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OSU_Buckguy
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my tinfoil hat theory:
yahoo is running this piece (with one unnamed source and little or no evidence that can or will be released to the public) because bill greene forced them to release their oregon investigation well before it had been planned, which led to other sports media groups getting in on the action much earlier than yahoo expected. this is yahoo's way of getting back at bill via osu.
okay. that's all i have. back to building my david icke/alex jones shrine.
yahoo is running this piece (with one unnamed source and little or no evidence that can or will be released to the public) because bill greene forced them to release their oregon investigation well before it had been planned, which led to other sports media groups getting in on the action much earlier than yahoo expected. this is yahoo's way of getting back at bill via osu.
okay. that's all i have. back to building my david icke/alex jones shrine.
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DiaBuckeye
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3074326;1884886; said:
Indeed we will, but I mean literally, why wouldn't they present it?
Can you think of any reason why a news organization in this situation would sit on it? Because I can't, and that's why I call bull [Mark May].
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dragurd
Head Coach
Except Jax it isn't about getting stories correct it's about getting everyone together and asking one last time did you hold anything back that if we say we deny this that can come back to bite us because if you do now there will be hell to pay afterwords with people who could be who knows where at the moment. 3 hours with that is not enough. You give someone a day or or two heads up and they can give a response directly to the article. You give them a week and you can have their side of the story in the article.
Giving OSU a 3 hours heads up is just enough to send everyone in a panic trying to contact everyone they need to but not allow them to give a decent response to your article on the day of when you release it in the pm.
Giving OSU a 3 hours heads up is just enough to send everyone in a panic trying to contact everyone they need to but not allow them to give a decent response to your article on the day of when you release it in the pm.
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billmac91
Head Coach
DiaBuckeye;1884891; said:
Because if OSU comes out and categorically denies it and Yahoo has evidence, there story because significantly more powerful. If you;re Yahoo right now, and you have evidence yet to be released, you want OSU to take the line and jack this thing up beyond repair so you have a story for years rather than a speed-bump.
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3074326
Assistant to the Head Coach
DiaBuckeye;1884891; said:
Teasing it like this generates interest.
I'm also under the opinion that I don't think they'd just randomly run a front-page story without evidence.
We'll find out..
EDIT: And what billmac said. They've put OSU in a tough spot if OSU did do something wrong.
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Gatorubet
Loathing All Things Georgia
Just a word here - all of you going on about how Yahoo is so horribly unethical running a story without I.D.-ing the confidential source should remind me of the exact date Woodward and Berstein told everyone "Deepthroat's" real name before running their stories on Watergate...
Running it without disclosing that source information does not make it true. But running it without I.D.ing the source does not make it untrue either.
Now, they damn sure should have one or two confirming sources before they run with it - but they don't have to share any of this with us before they run it.
Running it without disclosing that source information does not make it true. But running it without I.D.ing the source does not make it untrue either.
Now, they damn sure should have one or two confirming sources before they run with it - but they don't have to share any of this with us before they run it.
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Diego-Bucks
Lost in Canada
Yahoo! Sports is very credible in my eyes. That's all I'm going to say on that one.
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Meyer
Legend
Jaxbuck;1884882; said:
Yeah, true. Although none of us really know the checks and balances of an Athletic Department.
I'm going to be captain obvious and ask, why? What reason would someone credible enough for Yahoo to run this story lie about this? It would seemingly be pretty random to just make this up? But I guess without proof we are innocent in the eyes of the law...
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OCBucksFan
I won a math debate
3074326;1884895; said:
Yeah, I am curious to see how this plays out. There's a lot of speculation right now, but if Yahoo actually has hard evidence I think the "Unnamed Source" will have a name by the end of the week. If not, this will all slowly fade away.
On the one hand, we give Yahoo a lot of credit over the Reggie Bush issue, but that was handled in a very straight forward manner. Here's names, here's dates, here's figures, the dudes got some problems. This one is being handled in a way that makes me really curious if Yahoo really has something, if they do they are setting a serious trap for the coach, if they don't then it's just an accusation to see how the school responds and get some more attention back on the 5 players.
As others have said, this doesn't look very good at all.
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DiaBuckeye
All-American
billmac91;1884894; said:
3074326;1884895; said:
Good points. I dunno though, it just seems like billmac's point would be a shady thing to do for someone like Yahoo, and that in the end, teasing it like this seems pointless since, if they have proof, the story is quite huge enough.
Diego-Bucks;1884897; said:
Agreed, and you guys are starting to worry me with comments like this. But I'll believe it when I see it.
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AFK4403
I'm indie, you probably wouldn't get it.
billmac91;1884894; said:
But then aren't they making the weight of their story depend on the quality of OSU's response? I find it hard to believe Yahoo is banking on a huge university botching its response to the allegations as opposed to breaking the story themselves with all of the evidence. If OSU responds and fills in the holes of the story, Yahoo's undisclosed evidence loses a lot of value. I doubt they would risk sitting on their evidence by gambling on OSU jacking its response up.
Running the story now got Yahoo a lot of hits, but running it with the evidence (as I believe they did with their other probes) would have been even bigger. I just have a hard time believing Yahoo has evidence but chose to wait and hope for OSU to botch the story to blow it up even bigger, at the risk of that evidence being revealed by other means (possibly even by OSU's response).
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