God, I love The Oracle

[bullz97]

: : : : :

I usually support these type of articles, however the person that wrote these seems clueless.

Leavitt deserves what he is making at this time. However another sub .500 season in the Big East and it may be time to give him a pink slip.

Pink slip?  He has done an amazing job.  15 yrs ago there was no USF football and now look where it is.

[nobull.Bulls]

Oracle was good when I was at USF (05-07).

Sometimes I wonder if they realize we only kept a handful of assistant coaches from last year? Canales got promoted, and when you get promoted, you get a raise.

And to get Good Coaches, you gotta spend good $$$.

I hope we spend more in the future

[IncrediBULL]

and if this clown wants to bring up UF, why dosent e show the difference in salary. He makes it appear that our salaries are on par with them, which we all know is not the case.

Didn't Dan Mcarney go to UF, and weren't they really happy with him last season.  Wasn't he underpaid here at USF - isnt that why he left?

If we keep paying crap, we will have crappy results.  I guess the Oracle wants good coaches to come here on faith, and then pay them only if we exceed expectations?  What a goon...

[LunchTimeBully]

Dumbest article ever... why is that they can't comprehend that the money used to pay coaches wouldn't have gone to professors anyway? Athletics doesn't take a penny away from the academic pursuits of the university. Athletics generates its own money from private contracts with under armor, etc.

[Jamie]

Where do Oracle "writers" go when they graduate?

Someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.

[gobulls83]

Where do Oracle "writers" go when they graduate?

Someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.

The Oracle has, at multiple times in its history, been among the best student newspapers in America. Going to work at The Oracle was the primary reason I chose to attend USF. It seems to be in a lull right now, but you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

As recently as the beginning of this decade, it was pulling in national awards and was, I'd say, the best place to go for USF news (academics, not so much athletics) because the Times and Tribune really cover the university relatively sparingly.

To answer Bulliever's question, my work at The Oracle in the 1990s landed me an internship at the St Pete Times, and from there I could get a job at almost any newspaper in the country. I went on the work at the LA Times for a very short time before taking a break from newspapers. I'm now a reporter for an English-language newspaper in Asia.

You guys are making fun of students who are doing this as a way to learn and develop their skills. No matter how good it was or is, these are still students, in some cases 18- or 19-year-old freshman who don't really know what they are doing yet. It's one thing to say the paper isn't very good (it seems like it isn't), but do the stupid one-liners like the one I've quoted make you feel big and smart or something?

Is every student in the College of Education ready to jump right in and teach a high school or university class? Is everyone in the biology department ready to explain Darwin's work in great detail? No, of course not. These students just happen to be in a medium that means their work and development is there for all to see on a daily basis (well, now four days a week). And for taking that risk, you make fun of them personally. Congratulations?

[BDYZR]

Accountability.

Maybe that's one of the lessons they/we need to learn.

[gobulls83]

Accountability.

Maybe that's one of the lessons they/we need to learn.

Making fun of them is holding them accountable? You can't point out things you think they do wrong without insulting them personally? Your argument assumes a level of maturity that isn't there in a lot of people.

[2000bull]

somebody touched a nerve...

[IncrediBULL]

Where do Oracle "writers" go when they graduate?

Someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.

The Oracle has, at multiple times in its history, been among the best student newspapers in America. Going to work at The Oracle was the primary reason I chose to attend USF. It seems to be in a lull right now, but you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

As recently as the beginning of this decade, it was pulling in national awards and was, I'd say, the best place to go for USF news (academics, not so much athletics) because the Times and Tribune really cover the university relatively sparingly.

To answer Bulliever's question, my work at The Oracle in the 1990s landed me an internship at the St Pete Times, and from there I could get a job at almost any newspaper in the country. I went on the work at the LA Times for a very short time before taking a break from newspapers. I'm now a reporter for an English-language newspaper in Asia.

You guys are making fun of students who are doing this as a way to learn and develop their skills. No matter how good it was or is, these are still students, in some cases 18- or 19-year-old freshman who don't really know what they are doing yet. It's one thing to say the paper isn't very good (it seems like it isn't), but do the stupid one-liners like the one I've quoted make you feel big and smart or something?

Is every student in the College of Education ready to jump right in and teach a high school or university class? Is everyone in the biology department ready to explain Darwin's work in great detail? No, of course not. These students just happen to be in a medium that means their work and development is there for all to see on a daily basis (well, now four days a week). And for taking that risk, you make fun of them personally. Congratulations?

My post was pointing out flaws in the editorial.  IMHO, when you put a strong opinion out there as the paper's editorial, you should be able to back it up and done your research.  Usually there would be a professor or someone mentoring these kids, you would think?  This is as slanted as the media during the election process.  It seems that they are teaching them at a young age to stir up the pot and create controversy where it does not exist.  Maybe Brett is his mentor, I don't know.  But it was a pretty senseless article and showed a lot of ignorance and inability to look at the topic and the position from multiple angles.  It is just an opinion, and as well all know opinions are like xxxxxxx's.  Hopefully this person learns some objective reasoning before they graduate.