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Matt Harris gone from the Advocate?

Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:21 am
Posted by Broski
Member since Jun 2011
70864 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:21 am
I see that he is not with them anymore. ( )

Anybody know what happened?
Posted by Lacour
Member since Nov 2009
32949 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:22 am to
That's rather rude.
Posted by Broski
Member since Jun 2011
70864 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:22 am to
Settle down, Harris.

You were a terrible writer.
Posted by Lacour
Member since Nov 2009
32949 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:23 am to
Posted by lsu2006
BR
Member since Feb 2004
39980 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:23 am to
Yeah, I hate to be excited about someone presumably being out of a job, but I didn't like his writing one bit from day 1.

And he's a pretty big troll. But that's what journalism is now, so I guess I can't blame him there.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 10:24 am
Posted by Lacour
Member since Nov 2009
32949 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:24 am to
I haven't read the advocate in years. Was he the game writer?

What happened to Rabalais?
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
70903 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:29 am to
quote:

so I guess I can't blame him there.


to hell with that

trolling is for messageboards
Posted by SouthOfSouth
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2008
43456 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:30 am to
He was a miserable hag who thought himself better than just a sports writer just cause he got a degree in writing from Missouri. He would write in a style that wasn't fitting to sports writing and always slanted things in a way that just didn't make sense.
Posted by Broski
Member since Jun 2011
70864 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:34 am to
So does anybody know what happened?
Posted by Lacour
Member since Nov 2009
32949 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:37 am to
He either got canned or got a new job.

I doubt any of us are up to date on the inner goings of The Advocate.
Posted by atlee
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2008
2042 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:40 am to
He wasn't a good fit on a couple of fronts and was let go. Sheldon Mickles is being taken off Saints beat to LSU and will cover men's basketball.
Posted by monsterballads
Make LSU Great Again
Member since Jun 2013
29266 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:41 am to
Good! He was terrible
Posted by LSU=Champions
BAWxtard | Tier 1
Member since Apr 2004
22257 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:48 am to
To put it nicely, I did not like that guy. He always wrote and tweets in a very negative manner, often negative to LSU. It was his schtick. I don't like writers like that (similar to Matthew Stevens for Miss St). Glad the Advocate did the right thing.
Posted by ProjectP2294
South St. Louis city
Member since May 2007
70227 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 11:00 am to
Overall, he was pretty terrible at his job. This isn't very surprising.
Posted by lsu2006
BR
Member since Feb 2004
39980 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 11:01 am to
quote:

To put it nicely, I did not like that guy. He always wrote and tweets in a very negative manner, often negative to LSU.

And he wrote like a pretentious idiot. Yes... a pretentious idiot. Not a great combination.
Posted by LSU=Champions
BAWxtard | Tier 1
Member since Apr 2004
22257 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 11:10 am to
I understand having a different perspective is important and helpful in the mundane world of continuous media narratives, but he did it he wrong way.
Posted by Broski
Member since Jun 2011
70864 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 11:15 am to
He thought he was smarter than him and wrote like he wanted everyone to know it.

When you are not smarter than everyone and try to act like you are, it will NEVER end well for you.
Posted by TIGERFANZZ
THE Death Valley
Member since Nov 2007
4057 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 11:38 am to
Never liked his style, seemed pretentious & not "in touch" with football in the south. Glad he's gone, he, like his alma mater, had no business in the SEC.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 11:40 am
Posted by lsuhunt555
Teakwood Village Breh
Member since Nov 2008
38408 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 11:42 am to
Good to see him not there. That dude made Guilbeau readable.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 11:43 am
Posted by Steamy Ray
Member since Jan 2013
1011 posts
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:09 pm to
quote:

And he wrote like a pretentious idiot


The kind that would use big words straight from his thesaurus, then turn around and say your rather than you're
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