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Nick Andersen - John Feinstein is a pretentious douche on Twitter

Seems like Clawson and Andersen played Feinstein like an obese fiddle. Declining the interview is generating way more buzz and notoriety than another boring walk-on feel good story,
This would already be in everyone's rear view mirror but now Feinstein is still sweating our freshman walk-on on twitter.

Fuck Feinstein. Andersen doesn't need Feinstein. What exactly would be better for him?
 
Tobacco Road said:
Seems like Clawson and Andersen played Feinstein like an obese fiddle. Declining the interview is generating way more buzz and notoriety than another boring walk-on feel good story,
This would already be in everyone's rear view mirror but now Feinstein is still sweating our freshman walk-on on twitter.

Fuck Feinstein. Andersen doesn't need Feinstein. What exactly would be better for him?
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Feinstein is well known and well respected and has treated Wake well historically. What the hell good is accomplished by playing him “like an obese fiddle”?
 
If you saw Coach Clawson on Packer & Durham this morning, he offered a possible clue as to why Nick did not want to do the interview. In summary, Nick does not want the personal attention and would prefer to see his team get recognition. Clawson pointed out on Nick's first interception, the ball was intercepted because one of Nick's teammates (Carson) tipped the ball.

Could Feinstein's request have been handled differently? Maybe. We do not know the exact question or the exact reply to say for sure, so it is difficult to say what really happened. Would a positive story on Wake Forest be good for the program? Definitely, yes. Feinstein is a grown-up and he has been at this for a long time. It is not the first time an athlete has said no to an interview or he has had to deal with an SID that pushes back on a request. I like Feinstein's writing and have a couple of his books with his autograph on my bookshelf. I would have enjoyed seeing an article from him on Nick and the Wake program, but for reasons we do not fully know, it will likely not happen this time.

At this point, the team should be done discussing the Virginia Tech game and their full focus and energy should be on Syracuse. Winning a football game, no matter the opponent, is never easy and most coaches will tell you it is much more difficult to win than it is to lose. Having the team fully focused on Syracuse now is key. Maybe there will be another true freshman or a different walk-on (there are a couple who are starters on this year's team) to create some great memories this Saturday.
 
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Feinstein is terrible. He wants desperately to follow the Wilbon/Kornheiser path from WaPo to celebrity "sportswriter". He's antagonistic and loves to make stories about himself -- case in point. He got told 'no'. The reasons don't matter. He doesn't know the kid, or care about him. His offer isn't some olive branch from the Ararat of sports journalism. You didn't get the story, move on. Instead he has to be a snowflake and make a circus around the issue to smooth his hurt feelings, all while turning his nose up at the consolations of his followers and explain that he doesn't really care, its just that it was for the BENEFIT of the kid to have his story told by him. Such a pandering, self-centered boomer douche.
 
You'd think Feinstein's dedication to Arnie would carry a little more weight with the Wake crowd... Sure, Feinstein is a bit of a dick at this point - but he's pretty much earned it. There's basically no way the SID handled this properly, and there's no reason to expect Feinstein not to comment on it. He's not some beat writer from 5 towns over bugging everyone for a pointless interview. There's undoubtedly all kinds of arguments to be had about who screwed up more and who is more out of line, but it's really dumb to go to war with a writer like Feinstein over this purely based on the assumption that the SID is beyond criticism.
 
Whocares said:
Feinstein is terrible. He wants desperately to follow the Wilbon/Kornheiser path from WaPo to celebrity "sportswriter". He's antagonistic and loves to make stories about himself -- case in point. He got told 'no'. The reasons don't matter. He doesn't know the kid, or care about him. His offer isn't some olive branch from the Ararat of sports journalism. You didn't get the story, move on. Instead he has to be a snowflake and make a circus around the issue to smooth his hurt feelings, all while turning his nose up at the consolations of his followers and explain that he doesn't really care, its just that it was for the BENEFIT of the kid to have his story told by him. Such a pandering, self-centered boomer douche.
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Not to belabor a stupid topic but feinstein is already more well known than kornheiser or wilbon. He has a national following based on his many many best selling books. Kornheiser and Wilbon are celebrities within the niche of people who are into sports talk shows which is much narrower than you might think
 
no way. if you ask the average Joe sports fan they could probably name Wilbon/Kornheiser or at least PTI, which was revolutionary for the time and now basically the standard template for sports debate shows.
 
Its a niche following. And Feinstein was on the sports reporters for prob 10-15 years which was must watch tv in the 90s. And Season On The Brink brought him more fame nationally than PTI did for anyone.
 
Dillon Fence said:
Its a niche following. And Feinstein was on the sports reporters for prob 10-15 years which was must watch tv in the 90s. And Season On The Brink brought him more fame nationally than PTI did for anyone.
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Those things were decades ago. There’s no way he’s known more nationally than Wilbon today. Zero chance.
 
DCDeac said:
You'd think Feinstein's dedication to Arnie would carry a little more weight with the Wake crowd... Sure, Feinstein is a bit of a dick at this point - but he's pretty much earned it. There's basically no way the SID handled this properly, and there's no reason to expect Feinstein not to comment on it. He's not some beat writer from 5 towns over bugging everyone for a pointless interview. There's undoubtedly all kinds of arguments to be had about who screwed up more and who is more out of line, but it's really dumb to go to war with a writer like Feinstein over this purely based on the assumption that the SID is beyond criticism.
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No one earns getting a pass for being a whiny douche when an 18 year old won’t take your calls.
 
Two people who have been on ESPN at 5:30 every afternoon for the last 19 years are more famous than an author, even a well-known author.
 
PhDeac said:
Two people who have been on ESPN at 5:30 every afternoon for the last 19 years are more famous than an author, even a well-known author.
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They have an awesome niche following. I’m gonna go with the guy who has multiple NY times best selling books over 35 years plus radio and tv shows and broadcasting over the other two guys. How many americans can even name a single espn anchor these days? Relevant among the 40 year olds and younger who still watch weekday espn does not mean they are more well known across total population

Anyway on that note i am out. Agree to disagree. But i take comfort in knowing i am right.
 
Wilbon has 4.9 million Twitter followers. Feinstein? 25,000.

The PTI Twitter account has 1.1 million followers.
 
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