GFY.
September 20, 2007 — University of Notre Dame athletics director Kevin White:
“Since learning of the situation surrounding the departure of Demetrius Jones on Friday, Sept. 14, the University of Notre Dame has been gathering facts to better assess his interest in transferring. Today, without formal confirmation of Demetrius’ status, we reached out to him to assist him and his family in ascertaining his athletic and academic future plans.
“We are helping Demetrius compile a list of prospective schools that are not on our immediate future football schedules. We will grant him a release to those schools, and we will assist him in settling at another institution as best we can. It’s our hope that Demetrius can enroll at an institution at which he might be able to receive a scholarship, possibly be eligible for the 2008 football season and, importantly, continue to make progress toward his degree without interruption.
“We have initiated our normal protocol by identifying a list of institutions to which he has an interest in transferring. While Demetrius did not consult us on his decision, the University and he are now working together in our customary fashion. Our hope is that this process assists him in finding an institution that will enable him to meet his goals both as a student and as an athlete.”
So much for the claims of Weis “throwing his weight around,” or being a “bully.” So much for the University of Notre Dame being some massive, vindictive beast.
So much for MGoBlog, TheBigLead.com, or The Wizard of Odds being anything but whores to the masters of advertising revenue and hair-pulling stories that generate that revenue despite a complete derth of talent or creativity. And in TheBigLead.com’s case, so much for being anything more than a micro-ESPN.
UPDATE: Brian Cook, of MGoBlog, also writes for AOL Sports’ FanHouse. This is an excellent reason to never read anything from FanHouse. Anyway, Brian has launched attack after attack at Notre Dame via his FanHouse blog over the Demetrius Jones issue. Brian has a particular vitriol for ND. He just picked up on the press release by Kevin White as well. About which he said…
ND would have been better served by just releasing the kid and letting the story die instead of appearing to screw over a kid who felt he was treated unfairly, but this is the same athletic department that’s hired Bob Davie, Tyrone Willingham, and Charlie Weis. They’re obviously not that bright.
Not that it needs saying, but Brian possesses the mental aptitude of a horse-fly. If he actually took the time to read the press release, and still came to this conclusion, then he has the reading comprehension of a Michigan (sucks) football player.  But it seems highly unlikely that he was a Michigan (sucks) football player because word is he actually graduated from Michigan (sucks).
Let’s try to figure out the advanced calculus-like complexity of the situation for people like Brian.
Notre Dame has reached out to Demetrius twice in the last week. The first instance occurred when Charlie Weis had to track him down just to get an explanation of what happened last Friday. The second instance occurred, as stated in the press release, when Notre Dame contacted Demetrius today. Hmmm. Let’s think. How does a university go about releasing a kid from a scholarship without that kid making any contact with the university in the first place?
That’s a rhetorical question, but, again, for people like Brian, we’ll explain. This requires a little extrapolation, so we’re happy to hold Brian’s hand: Notre Dame couldn’t release Demetrius without any contact. They also couldn’t work with him to help him find a solution without contact. So of course, as stated yesterday, they wouldn’t release Demetrius from his scholarship.
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Yes, clearly this quote implies that the only issue was with Jones getting in touch with the totally understanding ND admin:
***”We don’t believe that Demetrius’ departure was handled appropriately,†Notre Dame athletics director Kevin White said.***
Good thing you’re at ND… at Michigan people like you fail out.
“Good thing you’re at ND… at Michigan people like you fail out.”
I don’t know what’s funnier. That Brian actually believes Michigan’s poor graduation rates are the result of the rigors of their Kinesiology (whatever) program, or that domers are so uptight that they always take the bait when he shoots off his mouth.
Hey! Watch out when you take on the mighty intellect of Brian of mblowblog. Don’t forget he is a “professional blogger”. Most U of Michigan grads still living in their Mom’s basement have to admit they’re unemployed.
Get your quotes right Brian. That wasn’t issued by Kevin White. And of course they don’t think it was handled appropriately. Do you? If you do think that’s the right way to handle a transfer, you’re even more sad than we ever expected. If you don’t, you concede the point that it had to be handled appropriately first. Tough to backtrack from a bunch of hate talk that turns out to be baseless isnt it? So you just keep trying to ride the wave. Your sad little MI sycophants might let you get away with that junk, but we won’t. And not because you suck, which you do, but just because we’re smart. And everyone that digs your bunk, isn’t.
Although, I have to go back to my PR 101 post, KW shouldn’t have let anyone say anything on this until this current release was made. It just let asses like Brian get their rocks off for two days. And let’s be honest, he doesn’t need that kind of encouragement. He might pull a muscle or something…
The most intelligent thing you may ever hear out of that guy is”I’m gonna buy you a beer”.
PWNED.