The Situation And An Apology

Iam sure you don’t want to talk a whole lot about this. But do you think he put a stop
to the rumors so that he could finish the year out with a team willing to play. They (TCU) had a shot at a good bowl game up until yesterday and still could get a decent one?

And looking at both situations he would be a perfect fit for KSU

I don’t think you did anything anybody else wouldn’t have done…

Fitzgerald posted something that he felt was 100% accurate or else he would not have put his credibility out there like that. Hopefully, and most likely, Patterson is denying it until the season is over. He is probably upset that this was leaked at this moment before the details were wrapped up.

I want to apologize to anyone who thinks Patterson or the rest of the world used this as “the” source for this story. I was responding to info that had been posted on gopowercat.com. I seemed to think that since they posted the story, it was all confirmed and in the bag.

While this is not a true journalistic site, I still should have probably waited to confer with TB or Panjandrum before jumping the gun. I was on a break at work, found the story, and decided to update the site. It was false information and therefore I apologize. If I were an actual journalist getting paid to do this, I would have waited until a credible source personally told me the news. However, I don’t have that luxury. As a journalism major from KSU, I am embarrassed and will take any punishment you faithful readers are willing to dish.

I spent all week in North Carolina and my head is still in the Tar Heel State. FYI…they play basketball out there and some guy named Hansbrough is next to Jesus….interesting tid bit I picked up….

This was reported as credible over at gopowercat. Again, Fitz is probably kicking himself for running with this before he substantiated it 100% I assumed along with everyone else that it was true too. No need to apologize to your readers I assure you.

It happens.

Onward, sir.

What the hell did I miss in 4 hours?

I’m upset. Not with what we did, but with the situation in general.

My afternoon at work was crazy, so I was kind of out of the loop with the exception of a text from EMAW and a few e-mails with both EMAW and TB.

First of all, GoPowercat.com is a legitimate news outlet. They have a press pass to all press conferences and games. They are one of the 10-15 largest sites in the Rivals network. They are considered to be the premier ‘fan site’ for KSU athletics. Their message board is one that I frequent, and I’ve been a member there for nearly ten years. They were the first news outlet to break Bill Snyder’s retirement, so this is not new territory for them.

That said, I support what TB and EMAW did in posting that information. We are bloggers; we do not have a press pass. We do not have the access that the staff members of GPC have. We are simply an independent conduit of information and commentary, and as fans who constantly monitor KSU athletics (especially during times like these), we would be doing our consistent readers a disservice by not passing this info along and making comments about it. It’s why people come here.

During his call to a radio show in Dallas today, there was mention of GoPowercat.com and Rivals.com. There was no mention of an SB Naton site called ‘Bring on the Cats’. We are proud of the work we do here, but we are not a true ‘news’ organization that has access into Anderson Hall and Vanier on a regular basis. It woud be one thing if we started saying that he took the job and people started quoting us about it. However, we were simply passing along info that we heard from Rivals.

I stand by TB and his decision to delete the posts. The entire situation is an embarrassment for Kansas State, and while I like Tim Fitzgerald, this was a bad decision on his part on several levels. I’m not going to publicly levy heavy criticism against him because he obviously had sources, and he was trying to break a story, but in private conversations, I’ve voiced severe displeasure.

I’m rambling at this point, but I support TB, I’m mad at GoPowercat.com, and I’m overall embarassed as a K-State fan today.

Even worse, I just got back last night from travelling, and I’m out of beer. Damn it.

Every headline I read, I mentally add “wink wink” at the end (sorta like adding ‘in bed’ to the end of all my fortune cookie fortunes).

I’ll wait for the official announcement of whomever as head whatever of the something team wink wink

I’m hearing that the “rumor” is, or at least was, true. That’s why Prince was given the boot at this point in the season. I hope GoPowercat didn’t ruin our shot at Patterson by getting this out so soon.

listen, if this is truly in the works (and by the looks of it it is), then Patterson is not going to back out over a leaked story. A couple of million will do wonders to smooth over a leaked story me thinks. What do we expect, that he’s going to admit, before the season is over, that he’s out at TCU? This is a standard denial. God I hope I’m right.

that after a couple of days this hyperbole settles down. There is going to be a lot of overreaction especially by the media after something like this. You’re correct though, November 22nd is a long time. This going to be absolutely heartbreaking…so close to Gary and now so far away.

is that the national media hasn’t picked up on this.

a better conference than the SEC, but do we have to start acting like them too?

Nick Saban anyone?

Les Miles sound familiar?