theeagleman5 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 41-14....who would have imagined....not TheEagleman after the past two seasons...but this ORU team has performed amazingly and deserves all the credit.....looking forward to Monday afternoon to see where the Golden Eagles are headed....I expect a 3 seed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone77 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Just when it appeared that the Tulsa World could not make it more clear that they don't really care about ORU' baseball, the page 2 small-article headline in today's TW is "ORU blanks Fort Worth to win title". Seriously ... Fort Worth?? Just pitiful. ORU goes 5-1 against the Big 12, wins 41 games, and the hometown paper doesn't even pay enough attention to know the Eagles beat Fort WAYNE. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Titan Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Just when it appeared that the Tulsa World could not make it more clear that they don't really care about ORU' baseball, the page 2 small-article headline in today's TW is "ORU blanks Fort Worth to win title". Seriously ... Fort Worth?? Just pitiful. ORU goes 5-1 against the Big 12, wins 41 games, and the hometown paper doesn't even pay enough attention to know the Eagles beat Fort WAYNE. Michael Peters, Sports Editor, had this to say about the snafu on Twitter: Sometimes those things happen. https://t.co/zwcptSatOz— Michael Peters (@mgpeters23) May 24, 2015 I think that speaks volumes, not only about how he views ORU, but how far the sports department as a whole has sunk in recent years. Sheer apathy; very little accountability and/or credibility. ORU was so fortunate this past year to have a young go-getter like Ben Johnson covering men's and women's basketball. Which was basically a fluke: Peters didn't care enough (or didn't have budget enough) to assign a salaried staff writer to the beat; Ben was a stringer just looking for any gig they would give him. Just plain lucky he turned out to be a good writer with a lot of initiative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORUJason Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 The Fort Worth oversight was pretty bad. However, the newspaper industry is being ran on shoestring budgets so I don't think it is personal, it is just the sad reality of the state of the industry. However, if they knew anything about ORUs conference, they would not have made that mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Titan Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 The Fort Worth oversight was pretty bad. However, the newspaper industry is being ran on shoestring budgets so I don't think it is personal, it is just the sad reality of the state of the industry. However, if they knew anything about ORUs conference, they would not have made that mistake. Oh, I think it's both: they don't much care about ORU, and no one up the line (ie. owner Berkshire Hathaway) is holding them to much of a standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis 83 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 So what is more condemning of their ineptitude or inattentiveness? That they didn't catch an obvious typo or that someone in the sports dept doesn't know that there is not a D1 school named Ft Worth in a city around 250 mile from Tulsa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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