Cap’n Ken’s Homespun Wisdom

The fine folks over at Fanblogs have brought to light some fantastically bad “journalism” on the part of CBS college football talker Spencer Tillman. Basically, Tillman has no idea what he”s talking about; saying Tommy Tuberville used to be an assistant coach at LSU and things like that. One might think people who are paid to talk about college football might be able to write accurately about it, but whatever. What gets me as a media observer is the CBS Sportsline simply changed the content of Tillman”s piece to be accurate (in the part others pointed out was wrong) without any note that the original content was unbelievably wrong.

The content in Google”s cache reads:

Coach Dennis Franchione at Texas A&M is counting the days. Tommy Tuberville, who is a constant winner at Auburn, could be in line at either Texas A&M or LSU. LSU fans that still harbor distain for Tuberville might be wise to consider his 5-2 record against Alabama. And, we all know how important that game will become for the foreseeable future. Tuberville still has a house near College Station and was an assistant at LSU.

While live on the site is now has:

Coach Dennis Franchione at Texas A&M is counting the days. Tommy Tuberville, who is a constant winner at Auburn, could be in line at either Texas A&M or LSU. LSU fans that still harbor distain for Tuberville might be wise to consider his 6-2 record against Alabama. And, we all know how important that game will become for the foreseeable future. Tuberville still has a house near College Station and has a key assistant, Will Muschamp, who is familiar with the “LSU” way, having served as defensive coordinator from 2001-04.

See? Spencer wasn”t wrong about that at all!

Props to the writer in Huntsville who called Tillman on his basic non-understanding of facts and shame on CBS Sportsline for just brushing over the errors and correction with nary a note about information they originally published being laughably wrong.

Oh, and while you”re at it CBS, Tillman also says this:

Les Miles is probably headed for Michigan because Lloyd Carr is likely to hang it up at year”s end (despite an impressive seven-game recovery after an 0-2 start). Miles” contract allows for one out: the Michigan job.

But what I understand from numerous published reports (easily found through Google) is that Miles has a clause that says if he leaves for any job other than Michigan he owes LSU $500,000, but if he leaves for Michigan he owes LSU $1.25 million.

I think you may have a factual error there. CBS, you might want to change that - and not tell anybody you did. And somebody might want to double-check the rest of the “facts” Tillman has laid out.

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