LOL @ Brian Dohn: Now Publisher Of Scout.com's Rutgers Fansite
by Nestor on Sep 27, 2009 6:06 PM PDT
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My wife and I decided to induce labor so I could be present for the birth of our first child, and still attend Rutgers’ first bowl game in 27 years.
I sat in the upper deck at Giants Stadium and watched the Scarlet Knights nearly upset No. 1 Alabama in 1980, and a week later sat on a soaked wooden bench at Rutgers Stadium during a rain storm for a humiliating loss to William & Mary.
When the Scarlet Knights played basketball at the Barn, our family gathered around the television to watch the New Jersey Network telecasts.
I am a Rutgers Class of ’92 graduate, a lifelong Scarlet Knights fan and the new publisher for the Scout.com Rutgers website, ScarletReport.com. I spent the 18 years as a hard-hitting, news-breaking professional newspaper journalist, the last decade of which I covered the Dodgers and then UCLA for the Los Angeles Daily News.
I have won writing awards and I believe built a reputation as an accurate, hard-working reporter, and now I am combining two enormous passions – Rutgers and writing -- to bring you unprecedented coverage of the Scarlet Knights.
Yes, that's Brian Dohn, who is now the publishing of Scout.com's Rutgers fansite called StateofRutgers.com.
So, after all these years of Brian Dohn thumbing his nose to the world of new media, and "fans" running (gasp) internet sites, he is now going to be running a message board driven site of a Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Hey, there is nothing wrong with it. I personally think it will be a fun gig. Good luck to him and I do wish him success.
I just find it so funny for him to take up a job in which he is pimping his fan POV so hard, after he spent years at UCLA beat as a professional cynic, always doing his part to quash the enthusiasm of UCLA sports fans (and often what appeared to be just uncritically passing on information from sources looking to advance an agenda). Never mind his skepticism for fan run blogs and websites.
Whatever. Not really going to care except for the week before we play Rutgers but I find the irony pretty rich.
GO BRUINS.
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This is the perfect gig for Doh!
The world of recruiting is already rife with misinformation and unknown/unreliable sources. He won’t be held accountable for those things anymore because they come with the territory.
And it's also perfect
because he will finally be dealing with a “fanbase” with no standards and expectations for any of its sports.
I don't care enough about Doh! to send any warnings to the Rutgers people
They’ll learn soon enough.
I'm guessing
that when you read items such as:
“I spent the 18 years as a hard-hitting, news-breaking professional newspaper journalist…”
“I have won writing awards and I believe built a reputation as an accurate, hard-working reporter…”
you had to reach for the anti-head-exploding medication.
Awards? AWARDS?
yeah, and Billo got a Peabody, too; or was that a falafel?
The Mad Bruin
Good luck to him, appreciated the work he did (he had his good and bad moments) & Rugters fans are kicked up someone who is both a fan & a professional.
Centric, I don’t think it’s hypocrisy at all. I think irony is a much better term. I think Nestor nailed it on the head, this is just pure irony seeing as how he quashed some of the “fan” chatter at the DN UCLA blog & now he has to deal with it for a living!
I think it is hypocrisy
Considering the fact that he crushed fan chatter on his UCLA blog and refused to join in on it, calling it “unprofessional” and then chose to take a job where he deals with it on a daily basis.
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