Red River Recruiting

[billmac91]

There's little reason to suspect that anyone asked him to embellish the story. It was probably either him making up a story about naked girls and drugs to impress classmates or that the story was real but he just doesn't want to deal with the possibilities of an NCAA investigation.

Possible.

I wouldn't put it past a NYT reporter to create a better story than there actually was....

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

Possible.

I wouldn't put it past a NYT reporter to create a better story than there actually was....

Except that McFarland has already admitted to embellishing the story....

 

[billmac91]

Except that McFarland has already admitted to embellishing the story....

understood....doesn't mean he wasn't influenced into doing it. The writer had no issues putting all sorts of juicy details into the article. It makes it a bigger story.

 

[osu_edu]

Well I don't find Oklahoma's sorority party any less inappropriate than USC's limo. But if that how it came across to you, perhaps it was how the recruit presented the story to the TIMES?

It's one thing to question the factuality of a story, but it's another to draw conclusions on the intent of the writer based on the facts presented in the story. It's entirely arbitrary to question the writer's intent without showing that he manipulated the facts.

I think I understand what you are trying to say. I will say this though, Jamarcus and his guardians have the right to present their story any way they want. As a professional journalist, especially one who works for a prominent national media, TIMES should have never written such a piece without substantial backing. Further more, TIME writer EVANS wrote this piece, IMO, as if he is trying to prove a case/point by quoting Jamarcus and his mother.

I'll stop for now. Sound like I am beating on a dead horse. Yikes.

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[osu_edu]

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Tressel not upset about lost 'secret'

Dispatch Story

Brown dismisses story

The New York Times blog site carried a story on Christmas of the recruitment of blue-chip defensive tackle Jamarkus McFarland of Lufkin, Texas, and the commitment he made to Oklahoma over Texas at 12:01 a.m. Christmas morning. The story, which quoted only McFarland and his mother, included criticism of the way he was recruited by Brown and his staff, and allegations of what could be NCAA violations by some Longhorns fans and boosters.
"Our modern-day media is in sad shape if that story gets credibility. ? One-sided stories usually don't make it when sources aren't checked on the other side," Brown said.
He said he was never contacted by the reporter, and he added, "The story has no credibility with me because the writer did exactly the same thing last year, and it's obvious he has an agenda against Texas. That's all I'll comment."
Brown did add that Texas encourages the NCAA each year to check on its recruits. "Most of the top players have the NCAA come in and interview them anyway, and I'm sure that will happen (with McFarland)."

Just a reference.


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