Dan Graziano won't be inviting Chip Kelly over to dinner anytime soon (and vice versa after the article Graziano wrote about Kelly)
The Oregon Ducks football team, who was coached by Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly before this coming season, was hit with a light sanction for a recruiting violation under then coach Kelly. This wasn't a very harsh penalty. This was to the death penalty (in college football) what a paper-cut is to a gun homicide. Sure, it might sting for a little bit, but it doesn't completely end a person's life, or a program in this scenario - not by a long shot.
Dan Graziano of ESPN.com then wrote an article about the matter today and I was scratching my head while reading the "piece" in its entirety, before I scrolled to the top of the website to make sure it didn't say The Onion.
Graziano's article is titled, "NCAA labels Chip Kelly a cheater."
Yes, things only got worse from there...
Graziano started the article by saying this:
"I know that the vast majority of Philadelphia Eagles fans won't care. I know that all you care about with regard to Chip Kelly is what kind of head coach he's going to be in the NFL, and that whatever he did while coaching the University of Oregon matters as little to you as whether he cheated on a sixth-grade math test. I get it. But Kelly's in the news today, and I'm writing about him because call me old-fashioned but I think adults who don't care about right versus wrong should be called out for it when possible."
Graziano sounds like he's in a bad mood. Hungover maybe? Rejected by a woman? Hungover after getting rejected by a woman, which prompted him to do seven shots of tequila?
The ESPN blogger later said this:
"So yeah, I know you probably don't care if you're an Eagles fan. And if Kelly hits it big in the NFL, no one will have reason to remember this. But don't come at me insisting he didn't have embarrassing personal reasons to leave Oregon, because he obviously did. And if you're making grand, optimistic assumptions about his level of commitment to his new job and whether you can trust what he says, that's your right, but consider yourself warned."
Maybe Graziano was about to come out of the closet, was overjoyed by the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling yesterday, asked Chip Kelly if he'd go out with him sometime, got rejected, and the before-mentioned seven shots of tequila and the inevitable hangover ensued.
Graziano then closed his lovely article in this manner:
"And if you happen to be the kind of fan who cares what kind of people operate and represent your team... well, now you have a little more information on which you base your opinion about this one, don't you?"
Yeah, bartender, I think it's about time you cut him off. ESPN, I think it's about time you do likewise. It sounds as if Mr. Graziano holds some kind of a personal grudge against Chip Kelly and wound up writing a very immature, unprofessional article which came across like a 9th grade student writing a column in the school paper about how he hates the quarterback of the football team because he didn't invite him to that party that one time. In the future, every Graziano article should carry with it some fine print that says, "If you read this article all the way through, you may wind up thoroughly regretting it. 'Consider yourself warned!'"
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/52389/ncaa-labels-chip-kelly-a-cheater
Dan Graziano of ESPN.com then wrote an article about the matter today and I was scratching my head while reading the "piece" in its entirety, before I scrolled to the top of the website to make sure it didn't say The Onion.
Graziano's article is titled, "NCAA labels Chip Kelly a cheater."
Yes, things only got worse from there...
Graziano started the article by saying this:
"I know that the vast majority of Philadelphia Eagles fans won't care. I know that all you care about with regard to Chip Kelly is what kind of head coach he's going to be in the NFL, and that whatever he did while coaching the University of Oregon matters as little to you as whether he cheated on a sixth-grade math test. I get it. But Kelly's in the news today, and I'm writing about him because call me old-fashioned but I think adults who don't care about right versus wrong should be called out for it when possible."
Graziano sounds like he's in a bad mood. Hungover maybe? Rejected by a woman? Hungover after getting rejected by a woman, which prompted him to do seven shots of tequila?
The ESPN blogger later said this:
"So yeah, I know you probably don't care if you're an Eagles fan. And if Kelly hits it big in the NFL, no one will have reason to remember this. But don't come at me insisting he didn't have embarrassing personal reasons to leave Oregon, because he obviously did. And if you're making grand, optimistic assumptions about his level of commitment to his new job and whether you can trust what he says, that's your right, but consider yourself warned."
Maybe Graziano was about to come out of the closet, was overjoyed by the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling yesterday, asked Chip Kelly if he'd go out with him sometime, got rejected, and the before-mentioned seven shots of tequila and the inevitable hangover ensued.
Graziano then closed his lovely article in this manner:
"And if you happen to be the kind of fan who cares what kind of people operate and represent your team... well, now you have a little more information on which you base your opinion about this one, don't you?"
Yeah, bartender, I think it's about time you cut him off. ESPN, I think it's about time you do likewise. It sounds as if Mr. Graziano holds some kind of a personal grudge against Chip Kelly and wound up writing a very immature, unprofessional article which came across like a 9th grade student writing a column in the school paper about how he hates the quarterback of the football team because he didn't invite him to that party that one time. In the future, every Graziano article should carry with it some fine print that says, "If you read this article all the way through, you may wind up thoroughly regretting it. 'Consider yourself warned!'"
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/52389/ncaa-labels-chip-kelly-a-cheater
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