DeacMan
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I'm in on blaming the English Dept. What they heck do they really have to offer other than the need to get a required core class or two out of the way!
I think we have reached a stage where people are trying to use the boards as a source for #scoops among their friends, and the info is finding it's way back to the boards. It's a giant circle of #insider bullshit.
Guys, don't you think we'd have a flood of people rushing here to post the inside info that we'd been shot down if it actually happened? Everyone is so desperate to be the one that gets the latest #scoop that info is being posted after hearing it from only a single source, and literally none of these alleged sources are within our own athletic department.
When you see the same thing coming from multiple poeple, that's a little easier to believe.
I think we have reached a stage where people are trying to use the boards as a source for #scoops among their friends, and the info is finding it's way back to the boards. It's a giant circle of #insider bullshit.
I think we have reached a stage where people are trying to use the boards as a source for #scoops among their friends, and the info is finding it's way back to the boards. It's a giant circle of #insider bullshit.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. This is really 515 pages of complete conjecture.
There is no way that she is asking for a professorship, and that is what killed it. It is damn hard to get a professorship at any decent school, much less a T25 school, and especially without a PhD or other serious professional accomplishments in the field (See: Wayne King: Pulitzer Prize Recipient, 2 additional Pulitzer nominations, New York Times). She doesn't strike me as someone who would want to come in and want special treatment. That article in Essence WAS the fucking bomb, tho.
I get this on the VCU side of things, but why would Wake continue to let the fans speculate? That's a tremendously misguided approach unless we deliver Marshall or someone of that caliber. If you string along fans with the dream of Shaka any hire is going to be less than. That doesn't seem like a smart way to unify the base.
I think we have reached a stage where people are trying to use the boards as a source for #scoops among their friends, and the info is finding it's way back to the boards. It's a giant circle of #insider bullshit.
Somewhat related: I didn't want to go out on Saturday night because I knew I'd be worthless yesterday because of it. Did I say that and incur a bunch of shit from my bros? Of course not. I blamed my wife because they are scared of her temper.
So even if it was Maya who said "No" (big if), it wasn't really Maya saying no.
RJ, I respectfully disagree. In the world of academia, you do not just gift someone a professorship that way.
It wouldn't be the AD asking. It would be Hatch.
Seriously guys, the English department hasn't done much for us up to this point. Who cares?
Sure. J-School is where you go to get into journalism when you can't hack it straight out of undergrad, and that carries a stigma. Sadly the schools' enrollments have inversely mirrored contraction in the industry. They've become factories to prepare people for jobs that don't exist anymore. Places like Medill and CSJ are great institutions that will educate you quite well, but they're not that difficult to get into, and they don't really carry much weight or prestige in the industry because most media companies are run by people who look down on master's in journalism. This doesn't hold for every single case for every single J-School grad, but that's the general understanding even of the top master's programs.
Furthermore, I can name 15-20 personal friends with Medill degrees. I've taught students who have gone on to Medill and CSJ. I've worked with them as colleagues and been their supervisors at work.
Bottom line: Medill is a cool place where you'll get a great education and possibly get your foot in the door or broaden your career prospects. But it's not that prestigious in the industry, and you've got a better chance of becoming a "writer-at-large" than anything else.
Here's a scoop: Nobody knows anything. Anything we may have heard was also almost certainly conjecture by someone who might just be in a better position to make guesses.
We could hire the most random coach in the nation in five minutes and nobody here, or anywhere associated with Wake, would or should be surprised.