Comments on: Correcting Rick Reilly, Part 2: Rick wants coaches to show less class http://www.scoresreport.com/2009/02/23/correcting-rick-reilly-part-2-rick-wants-coaches-to-show-less-class/ The National Sports Blog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:52:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Anthony Stalter http://www.scoresreport.com/2009/02/23/correcting-rick-reilly-part-2-rick-wants-coaches-to-show-less-class/#comment-333298 Anthony Stalter Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:11:50 +0000 http://www.scoresreport.com/?p=14007#comment-333298 Reilly is obviously joking, but he's still trying to make a point that coaches should have more passion when they're fired. But the problem is that Reilly doesn't do a very good job of blending his humor together with his points. He lets his humor (which isn't good to begin with) do the talking for him and then leaves it up to the reader to interpret his greater meaning - which is never really that profound either. I agree - I flip to the back of ESPN's mag and I get frustrated seeing his picture. It used to be the same way when he wrote for SI - he's just not very good at what he does. Reilly is obviously joking, but he’s still trying to make a point that coaches should have more passion when they’re fired. But the problem is that Reilly doesn’t do a very good job of blending his humor together with his points. He lets his humor (which isn’t good to begin with) do the talking for him and then leaves it up to the reader to interpret his greater meaning – which is never really that profound either.

I agree – I flip to the back of ESPN’s mag and I get frustrated seeing his picture. It used to be the same way when he wrote for SI – he’s just not very good at what he does.

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