Typical AJC Bias

That appears to be an article by the ugag beat writer. I would not expect her to mention GT.

If this info has not been reported by the ajc, the question becomes why hasn't the GT writer done his job?
 
texstinger said:
That appears to be an article by the ugag beat writer. I would not expect her to mention GT.
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OK, but why all those other schools then? If it was an article on Stafford I might buy it, but 8 QBs mentioned and none of them Taylor Bennett?
 
mm42 said:
OK, but why all those other schools then? If it was an article on Stafford I might buy it, but 8 QBs mentioned and none of them Taylor Bennett?
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As texstinger indicated, the article is by the UGA beat writer and in all fairness to Strickland, as the sub-title to the article indicates, the other QB's mentioned are from SEC teams.
 
The AJC's GT coverage has been very good this year. It does appear that they're making an effort - there's new material (between blogs and articles) every day.
 
not to jump on you mm42, but the article clearly states that they are talking about the SEC member of the list. noone outside of SEC teams are mentioned. they might have included it, for the rivalry's sake, but i dont think its a slap like they like to give us
 
BuzzCzar said:
not to jump on you mm42, but the article clearly states that they are talking about the SEC member of the list. noone outside of SEC teams are mentioned. they might have included it, for the rivalry's sake, but i dont think its a slap like they like to give us
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My opinion is that it is the journalistic responsibility of the ATLANTA paper, if it writes an article about the Manning Award and mentions UGA's QB and 7 other QB's, it should mention Taylor Bennett. I don't care if the article is written by the UGAg beat writer, the food editor, or what.

Now call me an idiot for holding that opinion.
 
They didn't mention any quarterback not in the SEC. I have quite a bit of respect for your opinion but when I read the article yesterday I honestly didn't feel slighted - but only because no QB outside the SEC was highlighted.

You could say - and I would agree - that its not a good article since not mentioning any other QBs completely deprives the reader of any context as to the likelihood of an SEC QB winning the award but that's not a GT bias that's just bad journalism.

And, honestly, with all due respect to Taylor Bennet, how does a QB with three starts get on the list in the first place? I'm not complaining but if a UGa QB with three career starts were on the list I think I'd be rolling my eyes.

I'm not a big fan of preseason watch lists anyway except, perhaps for the Heisman.
 
00Burdell said:
And, honestly, with all due respect to Taylor Bennet, how does a QB with three starts get on the list in the first place? I'm not complaining but if a UGa QB with three career starts were on the list I think I'd be rolling my eyes.
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A better question would be what Stafford is doing on the list, after throwing 13 INTs and only 7 TDs last season.

The list is 30 QBs long, so we are only talking about the top 25% of I-A QBs.
 
mm42, i apologized for calling you an idiot.

can we please be civil? a difference of opinion on a certain topic does not have to turn into an overall refutation of the other poster.

as i said in my post, i can see your point, all i was saying is that the scope of the article was SEC/UGA, so it kinda made sense that TB wasnt mentioned
 
mm42, really what do you expect. Last week they had a guy who made up his own "facts" to argue against a national sports' writers opinion that UGA was a 2nd tier team. It was like watching heckle and jeckle carry on a conversation.
 
Why is this SEC stuff an excuse? They are in the same conference with UGAg, we are in the same state. We are more relevant than teams like Alabama that UGAg doesn't even play every year. Deciding to list only SEC QB's is the same bias.

Even the beat writer answers to an editor who should provide fair coverage to the hometown team.
 
beej67 said:
The article was about SEC QBs. It was the subject matter of the article.
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The subject matter of the article was who got on the watch list for the Manning award. Filtering that down to SEC QB's is an editorial choice. OTOH, those lazy fools at the AJC probably just got a press release from the SEC office and quoted it verbatim.

BTW, the complete list is in the article I linked a week ago, so the AJC is not only unfair but also s-l-o-w:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/SPORTS03/70808012
 
BuzzCzar said:
mm42, i apologized for calling you an idiot.

can we please be civil? a difference of opinion on a certain topic does not have to turn into an overall refutation of the other poster.
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wow... civility
 
Strickland's the UGA beat writer. Why would he mention Tech? That's

Mike Knobler's job, isn't it?
 
Let me give you young bucks a bit of sage advice....

If you want to make an impression on these sportswriters then don't post on the AJC blog (also known as "blawwwwg") send them an email. Not so long as to be ignored but short enough to challenge them and elicit a response from them. Then you will have actually done somethiing.

Also, I am dying to know, is Carter Strickland a he or a she?
 
Mm42, was the subject matter really "who got on the watch list for the Manning award" or was it "Mathew Stafford got on the list for the Manning award"? I'm not sure where you got that subject matter from. It's an article in the UGA section about the UGA quarterback getting on the list for an award, and it lists other QBs from teams in his conference who will affect him more than just when he plays against them(standings and such). I don't see how Bennett really fits into this article. I doubt most UGA fans closely follow us and worry about how we do overall during the season, whereas they WOULD be very interested in other teams in their conference.

Sure, mentioning other QBs was an editorial decision and filtering the list down to SEC QBs was an editorial decision...but that's what papers do. They take their subject matter and try to provide relevant information to it. And honestly, if there was an article completely about Bennett getting on the list, and it mentioned about other ACC QBs(specifically citing them in a list of ACC QBs), then randomly threw in Stafford also, I think most people on this board would be upset about that(and rightfully so), don't you?

The real question, as someone else mentioned, is why the Tech beat writer hasn't written an article about Bennett being on the list.
 
Well, hell, is Bennett on the list?

If he is, frankly, it isn't much of a list, but then again how could it be if 8 of the 12 SEC QBs are on there?
 
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