Various Wednesday Thoughts

Okay...so maybe it was a bad idea for me to drive my Land Rover into the water. But come on! Look at the picture! No WAY I could've known it was that deep...or that the sand in there was basically quick sand.

Okay, I admit it, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to the outdoors, but there was no way I saw this coming. Maybe that makes me seem even more dumb, I don't know. Whatever the case, the situation sucks.

Talked to the insurance folks yesterday about it. They did officially total the car. No shock there. As you can see in this photo, there was water inside in the passenger side, basically drowning the car's electrical system. I might as well have smashed the damn thing. It's a shame, though. If you look at the car from the outside, you could never tell that the damn thing is dead.

Onto other issues, it looks like UNCW has found their man. Reports are that Charlotte 49er's assistant Benny Moss will be offered the job. As I said on the show yesterday, I like this hire. I like the way Charlotte plays, and that style will also sit well with Seahawk Nation.

I have to stick up for my fellow media members here in town. The Star-News has been catching a lot of flock from the message board community for not fully investigating the events leading to Brad Brownell's resignation. I think that the people here couldn't be more off base.

What people fail to realize is that in this business, before you can report something, you have to have a certain amount of sources, all telling you the same thing. You can't just run with a story because your uncle's gardener nephew told your barber's plumber's daughter that something happened a certain way. That sort of irresponsible reporting may exist on the internet, but in real news publications (like the Star-News), it's frowned upon BIG TIME!

So, basically what I'm saying is this. The reason the Star-News hasn't run a story explaining exactly why Brownell left is probably a pretty good one. But that reason does NOT include that they are lazy, that they aren't working hard on it, or my personal favorite, "Rountree is paying them off as well". Gotta love those message board geeks.

You know, there's a certain amount of Hatorade that you have to drink, in order to be accepted into the community of message board geeks. If you go on there, trying to be overly positive about anything, you usually get pummelled. Warning...message boards are not for the weak at heart.

That's all I got for now. I'm going to get back to updating this thing multiple times throughout the week. I just needed a little break after the trip to Greensboro and all of that. Thanks for reading!