Mark Richt Is Officially Cooler Than You
by T Kyle King on Jan 24, 2010 2:24 PM EST
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Be prepared to have all your lingering doubts about Mark Richt dispelled:
It's not just that he makes the shot on the first try . . . it's that he is serious about his work while doing it, he enjoys his achievement after he has attained it, and he remains cool as a cucumber throughout.
We've been focused a lot these last couple of seasons (and deservedly so) on how we need some "fire" to Coach Richt's "ice," but we need to remember that Coach Richt's calm has won us a lot of games. It will win us a lot more.
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Instead of just using your twitter feed to pimp out your own stories, get engaged Kyle. This was filmed by Connor Nolte (Hoop Dawgs transfer from Furman) then retweeted by Coach Fox early yesterday morning.
You don’t get twitter, which is a shame. You’d be on top of breaking news & great blog topics rather being a day late & picking up scraps from every news outlet & blogger that beat you to the punch.
actually, your comment makes me hope that doesnt happen
T Kyle has had some of the best contributing articles of anyone in SB Nation this year. I would prefer that over the twitter fed mess we had with Kirby Smart anyday. One day late with solid postings is much better news.
"I look forward to developing an aggressive, physical, attacking style defense that offenses will not look forward to playing against." - Coach Grantham
Well
I don’t think there can’t be a happy medium. I use twitter to follow the Bulldawg Blog, as well as Pollack and Schlabach. While I don’t think they’ve been 100% correct, they’re at least out there getting the latest rumors, which often have some grain of truth in them (Bud Foster WAS contacted, so was Koening, which was reported there rather quickly). You just have to be judicious in your choice of stories to run with when it comes to Twitter, but there’s no reason to avoid using it.
my life is moving on very well without twitter, its amazing )
they’re at least out there getting the latest rumors
that’s exactly it. Without a filter of the actually people making actual statements. Without the filter of some time to evaluate, you have no idea who is spinning what and why and a post from this is just prepetuating something that may or may not be true.
"I look forward to developing an aggressive, physical, attacking style defense that offenses will not look forward to playing against." - Coach Grantham
Uh
No offense, but this?
It’s not just that he makes the shot on the first try . . . it’s that he is serious about his work while doing it, he enjoys his achievement after he has attained it, and he remains cool as a cucumber throughout.
This is reaching for something. I’m as happy about Richt being a cool and collected guy (look at what being firey and unpredicable got Cap’n Leach and the dread pirate Leavitt), but that’s just too much.
All right, fine, forget I posted it
I’m not a Twitter guy, allyugadawg. I have a Twitter feed because SB Nation set one up for me, so, when I put up a posting, I check a box that sends it out to Twitter. I don’t follow anyone on Twitter and I’ve never seen my own Twitter feed. Frankly, I wouldn’t know how to access it if I tried, and I have absolutely no interest in trying; I literally couldn’t use Twitter for any reason other than “pimping out my own stories.”
I don’t think in 140-character bursts. I’m not insulting people who do, but I’m not one of them. I don’t get my news that way, so I don’t communicate that way with others. I honestly don’t see the point of Twitter as anything other than a way of alerting people to go read something substantive. Otherwise, it seems to me it’s just digital Tourette’s syndrome. It just plain doesn’t interest me.
After reading these comments, I’m frankly tempted to just quit checking the box altogether. Different people get their news different ways, but I’m not a “breaking news” kind of guy; I’m not a journalist and I don’t play one on the internet. I get my information from exactly the same places as everyone else. I’m offering commentary and original content, not hard news “scoops.” Both of those are valuable functions, but I perform only one of them. It’s the law of comparative advantage in action, and, as a former economics teacher, I know that I would do better to stick to what I do best.
I saw a YouTube video on the Georgia Sports Blog and thought it was cool, so I posted it. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t. My apologies for wasting everyone’s time.
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man cant have fun on his own blog anymore....
"I look forward to developing an aggressive, physical, attacking style defense that offenses will not look forward to playing against." - Coach Grantham
It's your blog, you make the rules
Though it might make sense to quit checking that box. Obviously no one has to be subscribed to your Twitter feed, but it makes less sense to use it when your forte is verbose commentary.
