tmcats wrote: ↑April 17th, 2024, 10:56 amryan and other media live off the work of others. it's amazing to me the market rewards their activity as it does, when fans can these days get the news directly from the horse's mouth and draw their own conclusions. but we've seen how effective they are in demonizing guys like the college president, bruce weber, and others. so i guess their interpretations for us work.
I don't want to get into a silly argument and I am not defending Ryan Wallace, but Ryan is providing information to KSU fans that we cannot get from the horses mouth. I listen to him to hear about high school players, which I enjoy because I am a high school coach. You may be right about people like Fitz, Kurtz, etc, but not Wallace. I cannot hear about high school players from the horses mouth until they actually sign with KSU. But he talks about a lot of kids, not just KSU recruits, which I enjoy. If you don't want to listen, don't, but also, I don't think you need to put every member of the local media into one category and act like they are all the same and all do the same things because that is not true.
Plus, to be honest, sometimes it is nice to hear from more of a neutral observer because if you just get it from the horses mouth, when was the last time you heard a coach say anything negative about a player?? Sometimes I want to hear that CJ Jones is great at attacking the basket with his right hand, but he is weaker with his left, therefore he often will go to a pull-up jumper if forced left rather than attacking the rim. Fact is, I am not going to hear that from Coach Tang at this point, but I want the truth, not just to go into the season thinking every player is Michael Jordan.