Thamel

[HOFCeluck]

As I recall he was DO sports editor for several years and then interned and worked at the NY Times. Not sure that's worthless. The guys lived and breathed sports journalism since day 1, that's why he's successful.

I think this is an expression of frustration at years of mismanagement of the football program and maybe intended to add to the pile-on so that a change could be made with coaching. It's definitely not unbiased though, it's emotional. It's like yelling at your kids sometimes because you give a . . . . .

Yeah, I rather he say sh 1 t like this than be apathetic.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

@SIPeteThamel: The wise marketing strategy of eliminating one of the few things that distinguished your irrelevant football program https://t.co/CCgUqEnG1X

He is right on both counts...

 

[storange]

He's a

 

[Scooch]

Snark?

On the Internet?!?!

 

[KellySyracuse]

He's a

I agree, I stopped following him on Twitter quite a while ago. If SU football is so irrelevant then why bother tweeting about it? That's not an emotional response, it's what a doosh would say. And he's got that covered.

 

[Cootface]

Wait a minute. He's criticizing our football team for being irrelevant and he works for sports illustrated? Pot meet kettle...

 

[SUFan44]

Who here said that he was "in the know" on certain things at SU?

This tweet suggests he either is not, or will not be soon.

What a dick.

 

[PoppyHart]

It really made no sense to eliminate it in the first place.

 

[JrodCuse]

Our program basically is irrelevant right now. I'm a diehard fan but besides us diehards who cares about Syracuse football? We're a bottom 10 team over the past 10+ years. Nothing is going to change that except winning. What should the guy say? Should he lie? Some people are just too thin skinned and looking for anyone or anything to blame. The fact is we've made terrible hire after terrible hire and compounded bad choices on top of that to take a once great program and turn it into one of the worst teams in power 5 football over the past 15 years. I really hope that someone with the pedigree of coyle can do what is needed to right the ship because if not we could become the next Kansas and be stuck as a bottom feeder for an awfully long time.

 

[SUFan44]

Our program basically is irrelevant right now. I'm a diehard fan but besides us diehards who cares about Syracuse football? We're a bottom 10 team over the past 10+ years. Nothing is going to change that except winning. What should the guy say? Should he lie? Some people are just too thin skinned and looking for anyone or anything to blame. The fact is we've made terrible hire after terrible hire and compounded bad choices on top of that to take a once great program and turn it into one of the worst teams in power 5 football over the past 15 years. I really hope that someone with the pedigree of coyle can do what is needed to right the ship because if not we could become the next Kansas and be stuck as a bottom feeder for an awfully long time.

That's not the point. The snark and tone is the point.

 

[storange]

Our program basically is irrelevant right now. I'm a diehard fan but besides us diehards who cares about Syracuse football? We're a bottom 10 team over the past 10+ years. Nothing is going to change that except winning. What should the guy say? Should he lie? Some people are just too thin skinned and looking for anyone or anything to blame. The fact is we've made terrible hire after terrible hire and compounded bad choices on top of that to take a once great program and turn it into one of the worst teams in power 5 football over the past 15 years. I really hope that someone with the pedigree of coyle can do what is needed to right the ship because if not we could become the next Kansas and be stuck as a bottom feeder for an awfully long time.

Terrible hire after Terrible Hire ???
Grob - agree, as bad as it gets
Marrone- brought program out of the depths
Shafer - despite the current tone the book is still out

 

[Macky44]

you guys want our national writers to be sycophants for a program that deserves scrutiny?

I'm a Newhouse grad and I applaud his independent/alumni neutral stances he takes. He's where he is because of his writing chops.

Unlike button.

 

[tep624]

If he's Batman then Michael Cohen is Robin.

 

[HOFCeluck]

That's not the point. The snark and tone is the point.

If Thamelcuse44 posted that here he'd have a couple dozen "likes" within the hour.

 

[cuseguy]

Who is relevant in the Northeast?

Rutgers, BC, UConn, Syracuse, Maryland?

None of them.

Pitt is having a decent year, but they haven't been relevant in years.

Neither has Penn State.

There's a common thread here.

How would the best high school football teams from NY State -- or even New Jersey --fare against the best high school teams from Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina or Virginia?

Now take the best players from those teams and spread them across a limited number of college programs from those regions.

SU and others face a tough road.

But most of us already knew that.

 

[Chip]

He's obviously taking a shot.

Why, I don't know.

But I'm sure someday he'll write an over-worded piece about why SU makes him sad.

 

[DoctorBombay]

Hate the tone but he's absolutely right.
Winning cures all ills, even from frustrated alums who choose to pile onto our struggling program.
Each loss, and HOW we lose, wears you down a little bit more. You're left to either be angry or apathetic.
Groundhog Day over & over again.:bang:

 

[Cheriehoop]

Because he's an alum and frustrated?

Then he's not being professional. Bet Tirico, Costas, McDonough etc are just as frustrated since they are alums who bleed orange but they don't subject their national audience to their personal frustrations taking shots at a program he claims is irrelevant anyways.

 

[Frozen]

Then he's not being professional. Bet Tirico, Costas, McDonough etc are just as frustrated since they are alums who bleed orange but they don't subject their national audience to their personal frustrations taking shots at a program he claims is irrelevant anyways.

"I have a better chance of doing shampoo commercials than Syracuse winning out." --Sean McDonough

 

[HOFCeluck]

Then he's not being professional. Bet Tirico, Costas, McDonough etc are just as frustrated since they are alums who bleed orange but they don't subject their national audience to their personal frustrations taking shots at a program he claims is irrelevant anyways.

Good for him, then. I fu(king love McDonough, and it's got nothing to do with how professional he is.

 

[Millhouse]

"I have a better chance of doing shampoo commercials than Syracuse winning out." --Sean McDonough

you're allowed be a (thank you sto) if you're funny

 

[HOFCeluck]

I like the fact that Sean "openly cheer for SU during the 6ot game" McDonough is one of your go-tos for professionalism.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Then he's not being professional. Bet Tirico, Costas, McDonough etc are just as frustrated since they are alums who bleed orange but they don't subject their national audience to their personal frustrations taking shots at a program he claims is irrelevant anyways.

That is an interesting point. Is Twitter strictly professional, strictly personal or a little of both?

You can bet he'd never write something with tone in SI...

 

[HOFCeluck]

That is an interesting point. Is Twitter strictly professional, strictly personal or a little of both?

You can bet he'd never write something with tone in SI...

It's both...and he has "SI" in his handle...making it more the former.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

It's both...and he has "SI" in his handle...making it more the former.

If he has SI in his handle, then I would say it is professional and, therefore, inappropriate.

The problem is that guys like Stephen A Smith and Jim Rome have made this type of language acceptable in what-passes-for journalism these days...