I don’t mind reposts; I have high speed Internet so it’s not like bringing up the page the draining a significant amount of my time. At least you made a joke about it.
In any case, apparently people click through Twitter looking for breaking news. That isn’t DawgSports’ niche; if people don’t appreciate that it’s their problem, not yours.
Leaving insightful football commentary and analysis to other people since 2006.
You know who really likes Twitter...
those commenters on the AJC, Yahoo and ESPN that like to post “first”
Thanks, guys
I don’t mean to be in a foul humor about it, and I hope I didn’t come down too hard on allyugadawg; I just don’t “get” Twitter as an end unto itself rather than as a means to an end (the gist of which is “go here and read this”).
In my roughly four years at Dawg Sports, I have broken exactly one news story—-Erk Russell’s death—-so this is not a news-breaking site . . . but, I hope, neither is it an irresponsible rumor-mongering site, either. I agree with blackertai that there is room for a happy medium, and, in my case, that’s how I’ve chosen to strike that balance. It may not be right for everyone, but it is what works best for me. The Dawgosphere is a diverse place and I think everyone benefits from the fact that Paul Westerdawg, Dawgnoxious, Doug Gillett, Senator Blutarsky, David Hale, MaconDawg, and I all do different things.
It will surprise no one to learn that I am not technologically cutting-edge. I was the last lawyer I know to get a cell phone, I virtually never use the iPod I received as a gift, and my wife had to drag me kicking and screaming into getting a DVR (which I still think is a glorified VCR). I use my cell phone strictly for making phone calls and I have never accessed the internet using a device other than a desktop or laptop computer.
In other words, I get that I’m not pushing the envelope, but I don’t think that means I’m not “engaged.” I don’t want to insult Twitter or the people who use it—-Mark Fox uses Twitter a lot, as does David Hale, and they’re clearly both very good at their jobs—-but it just isn’t my thing. I’ve used it the way that seemed most sensible to me, as a means to the end of communicating with people the best way I know how. If that isn’t “engaged,” I don’t know what is.
Again, if I overreacted to allyugadawg’s comment, I apologize.
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A DVR is most certainly *not* a glorified VCR.
You can’t pull the hard drive out of a DVR and save the recording forever… or, well, until the physical medium itself starts breaking down.
With that said, I work with technology for a living, and I must say that I think most of the cutting edge stuff (or, as I like to call it, “bleeding-edge” stuff) is vastly overrated.
by vineyarddawg on Jan 24, 2010 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
Trust me, I've pointed that out more than once
I have 20+ years’ worth of old videocassettes that still work just fine, but, every so often, we have to clear out the DVR’s memory when it gets overly full.
The first time I watched a football game in the home of someone who owned a DVR, he paused the action, rewound the game, rewatched the play we had just watched in real time, then fastforwarded through the network replay of the play and got caught back up, causing me to wonder why we didn’t just watch the network replay in the first place.
Before anyone asks, no, I don’t yell at kids to get off my lawn.
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I am reminded of Judge Roy Bean (portrayed by Paul Newman) as he addressed the wives of his deputies. Just cock your leg and saunter away Kyle.
Is it time for the Spring game yet?
I miss football :(
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Hopefully,
This year’s basketball and baseball teams will help us pass the time in a better mood.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
by RedCrake on Jan 24, 2010 11:26 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
The fact that we're sitting here debating the merits/drawbacks of Twitter...
Only reinforces your point that Mark Richt is, in fact, cooler than us.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
by RedCrake on Jan 24, 2010 11:25 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Here’s my take on Twitter so far. It’s kind of like my regular Google Reader (assembles links to new posts from preselected sources). And it’s entertaining. Reading H Anderson’s tweets during the NFL games today and tonight made me chuckle, for example. I’m not exactly sure how I feel about reading what AJ Green or Jeff Owens is watching on TV tonight, but they’re publishing it themselves, so maybe it’s not as creepy as I think it might be.
Coach Fox’s tweets seem to consist of his personal thoughts instead of vanilla SID bits, and that’s nice.
