My Email Response to the Canzano article

Award for most sane poster of the day goes to:

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You should have just wrote: JJ hasn't played in a game yet. Do you want him suspended from practice? You are a douchebag.

good use of links to prove your point

My Response:

It appears your Oregon following, if one can call it that, is rather dissatisfied with your work on the whole. If your writing style, as evidenced by this piece, is to jump to conclusions based on short-sited, narrow-minded, half-effort journalism, I completely understand their dissatisfaction. What I gather is that Miles should be both jury and judge, finding the players guilty based on one sided accusations and half information, and dispense with brutal and immediate punishment because a kid stepped out of line.

Essentially, you are asking Miles to dismiss our country's notions of justice, and replace them with your own. Forget the "innocent until proven guilty" ideological nonsense, and shove the media driven, ill informed notions of justice down the throat of these young men. After all, when has the media ever been wrong or misinformed?

Knowing nothing about you other than this shoddy piece of writing, I ask whether or not you have children? Do you take pride in them? Stand behind them? Dispense varying degrees of discipline based on what they did? Or, do you meet them with an unyielding iron fist, expecting perfection in every single aspect of their lives? These are kids. Jefferson turned 21 today. They are going to screw up. One of the only things we know for sure right now is that they broke curfew, and Miles appropriately ran the entire team into the ground. We also know they were involved in a fight and the most recognizable face there is the one being singled out. For now, all the media has are the one sided stories from the losing side of a bar fight. Conveniently, Les Miles is not a man of integrity if he doesn't dismiss his quarterback or at least suspend him before he plays your ducks. Forget the other side of the story, right? What does it matter if it turns out not to be true?

Now, if or when the allegations turn out to be true, I believe you'll find Miles hangs his oversized hat on integrity. His track record, if you had done any semblance of an investigation, would reveal this to you in a matter of minutes. Miles is a man of integrity. Of the many things that he can and has been criticized for, his integrity and doing things the right way, are not areas where you will find room to poke. The fact that you did so, in what one can only assume is an attempt at quality journalism, is what is laughable.

Innocent until proven guilty...... what's that?

solid, well thought out response. If it's any consolation, we hate him too.

Ignore Clownzano - he has no credibility, everyone here hates him. Total shock journalist, who goes out of his way to create controversy. He slammed Seastrunk and put him under a microscope, then when Seastrunk left he got all high and mighty and said Oregon fans didn't do right by Seastrunk and were backstabbers.

And I see why Miles wouldn't suspend anyone at this point. I believe Chip Kelly would, based on past overreactions and the way he runs his program, but they're two different coaches and I respect Miles decision at this point (unless he knows something nobody else knows).

I am with camp randell on this one. You took the bait on this one. This dude is garbage. Don't waste your time reading anything he writes.

I sent a email too. All mine said was "You're Retarted."