Chip Brown is claiming.........

[Lord Vader]

I just cannot understand Chip any more. His is a reporter is he not or is he. Who is his BOSS.

Geoff Ketchum is his boss, but that said, Chip Brown writes his own ticket anywhere he wants to be.

 

[Dos Horns]

Patterson is playing with a full deck here, boys. He's creating diversions and exposing the moles all in one fell swoop. Chip and others are on the outside looking in and falling for head fakes. This is comical from where I'm sitting. The BS will really get deep next week after the bowl.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

It could either one. We all know Hicks lead the charge to get Saban. Maybe Hicks is trying to get us to quit talking about it?

Bingo.

We still have at least 8 days . . .

 

[Kartex]

Seemingly plausible

 

[DizzG]

right on cue a couple of posters showed up bashing HornSports. One who I suspect is a long used OB staff troll

 

[chornovisor]

wow, just wow.

 

[lilMAC25]

right on cue a couple of posters showed up bashing HornSports. One who I suspect is a long used OB staff troll

If you're going to throw out those accusations, please go further and tell us who you're talking about.

FanofHorns?

 

[dragworm]

It's because Chip was on the Sports Day team at the Dallas Morning News that won every award a paper could win for years. Several of the guys he worked with are now at ESPN.

Chip never was a major player for that paper. He mainly wrote occasional updates on UT sports and sometimes TCU. Also remember that Skip Bayless was one of their leading contributors for a long time, so you are not automatically golden if you ever worked there.

 

[DizzG]

If you're going to throw out those accusations, please go further and tell us who you're talking about.

Its widely known Ketch and others have used other accounts to post on the board...even self admitted by at least Ketch. have no way to prove it, but talking about Fanofhorns. The way that poster has popped up at different times over the years I was there to mostly just comment on how stupid certain posters or other message boards were has always been strange. Its mainly all that account has posted about. That same poster also popped up right on cue just mins before I was banned there to specifically accuse me directly of going around to different message boards to spread lies about Orangebloods making a deal with Steve Hicks. Which I never posted anywhere. Before I could get my reply out I was banned. Just feels like Ketch or someone staff related. Just my opinion.

 

[chornovisor]

right on cue a couple of posters showed up bashing HornSports. One who I suspect is a long used OB staff troll

So do you think LHR is one of those or is he just BSing in the libation thread or what?

 

[DizzG]

So do you think LHR is one of those or is he just BSing in the libation thread or what?

no not talking about him at all. dont know him, but some people here do. Doesnt work for OB at all

 

[Sirhornsalot]

I read it. It's definitely sarcasm. He's making fun of the insider concept.

 

[DizzG]

FWIW Jesus posted tonight Chip is wrong on this topic, and Saban is still in play

 

[chornovisor]

no not talking about him at all. dont know him, but some people here do. Doesnt work for OB at all

Whats up with that libation thread?

 

[badboy783]

Since the retirement story put out by Chip broke wide open on ESPN and caused such a shit storm, you would think Chip wouldn't be privy to information from those in the know. I disagree with Chip based on what I've heard but that's not saying Saban is coming. The person I talk to thinks it's much more than likely. I'm still in a see it in a press conference to believe it type person.

Right now you can't say anything is definative because the information is sensitve and people from all sides are going to jump all over you if you are wrong. This is a situation where being wrong isn't a bad thing. If it is Saban, then "ooops I was wrong, but we still got Saban" and let the party begin. If it isn't NS then you CYA'd.

 

[Bandit]

Chip never was a major player for that paper. He mainly wrote occasional updates on UT sports and sometimes TCU. Also remember that Skip Bayless was one of their leading contributors for a long time, so you are not automatically golden if you ever worked there.

Skip only worked for the DMN for about 2 yrs. He was then paid big money to go to the Times Herald.

 

[Black Scholes]

Do not agree that Hicks is a source for Orangebloods, even though they would like you to think that. Information is on a complete lockdown at Bellmont; violate that at your own risk. If in fact one of the Hicks brothers had told OB anything, it might be instructive to consider the motivation.

Chip had a long career in print journalism at the DMN and established a decent reputation. He still gets the benefit of the doubt from many due to that history. I'm not sure where he is now professionally; I'm not sure he knows either.

A couple of you here seem to think highly of Jason. I've never really been able to figure out his role there.

I call absolute BS that Powers has ever talked to OB. He's probably only vaguely aware who they are at best.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

Did we ever think this would be clear cut and easy?
Some say yes, some say no, and in two days they'll reverse their stories again with some plausible explanation, or an anti Mack accusation of how he is poisoning the well etc.

"What we have here... Is a failure to communicate..."

At this point here is my take on all of the "inside sources" etc.

A. Our Regents and BMD folks aren't even in agreement at present. That is pretty much understood. They each may have their own favorite different candidate, and they are all used to getting their way.

B. Each BMD, along with the AD, also has their favorite pawn in "leaking" information in order to stir fan and alumni opinion since they are too "gentlemanly" to engage in the media spin directly. Mostly using websites like OB, IT, HS and some other more mainstream mouthpieces and some have multiple plants in each I'd guess, monitoring each other etc.

C. It is entirely possible that someone posting that Saban is a dead deal is doing so either as a request to keep things more calm for both teams leading up to the bowl games. It is also possible that the all too eager pawns are just being fed falsehoods intentionally for the same desired result. Same with any other top level candidate, not just Saban. That's why I don't bad mouth the folks like JS or McPhaul if we find out they are incorrect. They can be unwittingly duped after being fed several truths as well.

D. They (BMD and AD) all also probably throw out smoke screens and red herrings to change the focus of the fan base every few days when a single story starts to take hold and become the consensus across the websites.

E. all of this adds up to each of us who is too passionate for our regular logic to kick in, picking a "horse" (candidate) and "rider" (messenger of an inside source) that we either feel is most accurate, or matches our personal desires.

F. I have come to the conclusion that this is politics and show biz, if they aren't already the same thing.

I'm happy to call HS home because of the junior high crowds dominate the pay sites now, (which are virtually worthless, since they are wrong as often as correct now) and over 90% of the folks here "get it" as opposed to trying to "be it".

Also, don't correct me if I am mistaken..let me live in my own world, but McPhaul was the first to call the "shot across the bow" referendum meeting the regents would have if Powers didn't move quickly enough on sending Mack along. And he called it before the meeting was made public and even before Powers even seemed to know it was coming. That to me does show his "sources" have some sway and intel. But things can always change quickly when billionaires get in pissing contests, and in all of these meetings the egos on every side of the table are ginormous be it a coach, AD, BMD... It digresses to the sophistication of a bunch of Jr High name callers. I lived it in the corporate world.

So I say we are going to get Malzahn because all of the others seem to be so much smoke. And I'll be very happy with that.

This may well be the best summation of what goes on that I've ever read.

 

[The Tower]

We all need to calm down and let all of this play out.

 

[DizzG]

A couple of you here seem to think highly of Jason. I've never really been able to figure out his role there.

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had always wondered the same thing. I do not know him personally like some here do. They will say he's a great guy and Im sure he prob is. nothing personal at all, but Just going off the board info its seemed lately he seems to quickly jump in to just defend people like Chip, and try and take down anyone that disagrees with what they are reporting. Did so today with Shaunsters.