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Kent Babb answers some questions about previous story about LSU/Brian Kelly
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:33 pm
“I don’t know why anyone would consider my 2022 story a hit piece, but I guess it’s all open to interpretation,” Babb told FOS via email. “I suspect most people who are complaining about the story never actually read it.”
“My contention all along with the 2022 story is that it’s not even about Brian Kelly,” he writes in an email. “It’s really a look at one city’s vast economic gulf and what our society seems to value. Nobody did anything wrong here, least of all Kelly. I said it then and still believe it now: It’s just the sky-high cost of competing, and my only aim was to point out one extreme on the LSU pay scale and find someone who existed on the opposite end of that extreme.”
“Many readers have said I could’ve chosen any college coach in the country, and I couldn’t agree more. I chose Kelly for two reasons,” he tells FOS. “The first is that he had just left Notre Dame for LSU and a contract worth a possible nine-figure maximum, and the second is that, just months earlier, my second book—about high school football in New Orleans, a city plagued by gun violence and corruption—had just been published, so I had an intimate knowledge of Louisiana’s political, racial, and economic disparities.”
I guess he doesn’t have that intimate knowledge about South Carolina…..sigh
I gave you the pertinent quotes. It is a garbage article otherwise. You don’t have to click the link if don’t want to give the author increased number of clicks.
LINK
“My contention all along with the 2022 story is that it’s not even about Brian Kelly,” he writes in an email. “It’s really a look at one city’s vast economic gulf and what our society seems to value. Nobody did anything wrong here, least of all Kelly. I said it then and still believe it now: It’s just the sky-high cost of competing, and my only aim was to point out one extreme on the LSU pay scale and find someone who existed on the opposite end of that extreme.”
“Many readers have said I could’ve chosen any college coach in the country, and I couldn’t agree more. I chose Kelly for two reasons,” he tells FOS. “The first is that he had just left Notre Dame for LSU and a contract worth a possible nine-figure maximum, and the second is that, just months earlier, my second book—about high school football in New Orleans, a city plagued by gun violence and corruption—had just been published, so I had an intimate knowledge of Louisiana’s political, racial, and economic disparities.”
I guess he doesn’t have that intimate knowledge about South Carolina…..sigh
I gave you the pertinent quotes. It is a garbage article otherwise. You don’t have to click the link if don’t want to give the author increased number of clicks.
LINK
This post was edited on 3/27/24 at 4:46 pm
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Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:36 pm to tigerskin
Corruption in New Orleans comes from City Hall.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:38 pm to tigerskin
Why not base this article on South Carolina or Bama? Why single out LSU?
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:38 pm to tigerskin
not sure why you would want anyone to click that link
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:39 pm to tigerskin
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my second book—about high school football in New Orleans
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so I had an intimate knowledge of Louisiana’s political, racial, and economic disparities.
This guy writes a book about high school football and now he’s a worldly scholar.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:41 pm to ThePoo
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not sure why you would want anyone to click that link
Have you not been reading the board? Everyone wants to see his comments to her challenge about previous article.
I gave you the pertinent quotes. You don’t have to click it.
Tigerdroppings requires you to link article where you are getting quotes, even if it is a garbage article.
This post was edited on 3/27/24 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:41 pm to lsu711
This cat definitely thinks highly of himself. 
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:41 pm to tigerskin
Only thing worse than bias is pretending to be unbiased.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:46 pm to tigerskin
I read the article. The article talks a lot about racism at LSU and the cities racist past, and tries to find justification on why a white coach is making millions while black men suffer across the city.
The article does not mention the black men on LSUs staff that work at position coaches that are all making over 500k a year and the future black NFL millionaires that walk through the athletic building everyday.
The football program is not why black people are poor in north Baton Rouge.
The article does not mention the black men on LSUs staff that work at position coaches that are all making over 500k a year and the future black NFL millionaires that walk through the athletic building everyday.
The football program is not why black people are poor in north Baton Rouge.
This post was edited on 3/27/24 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:49 pm to TigerphanTigerman
Or the fact lsu has a black university president
Yeah lsu is so damn racist ughhhh!!!!
Yeah lsu is so damn racist ughhhh!!!!
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:53 pm to tigerskin
Now I’m glad ESPN stole his work for a documentary on Algiers.
Dudes a piece of shite.
Dudes a piece of shite.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:54 pm to tigerskin
He just pulled a Kim Mulkey.
I absolutely love it.
I absolutely love it.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:54 pm to tigerskin
He’s a douche and that’s a crock of shite.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:58 pm to TigerphanTigerman
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I read the article. The article talks a lot about racism at LSU and the cities racist past, and tries to find justification on why a white coach is making millions while black men suffer across the city.
The article does not mention the black men on LSUs staff that work at position coaches that are all making over 500k a year and the future black NFL millionaires that walk through the athletic building everyday.
The football program is not why black people are poor in north Baton Rouge.
Or the fact that a successful LSU football program is enormous for the economy of both LSU and Baton Rouge, a city made up of majority black people. We could pay less for a football coach, be less successful, and have a weaker economy and fewer jobs for Baton Rouge residents. Oh and less money for the university to pay professors all the way down to janitors.
These people can't see past the tip of their noses. Football is a business and when business is good (because you invest in quality coaches), it benefits everyone.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:58 pm to TigerphanTigerman
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I read the article. The article talks a lot about racism at LSU and the cities racist past, and tries to find justification on why a white coach is making millions while black men suffer across the city.
He painted LSU to look bad regardless. Period.
Yes, he could choose South Carolina. Also, he acted as if the state is paying that full salary.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 4:59 pm to PlaySomeHonk
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Why not base this article on South Carolina or Bama? Why single out LSU?
Because Dickie V said so, that's why!
Posted on 3/27/24 at 5:02 pm to tigerskin
In his own home state, Dabo Swinney makes even more than Kelly, and there are big racial disparities there but he elects to single out Kelly and LSU for the economic hardship comparison between a high profile coaching position and someone from the opposite end lol
Posted on 3/27/24 at 5:06 pm to The Egg
At this point, the story just needs to drop so we can realize it's a big nothingburger and stop talking about it.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 5:17 pm to tigerskin
Interesting that he felt the need to defend himself.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 5:30 pm to tigerskin
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“My contention all along with the 2022 story is that it’s not even about Brian Kelly,” he writes in an email. “It’s really a look at one city’s vast economic gulf and what our society seems to value.
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so I had an intimate knowledge of Louisiana’s political, racial, and economic disparities.”
Exactly. It's activism. frick the press. They are too busy trying to teach you a lesson to realize they have abandoned the entire point of journalism to begin with.
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