Should Randy Peterson retire?
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I'm not a huge Randy fan but it can get a lot worse. But really I haven't read a word from the register in over 5 years now.
I’m sure more than a few thought that they’d have to remove his ink-stained corpse from the newsroom.
The incompetent stupid questions are one thing. When I’ve listened to podcasts or interviews from other universities (like if a Morgantown radio had him on to preview ISU), he sounded just plain stupid and cast us and university we love in a horrible light. Let alone if he even called us Iowa State and not Iowa or even the Hawkeyes, which was not a rare occurrence, even within the same interview. I don’t wish the guy ill either but He’s a total buffoon and I’m very glad he’s no longer associated with Iowa State anymore.
I didn't have any major problems with Randy. Sometimes he'd make me roll my eyes, but overall I thought he treated ISU pretty fairly, and I have respect for someone who loves their job so much they do it for 52 years. I don't get all the hate. I think some of the posters would rather have a Chad Leistikow and David Eickholt type homer covering the Cyclones. As far as I'm concerned, no thanks!
I could just imagine Eickholt asking TJ about heading to Carver comparing it to Phog.
He’s a good sports journalist overall, but he always carries himself as being too good for this job.
Most aren’t impressed simply due to the infamous “double digit sources” story that stretched the truth
We may not have liked what the article said, but I believe it was accurately reported. Were his sources telling the accurate truth? Who knows. And, based on the fallout radio interviews afterwards, you’ll never convince me that Fed wasn’t one of his sources. Fred claimed he told Travis not to run it, Hines response to Chris was the quote from the article: Fred wasn’t available for comment. And when Chris pressed, he repeated it. Do the math.
I can see how his “above it all” shtick could wear thin, but I suspect we’ll miss him when he’s gone.
This. I think Hines is fine except that one thing, which rightfully sullied his reputation with ISU fans.
Idk that any of his “sources” were lying, but the way it was laid out in the article, without naming names, was not great.
It was kind of like a political ad. The subject may be technically true, but it’s embellished and presented in a way to make the other person/party look bad. The article was presented in a way to make Pollard look bad; hence why Fred didn’t want Hines to run it despite likely being a source.
Travis has a lot of contempt for sports fans, which is annoying since he is a sports reporter.
It was a dumb thing to treat as some sort of expose or scandal. The way he wrote it (and the way the basketball coaches must have bitched about it to him) made it sound like the team was having to camp outside for 3 days. When in all actuality, they had an annoying few hours without a hotel room.
Yeah, I can see the comparison to Randy Peterson. Hines seems to have a bit of an inflated ego and look-at-me attitude like Peterson. Maybe it's just a bit of an arrogance that comes with the job after being in it for so long.
I could see what he wrote being factual. I'm sure Pollard and the athletic department have made financial decisions on things like hotel rooms lots of times that have rubbed people the wrong way. That's just typical workplace stuff. Who doesn’t get pissed occasionally when their employer starts penny pinching? To go all Woodward and Bernstein with it was just stupid. I don't know if he thought he was going to get a Pulitzer for it or something, but he's still here so clearly it didn't lead to bigger and better things. I think he is fine the majority of the time, but the phrase "nearly double digit sources" will be his legacy.
