The news cycle is a hungry thing and that hunger–that rush to get to publish first–can make what you hear very misleading. Take for example the sudden uproar over Coach Prime’s turnover of players in Colorado. He said publicly after the game that a lot of these kids wouldn’t be on the team by the next week. In fact, he “lost” almost 20 more kids. Now lost is a strong word. Many of them were encouraged to leave. At one point a coach told a player he had to get rid of five lineman and the lineman who told the story was number 5. Of course, this is going to be misrepresented and sensationalized immediately. Take the following segment from a NY Post article that is actually quoting another article and not providing the context:
The father of departing receiver Jordyn Tyson slammed Sanders in an interview the Denver Post, calling it an “ugly situation.”
“My thoughts on Deion wouldn’t be good, so I’m not going to say anything,” John Tyson told the paper. “It’s a bad situation for us as a family, I will say that. And it’s unfortunate, but it’s the nature of the system.”
Nobody was really slammed there. A dad of a player was mad because his kid got cut. Yet he knew and understood that this is how the system works. I’d be mad too, but this was no slam. This was harsh reality. Moreover, that player and many others were able to get film out there from the spring game that they can use to get a spot somewhere else. He ‘released’ 63 scholarship players between his arrival and saturday. That means he kept 20. That is from a 1-11 team that was headed for an o-fer. But now, they coming. Who the ‘they’ is remains to be hammered out, but we’ve seen some of the Louis V luggage and it shines.