Jackets QB Nesbitt hurt during practice

I love Paul Johnson:

Johnson sometimes loses patience with reporters after answering his first or second question about the triple-option. On Wednesday, the topic of Tech's practice regimen irritated the 49-year-old Johnson, whose teams have always taken an unconventional football custom of allowing quarterbacks to be tackled during brief scrimmage sessions in the spring and summer.

"You guys crack me up," he said. "We've practiced 17 days and we haven't had a quarterback miss a day of practice. A guy gets a bruise on his shoulder, and we're going to change the way we practice? How does Georgia practice? They've lost a bunch of guys, haven't they?"

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire...gn=rsssrch&source=georgia+tech+yellow+jackets
 
WindyCityJacket said:
I love Paul Johnson:

Johnson sometimes loses patience with reporters after answering his first or second question about the triple-option. On Wednesday, the topic of Tech's practice regimen irritated the 49-year-old Johnson, whose teams have always taken an unconventional football custom of allowing quarterbacks to be tackled during brief scrimmage sessions in the spring and summer.

"You guys crack me up," he said. "We've practiced 17 days and we haven't had a quarterback miss a day of practice. A guy gets a bruise on his shoulder, and we're going to change the way we practice? How does Georgia practice? They've lost a bunch of guys, haven't they?"

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire...gn=rsssrch&source=georgia+tech+yellow+jackets
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:laugher: Can I marry this man?
 
gatorbuzz said:
Why report something before you know the whole story? So should we hear every time someone tweaks an ankle and takes a water break to get over it?

Five years ago we would have never heard about Josh's stinger. The real-time reporting makes the line between news and not-news a little less distinct. That implies more responsibility on the messenger, and IN MY OPINION, I think some of the real-time reporters aren't as careful as they need to be.
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Because if we heard the news about the injury from somewhere else before he was examined, the AJC would be flayed for not having someone as serious about reporting for our team as they have for U[sic]GA. You guys need to get over yourselves and stop trying to twist everything into a shot at the AJC. Here's what happened: Josh got hurt at practice; the AJC has someone AT practice specifically to report on what happens there, and posted the story; the AJC reporter stayed on the story, and as soon as new info was available, they updated the story. Somehow this is bad? Bad is Kirk Herbstreit reporting Les Miles to Michigan was a done deal. Bad is not posting that Josh got hurt(they never said anything about it being serious or anything...they just said he had to sit out, which he did) and then updating the story after he was examined.

If dem or 1gtfan or anyone at practice had done this same thing on StingTalk, everyone would be furiously thanking them for their dedication to bringing us info.
 
GTWannaBee said:
Only in certain states.
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dont expect a long session from these guys, though
 
You guys need to get over yourselves and stop trying to twist everything into a shot at the AJC.
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I categorically refuse on both counts.
 
beej67 said:
I categorically refuse on both counts.
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Basically all I said was that I thought the reporter should have maybe checked how serious the injury was before plastering that he was hurt on the front page of their website. I'd rather not know every time he gets a stinger at practice by seeing the headline on the ajc.com front page, "TECH QB HURT AT PRACTICE".

So by merely stating my opinion as such on OUR MESSAGE board, I am apparently deemed to consider myself too highly, or rather, to take myself too seriously. Or something. And I need to get over myself.
 
beej67 said:
I categorically refuse on both counts.
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Well at least you admit it :).

Gatorbuzz, don't know how closely you read the board, but the amount of blind hatred towards the AJC on here is staggering.

One time people were completely ripping the AJC for having a report up on the website of a recruit committing but it not being in the paper. Everyone said it would be front page news in the real paper if U[sic]GA had signed a big recruit. Of course, never mind the fact that the guy committed at 10am and the story went up on the site that morning...those bastards at the AJC should have hopped in their time machine and printed it in the paper that morning like they would have for U[sic]GA if good news for them broke after the paper had gone out!

Or there was the time just a week or two ago where they were flaying Mark Bradley for his article saying how Paul Johnson is going to succeed at Tech because he was a winner. Why were they doing this? Because someone started a thread and took one of the COMMENTS on the article saying that we wouldn't do well, pasted it into the thread as Mark Bradley's own writing, and no one bothered to actually click the link and read the article. Or maybe they did, but they wanted to run with the whole "AJC is just blasting us again."

The truth is that yes, there are no doubt some U[sic]GA homers at the AJC, and there have definitely been some cheap shots taken(a particular poll springs to mind), but, by and large, everything they have written is completely true and usually just normal reporting. People are just pissed because U[sic]GA has been incredibly good over the past five or six years while we have, well, sucked, and that leads to a lot of positive articles about U[sic]GA and negative ones about us.

It will be interesting to see if, when we start winning on a consistent basis and thus the AJC is praising us on a consistent basis, people continue to blast them. Of course, there have been a ton of articles praising PJ so far and the practice coverage has been very good and they still get blindly hammered(see two paragraphs up), so the early indications are not good. Maybe it just takes time. Or it's just us taking out our frustration on not being able to beat the people we truly hate, U[sic]GA...because with this there is no score to tell us that we lost, just a lot of words and angry message board posts.
 
it is hard to report on medical situations now that the privacy rule was expanded. basically, the coaches or team cannot say anything unless the player has cleared it. so now teams usually dont say that much.

i wonder how soon it will be until a player sues a newspaper for falsely reporting an injury.

(i mean having the facts wrong, and reporting it, which might violate the player's right to privacy as to his medical situation - the fact that "it appears that he hurt his shoulder" would be ok b/c it was observed, but if the author then wrote something like "aggravated his previous rotator cuff injury" then this is close to the line of what might be allowed - if no "official" info was released)
 
BuzzCzar said:
it is hard to report on medical situations now that the privacy rule was expanded. basically, the coaches or team cannot say anything unless the player has cleared it. so now teams usually dont say that much.

i wonder how soon it will be until a player sues a newspaper for falsely reporting an injury.

(i mean having the facts wrong, and reporting it, which might violate the player's right to privacy as to his medical situation - the fact that "it appears that he hurt his shoulder" would be ok b/c it was observed, but if the author then wrote something like "aggravated his previous rotator cuff injury" then this is close to the line of what might be allowed - if no "official" info was released)
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Actually would not just be a lawsuit, but a violation of a Federal Law -- HIPAA act, which has several nasty penalties for disclosing the health of people without their consent. Not sure if a federal attorney would prosecute, but it is a violation.
 
Well, no lawyer here, but it is a violation for a health care professional to release private data without prior consent, but I'm not as clear on someone just saying that "it looks like he may have a sprained shoulder" or whatever. That isn't really health information, it's just an observation from a non professional. I mean, if you say someone's pregnant without her saying you can tell, I don't think that's a HIPAA violation (although it may get you smack in the mouth if she isn't)

OTOH, for Tech to disclose information from a trainer or team physician would be a violation without the player's okay I think.
 
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