Meet Brian Smith, a senior broadcast journalism major at Texas Christian. He's also a student reporter and had been a regular contributor to "On Campus Cam," a talking heads-style show on The Mtn. where student reporters from conference schools are asked to give their opinions.
On an April 14 broadcast, Smith said that freshman quarterback Casey Pachall, who graduated early from high school to enroll at TCU, is good enough to unseat Andy Dalton as the starter.
TCU's athletics media relations department heard the comment and decided to ban Smith from using the camera equipment, which is property of the Mountain West Sports Network.
"My office will not take time out of its busy schedule to assist in putting TCU students on the air to make negative comments about our student athletes," director of media relations Mark Cohen, right, wrote in an email to Mountain West officials.
Although the camera belongs to The Mtn., the network has backed down.
"Long story short, they agreed to disagree on the subject matter," producer Frank Ellis said. "But while it is our camera, it is under [Cohen's] supervision and, like I said before, he has the keys to the car. So we're going to abide by his decision."
Rest of story here.
Geez. I'm glad nothing this bad ever happened to me at the UD. One time I did get the paper banned from practice for publicly chastising the Red Raider defense. That of course ignited my feud with New England Patriots receiver Wes Welker. I'm pretty sure he doesn't think about it anymore now that he's sipping drinks with Tom Brady and Giselle. That's fine, I'll meet him on the long road back to the middle.
In honor of college journalists lets all take a second to remember "Boom Goes the Dynamite."
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