree.

This subject isn't that important to keep arguing over.

 

[BB73]

I'm amazed that when you look up 'worthless' in the dictionary it has an example with Beaston in it.

What were the odds?

 

[BUCKYLE]

And if by now you haven't picked up that it's not what he said but how he said it, you need to read more carefully.

If "how he said it is of any concern"....Now it's beginning to sound like nit picking. Besides, I'm pretty sure Herbie's teams got there asses handed to them by scUM at least a couple times. The funny thing to me is, no one inside of this rivalry expects anything less come this time of year. Had it been a coach, or a current player, I could understand the outrage/ concern about these comments. But it's Herbie. On a local station, speaking to buckeye fans. The rest of the country can go to hell. If ESPN fires him, somone else will hire him before he cleans out his desk.

 

[sandgk]

This topic has officially been beaten into submission