VIDEO: Otz goes off on Kansas State

cyatheart

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This is pretty good! Jeff Goodman nails it. He says... every team knows what the other team runs. It's not a secret. This whole thing is ludicrous.



Exactly, anybody that knows anything about basketball knows this didn't happen. It's a sad statement on the k state program and fan base that this is even a conversation.
 

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TJ and his staff are all public figures, the bar to clear is incredibly high. If Tang was, say, pointing at a picture of ISU Jim Carrey saying 'this guy named (name) was spying on our huddle' that'd be a potentially different story
I think you might have a better option against the Wichita paper and KC Star. They ran a story with the accusations from "sources". Did they vet the source or confirm with a different source?
This isn't a coaching search story were you use one source on a rumor. You're writing about someone cheating which can be a damaging statement.
Message boards and Internet rumors are one thing but when a media group runs a story, that's a whole other ballgame.
 

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I think you might have a better option against the Wichita paper and KC Star. They ran a story with the accusations from "sources". Did they vet the source or confirm with a different source?
This isn't a coaching search story were you use one source on a rumor. You're writing about someone cheating which can be a damaging statement.
Message boards and Internet rumors are one thing but when a media group runs a story, that's a whole other ballgame.
Even the Ames Tribune gets double digit sources before they run a story.
 

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I think you might have a better option against the Wichita paper and KC Star. They ran a story with the accusations from "sources". Did they vet the source or confirm with a different source?
This isn't a coaching search story were you use one source on a rumor. You're writing about someone cheating which can be a damaging statement.
Message boards and Internet rumors are one thing but when a media group runs a story, that's a whole other ballgame.
Public figures have an enormous bar to clear in order to win defamation cases. Newspapers are also provided with significant first amendment protections when it comes to libel. The only outcome here is significant legal expenses for the university (and everyone from ISU involved here is well aware)
 
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Let me get this straight, "good guy" Jerome Tang, who has openly discussed his disdain for cussing, has an assistant coach who sits on the bench and travels with the team and cusses at random fans, managers and cheerleaders? This is the story in all of this.
 

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Let me get this straight, "good guy" Jerome Tang, who has openly discussed his disdain for cussing, has an assistant coach who sits on the bench and travels with the team and cusses at random fans, managers and cheerleaders? This is the story in all of this.

Still waiting for anti-cuss Tang's comments regarding his assistant's flagrant cussing at our managers.
 

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Still waiting for anti-cuss Tang's comments regarding his assistant's flagrant cussing at our managers.

...along with why he sent his little minion with a white board to center court during time outs to look directly at our huddle.
 
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Let me get this straight, "good guy" Jerome Tang, who has openly discussed his disdain for cussing, has an assistant coach who sits on the bench and travels with the team and cusses at random fans, managers and cheerleaders? This is the story in all of this.

The story is Tang is a fraud, this is a solid line in that story though. Jesus in the street.