"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
I was hoping that Mitchell would be on 700 more during the week with bill. I really like Mitchell’s perspective.
I've had to listen to more games this year than ever before, and I normally enjoy Bill, Scott and Tom. But Saturday's game was not one of the group's finest moments. Bill had to correct himself so many times in the booth, I thought the least he could do was pay homage to Bill Marcroft and say "Check it," before each of his corrections. Their analysis of the targeting call and passing on a 60-yard FG before halftime was right up Fanboy Alley. Mitchell has gotten better at describing coverages, especially when Utah is on defense, but still sounds cliched in spots. Hackett had one great bit of insight on ASU's missed FG, but needs to get better about conveying Really Important Information from the sidelines more concisely and descriptively.
Circumstances forced me to listen to most of Saturday's game before suffering through the recording later. I agree on the initial targeting call--they made it sound like the most egregious call of all time. Now, in my biased opinion I think when a defender is visibly trying to let up (as our guy appeared to be) he shouldn't be punished. But that is how they've been calling it and based on the rule and the general interpretation that wasn't that bad of a call.
I was getting frustrated because when Utah was on defense Bill would rarely say which Utah player made a tackle unless it was a TFL or big stop. At times I had to wonder whether Chase Hansen was even playing because I never heard who made the tackle on most running plays.
Bill and Scott are still working on their chemistry, as is the production team. There was a moment in saturday's game where Bill took it to break, but then you could still hear their conversation for a good 5-6 seconds before the commercials kicked on. I have noticed a few wrubellian moments from them where they will be beside themselves over a call.
hmmmm ... Spence Checkets coming back to ESPN 700
https://twitter.com/espn700bill/stat...40482832871424
Spence is actually very good IMO
Spence just launched a new podcast. I think its just a call in interview/promo and bill is doing a throwback for old times sake.
So Gunther and Ben are toast?
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
So this whole ESPN 700 v 1280 the zone, Porter Larsen vs Gordon Monson thing has been fun to follow.......
The tl;dr version..........Monson wrote a column about Troy Taylor being pushed out (according to Gordon's sources), Troy was interviewed on 700 by Ben Anderson and Larsen wherein he refuted just about everything Monson had said, without mentioning the column. Larsen took to twitter to critique the column, saying it was essentially wrong and that Monson only occasionally is seen up on the hill talking to players and coaches, while Larsen is there everyday. Lloyd Cole (1280 program director) and Austin Horton took to twitter to fire back at Larsen (which he turned right around with some excellent GIFs). Jake Scott and Gordon Monson spent the opening segment of the big show yesterday to rip on Larsen, calling him a "punk kid".
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Update: Lloyd Cole, the program director of 1280, apologized for his tweets in what was a decent (if clearly employer mandated) apology. However, he kept the offending tweets up............
Jake and Gordo had a segment at the bottom of the first hour of their show yesterday where they led off with an audio clip of Spence Eccles saying he enjoyed and agreed with Gordon's column. They then spent some time flexing about how that proves that Gordon was right. They then acknowledged that they had gone too far in how they went after Porter Larsen and apologized. Gordon mentioned that he had left a voicemail for porter too, but wanted to publicly apologize. They then went right back to flexing and talking about how they were right. My favorite part was that Gordon said, essentially, "In the past, people close to and involved in the Utes football program have played me and everybody else. But you need to believe me about this because my sources are close to and in the Utes football program". (Hes referring to the Whitt to BYU saga of a few years ago).
Several folks on twitter brought up the time our old pal comrade crimson got him to report a fake hiring to replace urban.
I am going to go ahead and stick with the reports of a guy who spends nearly every day around the team over a columnist who doesn't show up much and has a history of trolling.
Gordon Monson is a former neighbor of mine. I would put zero credence in anything he says ever, and that has nothing to do with sports reporting.
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Finally got around to reading the piece, and there's one of two conclusions I can draw: Monson's insistence that Troy was being forced out is coming from someone who is intimately involved with Kyle in running the program, or is completely made up out of thin air. Not much room for in-between here, unless the aforementioned source is just clueless and overstating things.
My theory is, is when someone provides dirt, but doesn't want their name attached to it, that they will appear later in the story as a quoted source (It's my .02 this happened with Chris Hill and the Oregonian's takedown of the league and Larry Scott). Gary's also not at Utah anymore, and has a documented past about being chatty with sports writers. Wouldn't be surprised at all if he's the "according to ..." Monson mentions at the top of the piece.
Just about everything else is stuff that's been said before ... except now we've flat-out conceded that the offense that we run has Kyle as its architect. There's no speculation as to whether Kyle sticks his nose in the offense's business -- he's neck-deep in making it known what he wants done and how it should be done.
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Well apparently it is a low bar when at times his claimed "sources" were Mr Crimson on UFN.
I'll put it this way, I'll put more stock in what a guy like Larsen says who has put in the legwork and has the relationships with the program over Monson and his highly questionable track record. I can't recall a time a journalist has outright called out another journalist like that.
This is a guy who did this in the past and then when proved wrong stated it was how he imagined it.
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The Tom Anstutz instance — which was brilliant — never appeared in print. It was something Monson blurted out on his moonlighting gig on STR. There’s a massive difference in the standards applied between print and STR. Hell, I even once fell for “fake news” during the great expansion days of 2011 while doing my radio gig. Fortunately, we got it corrected by the time we went to commercial.
Didn't Monson print a story about when 5*, future All-American Phil Indablank signed?
The N.Y. Times on the Pac-12's financial situation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/s...gtype=Homepage
This was nice:
[. . .] the league, which houses the traditional power Southern California and more recent contenders like Stanford, Oregon and Utah.
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.
Quite a saga.
Spence Checketts' reality check: Rebuilding his life and career while helping others affected by addiction after DUI
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/....html?user=app
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Checketts' is fortunate. My most recent LDS Church assignment was to serve with my wife as a sponsor for women incarcerated in the Atherton Treatment Facility, a halfway house of sorts for women trying to overcome addiction. It is a difficult situation. Most of these women have little or no education or training, have little or inadequate family support and are fighting many physical, mental and emotional issues in addition to addiction. They are required to be employed while in the Center and most leave the center after 3 to 6 months. Unfortunately, as a result of limited education and skills, they are stuck in $10-12 an hour jobs and in overpriced housing. One of our last women, was released shortly before having a baby. She wasn't ready, but the State did not want to pay for her having the baby. She was placed in an unfurnished studio apartment on State Street where she paid $800 per month plus utilities. She walked a little over a mile each way to her job at a Maverick. I have very little hope for her or her little girl. We love stories about people who pick themselves up with their bootstraps and make a successful comeback. This is difficult to do, however, when you lack both boots and bootstraps. I don't know how we address the issue of addiction, poverty and lack of education. The problem is growing. We throw money at it but at the same time drastically reduce mental healthcare.
That was a pretty good article. Thanks for the link.
is there a consensus on Scott Mitchell calling Ute Football games on the radio? Maybe I'm old fashioned but I still prefer Dolce. I don't care that he viewed everything through crimson colored glasses or that he was a little goofy/unprofessional. Nothing against Mitchell, but I liked Dolce's passion for all things Utah. It was like watching/listening to a game with a friend.