Over all, it’s pretty useful and entertaining, but I have this gadget-technology thing that compels me to try just about everything.
by NCT on Jan 24, 2010 11:27 PM EST via mobile reply actions
So what device do you use to follow Twitter?
That’s not a challenge, it’s a legitimate question. I’m trying to get a handle on how it’s integrated into everything else.
The one person I’ve actually seen follow Twitter is another attorney who is big into new technology. He uses his palm pilot/blackberry to track it. He follows updates on his favorite team, political sites, and some standup comedian who tweets. I gather that he uses downtime (e.g., at lunch while waiting for his meal to arrive, in court waiting for his case to be called) to keep up with Twitter.
If I’m reading you right, NCT, it seems you are following tweets about an NFL game while watching that NFL game, somewhat like reading (but not commenting in) a comment thread for a game you’re watching.
On the flipside, do you tweet? If so, what sort of stuff do you send out on Twitter? I can’t see myself breaking news—-again, I’d be retweeting what I already heard from someone else, at best, and anyone who’s following my Twitter feed probably is also following, say, David Pollack’s or David Hale’s, too—-so, if I tried to use it for anything other than “check out the latest posting at Dawg Sports,” I think it’d be like sending out constant Facebook status updates.
Sorry to appoint you the unofficial representative of Twitter, but, having received a constructive criticism, I legitimately want to try to get a handle on this, so I can understand fully this growing phenomenon. Having been accused by a reader of being disengaged, I at least think I ought to ask the question. Thanks in advance.
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I'm probably not qualified, but
I’ve been using my account for a couple of weeks only. But I’ll offer what I can based on my personal experience.
I use my iPhone. It’s a life-changing device. I use it as as telephone, to read and respond to personal and work email (including reviewing attached documents), to surf the web, to access my favorite blogs (which are organized through a Google “reader”), to listen to podcasts during my commute (I’ve got some I can highly recommend to you that I am certain you would enjoy), and occasionally to listen to music.
You may have noticed that I’ve got Twitter and Facebook linked. If I tweet, it’s placed as a status update on Facebook. (In the fine print, my Facebook status will read “via Twitter”.) I don’t tweet a lot. I have a grand total of 7 “followers”, so my audience is limited (but hey, Noble Rexford Robinson follows me, for the time being, so I feel special). You can view other accounts’ followers and whom they follow, by the way. So I can access the list of people Mark Schlabach finds interesting.
I follow about 50 people or organizations, including Pollack, the SEC’s official account, UGA athletics, Fox, Richt, a few personal friends, Jane Fonda (yeah, well …), Michael Moore, Holly, Doug, Orson (these last three probably push my snark levels way past the therapeutic), Hale, Andy Staples, Schlabach, Chris Low, Ivan Maisel, a few personal friends … One thing I’ve noticed is that Twitter appears to be one additional step into the informal, personal observation — as though there’s a “news article”, “commentary column”, “blog post”, “Tweet” spectrum, from the formal/rigid/journalistic to the informal/personal/humorous.
The bloggers above tweet links to their own new posts, as you do (whether manually or automatically) and quick observations. They “retweet” clever things they’ve read from other tweeters. I did that when dawgsonline.com tweeted, about this weekend’s basketball game, “Just like Thurs-day (clap-clap-clapclapclap).” I thought it bore repeating. If I make an observation that I find funny or otherwise engaging, I might tweet it. I’m a bit hesitant, because it seems a little vain, even for me.
And yes, following the tweets during a game is like reading a comment thread. You can reply directly to a person about his tweet or retweet to your own followers. And where there are mutual followers, it’s like participating in a comment thread.
By the way ...
I have no problem with your occasional use of “recycled” content, Kyle. You always add your own commentary, which I find engaging. Carry on.
For whatever it might be worth . . .
. . . Twitter reports that my mention of Jeff Whitaker’s choice of Auburn over Georgia was the second such announcement to go out on Twitter, two minutes after AUTigerWire and four minutes before RecruitingAJC, even though a Google search taking me to the Journal-Constitution’s website is where I got it.
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