The national media and many in the local media have called us crazy, redneck, and stupid idiots.
Well, I'm not taking it anymore. You wimps in the local media that have not defended us on the National level, or (and SHAME ON YOU!!!) have jumped on the bandwagon and agreed with them should be embarrassed.
Our fans are being shredded in the national media. Local personalities have called us "idiots, rednecks, and (in the past) terrorist."
We are a passionate fan base. We are FANaticals. All of that is true. I own that. But we also have a lot of pride in this state for our University, our teams, and our people. The attitude by some of you on this board and most of our local media that have the attitude, "Let them eat cake..." is what the problem is.
The reason that there is a free press is for people to know what is going on. To not just be fed a bunch of bull by the people with the coin. Who are representing the fans these days? Who came to our defense?
Wait, we are the crazy ones for holding a coach (who is a public employee) accountable for being a bad coach and a worse person? We, the ones that are paying the bills! When no one else, including the media would stand up and say anything (you know...their jobs) the fans stood up and said, "We are not taking this anymore." I don't think I am being dramatic when I say this is kind of the whole reason we have free press, so the common man could know what was going on and do something about it if no one else would.
The truth is now coming out about HdN but it didn't happen until he was run out of here by people that demanded better.
I'm sorry, but when people that should know better allow members of the Hog fan base to be run down in the hopes that they (a college kid, Bo, and a radio guy that wanted the play by play) could advance their careers just makes our local media look weak and pathetic.
You guys know I am a minister. You know I'm pretty even tempered. I've taken criticism on this board for my reports and now radio show. You know that I usually am a show it on the field and shut them up guy. You can say that I am bad at all of those things. But when the national and local media start trashing this state, this fan base and our coaches (Ones that are actually good at their jobs) then it is time to take a stand.
I've got emails and messages into Gregg Doyel, Paul Finebaum and a couple of other hacks today. We will see if they actually want to defend their ignorance of what is going on here and still writing about it. Also, Andy, you also have my number and the stations number. I invite you to give us a call and we will talk about any and all of this on the air.
For those of you that want to change the subject and make it about me trying to promote a show...fine, I'll take it as that. But I'm also giving the people that have blasted this fan base a chance to defend themselves in a public arena to the fans that they have besmirched.
-Ched "Ugly Uncle" Carpenter
Ched, keep doing what you are doing.
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